New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-01
MARINE AFFAIRS.

salLIEG OF THE ISDIASA.-The British screw
steamer Indiana, Capt. Lambert sailed at 10 clock
yesterday from the foot of Beach st., n r., for aayre
Wis Southampton. She carried out full freight, 65
passengers, but no specie. Among her passengers
were Antoine and jerome Ravel and their ia Miles.
On Monday evening jerome bide farewell to the
proprietor and gentlemen attached to Niblos Garden.
Il h twenty ii rec years since the Rsvels first appeared
In this City.
A WALK AMONG THE Sur YARDs-From the
general tenor Of the statements made by the Ship
Builders and Iron Founders of this City it appears
that for many years past these businesses have not
been so depressed at the present time. In most of
the ouDderes and ship yards scarcely onehaf Of the
usual number of men employed, and in several of
che latter not q has wrought stroke Of late.
large number of steamships also lying idle in port,
source Of constant expense TO their owners for care
and attendance as well as the loss resulting from 30
immense an amount of inert capital. In the East
River feet Of Eve of them, embracing the Georgia,
II Dorado, Ohio, United States, and the partially
burnt Cherokee has been laid up for periods varying
from one to nine months and the prospect is said to
favor an indefinite extension Of their dockage.
OF the ship builders, Mr.. Bell has packet sup
called the Switzerland Of 1000 tuns on the stocks
She IL being built for Lane & West, to run in
the Havre Line, and will be ready to launch on
the first of December The clipper ship Adelaide,
for Thomas Wardle, to sail in the Cafor MIA trade,
IL also being built at this yard. The Adelaide is
205 feet keel, az feet beam, 20 feet hold, and
registered at 800 tuns She viii be ready for launch
iar IN SIX wecks and when snoat viii be- commanded
BY Capt. Hamilton, formerly of the Eclipse The
same house will, in month hence, launch the
schooper John Boston of 42O tuns, for Scranton Il
r-u aau nd
About the same time the schooner Maria $50 tuns,
for Corning & Co., will be ready to launch. This
ward has turned out two ships and three schooners
this year Messrs. Roosevelt & Joyce have only the
ship Daniel Bacon, for the Liverpool and Boston
freight business, in hand. This vessel is 2l5 feet
keel 46 feet beam, 90 feet deep, and registered at
1000 tune She will not be ready to launch before
New-Year's Messrs. Roosevelt & Joyce have
launched one ship of the above size and
two schooners this year. Jacob. A. Wester-
welt g. Sons will be ready to launch the
hip Cordelia Lawrence, of 1900 tuns, for Lawrence
g. Co., on Saturday next. At the foot of Seventhst,
the same firm is pushing on the steamship Arago to
fake the place of the Humboldt, on the Havre and
SOUTHAMPTON route. This vessel lie 2s3 feet keel AZ
feet beam 80 feet hold and 5000 tuns measurement
Capt Lines will command her, when afoat. The
late disastrous Losses in the steam marine are teach
inc owners and builders the necessity for using every
precautio to guard against their recurrence. The
Araso though as yet but little than in frame,
will be one Of the safest steamers ahoat Her hull is
diaeonay braoed with iron, only four feet from each
pont She will have extra strong bilge kesons her en-
zines and boilers will be boxed in a waerght chamber
Of double diagonal planking, and stout buikhead
will be put across Der bows. In the same yard Lon
don packet to be called the Amazon will be ready for
launching week hence. She is POS feet keel AZ feet
beam and 90 feet bold and is owned by Morgan X
Co. In the yard of Smyth g. DimOn, at the foot OF
Fourth.st not a soul was visible. steamship OF
300 tuns for Mr.. Aspinwa has been uponth stocks
for nearly two years. Nothing hiss been done to her
for more than year past and no bu'iness has been
stirring in the yard for long time. Mr. William IL.
Webb is building two Liverpool packets of 1000 tuns
each. These vessels were for the late james Foster
Their dimensions 100 feet keel 4efee beam and %
feet hold Also, a ship of 1000 tuns for Stanton a
Thompson, for the New-Orleans trade. Her dinen-
sions ave 100 feet keel IS feet beam, and 2l feet hold
At the same yard bark for Dimon & Waterman is
in Frame She is 1921 feet keel 30 feet beam and IA
feet hold. The Aurora, fine packetshp, recently
completed by Mr.. Webb, for Grinnell & Co., and no
lying at bis dock, is fine specimen of marine arch
lecture. Her appointments. wh'h were supervised
by her commander, Capt. Bunting, show that ahuman.
itarisn policy is being adopted in the construction OF
emigrani ships. This vessel will probably carry 900
passenger and yet her ventilatory and other san
iiary provisions have been well attended to, thh
she will prove more healthy and comfortable ship
than many vessels that come to this port with less
than half that number of emigrants. The galley
room lie spacious and the food but to be served
cut TO the passengers ready cooked, could find no
to do other than adm ire the whole economy OF
the ship. But with the old system of every passen
ger scrsmbling for the cooking Of each meal, much
Of the benefit which ought to accrue from these
arrangements will be neglected.
Leaving the ship-ysrds for few minutes, we fluid
Mat Guion, Russell & Co. putting engines and
boilers into the steamship Joseph Whitney, for the
Boston and Baltimore line, the steamer Menimon
SANFORD for the Independent line to aud
Cape May, and the steamer Elm City, for the New.
Haven and Hartford line. The cylinders of the frs,
are 50 inches in diameter, and IL feet stroke; the
teoOnd of so inches diameter and feet stroke and
the last are IS inches with IL feet stroke At the
Morgan Iron Works scarcely anything is doing,
beyond some slight jobs ofrepsiring. Atthe Novelty
Works they are putting in the machinery Of the
mammoth steamboat Metropolis, of the Boston and
Fall River Line The cylinders of this boat arc of
hs enormous sire Of 1851 inches In diameter and IL