Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-11-25

3Se tons. She is the property of Johr
Middleton. r., and others, of Philadel
phia- She WAS caught in the ice Las
winter at the Delaware Breakwaser ane
vas sunk. The accident showed the
great superiority of an iron vessel owe,
| wooden one. II she had been a wood
en- vessel she would have been vrenche<
from stem 10 stern. AN iron hull dom
wrench She had BIG hole knocked In
her. bat she was easily raised and re-
paired. She vas rated first class s,x.
teen years after the accident The sea-
sons profits more than paid all the ex.
penses of the repairs"
Will American vessel owners ever
use ion instead of wood for theii
schooners.- was asked of President Cor
ringe of the american Ship Building
Company.
Will they ever do so? They are do
ing 80 now. We have tvo schooners on
the stocks now az Philadelphia One is
for Theo. Citing and others of PhiIa-
delphia- She has clipper model and
II spared like trader. She Is intend
ed for the West India trade. Soc will
carry GOO tons of cargo when drawing
ten feet of water We build the hull
only of the other one Captain James
MAlloy Is the managing owner. She is
a keel schooner of / 100 tons"
What is the COS. of an iren schoon-
err
1t is little greater. OF course
Why should the owner psy you more
for an iron hulI?"
3" Because the iron hull will almost
carry enough more IN cargo the first
load TO make no the difference in cost
Size for size the iron hull is much lighter
and much stronger. We have to build
according 20 rules devised for the rot
ton English iron, which makes them
heavier then necessary, but they are of
enormous strength. Each piece in an
iron hull Is rivoted 20 every adjoining
piece, so that practically the hull Is
composed Of one solid sheet of metal.
backed up by continuous ribs that are
practically a part of that sheet. In a
wooden hull the planking and ceiling
are pinned and bolted to the frames.
The cardboard streaks are edge bolt
ed to the keel and TO each 9th
or. The other streaks are independ
ent of each other. In the lifting of
the vessel on the waves there are un-
equal strains .on different parts of the
ship. These cause the frames and the
planking and the ceiling to grind On
one another. Yeu have read of the
creaking and groaaing of a ships tim
bers, If you never heard the sounds.
can MAKE wooden ship as
strong as the buoyaut hull of iron. The
and recaulking. and similar
expenses of a wooden hull, are all
avoided in q proper hull of iron. Then
the iron hull will ouslast two wooden
ones."
''Why do you stop with building an
iron bull! Why not iron masts!"
Iron masts are not novelty. The
Jesse II. Freeman, a three-masted
schooner with auxiliary steam power |
has a miZzen mast of iron that also |
serves as a smoke stack"
"Do you see that queer little craft |
there? the sailor on Pier IA said, point |
ing to the topsail schooner, Julie Knit |
schy. She was only 80 feet in length, |
and she measured 1l2 tons. She carried |
schooner sails on her lower masts, but |
she crossed three yards forward. A top |
sail and topgaliantsail were neatly |
furled on the two upper yards.
"You should see a development of |
that idea called the David Bows, owned |
in Toledo, OHIO. and run in the grain |
trade On Lake Erie," he continued. |
i She carries sQnare sail on the fore |
yard as we'll as on those above it. in ad- |
1ition to the fore and aft sail. She has |
four mats abaft the foremost, or five |
in all. She registers 14Sl tons, and is |
one of the largest schooners in the |
world. On account of the necessity of /
L., CHI 20 in, nd nv
the lakes, the schooner rig is practically |
peculiar to the lake schoOners. 1t Is the |
the builders sling long fore yard with |
4 sheave in each end. 1t is al
creased instead of a painted |
set or brailed in on either |
side at will. With the wind on the
beam, all the fore and aft sails and the !
sail are set. Then the sailors set the
sail with sheet through the end of the
runs down on deck by the fore
block dashed just above the |
kORQdli buO6VOs 4oCAV otCS Va SOoAoSt
two raffies in each foretop. The square
sail and the rattle are two very useful
sails that are easily handled. There are
four schoonor-rlgged vessels on the
lakes larger than the Dows. The City
Of Cleveland registers 1888 tons. She
belongs to Bradley and others of Cleve-
land. The Magnetic, 1892 tons, and
the Specuiar, 1872 tons, belong to the
Republic Iron Company, of Marquette,
Mich. The king of all fore-and-afs
vessels is tho Golden Age, built
and owned by V. Fries, of Milan,
0. The Miian schooners are famous
on the lakes for speed and strength
This one measures 1853 tons, and car
ries $500 tons of coal On draught of ID
feet of water. She is larger than any
bark ahoas on salt water. She ranks Ia
size with the larger fall-rigged ships.
Salt water ship builders could
learn something by taking q look over
her and the osnsrs. Excessive cornpe-
tition has pared d.wn freights to the
lowest possible tigure, and vessels there
must be Of tae most economical CEN