New-York daily tribune., 1859-06-30
MARINE AFFAIRS.

Capt. Miller Of the bark White Cloud, from San
Juan del NoIte, arrived this morning. reports June
l-lt San Juan. After much difficulty got outside the
bar and came u anchor. The Old channel is fast ill
irg up, and new j. forming making it unsafe
ior vessels 10 enter which draw twelve feet.
There is at present nine feet in the channel aud
deepening fast. Had it no. been for the strenuous
eterOns II the plot and the kind asistauce received
from the Unite States ship -. LOuis Capt. VI. would
not have been able to have got out until the new
channel had opened sufficiently.
LOSS oF IHE SHIP FLEETWOOD. op BOSTON.
The ship Fleetsooi, Capt. Dale, Of and from Bos-
ton, February 9, ior Society Islands lost May {,
in lat % S. long II W., by coming in collision with
an iceberg a, night, which stove in her bows, causing
her leak and the pamps not being able to keep her
free the obliged TO abandon her 10 the boats
a, a. OF the jh Remsned in sight until daylight,
ard they left her her decks under water The
first mates boat Mr. Bsbson 81 WAS picked up the
10th by the British bark -, from Valparaiso, fox
Liverpool, who landed them at Pernambuco about
June 3D.. There were four seamen in the boat of
whom had one Of his feet frozen CG Capt Dale in
formed Mr. B. Of bis intention to steer for Falkland
Island. lie had with him his wife and child and six
teen men, The Fleetwood was built in Portsmouth,
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was owned by +. Dale, and others, of Boston.
NAVAL.
The preparations being proceeded with on board the
United States steamer Fulton, at Norfolk. are nearly
completed and tnat vessel will be ready for about
the 10th of July.
The Water Witch is also in hands, but the workmen
cannot be through with her for at least ak weeks.
Both these vessels, il will be remembered are de.
tailed for the Gulf of Mexico.
The new steam sloop Iroquoi', at the Brooklyn
Navy Yard has been hauled alongside tue dock to a-
ctste the lsbors OF the workmen fitting her out As
there pressing orders concerning thi, vessel her
preparations are progressing slowly. She has not yet
been assigned 20 sny squadron.
ANOTHER sEw FERRY.BoAr.
Yesterday morning Messrs. Roosevelt and joyce
launched from their y,rd, foot Of Houston street,
Nsw-York, the new ferry-boat Warren, for the Loog
Island Ferry Company TO be run on Peck.slp Ferry.
The machinery of the Commodore Perry, one Of the
ferIyboat-, is al and she will be ready to by the
Fourth Of July. The Ethan Allen is progressing
rapidly toward completion, and sexpeced 70 be ready
by the lst Of August. The other two, Marion and
Warren will be ready by the middle Of August. Tue
length Of each boat is 53 feet gsngway for carriages
% feet The cabins are 81 feet long and about Is feet
wioei will seat Us persons. They will be finished in
superior manner heated by steam in Winter, and
lighted with gas. The engines are the ordinary beam
engines, nine feet stroke, and 3Snch cylinder. Boil
nine feet in diameter aud 25 feet long, Of best
Pennsylvania iron. The wheels are Is feet
inches in diameter, and 8 feet face. The draft Of
boats, with machinery and all in them, will be five
feet ten inches. The engines are furnished with
Stephens pstert cutoff and ether improvements.