HISTORY OF MERCHANT SHIPPING AND ANCIENT COMMERCE. BY W. S. LINDSAY. _IN FOUR VOLUMES._ VOL. IV. With numerous Illustrations. LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, LOW, AND SEARLE. CROWN BUILDINGS, 188 FLEET STREET. 1876. [_All Rights reserved._] LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. [Illustration: “GREAT EASTERN” STEAM-SHIP. BUILT BY MESSRS. J. SCOTT RUSSELL AND CO., MILWALL, 1857.] [Illustration: VIEW OF DECK.] [Illustration: WHEEL HOUSE AND STEERING APPARATUS.] [Illustration: LAYING CABLE.] [Illustration: AT SEA.] LONGITUDINAL SECTIONS. DIMENSIONS AND CALIBRE. Length (between the perpendiculars) 680 feet Length (on the upper deck) 692 ” Breadth (from side to side of hull) 83 ” Breadth (across the paddle-boxes) 120 ” Depth from deck to keel 58 ” Length of forecastle 140 ” Height of forecastle 8 ” Total length of principal saloons 400 ” Height of saloons on lower deck 13 feet 8 inches Number of saloons 5 Height of saloons on upper deck 12 feet Number of saloons 5 Length of upper saloons 70 feet Width of upper saloons 30 ” Length of lower saloons 60 ” Number of decks 4 Aggregate length of saloons and berths 350 feet Length of berths 14 ” Width of berths 7 feet 8 inches Height of berths 7 feet 4 inches Number of main traverse bulkheads or water-tight compartments 12 Ditto partial 7 Longitudinal bulkheads running fore and aft at a distance of 35 feet apart for a length of 350 feet 2 Width of space between the two skins of ship 2 feet 10 inches Thickness of iron plates in keel 1 inch Ditto inner and outer skins ¾ ” Bulk heads ½ ” Iron deck ½ ” Plates of iron used in the construction of the hull 30,000 Average length of plates 10 feet Number of rivets in fastening the plates 3,000,000 Weight of iron used in the construction about 10,000 tons Tonnage 22,500 ” Capacity for coals and cargo 18,000 ”