The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-08-18
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BOAT, ahoy =" cried the sentry.
AYE, aye want to come on board"

81 Boat, ahoy :" cried the sentry
AYE, aye want to come on board"
''Who you ?"
"Sent TO see the captain"
Gan right; heave alongside;" and our boat pulled
against the very deuce Of tide close TO the
mediation ladder the lee side Of the Sabine She 10
lying just below the Battery the North river With
a nice swell on it is very ticklish thing getting
board vessel from boat but yesterday. although
the tide certainly strong and the wind blowing uss
a cspful" were able 10 hop on the Underway and
gain the deck without trouble Arrived there tho
officers wero all courtesy, and one had but title din
Guilty finding out who" and what the SABINE was and
is. and all about her.
She is what is called "apprentce Ship OF she UnI-
ted States Navy, mounts thryour guns, Of which
red 100-pounders. and the majority OF the others
einch broadside gunss OF 1726 tons burden and has
a complement OF one hundred and twenty men. The
Sabine a sailing frigate with flush deck, Of haA
line old class Of vessels that are now becoming rapidly
extinct in these days Of iron kettles and sove-ppes
belongs the second section OF such ships the
Navy register having only two decks on which TO
her hro:dside batteries Her boys number only two
hundred but the timo has been she has carried
four hundred apprentices to Neptune however.
from her having to supply the other ships with trained
boys she is unable 10 keep up her stock long entire. A.
lot OF these fine young fellows got sufficiently
acquainted with the routine OF ship duty and become
urcd 10 the boardshp ife they are drafted OH here
and there to the Minnesota or the Franklin. some
other ship and the Sabines school, consequently,
The vessel is kept in the neatest possible to
conceive and we would think her rather line battle
ship ready for action, with everything in its place than
a training ship with q lot OF boys board The deck
as bright and clean rs "a pln," all the brass work
polished up 10 the mirror stage of exactness and
rope Is out OF its proper situation, being coed up and
deposited here and there rather as OF uaty
rancnt tn the deck than thing Of which has 10
uncoied in moment. The boys quarters are airy and
well ventilated in the tween decks the cheers
cabins state rooms as they generally called,
rociny those of many lodging house shore.
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the provisions required for the cooked.
Here everything was also bright, and appetzin9
smell occasionally difused.
AT seight bells.' four o'clock, andsmen vul>
garry 10, the boys called to dinner heard
FIRST the bugie blast OF their trumpeter then the
sLri Pipe of the boatswains whistle sounding through
the SHIP They formed in squads sections &C
ten, the upper deck which fore and aft Tho
ship and marched down in line two deep 90 their
messas, the lower gun deck. Here the little fellows
sQuatted down in circles tho deck, with Their little
canteens, paninsfand jackkpives and sawed away It
or '.hard tack" with the ease and habitude OF
old salts. After dinner or supper, whatever the
meal was called they went again The upper
deck and manned boats to The shore Of which
was required every aud then for the services OF
the ship while others climbed TO the mastheads and
took practical observations In seananship far
climbing out the yards could do.
The sabine will remain in the harbor until Wednesday
or Thursday. when she will start cruise 10
northern port and IL would be well worth visit
her Discipline and the system OF education out
board her 10 1T Juvenile citizens 10 become sturdy
sailors
The Quinnebaug, screw frgate OF some eight hun
dred tons and carrying ten guns, lies near 10 the
SABINE She has Just out OF the Navy Yard, and
is bound oil TO join one OF our squadrons