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Hildawell - Launch

Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough – August 23rd, 1892
Launch at West Hartlepool — Messrs. Wm. Gray and Co., Limited, launched yesterday a fine steel screw-steamer, built to the order of Messrs. H. Erichson, G. B. Harland, and T. W. Willis, of West Hartlepool. The vessel will take Lloyd's highest class. Her dimensions are : — Length over all, 300 ft .; breadth, 38ft. 10in. ; depth, 22ft. 10in. The Central Marine Engine Works of Messrs. Wm. Cray and Co., Limited, supply fine triple-expansion engines, having cylinders 22ins, 35ins, and 59ins diameter, with a 39ins piston stroke, and two large steel boilers to work at 1601bs. pressure per square inch. The christening ceremony was gracefully performed by Miss Hannah Willis, of West Hartlepool, who named the steamer Hildawell. The arrangements and building of the ship have been superintended by Captain T. W. Willis.

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