Mr. Peter Borrie's Patent Safety Iron Twin Steamer, 1850. The ' for carrying goods, passengers, cattle, and all sorts of vehicles, and either for river or ocean constructed of iron, having two separate hulls placed side by side, with a space between them in which the paddle-wheel both ends are exactly similar, the vessel will sail with equal facility either way without each end of the paddle-box are a number of deck-houses - a cook-house, with apparatus in it for cooking by steam; a state-room, a dining-room, engineer's room, &c
Mr. Peter Borrie's Patent Safety Iron Twin Steamer, 1850. The ' for carrying goods, passengers, cattle, and all sorts of vehicles, and either for river or ocean constructed of iron, having two separate hulls placed side by side, with a space between them in which the paddle-wheel both ends are exactly similar, the vessel will sail with equal facility either way without each end of the paddle-box are a number of deck-houses - a cook-house, with apparatus in it for cooking by steam; a state-room, a dining-room, engineer's room, &c. On the top of the a platform, or hurricane deck, upon which the steering-wheels are placed, and this being properly railed in, may be used as a promenade for is ample accommodation in the vessel to carry from 800 to 1000 passengers with ease and safety'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.
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