The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-30
ITO SEA IN A TUB"
The Craft That is to Garry a Man and
Wife to England,

On Monday, Capt. and Mrs Thomas
Grape sailed from New Bedford, Mass,
for England, in little craft which is de
scribed by the New Bedford Standard as
follows:
The boat in which Captain and Mrs.
Thomas Grape are to sail for England was
officially measured yesterday by Captain
Orrick Smalley, United States. Admeas
urer, who reports her dimensions as fol-
lows: Length, 1885 feet; breadth, GA
feet depth, $40 feet; tonnage, l62 tons.
The length of keel is Is feet; centre
board, 3 feet inches, and foot inches
wide. She is built something after the
whaleboat model, but shorter. broader,
deeper, and with more sheer, and her
draught Of water will be about Is inches
with centre board up. Her foremost is
Is feet from the deck mainmast, II feet.
The principal sails are Of leg~mutton pat
tern, the foresail hosting Is feet and main
sail Is feet, each being about feet on the
foot, The foresail is without a boom.
She is having a squaresa: and staysail
made for light winds, to hoist from the
deck, the former containing about Is
yards and the latter Is yards of canvas.
She carries an American ensign at the
main and burgee with her name at the
fore, aud is provided with an anchor. oars,
pump and other usual craft.
The boat is painted white with green
bottom. The gunwale is yellow ochre, and
under it is blue streak 6 inches wide
amidships, and tapering to inches for
ward and 80 inches aft. Her name is
painted on this streak on each quarter, IN
white letters q inches high, with ochre
shading. The New Bedford is to be
| launched at 9 o'clock tomorrow, and be-
fore sailing on her ocean voyage will make
one or more trial trips in Buzzard's Bay.
While in port she will lie at the west side
of Fish Island, below the bridge. Most
of her provisions will be canned goods,
and she will be provided with little
petroleum stove. Most of the weight on
board will be her store of fresh water,
about one hundred and thirty gallons in
six kegs, which will be stored fore and-aft
three on each side, Her provisions and
water will weigh about fifteen hundrec
| pounds. The New Bedford Is a shorter
boat than has ever crossed the Atlantic,
but Captain Grape thinks she is superior
as a seaboat to the little craft that made
the voyage last year.
The New Bedford has no bulwarks, but
will be rugged with life. lines instead, and
Captain Grape does not expect much water
will come over the deck. The matches
will be arranged in two parts with hinges
aud most of the time the forward half o.
each will be closed. The steersman vii
sit in the after hatchway, and will be pro
vided with canvas boot to fasten round
the body in rough weather Any timt
when the sea is too high for convenien
running the boat will lie too with drag
The New Bedford will sail from Rotch
wharf for her long cruisel at ii o'clocl
Monday next. Bidding adieu to Chatham
lights, the brave and fair voyagers vii
take direct east course to pass south o
the banks, and then shape their course 70
latitude As, longitude 80, whence they vii
steer for the English Channel. The boa
will carry charts. compass and quadrant
Captain Grape will keep his longitude ,,
dead reckoning, verifying it by any vessel
passing, and most of the way will be di
; rectly in the track Of the ocean steamers
He will call first at Falmouth in Cornwall
and expects to arrive there in forty day
from the time of sailing, or about July
Thence he will proceed to London an
afterward Havre. On his return he vii
bring the boat on board a larger vessel
Captain Grape has been picking up som
money at Fish Island by the exhibition G
his boat, and the sale of photographs
Two ladies in Friends garb, who visite
the island yesterday, presented to Mrs
; Grape Il rubber coat.