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belonging to the Montreal Ocean Company, Glasgow ; launched 

 February 1872 ; length 400 ft., breadth 40 ft., depth 35 ft. 9 in. ; 

 tonnage, gross 4,282^, net 2,023^ ; iron ship. 



Robert Steele and Co., Greenock. 



2178dv. Model of Screw Steamer " Lestris." Built 

 by Joseph L. Thompson and Sons, Sunderland. Length 227 ft., 

 breadth 30 ft., depth of hold 17 ft. Joseph L. Thompson and Sons. 



2178dw. Model of Sailing Ship " Baroda." Built by 

 Harland and Wolff, Belfast. 



ft. in. 



Length, extreme - - - 251 



between perpendiculars - 231 5 



>,.*, Breadth - - - - 36 5 



Depth - 23 5 



tons. 



Tonnage builders, measurement 1,299 



Gross register - 1,364 



Launched 1864. P. Phorson. 



2178dx. Model of a Vessel built about 1844 by James 

 Leithead, Sunderland. ,& - ff P. Phorson. 



2178dy. Model of the wooden Ship " Chowringhee." 



Built by the late Wm. Pile, of Sunderland, for the late John Hay, 

 Esq., in 1857. Length 156 ft. 3 ins., breadth 31 ft. 6 ins., depth 

 21 ft. 6 ins. Sunderland Corporation. 



2178dz. Flans and Elevations of Steamships "Mar- 

 quess de Nunez " and " Wear." Built by the late Mr. Win. 

 Pile, Sunderland. Skinner, Sunderland. 



2178ea. Model of Screw Collier " David Burn." Built 

 in 1873 by Messrs. Wm. Doxford and Sons, Sunderland. 



Alfred Simey and Co. 



This vessel was sunk off the Tyne by collision on her first trial trip. The 

 visitors (chiefly ladies) were saved by the captain of the vessel which struck 

 her, keeping his engines going at easy speed, and thus filling the hole made 

 by the collision. 



2159h. Drawing of the " London Engineer," 70 horse- 

 power, a vessel fitted with a central paddle wheel, and air-tight 

 paddle case, in the year 1818, intended to run to Margate. The 

 scheme did not succeed, owing to the difficulty of keeping a suffi- 

 cient supply of air in the paddle case to keep down the level of the 

 water. Maudslay, Sons, and Field. 



2178ga. Model of Mr. Joseph Maudslay's Original Oscil- 

 lating Cylinder Engines. Date 1827. (The arrangement for 

 working the air pump is not that originally fitted.) 



Maudslay, Sons, and field. 



