The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-04-16

The SHuBRIcK.-This old and famil.
lar Government steamer. which has
PROBABLY done more real hard work
than any other vessel in commission. il
again i:r "na sort. She 10 now cum.
m.hded by Capt Alfred Everson, has
Chas RICHARDSON 10. Mate, Vim N
Rodes tor Engineer ard J B Lucas for
Assistant Engineer. end her whole
crew numbers twenty one men. She
was built at Philsdelphia. Of live and
white oak. copper fastened il 1851, and
rebuilt in 1878 and much repaired in
1850. Her length between perpendic
ulsrs is 40 feet. bsr breadth % feet
and inches, her depth Of hold Q feet
and her tonnage 805. She has the
Steeple or Harp engine. cylinder 5OZ
inches diameter. with 4S inches stroke
OF piston. Martin boiler and let con-
denser. Her rig is that OF q brigsn.
tine. aud side wheels her means of
steam propulsion. Eight knots an
hour is her ordinary speed. Her OBJ
ject in making the present trip is to
place the Few Kerosene burners in the
Sound lighthouses. displacing the lard
OIL burners hitherto IN use. the light If
which is more costly than ard quite
inferior to that of kernsrnr. The s,:iu.
brick is an old acquaintance in these
waters; she having made Der frs, ap-
pca'ance here over twenty years ago.
when Gen Harvey was IN command Of
this military district, and We seemed 10
. fsir Wy ~. war over the island Of
.Ssn Juan. She was then rev nue.
cutter, was faster than noe. was stroDy
~ manned and armed. and to merchant.
men would have been forme liable
craft. ia the early days of the war. an
ef ,rt was contemplated 10 run her OF
as . rebel privsteer, In which Capt
Pease. her commaGder. was . party.
This was frustrated by the patriotism.
determination and courage Of Victor
Smith. then Collector Of Customs at
Port Townsend. and J N Selden, then
o Frat Lieutenant in the Revenue
Marine. Who succeeded Peass not day
too soon. The guns of the Shubrick;
ut another time, were turned on the
Custom House at Port Townsend, and,
had not the demands of Collector
Smith been promptly scceded to, that
old rattle-trap Of building. we haven't
the slightest doubt, would have been
blown into ten thousand pieces Ga
this occasion. il our memory 10 not at
fault. Lieut. Merrym,n. of tbs Revenue
Marine. who had b. en- l-fs in charge Of
the Custom House. refused u deliver
possession OF the same TO the Collector,
upon return of the latter from trip TO
the National Capital. The latter wss
not the kind of nian To bs trihsd
with. 40 Is evident from the cour.. he
took to bring the presnmp.ious Leu
tenant to terms A littla later. the
Collector moved the Cus.om House
from Por, Towns MI TO Port A. yeles.
and in this work hr m,d lie SGu-
BRICK very u>eful. Government vessel
ns rhe was and neat and trim as Any
craft that ever turned y wheel. shs
carried luin ber from the mill. brick
from Steilacoom. .aything that MAS
wanted. and in those days of high
prices saved Uncle Sam = mint If
money in this way. She afterwards
carried the a,sil, taking the place. in
tbs semi-weekly service made vacant
by tue sale to the Hudssn Bay Com.
psny of the Enterprise. in 1862. From
that time to this shs has occasionally
made her appearance here. Of later
years in the service Of the Light House
Board She 10 . different looking
sieAmer now from what she was q, score
of years ago. house ON deck having
been built to accommodate her altered
wants. She is yet . good craft. and
will probably outlive half the vessels
now Ia Government service.