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Manchuria - Launch

Northern Daily Mail, Tuesday, June 20th, 1905

Launch at West Hartlepool

Messrs. William Gray and Co. Ltd. yesterday launched the handsome steel screw steamer Manchuria for Messrs. Metcalfe, Simpson and Co., West Hartlepool. She will take the highest class in Lloyd’s and is of the following dimensions: Length over all 342 feet, Breadth 48 feet, and Depth 24 feet 4 inches, with long brisge, poop, and topgallant forecastle. The saloon, staterooms, captain’s, officers’ and engineers’ rooms etc., will be fitted up in houses on the bridge deck and the crew’s berths in the forecastle.

The hull is fitted with deep frame, cellular double bottoms, and large aft peak tank for water ballast, six steam winches, steam steering gear amidships, hand-screw gear aft, patent donkey boiler, shifting boards throughout, stockless anchors, telescopic masts with fore and aft rig, and all requirements for a first-class cargo steamer.

Triple-expansion engines are being supplied by the Central Marine Engine Works of the builders, having cylinders 24ins, 38ins and 64ins diameter, with a piston stroke of 42ins, and two large steel boilers for a working pressire of 180lbs per square inch.

The ceremony of naming the steamer Manchuria was gracefully performed by Mrs. T. Metcalfe, West Hartlepool, wife of one of the managing owners.

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