Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1874-11-19
Wooden Ship. Building.

THE OUTLOOK IN WILMINGTON AT pREsENT-vEs-
SELLS UNDER wAY-REDucTIoN OF FORCES, &c.
While there has been general depression,
and in some instances partial suspension, in
many Of the manufacturing industries Of our
city, wooden ship-buildng has held its own re-
markably well, and there has not been, until
within short time past, any visible signs Of
decline in the business. 1t il but Just to say,
however, that even in the halcyon days of ship
building these seasons Of depression in the bus
mess would often occur, 30 that we reasonably
hope that the present depression may only be OF
temporary character.
A want OF general activity is more noticeable
in Moores ship-yard at the foot Of Fourth street.
than elsewhere and although the firm Ia one OF
tie best and most reliable IN the country, there
ia such lack OF orders for vessels that the
working force, since the first of September, has
been reduced from so down to about 10 hands.
These 10 hands will be employed permanently
all winter and it is hoped by the Messrs Moore
that business may be 10 revived as to enable
them to re-employ their accustomed force.
The following orders include work Just fin
ishcd and on .hand at present Tho schooner
Lucy Jones, of Providence, Connecticut, having
been beached, has undergone q regular over
hauling and been sent to its destination, 10
ton schooner not named, and being built for
saois on the stocks, principally for the purpose
of keeping the hands employed. An order has
been received from Washington for two side
dumping scows
A look III al the yards oil the JACKSON d ShArp
Company found things more lively. vein OF
good luck seams to have been opened to this
firm whicl, has continued down to the present
time from the opening OF their yards. The only
abatement in their usual complement of ship
yard hands occurred on Tuesday, when about II
wore ." laid of " for few days on account of
the non-arrival of some expected lumber. This
temporary interruption, We are assured will be
Of but short duration. and in g faw days they
will all be back in their accustomed places again
This firm has kept about 81 hands in continuous
employment during the past year.
The following are the contracts recently COM
pleted and on hand at the present time The
schooner May @. Fdrr, Of I20 tons, belonging
to Philadelphia, has just been rebuilt and sent
to hor owners. A new bow has been put in the
schooner 4. q. Huing, and the vessel was for
warded to her destination yesterday. large
three masted schooner, No. 81, but not vet
named, of $50 tons burthen, for Captain Birdsall,
Of Philadelphia, is on the stocks and will be fin.
ished in about month. This vessel il 1875 feet
keel, "a feet beam, 80 feet in lower hold, and 6
feet between decks.
A commencement has been made to lay the
keel of Government Light Boat, ! IA feet long,
2S feet in beam, IL feet inches in depth Of
hold. with copper fastenings. The frame work
OF this boat is already prepared and the contract
will be completed In February. The destination
Of this Light Boat is Umlee Quarter Shoals, of
the capes Of Delaware.
The old Office of the Jackson Sharp Co., at
the entrance to the yards, has been torn away
and another more capacious and better adapted
to the wants Of the business is being erected in
the rear of the building containing the mschin-
cry of the yard.
A very pretty two-masted schooner was
launched at the Landing, Wednesday afternoon,
for Mr.. John II. Bewley and christened Clara,
by his daughter, after her own name. The
launch was very pretty one, and witnessed by
about two hundred people. II.