Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08
SHIPS OF ALL NATIONS.
CURIOUS INFORMATION ABOUT
THE WORLDS VESSELS.
Odds and Ends Concerning all Man
ner OF Water Craft - Large Fleets
and Quick Voyages.


Odds and Ends Concerning all Man
ner OF Water Craft - Large Fleets
and Quick Voyages.
The fastest passage between New York
and Queenstown, both eastward and
westward. was made in the latter part OF
1891 by the steamship Teutonic of the
White Star line. The fastest passage
from Queenstown to New York was made
In August, being five days sixteen hours
and thirty-one minutes. The fastest
passage from New York to Queenstown,
says the Philadelphia Record, was made
in October, being five days twenty-one
hours and three minutes.
The first steam vessel to cross the At
lantic Ocean was the Savannah, which
crossed from Savannah, Ca, to Liverpool
in 1919. The first steam vessels to reach
New York from Great Britain were the
Sirius and the Great Western. The
Sirius, ship of 700 tons, sailed from
Cork April A, 1885, and the Great West
ern, 1, $40 tons, left Bristol three days
later. They arrived on April 23d, the
Sirius in the morning and the Great
Western in the afternoon.
The greatest steam vessel ever built,
in size, was the Great Eastern, which
was 500 feet in length and SO feet in
breadth. The Teutonic is 532 feet in
length.
The largest turret ship in the world
perhaps the largest battle ship in exist
ence-is the British battle ship Hood,
which was launched at Chatham on July
80, 1891. The Hood has displacement
of IA, 100 tons. The largest American
Miantonomah. The finest wbr ship in
the French navy is the Brennus, which
was launched early in October, 1891.
Her displacement is IL, 900 tons.
The longest sailing craft ahoat is the
British ship Lancing- She is four
masted iron ship of 1900 tons and 1856
feet in length. In 1890 the keel.was laid
in shipyard on the Clyde. of what was
to be the largest sailing craft in the world.
Her tonnage was to be $500, her length
$50 feet, and she was to have five masts.
The three biggest four-masted ships in
the world are said to be the Palgrave,
the Liverpool and the Puritan. The
Palgrave measures 3,081 tons, the Liver
DOOl -, OOO bOnS.
The three biggest American sailing
ships in existence last year were the Rap
pahannock, the Shenandoah and the Sus-
Quehanna. The Rappahannock was
burned on the South Pacific November
II, 1891. The largest sailing vessel in
the world. says the skipper of the Shen-
andoah, who rates his craft next, is the
five-masted French steel ship La France.
The biggest steam ferryboat in the
world is the Cincinnati, built by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company to ply
between New York and Jersey City.
The largest steam engine in the world
is on the new Italian cruiser Sardegna.
A force of $4,000 horse power is de-
veloped.
The fastest ship in the United States
navy, it is supposed, is the San Francis
co, which on her trial on the Pacific
Coast maintained during a four-hours'
run speed of nineteen and seven-tenths
knots an hour. That was one-tenth of a
knot in excess of the record Of the Phila-
delphia. The maximum speed developed
by the San Francisco was twenty and
six-tenths an hour, which is equivalent
to twenty-three land miles.
One of the fastest voyages from China
to New York was made in the summer of
1890 by the steamship Glen Ogle, of the
Glen Line of Glasgow, which arrived
from Annoy in forty-six days. The fast
est time was by the Glenshiel, of the
same line-forty- days.
The fastest passenger steamboat plying
in the waters of the United States is the
Mary Powell, running from New York
City to Rondout. Nobody knows just
how fast she could go if put to her
mettle.