The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-05-04
MARINE.

Our SHIPYARDs.- Last Monday we
paid short visit to our shipbuilders, so
as to be able to furnish our readers an
account Of what is being done in this i'm
portant branch ofthe business transac-
tons of our City, and which employs SO
much of the labor aud capital throughout
our county. tits as well known here as
abroad, that shiptimber of the very best
quality is found in abundance in our coun-
ty, and that our shipbuilders and ship
carpenters have no superiors anywhere
Milwaukee and other lake ports send
their shipbuilders here to procure the
timber, have it sawed in our mills at
Cato, and here and then take it home
to be set up. All the largest and best
steamers OF the world-renoWned Good
rich line," have been built here and arc
unsurpassed in their nautical proportions,
internal arrs ngement and general finish.
Theunequaiied strength. beauty and sail
ing qualities of our brigs, barks and
schoonars have earned to our home the
well deserved name of the ''Clipper
City" We may well feel proud of our
Steamers, our sail vessels, our sea Captains
and our sailors.
Long before we reached shipyard Point
we beheld the new steamer looming up
high above the other crafts on the stocks.
She is to be called the Muskegon on her
baptism, which will probably take place
at the end of this week. She shows
splendid proportions and will, if possible
surpass all the other steamers ever fin
ished by our great Masterbuilder Com
modore GreenleafS. Rand. Her length
breadth and depth we have given some
time ago; as soon as she is fully COM
pleted we shall furnish full description.
The first vessel we came to in the yard
was the newly launched, three masted
schooner the Willie Keller, being pre-
pared with sails and rigging, for her
maiden trip to Chicago; she is especially
built for the grain trade and finished
with ell the modern improvements her
builders Messrs Hanson & Skoye are well
known as first class mechanics and their
high reputation is increasing with every
new vessel, they launch they have al
ready laid the keel ofanother new schoon-
cr for Charles VI. Lindgren Of Chicago
to be of the following dimensions:
Keel 14O feet, breadth 26:2, depth
liz feet She will be named By her
owner after his celebrated countrywoman
the sweet singer Christine Nelson"
This vessel is also to be engaged in the
grain trade.
The next vessels we came to were the
schooners Helen Blood and the brig c.
I. Hutchinson, both vessels considerably
damaged by their late collision. The
Helen Blood has received a new main
mast. .stantions ETC., The Hutchinson
is being re-rigged into schooner, they
viii both be. fully repaired by Mcssrs
Hanson & Skove and ready for business
again within a short time. An other of
our Mastcrbuilders Mr. Peter Larson
has charge of the rebuilding and lenthen-
ing Of the schooner g. knapp owned by
her master Capt. Davis She is length
enod out twenty-one feet. and well ad-
vanccd towards completion; she. like the
U55Hte Keller, will be a three master and
ready for business within few weeks !;
when finished she will be as good as new
and as strong as ever. The scow BtHe
Bell, taken from the rocks in Bailey 5
Harbor last summer, is still seasoning
On the stocks, waiting for new bottom
md nannrnI rnrn;r