The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-09-26
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SAN FRANCISCO sHIpYARps.


The shfy Of city, though yet oompar .tiYsly
small are ousy and IA veiy promising condition.
number Of SC aoocers sDd small steamers
La va fsuei from them. For two Of these the
iron as sell - ths wood work made mere.
TIE Rip will be sunchs1 this evening at Eve
O'Clock at as yard OF nsr Walters Go the
Folsom Bsal s.rest Sue is $50 feet long,
20 'eet vide and 81 feet deep 10 tho hold. She will DO
che hunor.d horse she is a,snoed for the Sac
mento and Msrysve trade All the Tosk on her Ia done
fve days ago tine Rips keel laid ia the empty ship
lard ard in forty Gays from the formation Of the
che will be psted. Pretty wall for San Fran
steamboass ready for at forty days notice.
Messrs. Walters & Co. will to-day lay the keel for
another steamer intended for the Contra Costa ferry
and twenty five rect long twenty seven feet bsam and
five feet hold Her engine will be low pressure, OF
about hundred and fifty horss power. She is to ba
Nsstrs Wsltsn & 60 are likewise building csotre-
tosrd schooner OF thirty three intended for the San
Jose trade, fsJ odley Co. She is to be completed in
On the beach Of Happy Valley lie some very large
avessel twenty four hundred tons built by jacob Bell
for clipper, then converted INFO Q steamer and
about to Re converted n into ful rgssa ship These
them, vines brought to the yerd measured one huadred
and seven feet iong and three and half feet through.
To properly fit up aud rig such vesel the Pioneer
erps taking for place San Francisco
but it viii be dOne.-Ak California Aug %.
COMMERCE SAN FRANcsco.--It appears by . tsbls
pubiishsd BY the san Francisco Shipping List that the
number CT American vessels which entered tnst port
coastvise from January to August a. 298 with
ships a. bsrks % brg and l6 schooners The number
Of foreign vessels entering cosstwse from Bsncls in bal
last within the same tiiAe was Of which vere steam
ing from foreign ports 49, tonnage 405 Or hese
as 10 shps % barks, q briggs and 81
fo sign ports was a.e tonnag. 81 SIS Of these s. asrs
chips, III balks, "A briggs, ard 10 schooners
Recopitulution. No. TINS.
American vessels entering coastss .295 2O9 $50
Am vessels entering from whaling voyages. 64s
Foreign yestels entering ccastaise 5l&
An. vessels entering from foreign potts. LEI 20 405
Foreign vessels entering from foreign ports.27o s7975
Total from Jan. to Aug 81 1858 ......7l9 3s2 3.5
CLEARAscEs The totsl number of American vessels
that cleared from Januaiy TO August 81
$780, tonnage 379 OF thess 63 steamers % ships
vesses that cisafed for foreign ports was als tonnage
222 o4 Of these Az we're Steamers ia ships 81 oarks
q D.ss ara IL Tas number Of foreign re-
CAS- o. these &c were ships l2i barxs 81 brigs and 20
tchoorers.
Reoopaa1ati0n No. Tons.
American els clearing cosstwiss ....52o 1oS379
Am vessels clearing wharg voyages. $50
Am vessels clearing f.r foreign ports. 316 22203l
Foreign sells clearing for foreisa po.ts BOB 96C9S
Total from Jan I to Aug p, 1858. l5s Az S91
A RACE ID AUSTRALIA = BRITISH vs.. YANKEE CLIPPERS
Great interest is excited in nautical circles by the de-
parure this week from London Of British clipper in
ter ded TO eomfete With the celebrated Ame san Soys
reign OF the Seas This vessel the Gauntlet gned by
james Smith, jun, Esq. of Tower-cna nbers In this
tom. The Gauntlet iron vessel modelled ny Nc.
nenpe Of this Town and built y Denny ana Eanein on
ON Monday, snd passed Deal at N. The distance ID
rather than fion here 10 Hoyhead, SO that she
adopted by the yachts Of this country, the difference In
tonnage between the Gaurt.t and the Sovereign OF the
OF about four days the former vessel being 693 tons
while tho latter iO0 The Gauntlet will b. followed
from london By anGhss vssseo clipper the Marion,
SbaDd -LirGp0cf Times, Sept s.