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9 inches a-half air-pump anthracite coal Arctic beam bituminous coal boilers brass Breadth breeze cast iron centre Chief Engineer Collins line condenser constructed consumption cost Cross area cubic feet Cunard line cut-off Depth of hold Diameter of cylinders dimensions double strokes draft of water eighteen hundred Engineer-in-Chief evaporated fastened flues foot four Fulton furnaces heating surface hull inch thick inches diameter keel keelson knots per hour Length on deck live oak Liverpool machinery Mail Steamers Mean draft miles minute Naval Dry Docks Navy Yard Number of paddles PADDLE WHEELS performance plank Plate pressure of steam Princeton propeller rabbet rigging sail set Sea water shafts ship side smoke-pipe spars speed square feet square inch stern-post Stroke of piston surface condenser Throttle timber tons trip U. S. Navy United United States Navy valves vessel war-steamer Washington Washington Navy Yard weight width wind wrought iron York York Navy Yard แ แ แ แ แ