3-028-587 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Hull steam-ship Orlando, for passenger traffic to Sweden, 1870. New screw-steamer '...built to the order of Messrs. Thomas Wilson, Sons, and Co., steamship owners, expressly for the passenger trade between Hull and Gothenburg. [She] will make the sea passage in forty hours, which will furnish the shortest and most direct communication with Sweden and Norway...The accommodation is forty-two first-class passengers and thirty second-class passengers. The engines are compound, with all the modern improvements, surface condensing, and will work up to 1200-horse power. The vessels and engines were built by Messrs. C. and W. Earle...In the trial trip of the Orlando, with a company of ladies and gentlemen invited by the owners...the vessel attained a speed of twelve knots and a half an hour...Messrs. Wier and Co.'s atmospheric telegraph is fitted for steering and for steaming. By this apparatus the captain, while standing on the bridge, without uttering a word, or any action but the movement of a handle, is able to give orders to the man at the wheel or the engineer...This system works admirably, and is capable of useful extension to the lighting and signalling of ships'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.