The Republican journal., 1881-12-08

SHIPPING ITEMS. The Portland Press SAYS OF
the ship Renee, recently metaed in that port and
since towed to New York to load for San Francis
CO. The Renee is a splendid craft She is owned
by George II, Theobald Of Richmond. and was
built at kennebunk, Of white oak and yellow pine
She is Of extra strength and is called one of the
strongest and best built ships in Maine She has
beautiful model, IS 229 feet long II foot beam
and = feet deep She is coPpered up to %! feet
Her cabins are elegantly finished III hard woods
and she is provided with all the modern improve
ments She bears the highest rating II the Record
and French Lloy ".-...T The Bath schooner Mary
E. Morse, Cash, laden with 1910 tons Of coal made
the from Sandy Hook to Boston in thirty hours
-Steamer South Carolina, from Panama 10 San
Francisco, last week, brought up Capt Curre, wife
and two children and four seamen Of the British
bark Sarah, from Hull to San Francisco which
was burned in the South Pacific They were TWEEN
ty three days in an open boat under tropical sun
THE Calf Rock Light House was washed away
in the recent gale which swept over the British
Islands - Bark Ada Wiswell 557 tons, built at
Machlas in 1874 has been wrecked at Monteyideo
bar and is a total loss All hands saved - Schr
Jennie s. Hail. 400 tons, v as launched from the
yard of VIM Fish, DamaIiscot last week Capt
Hall, of Rockland, commands her.. The Portland
Sunday Times says: At Browns wharf is a Scotch
bark loading with lumber for South America,
| which is quite a curiosity to our ship builders.
She has al iron frame, planked outside but not
| inside, is long, and shoal Her upper
works are Of teakwood highly polished. 49, 3os
ton is to revolutionize marine architecture by
building steam vessels without mastS that can't be
drowned, to he run across the ocean in five days
Triple compound engines built Of steel will be
used Houghton Bros, of Bath launched Satur-
day first class ship of POSI- tons, named the
Arabia She is owned by the builders and Capt
Chas. Ii. NcLoon, who commands her. Also there
was launched oY VIM. K ogers a superior schooner
46 tons named Belle q Noil owned by the build
ers Jas Drake and others. and Capt Thomas
Mclaughlin who commands her. Also Goss,
Sawyer and Packard launched tine schooner be-
longing to Taunton, Mass. parties and named
Charles Noble Simmons. Capt. II l. Rabbit
commands her Last week all arriving steamers
at New ork reported tremendous seas and ex-
traordinary rough weather Two sailors were
washed from the steamer Coptic, the Arizona was
frequently swept from stem to stern and the decks
of the Rhein were covered with water nearly the
whole passage line Of steamers is to be
shortly established between Montreal and Brazil
49,. During the last year the Life Saving Service
has rescued from wrecks lO3 persons The fol
lowing vessels were built IN Portland district the
past year: Bark Ethel 6J3 tons sch. j. 4. Hateny
l72 tons sch a J York 22s tons stmr S. Il
Spring l5l tons; bktue. Ansobie 541 tons and
bktne Dido E Clark, 800 tons The last named
built IN Harpswell, all the others in Portland
THE number Of vessels belonging TO- Or bound
to or from ports in the United States, reported
totally lost and missing during the past month is
40 Of which 70 were wrecked 3 were sunk by
collision, 3 were burned, were abandoned and )
foundered The list comprises steamer 8 ships
IL barks ) briggs and ~ schooners and their total
value exclusive of Cargoes, is estimated at 81 600
900 Of the above, 3 ships, banks and - schoon
ers were owned wholly in the United States and
their total value is estimated at $3.50