The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-31

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BY WHOM ohsy we're eenstrurtsd, Or in what trade
Henry Eckiord comm noed businsssiu 1901, slese.
side Of the navy ysrd The Samuel Elsn. Of $50
tons among the frst Of ths ships that he built.
She was crieinsLly called the Sportsman. sad .as
commanded By Captain James Noble. Shs had .
figure bead representing man On horseback This
caused her DO esprit to sleeve vsy high, In order 70
clear the nans head. Vessels were ge'sral.y built
in as' . Sss with :s' sss: End ss : sss
oription She had bad run, which oaused her to
steer wild, especially whom going large Her quar-
ter galieries also extremely disadvantSg eous
in heavy weather whom running of before the wind
or scuddng, as they were subject to being caught
By tho seas Mr. Il soon after joined Captain
Beebe, and they opened yard at the foot Of Clinton
street
also increased II was then regarded ~ the highest
altitude in the facilities for ship building to be ahe
to bald ship Of $50 tons within the year from the
time Of laying down the keel. In the beginning Of
Christian Bergh Carpenter B White, and George
James In 1900, Congress authorized tho building
of another frisate, and the President placed
the stocks BY Mr. Cheeseman The important events
connected with this vessel are engraven on the na-
tionsl mind, and form page in our naval history.
After building the President, Mr. Chesscman
built the Brsganzs, Of about 800 tons He then
Corlear's Hook, where they built several One ships
Mr. O. then retired, and Mr.. Brown continued the
business on his own account. Among other fne
vsseels, he built the Triton In 1904 This vessel
was of about 400 tons. She went to Liverpool,
where che was coppered, and then sailed for
India.
Thomas vsil, in 1902. contemplated retiring
from business, gave sub.osntrsct to Adsn sad
Noah Brown, who completed the same took the
yard, ano became prominent builders. They built,
in 1904 the ship Fran $685. for the Greenook trade.
She was subsequently re-treeAailed in Gresnook.
The ship Oliver Ellsworth Was also built 81 this
time, and was commanded BY Captain Bennett, in
1904 She made tho voyage to Liverpool in four-
teen days, carrying away her main top-nss during
the passage.
the principal vessels launched being the Canton and
Orbit, by Bergh; the Pacific, by Adam b Noah
Brown; the Illinois and Ohio, by Charles Brown;
and sundry vessels, by George James. The Pacific.
bears her name vas one Of the fastest saers Of her
class; and Captain Rodgers, of Jersey City, who
once com manded her, says she would even nov bs
considered an extraordinary vessel She Was finally
MI. Eckford launched the Beaver in 1903. She
was owned BY Mr.. Aston. Her register was AT
tons, while she carried LOO tons Of cargo Sns
wasa fall, fiat boteomed ship, designed for the
China trade. and was commanded by Capt Whss-
ton. Captain Augustus De Peystsr, now Governor
of the Sailors Snug Harbor, Staten Island, made
his first voyage in her, before the mast. She IN
pleted her voy age in nine months, and hor home
ward passage, ran from Canton, to Bermuda in
seventy, five days This vessel, besides her other
good qualities remarkable for longevity, having
live oak frame, part Of which, after was broken
up, vas put into = new ship year or two ago.
him ultimately in command of this Same vessel, in
which he had once sailed as boy before the mast.
This gentleman was second officer of tho brig Fox
In l0O9-a fine vessel, of nearly 800 tons, built BY
by Captain Cannon, de1ominated By Mr.. Aster
.'the King of Captains" She was also feet sad
ing craft, and in the year made . voyage from
New York to Calcutta, with . cargo out sud home,
IN seven months and fourteen days. She was Of
sharp MODEL.
In 1904, Mr. Bergh also built the North Amer
lea, ship of about 400 tons, and owned BY Aia-
turn & Chapman; She was rather . dull saiier,
with Russia ana Crest Britain.
In the same year, an old Dutch corvette, oslled
the swift, was owned in Newport, Rhode Island, by
Capt Jacob Smith, She was built in Amsterdam
fifty years previously, and had been cruizer foc
forty years She had been captured BY tho British,
and wss employed uader that flag in the West India
packet service In the above year she came into
this port in distress. and was condemned. Adam &
Noah Brown purchased her, rebuilt her, and sold
her TO Capt. Smith. While in his employ, and soon
after being rebuilt, she went fem Montevidee 70
Newport in thirty Two days, and was swo days In .
fog of AO1tauk. On one day Of the voyage che
~ N, which circumstance, by-the-by, wal, Of it
self, very remarkable, and the Day folc wing ct
II NJ. she was precisely Is minutes N. Her course
had boon N w and ", and she could scarce
In n nj al
Dcughsrty, OF this city, who was then on board.
thinks she could not sail as well ~ many American
vessels Of the present day.
The ship Trident, built by A. N. Brown In
1905, was . large vessel, designed for the India
trade, burthen 500 or 600 tons !; Was considered .
fine sailing vessel, and was commanded b. Capt
Blskeman
The brig Gipsey, Of near 800 tons, was Q very
sharp vessel. carrying several per cent less than
her tonnage. She was built by Mr.. Bergh, and b.
l0nged TO General Stevens This vessel seemed un-
fortunate. she had no lifting power in hsr model
to counterfeit the leverage of her spars. On voy-
age to Batavia, with . cargo Of notions, in 1910,
under command of Capt. Maine. when about 700
miles from the Cape of Good Hope, while souddng
in heavy gale and high sea, she ran under and
was 1thr0 wn on her bsamends. The lower nasts
and hs~spris broke by the board, when she rightsd
with her cabin and forecaste full of WAFER, aud
half her crew drowned. Her voyage being broken,
che went to Mauritius, and thence home. She was
then rugged into schooner went to France, was
chased Dy the English blockading squadron and
m heavy squall lost, and all hands per-
ished
The embargo which was laid on all vessels wth;a
the ports OF the United States, passed by Congress
In 1907, changed 20 some extont the complexion
Of ship building; and of tho few vessels that
were built during the force of the nou-intercourse
act, and the subsequent war, wore . belligerent
aspect
Mr.. John Floyd, who . short time previously
had commenced building vessels, in about 1907
built the ship Carmelte. 400 tons, and was soon
AftN IL xA-I ~. L.
ter improvements Up 10 this time Phil sdelphia
was the Queen city in ship buil&ng Philadelphia-
built ships three mouldings their top sides,
buffers old not allew them to run mere than two
on the ships they built Then, as now, however,
facts were regarded Is stubborn things and time
has told the secre Of the subsequent change.