The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-30
A DOT UPON THE SEA.
Arrival Mt Boston of the Tiny Boat
City OF RRRUsa-A Three Months
VOyage-HtstOry and Incidents.

Arrival mt Boston of the Tiny Boa
| City OF RRgUsa-A Three nIOnths
VOyage-HtstOry and Incidents.
From the Boston Herald, Sept. 9.
Ninety days ago, a tiny boat, less than
twenty feet in length, and carrying two
men and dog, left Liverpool, England
with the aYowed purpose of crossing th'
Atlantic to New York. The bold and
hazardous project was the subject of much
amszement Mt the time, and about five
O'Clock yesterday afternoon the tiny Graf;
was signaled approaching our harbor. al
six o'clock, the Collectors tug start d
down the harbor and met The venture
some mariners at about eight O'Clock,
opposite the lower light, and towed them
to this city. The boat which has thus ac-
complisbed q voyage SO hazardous and so
altogether novel ig named the City of Ra-
gusa, is twenty feet In length over all, six
! feet beam, and two feet eight inches In
} depth, drawing two feet of water; she is
: yawl rugged, and spreads seventy yards Oi
CANVASS; is fitted with n twO-bladed steam
propeller. worked by hand, and her hull
Is of wood, the boards being only one-balf
inch in thickness. In this miniature ship
are all the arrangements for cooking. etc,
and the capacity for carrying ptoVisioGs
and water sufficient for the voyage which
has Just been SO successfully terminated.
The crew consists of two mcu. john
ChoTles Berkeley, the commander. and
Nicholas Primoraz, These are the two
men who, actuated as the former says by
a mere whim," were induced To- make
this attempt which few could regard as
anything but fOOlhardinesS, after seeing
the craft IN which they I4uncLed th.lr des-
-
thread. The former had followed the sea
fIom boyhood, and has passed an eventful
life. He saved two lives off the coast of
Kent ON the Sth of September, 1858, for
which he was awarded a medal by the
British Humane Society. He Is
an Irishman, and has home
in Dublin. His companion is an
Austrian. On Thursday, Jnne 2d, these
daring spirits launched their frail bark,
and, accompanied only by dog, left Lv-
erpool. In ten days they put into Queens
town, where they were Obliged to remain
four days in order to have some caulking
done on their boat, which was leaking, aud
left there on the 10th, having on board one
ton OF ballast and five hundred weight of
coal. They took the northeTly route, the
same as that taken by tho Cambria, the
prevailing winds being westerly, and, for
the first thirty-fiye days, they suffered a
great deal, being kept wet through eontin-
ually. They were also unable to cook in
the first part of the voyage, and were COM
PEELED to eat their meat raw, which added
to their discomfort and helped to dis
them. After being eighteen days
out, they became short of frewood, with
no means of getting a supply. A6 this
time they very luckily picked up a barrel
contaiping about 4 gallons of tar. which
was perfect godsend, they using the tar
upon the decks, and the barrel for fuel
On the 4th of July they celebrated the day
of the great republic, drinking the health
of President Grant in some prime Irish
whisky, with which they were supplied.
On the evening of that day tlere WAS
heavy gale, through which, however, they
rode safely. On the 2Sth of August, they
lost one of their crew, tho dog. who died of
scuryy. They had much heavy weather,
but the little bark bore herself nobIy, and
the men themselves expressed surprise that
she rode the heavy gales So staunchly. She !
was leaking all the way, and the pumps, of |
which they have two. were kept ut work |
constantly. In the severe gale of last Sat |
urday they experienced the hardest time of
the voyage, but suffered no disaster save |
the carrying away OF the jigger boom. The
largest number of miles made in one day
was 153, which was made in the first part
of the voyage, and the smallest eleven |
miles. The average speed was four knots
nn hour. A number of vessels were
spoken on the voyage, among which was The
bark Radcliff, on tho 2Sth of Juno, bound
for Quebec the ship Maxwell, August Sch
and the homeward bound steamer Russia,
August "a From the first two OF these
they took in supplies of provisions and wa
ter. Two whales We're very neighhorly
off Cape Clear, coming near enough
to be touched With the hand, and CIV
ing the voyagers some alarm lest they
should upset their frail ship. One of
''Mother's Cary's Chickens" attended thom
from the time they left Queenstown till
they passed Georges bank. Tho men say
that they had the most perfect confidence
in the success Of their enterprise, and in
The toughest gale could go TO sleep with
the greatest composure. Only the late
ness of the season prevents them from re-
turning home as they came. Their origin
al intention was 20 go direct to New York
but they concluded to put into this port,
and viii go from here to the former place,
and will remain this side OF the Atlantic
another summer. They were lowed to
Long Wharf by the tug, and there can be
seen this smallest of all crafts that ever
traversed the broad Atlantic.