Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-22
PACIFIC COAST SHIPPING.

San Francisco is the home port of rs
seagoing vessels, classified as follows:
Schooners, LIP; barks, -; barkentiues,
.; steamers. u: ships. Ii; brigs, Is: and
brigantines, 3. In the list of merchant
vessels and TO be reckoned as coast,
river and bay craft, are found $50
schooners and "a sloops, whose tonnage
being below I0 make total Of 4oi
craft not seagoing and claiming San
Francisco as the home port. One hun
dred and fifty seven steamers are owned
In San Francisco, and are thus CLASH
led: Paddle 80 and sore steamers s..
including the two steam vhalers Bow
head and Orca, passenger steamers.
tugs and coasters, making a grand total
of about AZ vessels which claim San
Francisco IS a home port.
The bark Amethyst was recently sold
for 5000 to enter a new era of useful
ness as whaler. for which business she
Is now being fitted up. Her oaken tim
bers are said to be as strong and solid
as on the day they were put in. The
bark Great Western, built In New York
in 1851, was the next Oldest vessel, but
was destroyed by fire on the night of
the 10Th of last June-the same night of
the laundering of the British steamer
Escambia of the Heads-vith her cargo
of coal, while lying at Oakland wharf.
She was run afterwards on the mud fats
at Sauceiito, to be stripped of her iron
and copper. The Great Western had
brought thousands of emigrants to
America from the European continent,
and was considered such a magnificent
craft In her time that she gained for
herself fame in being made the subject
of a flaming colored print. The ages
of the lark Shooting Star. owned by
John Birmingham, and the steamer EN-
pire. are buried in oblivion. being un-
known; also, that of the bark Annie
Johnson, which sailed formerly under a
foreign flag.
The other harbors in California which
figure as the home ports of vessels own
ed there are San Diego, with the schoOn-
ers Sierra, DOrinda, Al. G. Miller, Annie
Heron and Ellen, and the s'oops Isa-
bella Bush, Restless and 1 ouise, and
the schooner yacht Ariel. These are
but small craft; aud, of the scnooners.
the Sierra is the largest, with 1918 tons
burden, the Ellen the smallest, with
9.9i tons. The Isabella Bush is the
largest of the sloop fleet. and has 1880
tons, all the other vessels being given in
the order of their tonnage. San Diego
has in addition the tug Emma. Port
Wilmington owns the schoonsrs Louisa
Harker, of 2l.80, and the San Mateo, of
1870 tons respectively, the sloop Liber-
ty, of L. q tons, and the paddle steam
ers Cricket and Los Angeles, of leo end
Is horse power respectively. Los An
geles owns the brig Tanner and the
schooner Serena Thayer, and Ventura
Is proud in the possession of a merchant
fleet consisting of the schooner Rosila,
which is credited with S.17 tons burden.
Washington Territory's shipping in
teresss are represented by no craft,
classified as follows: Banks, IA; bark
entines. 3; and ships, s; besides 81
schooners and 16 sloops not sea- going,
and 70 paddle and 20 screw steamers.
Oregon has merchant service of l6i
craft, classified thus: Banks, 5: brig,
schooner and ship, one each, besides 10
scheOners and "A sloops of less than I'D
tons burden, and lib steamers-79 pad
die and 81 screw. Alaska's interests in
the shipping line are yet but nominal,
four ports owning small craft. Sitka is
the home port of the schooners G. c.
Perkins and Nellie Eden, of 26 tons,
and the Gold Hunter, of $40 tons; Ko-
diac of the schOOners St. Paul, of II
tons, the Nicholas, of 1887, and the
DiOmedes Herman, of 1886 tons; Kla-
wack of the schooner Nellie Martin of
41S tons, and Wrangel of the sloop
Magnolia and the seventy FIVE horse
power paddle steamer Cassiar.