Wordsworth - launch

Northern Daily Mail, Thursday, February 4^th, 1915.

Launch at West Hartlepool

Messrs. William Gray and Company Limited, yesterday launched the handsome steel-screw steamer ‘Wordsworth’, which they have built for the Shakespear Steam Shipping Company, Limited, London.

She will take the highest class in Lloyd’s Register, and is of the following dimensions: Length overall 354ft 6ins; breadth, 49ft; and depth, 25ft 5ins., with extra long bridge, poop and forecastle.

The saloon, staterooms, captain’s, officers’ and engineers’ rooms, etc. are in houses on the bridge deck, the crew’s berths in the forecastle, and apprentices’ room and hospital in the poop.

The hull is built with deep bulb-angle frames, and has large clear holds, cellular double bottom, and fore peak and aft peak ballast tanks, nine steam winches, steam steering gear amidships, screw steering gear aft, direct steam windlass, large horizontal multi-tubular donkey boiler, shifting boards throughout, boats on deck overhead, stockless anchors, telescopic masts with fore and aft rig, and all requirements for a first-class steamer.

Triple-expansion engines are being supplied by the Central Marine Engine Works of the builders, having cylinders 24½ins., 40ins., and 65ins. Diameter, with a stroke of 42ins., and two large steel boilers for a working pressure of 180lbs per square inch. The engine-room auxiliaries include an evaporator and feed and ballast pumps, all of the “CMEW” type.

The ship and machinery have been built under the superintendence of Mr. J.S.Bonnyman, on behalf of the owners.

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