New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-14
MARINE AFFAIRS.

TIE STEAMER FOR EUROPE To-DAY.-Tbe Collins
Baltic, requiring repair will not sail to-day 60
that the next steamer for Liverpool Of the Collins ne
will be tine Atlantic, on March II.
The Baltic has been ming steadily for nearly four
years, and during that time che is said not TO have lost
a single Tip. The company, understand, clam
that their steamers have been making twentysx trips
per annup instead of twenty -four as required by their
contract with the Government and therefore have ths
privilege of laying up their steamer this month. The
steamer Alps Of the Cunard line will take out too
Battles maDs to-day.
COLLISION AT SEA.
The packed ship Great Western arrived on Thurs
day in crippled condition, having been rxn into by
an unknown ship on Sunday night last, when betweea
Georges shoals and Nantucket, both vessels having
had narrow escape from total destruction II occur
red during dense fog The Great Western was struck
exactly amdships, the starboard eide, the bowsprt
of the vessel first encountering the maipmah, which
was broken into four pieces, and carried over the
weather raf-the maintopmast coming down endwise
and passing through the deck, the staIboard side,
breaking of deck beam 10 its descent and ripping up
the planks Of the deck for space of ten feet; the
yards and every thing attached to the manmast feu
Ike an avalanche of wrecked matter upon deck, to-
gether with the mizen-topmast and its yards. The
ships eide was badly crushed in above the lower deck
-four Of the heavy beams were broken, with all the
caIlins between. The deck was ripped up and the
whole top work amidshps received a terrible shock.
The Capt Of the Great Western next morning saw
ship without bowsprt and cutwater, which he judg-
ed to be the ship that had into him, but could not
di.tinguish her name. The Great Western was lowed
I'D by the steamer Mnemon Sanford.
sLw CALIFORNIA STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
The Journal Of Commtrce learns that sbipbuilder,
formerly doing business in this city, has contracted
with an association of landholders in California for tho
construction OF two mammoth steamships, each Oh OO0
tuns, designed the conveyance of 900 passengers.
TO accomplish the TIP, via the Istbmus In fifteen dsys
The special object is to afford cheap and rapid COM
municstion between California aud the Eastern States,
in order to augment the population Of the Pacific coast,
and to enhance the value Of our possessions IN that
quartet The dimensions proposed for these steamers
are as olows: Length, 40 feet; breadth Of beam,
IS feet; depth Of hold "a feet 1t is expected thst
these vessels will soon be commenced and there seems
TO be probability that the plan viii be carried into
eject
The L. :. ship Germantown, Commander Lynch, "
DAYS from Rio dc Janero, via Bahia and ferDamoueo,
"A DAYS from the latter port arrived IN Hampton
Roeos the evening OF The Sh, ana came up 10 inc
naval anchorage yesterday afternoon.
The Germantown has been absent nom the United
States Little over three years aud two months, during
which be has been attached to the squadron on the
coast of Brazil and been actively engaged in cruising
on that station. Left at Rio the I'D Of December,
the L. s. frgate St. Lawrence, bearing the broad pea
naDt Of Commodore French Forrest, and expected 70
,sil in few days on cruise 10 tie southwark. An
well on beard. Norfolk Herald, Feb III.