The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-30
Marine Affairs.

NRw STEAM DRKDGE FOR CHARLESTON n Annon-A Siam,
propeng sand dredge for Charleston harbor of very
large size and power lately built this city by VIM
Coll or She is called the Capt A. A. Bo xman and is one
hundred and seventy five feet long, and about eighty tons
burthen. She constructed after tho design Of J. G.
osgo' who has built great many these kind Of boats
but adapted only for smooth water. The machinery.
which is Of gigantic character is the work of Hogg
Delamater The principle and plan of the vessel are
upon an entirely different system to any hitherto use
she being able to dredge eectuay during the swell Of
the sea- while the sort Of vessels hitherto in use were
only adapted for smooth water. The work will also be
performed at much less expense, the ten or twenty
scows usually employed, each with a large complement
of men, win be entirely dispensed with. In appearance
she looks like ordinary propeller with the engine ana
machinery ON deck An idea may be formed Of her pow
er and capacity whom it is stated that she can .ho
down depth Of forty feet in bed of sand In the sea
and scrape three tons per minute nine thousand
tons per week. When her receiver Is FULL she win steam
out into the ocean, and by Of trap DOORS deposit
her load into the bottom Of the The vessel
down the river trial trip the other day. proved
very sasfacV She leaves to-day for the of her
labors Charleston harbor where she expected
rive in about eight days.
TIE SuEKEN suP JosErH wALxm.-Another ATTEMPT ON
larger scale, was made Wednesday afternoon to
raise this vessel When the tide began 70 ebb, three
large scesm pumps were set to work. beees two dpperB
worked by steam. The work went on until the evening,
but very little any impression had been made the
water in tho ship The vessel lies in thirty of watsr
at the end Of the dock, little below Roosevelt street.
where she sunk after being burnt at the conHagraton
which destroyed the clippers Great Republic and whNe
squal Notwithstanding the little encouragement
sultns in his attempts to raise her. Capt. Bell the
tractor, is stin sansuine Of accomplishment.
THE CLIPPERS N. B. PALMER AND FLYING CLOUD.
NEW CLEANS, June 20, 1854
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.
Reading the Boston Semi Weekly. Alias Of the 10th
inst, saw account Of the ship Flying Clouds.
late passage to San Francisco and in the remarks,
II ssys-" We have upon former occasion shown how
the Flying Cloud once overhauled the clipper N. b.
Palmer her out Of sight in less than twenty hours.
heat her from the latitude of Rio Jsnsiro to San
francisco, twenty-one dAys.n
was in the ship Flying Cloud that voyage and the
two ships fell in company in the latitude Of the Rio de Ia
Plata--tbe Palmer being ahead, having sailed ten ds,s
after in the Coud The wind light, at daylight
and we had been Cuba all the night before During
the forenoon the breeze sprung from the northeast
outsaling the Flying Cloud while the wind was exactly
att and Capt. Low finding his ship outsaing the Cloud
hove 10 to speak The Cloud up and both masters
bid each other the passage and parted for
to the Westward for side wind; there Capt Low missed
for that what the Flying Cloud wished for During
the night the wind freshened that by four in the
morning the Cloud had all studdng sails taken in; az
asteIn foot of her. foretopaa In sight with his foreNp
atuodpg sail 1t shut In thick with rain before
nine O'Clock Of she WAS lost from our sght
and that is tho way the Flying Cloud oussled hss 70