New-York daily tribune., 1859-07-30
MARINE AFFAIRS.
THE sTYAMKR FRoRInA.

THE sTTAsER FRoRID,.
About ten o'clock this morning Mr. T.. S. Whtock
viii launch from his yard, at Greenpont the steamer
Florida, built FOR the Apaachooia and New Orleans
Steam ayigation Company. She is $50 feet long IL
feet Deep and 81 feet wide, with two decks. Her
frame is built in the best and most substantial man
Get OF white oak 10 inches square, and hackmetack
half top. She has five kelsons - inches square,
blge streaks inches by 10, clamps inches, deck
frame 10 inches square, kneed of with lO-inch hack
metack knees, oil squarc fastened, panking larboard
streak inches, decreasing to inches at the plank
shear. She is copper fastened throughout. The bow
will be omamcnted with an eagles head, vita scroll
running back. ON the bow and on her stern will be
placed the coat Of arms of the State Of Florida She will
have have two mssts, and be square-rigged forward
schooner rig aft. Her model pronounced by those
who have examined her, to be of beautiful proper
iion, and well calculated to make her fast vessel
She will be furnished with one of Baird's direct ac
ton engines low pressure, 36-inch cylinder and ~
inch stroke The boilers - feet long and 10 feet
in diameter. The propeller is 10 feet Gches in di
ameer and will make 60 revolutions per minute, pro-
pelling her at the rate Of II miles hour. The ma
chinery is being built at the Delamater Works, Tor
Mr.. f. S. Whtock, who contracts for the entire veg
sci complete To insure against accident by fire she
s provided with Of fWorthingtOns pumps, and also
two fire pumps, one forward and the other aft. Her
cabins will be fitted up deck and will accommo-
date 60 passengers in staterooms. The main deck is
for freight and has capacity for 600 barrels. One
Improvement hat has been introduced in this vessel
is that of placing the whole Of the machinery amid
ships instead of aft, in other ropelers. This will
always give q level water ne ard prevent straininS
TO the vessel When loaded she will draw 10 feet OF
weter. She will be commanded by Captain o. o.
Nelson who has superintended her construction for
the owners She will cost $G5 0Oo and is expected to
be ready for sea about the 18th Of September
sTEAu.TUG BURNED.
The steam-ug Minnie, of this city, took fire on FIJI
day morning, while in Flushing Bay, where she had
gone for vessel The steamboat Enoch Dean went
to her assistance, and by means of her steam-pump
put out the fire. but not until the Minnie was nearly
destroyed.
The propeller Charles Osgood recently sunk in
Long leland Sound, and aiterward raised and taken
into Huntington, l.. L. was on Friday morning owed
down TO Hunters Point where che will be discharged
and repaired
BURNING OF The sHIF SARAH NlNOTT.
LIVERPOOL July -, 1850.
From the protest of the officers and crew Of the ship
Sarah Mnott previously reported, we learn that
on the 29th ult., at about p. H., the man at the
wheel observed smoke issuing from the yentilators.
Word was passed that the ship was on fire. All
bands Immediately mustered, and the fire was dscov-
cred in the hold, aft. Water poured down was OF no
avail. The ventilators and other apertures were
caulkod to smother the fire, but without effect.
The fire had attained such extent that the whole Of
the after part of the ship was soon mass Of flames
and the crew were obliged to take refuge forward
Got the boats ready and observed the bark Retriever
about y. m. BY we were all on board that vessel,
and when the :. NJ. was last seen, the main and mz-
zen masts were gone, and she all in blaze. by
letter Ellwood Walter esq, Secreta of the Board
OF Underwrters.)
loss or TIE SMACK FRANK PIERCE or NAwiArG, cT.
PROBABLY ALL HANDS LOST.
CoiIFcToE OFFICE, SAG HtRgoE, l.. L., July y.
The fishing smack Frank Pierce Of Nav yaug, Conn,
came ashore opposite Gree1port, at u O'Clock a. m.,
eth instant. She was abando.ed, bottom up ana
waerloeged with small boat lasDed 10 her. Nothing
is known of those board, but il s thought that they
must al he lost. The +. T. was vessel of about ~
tuns burden.
MINOI's LEDGE LIGHT-HOU>E.
The work has now risen to the hight of thry.eight
feet above the original rock ard IS at present All I'M
posing object though yet to go sixty feet higher. IL
is constructed OF heavy blocks oi granite each d0ve
tailed into the other, in each course land IN cement and
bolt ed together with heavy iron bolts. The courses
are two feet in thickness and up to the hight of forty
feet the work is to be perfectly solid mot with well
room in the center a. some OF the newspapers state
with heavy iron post in the center firmly inbcdded
in the original rock below. Above the forty feet,
where the diameter viii be about twenty-seVen feet
are to be six apartments above the other with the
lantern twelve feet in hight surmounting the whole
1t. appearance and will be hereafter that of an i'm
mense granite post IN mid ocean, sustaining the IAN
tern on its top. The view from the work at spresent
elevation is not materially different from that from
vessel in the same peighborhood. The sea was run
ming pretty high at the time oil around the structure
and dashing with some violence against its base. The
non shaN which comes up through the center Of the
work is used as a hosting apparatus, ana the Amen
can hag was waving from its top. The cost ct the en-
tire structure with shore arrangements complete VIII
probablv amount 10 nearly half a million of dollars.
The lighthouse it is expected viii he finished during
the next year and, wok OF science and skill! Will
compare favOrably with any similar structure ever
ere,iet Bunker Hill Aurora.