TRIAL TRIPS OF STEAMERS.
(Northern) Daily Mail, April/21/1909.
On Tuesday the steel screw steamer, Broomhill, built by Messer’s. Irvine’s Shipbuilding and Dry Docks Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool, to the order of Messer’s the Broomhill Collieries, Limited, Newcastle-on-Tyne, proceeded on her trial trip in Hartlepool bay. The vessel is an up-to-date self-trimming collier 260ft. in length by 36ft. by 17ft. Fitted with poop, raised quarter deck, bridge, and forecastle, and takes Lloyd’s 100 A1 class.
Triple expansion engines have been supplied and fitted by Messer’s Richardsons, Westgarth, and Co, Limited, Hartlepool, the sizes of cylinders being 181/2in., 30in., and 50in. by 36in. stroke, with two boilers working at a pressure of 180lbs. Per square inch. During the trial the engines and auxiliary machinery worked most smoothly, a speed of 10 knots being obtained.
The owners were represented by Messer’s. Coats, Graham, and Tose, the shipbuilders by Mr. J. B. Roberts, and the engine builders by Mr. G. Urquhart.
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