Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-19
SEATTLE. 7, MORNING. OCTOBER 49, 1883
sRIPPiSG INTELLIGENCE.

brig North Star will take cargo oi
lumber to Valparaiso.
Calvin Page has purchased half in
terest in the ship Richard Iii. from G.
Middlemas and L. b. Adams, fo- 500
very low price.
The new ship Imbsrhorn is the larR-
est iron sail vessel that has yet visited
the port of San Francisco.
Ship Henry Failing has temporarily
laid up at San Francisco.
The steamer Gaelic, 17l3 tons, built
at Belfast. Ireland, in ls72, lately owned
by the Oceanic Steam Navigation Com
panv White Star Linel. has been sold
| for Spauish account, and her name
changed to Hugo.
The ship Stafford. l074 tons, built at
/ Quebec, Canada, in 1877, and lately
| hailing from Liverpool, England, has
been purchased for German account,
and has had her name changed to Leo
pold Won Vangerow.
There was launched at Bath, Me-.
| Oct. I'd, by Goss d. Sawyer, a three-deck
ship named John b. Kelley, said to be
the largest ship ever built in Maine,
and measures 1868 feet in length. Her
gross tonnage is 1884. She is owned in
Bath, and will be commanded by Cap
tain Gibbons, of that place.
Capt. Williams of the brig Dauntless,
who was supposed to have been lost at
st. Domingo City while attempting to
90 to his vessel which lay anchored in
the stream, was driven ont to sea in
one of the vessels boats during sqoall,
and after three days landed ON the
coast, and did not return to st. Domin-
go City till after the hurricane. During
the hurricane the Dauntless was
wrecked and all on board were lost.
Captain Williams arrived at New York
on September 18th.
The Custom House arbitrators at
Panama have confirmed fines amount
ing to x4O0 .327 81 against the Atlas Line.
The steamer Atho was fined $l56, 6,63O.65,
the Ailsa *43 $40, and the Alvo $153,
0l670. These fines we're the result of
not complying with the incongruous
custom laws of Panama. The vessels
were fined on one voyage for "short
landing" or for not landing all that the
manifest called for, and on the next for
long landing" or landing that which
they were not able to bring on the pre-
vious voyage. The fines imposed are
about twenty times the value of the
goods. They will probably be adjusted.
On September 18th screw steamer
named the Barracouta was launched
from the yard of Messrs. j. IL G.1hOmp-
son, Clydebank. She is the first of
fleet intended to replace the sailing yes
sells of the firm of Messrs. Laycraft d
Co., from New York to the West Indies
The new ship has been built of steel to
Insure lightness and strength of struct-
ure, and has accommodations for fifty
passengers arranged in the afterpart of
the ship. Extra precautions have been
taken to insure efficient ventilation
throughout the ship, both in the spaces
where fruit is carried and in the pass
enger and crew departments. The di-
mensions are 2S5 feet long, 3516 feet
beam, and - feet deep to the awning
deck. She is expected to attain a speed
of twelve knots per hour while at sea.
She will be fitted with compound in
verted vertical engines, with all the most
recent improvements. The Barracouta
IL fitted with steam winches by Taylor
Bros, steam windlass by Baxter * Co.,
steam steering by HiRginson, and all
the latest modern improvements which
can DO applied to a first class passenger
ship.