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Breynton - Launch

LAUNCH FROM GRAY’S YARD.

(Northern)Daily Mail, Sept 2/09

Messrs. William Gray and Co., West Hartlepool, limited launched the handsome steel screw steamer Breynton, which they have built to the order of Messrs. Ralph E. Morel and Co., Cardiff.

The vessel will take the highest class in Lloyd’s and is of the following dimensions, vis.: Length over all, 376ft. 6 in.; breadth, 50ft.9in,; and depth, 28ft., with extra long bridge, poop, and top-gallant forecastle. The saloon, staterooms, captain’s, officers’, and engineers’ accommodation will be fitted in a large house on the bridge deck, and the crews’ berths in the forecastle.

The hull is built with deep frames, giving large clear holds, cellular double bottom, and large aft peak ballast tank, eight steam winches, steam steering gear amidships, hand screw gear aft, patent direct steam windlass, steel grain divisions, 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 Engineering Works of the builders, having cylinders 26in., 42in., and 70in. Diameter, with a piston stroke of 45in., and three large steel boilers for a working pressure of 180lbs. per square inch.

The ceremony of naming the steamer Breynton was gracefully performed by Mrs. Ralph E. Morel, wife of the managing owner.






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