Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-27

THE NEW MISSIONARY BRIG.-The brig
Morning Star, which has just been completed at
the shipyard of Curtis & Smith, East Boston,
was launched Thursday afternoon at two O'Clock
Like the one which was wrecked on the Mi
cIonesian Islands last year, it has been built by
contributions from the Congregational Sabbath
schools for the use of the missionary stations in
the islands of the Pacific Ocean, under the di-
reciion of the American board Of commissioners
for foreign missions. The first brig Morning
Star was built by the senior member of the finn
who constructed the new one, and sailed for the
Sandwich Islands in 1869. The new vessel is
trife larger than the former one, being 68 feet
long on the keel, 100 feet between perpendcu-
lars on deck, has 26 feet inches breadth OF
beam, and 81 feet depth of hold. Her dead rise
at half floor is IS inches, and her sheer about
feet graduated her whole length with suffi-
| cient forward to impart an air of buoy
| ancy TO her forebody. She has a sharp
| raking bow, with concave lines up to her dis
placement mark, but above that the bow is con-
| veX 10 correspond with her general outline A
full female figure in robes of flowing white,
fringed with gold, and an open book in her
| right haun, ornaments the bow, and is fine
specimen of marine carving. On one page of
| the book are the words-"Light, Love- Life
the other is blank. Her stern is oval in outline
| and convex between the quarters and between
the archboard and the taffrail, and the latter is
rounded in its blending with the mOnkey-rail.
Her name aud port of hail, with tasteful scroll
work and devices, ornaments the stern. Viewed
end or broadside on she is beauty; every seam
of her planking follows the sweep of her sheer
| in exact proportions, and the mouldings of her
| planksheer and the rail, as well as all her ex.
| ternal workmanship, are as smooth as cabinet
| work. Sheis sheathed with yellow metal up TO
ten feet, and is painted black outside and pearl
| color inside.
The brig is strongly built Of the best materi-
ais, and nothing has been omitted in construc-
! ton and equipment deemed essential for her
complete success. She will probably cope in
speed with any vessel Of her size afloat.
She will be commanded by Capt. Nathaniel
Matthews of Cape Cod, who recently had charge
OF the clipper ship Ericsson. When the first
Morning Star was fitted out, the late Earl OF
Aberdeen, who was then playing the role of a
sailor, applied TO Mr.. Alpheus Hardy for the sit
uatlon OF chief mate of her, but was refused on
the ground that he was not personally known to
her managers. he applied under the name of
Geo. IL. Osborne
When the Morning Star reaches Honolulu. for
which she is bound, she will pass under the
control of the Hawaiian board of missions. who
will bear the expense of her cruising, but she
will continue under the American Gag. and be
commanded and differed by Americans. When
ready for sea she will cost about S27 900, and be
as perfect vessel OF her class as sails under the
American flag. Mr.. Alpheus Hardy, who has
for many years taken an active interest in for
eign missions, has transacted all the business
connected with her construction and equipment
and is therefore entitled to great credit for thu
completeness Of his work.