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Identifier: newbedfordmassac00peas (find matches)
Title: New Bedford, Massachusetts : its history, industries, institutions, and attractions
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Pease, Zeph. W. (Zephaniah Walter), b. 1861 New Bedford Board of Trade Hough, George A Sayer, William L. (William Lawton), 1848-1914
Subjects: Industries -- Massachusetts New Bedford New Bedford (Mass.) -- History
Publisher: (New Bedford, Mass.) : Published by order of the Board of Trade
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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- money a steamerwas built which revolutionized the methods of whaling, increased thecatch, and was at once followed by others, until now the fleet ofsteam whalers is of prime importance in the industry. A descriptionof one of these vessels will suffice for all. The William Lewis, thelatest addition to the fleet of steam whalers, was built at Bath, Maine, THE WHALE-FISHERY. 39
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in the summer of i(and has left New Bed-ford for the SandwichIslands, whence shewill sail for the Arcticocean in 1889. Thisvessel, which is barkrigged, is in some re-spects one of the finestof steam whalers. Of460 tons gross tonnage,she is 145 feet long,with 30 feet breadth ofbeam, and the depthof her hold is 16^ feet.She is built entirely oflive oak* and whiteoak, copper and ironfastened. Her plank-ing is of white oak, andshe is sheathed withtwo inch hickory toprotect her hull from GROUP OF OLD WHALERS. BARK ROSSEAU. 40 NEW BEDFORD. the ice. Her stem is protected by heavy composition plates. To)-)rc\ent her from being cruslied if pinched by the ice, she has threesets of pointers forward and two aft. She is provided with a Provi-dence steam windhiss which is worked by steam power and is a verypowerful labor-saving piece of mechanism. The vessel has a 4^ com-pound engine, of 22 inches diameter of high pressure cylinder, 38inches diameter of low pressure cylinder, and 26 inch stroke, fi

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