The Republican journal., 1892-10-20
Ships and Sailors.

Portland people now expect that three
lines of English steamers will touch at their
port this winter, making three steamers
to enter and clear each week. This will re-
suit in there being six steamers in the
harbor large portion of the time after
the season opens.
Sch d. b. Fearing, which was reported
ashore ON Nantucket Shoals, was towed
into Wood Holl by tug Right Arm. The
Fearing had not been ashore, but while
hosting anchors ON Nantucket Shoals her
engine gave out. She was supplied with a
new one at Woods Holl, and the Right
Arm towed her to sea.
The new lighthouse tender Columbine,
destined for service on the Northern Paci-
fic coast, will sail from New York for that
station this week under command of
Lieutenant Commander G. H. West, U. s.
n. She will stop en- route at Rio Jeneiro,
Montevideo, Valparaiso and San Francisco
and is expected to reach Portland in about
seventy days
Plans and specifications have been pre-
pared by the Lighthouse Board for a first
class steam light-ship for service on New
South Shoal, Off Nantucket, Mass. The
vessel will be 10 feet long and 26 feet and
10 inches board with a draught of 6 feet,
and will cost 500 Until she is com
pleted lightship No. "a, now being fitted
out at Woods Holl will do service on
| these dangerous shoals.
A telegram has been received at Rockland
from Capt. Fred G. Hail. master of the
three masted schooner a. Hayes, stating
that the vessel was total loss. The des-
patch was dated at Cazancs, Mexico, but
beyond the fact that all were saved gave
no particulars. The Hayes was a vessel
of 402 gross tons, built in Camden, Me. :,
in 1882. She was owned by Capt. Hall,
whose interest was insured, and New York
parties. She had been loading mahogany
for New York
An invention of much interest to ship
owners and mariners has been brought out
in England. 1t is a seamless steel life
boat. Ordinary wooden boats are so
much affected by the sun during voyage
that they become dried up, and when put
in the water leak like a sieve. A steel
boat that cannot be disabled by this cause
is therefore, great improvement The
new invention is said to be absolutely
water tight, and to cost but little more
than a wooden boat. 1t is deservingo fat
| tention, as ensuring greater sefety of life
at sea.
In the Morse yard, at Bath Maine is
being built the largest coal barge ever con-
structed 1t is of the same type as the big
Independent sent out two years ago, but
is about $50 tons larger For facility in
handling cargoes the middle strip of the
deck is really long string Of matches, so
| that half dozen holsters can be unload
ed at the same time, OF half dozen chu+es
used in loading By this arrangement the
! cargo, to a great extent, trims itself, and
little strain is brought upon the hull either
at loading or discharging. This barge
will be ready for launching about Christ
mas and will carry nearly 1000 tons.
| The plans and specifications of the five
great ocean greyhounds to be built tor the
international Navigation Company Gnman
| Line) under the terms of the Postal Sub
sidy Act. are practically completed and
await only the approval of the Secretary
of the Navy. The five ships are to be pre-
cisely alike. They will resemble in gen
eral appearance the City of New Y DIRK and
| City of Paris, but will be somewhat larger.
/ Their dimensions are to be about $50 feet
! in length and GA feet in breadth, with y
feet depth of hold. They will be built en-
tirely of the best American steel and will
/ have triple expansion engines. Theil
gross tonnage will be about II 600. Two
of the new ships will run on the Inman
Line to southampton, and three on the
| Red Star Line to Antwerp touching at
Boulogne. Thus, whether bound to the
/ British Isles OF the Continent, American
| travellers will be able to sail on first class
steamers carryiny the American flag. 1t
is said that the City of New y ork and City
of Paris are to be transferred to American
nationality this winter. Their command
ers, Captains Lewis and Watkins, have al
ready declared their intention of becom
ing American citizens and will bring THEN
families to this country and make theil
homes here. BY one stroke of Republican
legislation Great Britain has been deprived
of its two largest and fastest steamships
and of the two best known and most ac-
complished officers in it's merchant
marine.