The Republican journal., 1892-02-18
Ships and Sailors.

The steamship Indiana which is to car
ny food to starving Russia will be the frs
American steamship that has ever sailet
to a Russian port, it is said.
The ship Roanoke now building by the
Sewalls at Bath, will be of 4, 200 tons; car
rying capacity $500 tons, and is to cost
S175, 600. The frame is wholly oak. The
length of the keel is 306 feet, the length
over all about $50 feet. the breadth 40 feet
and the depth 20 feet. Two smaller four
masted ships have preceded this monster
the Shenandoah cost $780, 600, tonnage
3, POO; and the Susquehanna, cost $40, 900,
tonnage, 2,744. Both have been built
within the past two years.
A recent report of casualties to shipping
shows some remarkable facts in regard to
| the great age of some craft still in active
service. Thirty-nine sailing vessels men
! toned in the report are between fifty and
sixty years Old IS between sixty and
seventy years, 80 between seventy and a
hundred, while six have been atloat dur
inc a century. This is, of course. only a
part of the list of ancient craft still in ser
vice, and the vessels referred to are sea-
going craft. and not barges or river boats
TIE LARGEST SAILING SHIP. The new
sailing ship Maria Rickmers, recently
launched at the yard of Russell 4 Co. :,
Glasgow. is the largest sailing vessel in
the world. Her dimensions are: length
}}15 feet, breadth IS feet, depth rs IL
feet She is built of steel throughout and
! is fitted with compartment tanks for wat
er ballast. In rig she is very similar to
the French ship France. having five masts
and she will carry an enormous spread of
canvas. For facilitating the work of load
ing and discharging cargo, she is fitted
with large donkey boiler, three steam
winches and a steam windlass, besides a
| powerful fan to ventilate her cargo. In add
ton to her vast sails the ship will be fitted
with tri pie expansion engines Of $50 horse
power to be used in light winds OF Gains
and calculated to drive her at least seven
knots an hour when fully loaded. The
vessel is of 1913 tons register and will car
| ry 300 tons dead weight on Lloyd free
| board. The ship was built for Messrs
Rickmers of Bremen and is intended for
the East Indian rice trade,
BIG SCHooNERs. If the average man
was asked to name the largest schooner
ever built in this country he would name
the big tive-master Governor Ames and it
is safe 70 say that nearly every man in
| Bath would make that reply. Therefore
it may be interesting to know that the
| Government list OF merchant vessels of the
United States shows that there are two
vessels of larger registered tonnage than
the Ames, one of them completed long be-
| fore the Governor 1Ames was moulded
having net measurement almost equal to
the gross tonnage of that famous craft
The Golden Age was built at Abbott $
| Bridge, Ohio. in 1858. was rs feet long
IS. s feet beam and 20 feet deep gross ton
mage 1876. % and net 1868. % Then the
Tom Adams, built at West Bay City in
1855. measured 1910 tons GROSS and was Il
tritle longer than the Golden Age. being
PSI feet in length, bur not equal to her in
other dimensions. After these two came
the Governor Ames, standing third in
stead of first on the list, being but 245 :
feet long and measuring 1913. 16 tons
gross. Then came the Mile g. Bowen
of 1850. 40 TONS the Tecumseh of 1868 and
the Glenwood of 1919 tons, the latter two
Bath built vessels.
A VERY LoNG VOYAGE. The Seattle
WASH, Press Times OF Jan. 18th. says:
The ship Thomas Dana, Captain G.. NJ.
Meyers, arrived in port last evening. from
Philadelphia, with cargo of iron, water
and gas piping. and 300 tons of blacksmith
coal, for this city. This morning the ship
was made fast to the city dock at the foot
of Madison street. where she will dis
charge her cargo, which operation will
keep her in Seattle for at least a month
! The Dana is Il full rugged ship. owned
| by Fair x Sinclair, of Boston. and carries
crew OF tWenty-one men. all told. The
officers under Captain Myers are: Fred
erick Williams. CHIEF officer: f. Daniels
second mate. Her sailors are all >candi-
| navianS, and the result OF their long Voy-
age is seen in their bronzed, weather. beat
en- faces.
The Dana left Philadelphia for Seattle
ON the 31st of last July. making her l677
days out, which is AN unusually long vow
age for such a handsome looking craft
Captain Myers, when seen on board the
vessel this morning. said:
''tiales, wind and calms in strong allu-
pathic doses from the time We left Phila-
delphia formed the basis for the whole
| story of our voyage here. We laborel
under some very heavy gales off Cape
| Horn and struck trade winos across the
Pacific and crossed the equator in the
| 18th longitude on the 9th OF December
No; nothing with any serious results hap
pened on the voyage. We shipped some
| heavy seas off the coast here between San
Francisco and the Sound and in one gale
we had this cabin flooded with water:
that was the last day of the year and it
was seeing in the new year with ven
geance decidedly. We have had heavy
weather right along on this coast, and so
far this year | have only had one day on
which | could take an observation
1.-THE only little excitement we had on
board was during a gale off Cape Horn,
and while we We're veering ship, when
Boatswain Frank Hockmyer was knocked
overheard hanging to the glib sheet. The
slack of the SAIL however, caught him up,
and with the next lurch of the ship
brought him back on board again, little
the worse for wear, several cuts in his
head and bruises on his body. He was
disabled for about ten days. l doctored
and patched him up, and although he is
marked up little and don't look quite so
pretty he is as good as ever.
Captain Myers has his wife on board,
and the lady expressed herself as very
tired of the long trip.
Captain Myers does not yet know what
his next destination will be or what cargo
he will take, the ship not being vet char
tered for anything in particular
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