Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-08
and Occurrences
IA of the Old Year.
STATISTICAL EXHIBIT OF 1890
The Output of Our Big Ship
Yards.
Instruction by Flame--The Work of
x Death Gathered by the Police--BuiId-
4 inG Operations--A General Review of
the Past Year.

munity in the country. In stuunchnesS,
seaworthness, speed and finish, they have
no superior anywhere. Steel, iron or wood,
the best material went into them and their
machinery is of the strongest and most
powerful.
IA Wilmington has a right to be proud of
her shipyards. Their products plow, the
waters Of the world The vessels built
z last year have sailed, or are sailing, the
x Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to Mexico,
I Portland, Boston, Newport, New York,
PHILADELPHIA, Baltimore, Norfolk, VIII
mington and New Berne, N O., Charles
ton, S. c. Jacksonville, Fla, and the gulf
Z ports see the vessels built in Wilmington
"A during 1880, every week. The island of Trim
idad has two Wilmington steamers, built
last year Two magnificent steam yachts,
among the best in the world, were among
the vessels built.
The total number of vessels constructed
and completed in the four shipyards dur
ing the year was %. Their aggregate gross
tonnagcis about 10000, and their estimated
total value between SO 900, 600 and So, 500 600.
There are also nine vessels under construc-
ton whose tonnage will be nearly 5000
and whose value will he over 81 100000.
This makes grand total of 3S vessels; an
aggregate tonnage of nearly 25000, and
value of something over IS 10000
OF the 20 completed vessels six were of
steel, seven Of iron and l6 Of wood. There
arc four iron and five wooden vessels under
COnNtFutilOIl., j he lOtdl Is SIX Dl Sltei, IL
of iron and q Of wood. The gross tonnage
of the completed iron and steel vessels is
$3.50 and of the wooden vessels about
5000 The iron vessels under construction
will have atonnage of about 800 and the
wooden vessels Of about 1000,
The completed vessels are Of the follow
ing classes Iron steamships, 2; steel
steamboats, 4; iron steamboats,, s; wooden
steamboats, q total steamboats,. II; steel
steam yachts, 2, The following are all of
wood Steam barge, l; four masted schoon-
ers, 3; two masted schooners |; ferry boat,
/; tugboat / mud dumps, 2; car-tloats, g
scows, 2; lighters |; total, 20, There are
under construction, one iron steamship;
three iron and one wooden steamboats,;
one four masted schooner of wood; one
wooden tug one lighter and one steam
barge; total, 8.
ship-yard and also those under construc-
ton, with their gross tonnage and owners,
are as follows:
THE HARLAN 4 HoLLINGswoRTH COMPANY.
BY the Harlan a Hollingsworth Com
pany-Iron steamship Indian $50 tons,
for Henry Winsor & Co.'s Boston q Phlla-
delphia steamship line. Iron steamboat
Charles Manchester, 625 tons, for the Mt.
Vernon & Marshall Hall Steamboat Com
pany. Steel steam yacht Alicia, 800 tons,
for H. NJ Flagier of New York. Steel
steam yacht Almy, 1865 tons, for Frederick
Gallatin of New York. Iron steamship
Saturn, 2,370 tons collier for the Boston
Towboat Company. Iron steamboat Neuse,
40 tons, for the Wilmington Steamboat
Company of Delaware. Iron steamship
Washington, 1890 tons, for the Norfolk &
Washington ID. O. Steamboat Company,
nearly completed.
Under construction-lron steamboat
Norfolk, about l,500 tons, a sister steamer
to the Washington about ready for launch
ing. Iron steamship, about 2,S00 tons, for
the Merchants and Miners Steamship
Company, to ply between Baltimore and
Boston. Iron steamboat, about 700 tons,
for the Eastern Shore Steamboat Company.
Iron steamboat about 100 tons, for the |
Montauk Steamboat Company.
The last named will be the 262d vessel
built at this yard.
The Harlan & Hollngsworth Company
has made repairs to number OF large
vessels during the year, There are now at
the companys wharyes for the winter or
for repairs the following vessels, all but |
one built by the company Steam yachts
Alva, Almy, Alicia, Susquehanna, Anita, |
Falcon and Petrel, andthesteamers Repub- |
lie and John A. Warner,
PusEY JONES COMPANY.
The Pusey 4 Jones Company constructed |
smaller boats, as follows Steel stern wheel |
steamboats, st. Sebastian, 2l9 tons and st. |
Augustine, l3l tons, for the Jacksonville, |
Tampa 4 Key West Railroad Company.
Steel stern wheel steamboats, Guanare, 2l9 |
tons, and Socorro, rs tons, for service ON
the 0rinoco river, Island of Trinidad. |
These boats were shipped knockdown, to |
destination, and there put together and |
launched by the company's men. Iron ex-
cursion steamer steamboat John f, Smith, |
236 tons, FOR the Philadelphia sanitarium,
United States revenue cutter, WinOna iron, |
$50 tons, for service near New Berne, N. G. |
The Pusey & Jones Company also fur
tnb far fine
Bridgeton and City of St Augustine. The |
United States Marine Hospital fulnigating |
steamers, Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch and
William II, Wells, were completed late in |
1889, but did not leave their builders
hands until early spring in 1880.
The hull Of the wooden tug Colon is !
being constructed by the Jackson IL Sharp |
Company for the Pusey & Jones Com |
pany, who contracted to build ii for the |
Spanish American Iron Company of the |
Island of Cuba Charles llillman 4 CO., of
Philadelphia are constructing the wooden |
hull of steamboat of about 100 tons, which |
the Pusey & Jones Company have con-
tracted to build for the New Bedford, Mar
tha's Vineyard Nantucket Steamship
Company.
260 vessels since 1851, Considerable repair
ing of boats built by themselves, has been
done. The little Norton steam yacht, II. l..
Norton which recently crossed the Atlantic
was furnished with machinery, The |
steamer Widgeon was changed from
propeller to a side wheel boat. The pas
senger tug Oceanic the hospital fumigating
steamer Louis Pastcur the United States
survey yacht Mermaid and the tug G, G,
Ash are at the yard The Ash is undergoing
repairs on the railway
JACKSON & SHARP COMPANY.
The record of the Jackson d Sharp Com
pany for 1890, all wooden vessels, issls fol
lows:
Four-masted schooners. James Judge, |
$50 tons, Perry Birdsel, / ,l2S tons, and job |
u. Jackson, Jr.. |, 15S tons; two-masted |
schooner Jaeger l32 tons; steamer City of
st. Augustine, 564 tons. Also, the follow
ing, the capacity of which is given in tons:
Two mud dumps for the North American
Dredging Company Of New York, 900 |
tons EACH two car floats for the Reading |
railroad, 200 tons each two scows for the |
Atlas Dredging Company 700 tons each; |
hull of u ferry boat for the Brooklyn An |
mex Ferry, 600 tons hull of tug Wanderer |
for \. Jansen of New York, 30 tons one |
lighter for the Erie railroad, $50 tons.
Under construction-One lighter for the |
Erie Railroad Company, $50 tons hull of |
the tug Colon for the Pusey S Jones Com
pany, 80 tons. The latter was launched |
yesterday afternoon. A four-masted |
schooner. about 800 tons, for Captains |
Champion and Magee of Philadelphia.
Twelve large 5chooners and barks have |