. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Morgan Line Packet, the Coastwise Steamship Louisiana, built by John Roach & Son, Chester, Pennsyl- vania, in 1880 for the New York to New Orleans run. Length 320', beam 39', depth 28'6". (Smilhsoman photo 3311.) A long deckhouse on the boat deck, domed forward over the main saloon, reaches from the foremast to abaft the mainmast. On this are upper and lower bridges, a wheelhouse, two stacks, and trunk gratings. On each side the vessel carries four boats on davits with gratings out to them from the top of the deck- house. Between th
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Morgan Line Packet, the Coastwise Steamship Louisiana, built by John Roach & Son, Chester, Pennsyl- vania, in 1880 for the New York to New Orleans run. Length 320', beam 39', depth 28'6". (Smilhsoman photo 3311.) A long deckhouse on the boat deck, domed forward over the main saloon, reaches from the foremast to abaft the mainmast. On this are upper and lower bridges, a wheelhouse, two stacks, and trunk gratings. On each side the vessel carries four boats on davits with gratings out to them from the top of the deck- house. Between the main and mizzen masts are two small deckhouses and four boats in davits, two on each side. The vessel measured 576 feet between perpendicu- lars, 63 feet beam, and 10,786 tons register. She had two triple expansion engines. Scale of model is ji inch to the foot. The vessel is rigged as a 3-masted schooner with pole bowsprit and standing gaffs; the sails are furled to the masts. This inodel shows the ship after her rebuilding in 1900, with two, instead of three stacks. Transferred from the U. S. Post Office Department. TRANS-ATLANTIC LINER, 1907 Rigged Model, usnm 311006 Mauretania The Maurelania was built by Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson in 1907 at Wallsend-on-Tyne, Scotland, for the Cunard Line. Tiu-bine driven, she was coal-biu'nina; when built, and was converted to oil fuel in 1919. The Mauretania held many speed records in her da\' and was, for many years, a popular liner on the trans-Atlantic nm out of New York. The ship was broken up in 1935. She was one of the famous "four-stackers" of the Cunard Line, and was a sister-ship of the Lusitania. The model shows a large, four-stack, quadruple- screw liner, having a straight keel with no drag, upright straight stem slightly rounded at forefoot, which is cut away slightly, at an angle to the keel, a vertical post, a round fantail counter with a "bustle" above the rudder, steam-yacht fashion, a balanc
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