Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-13
HOW VESSELS ARE NAMED.
| Some OF the Curious Titles selected by
American Craft Owners.


American Graft Owners.
People who are called upon To name yes
sells sometimes have strange ideas AZ TO
the fitness OF things, and the list of mer-
chant vessels sailing or floating or being
pushed of dragged along under the Amer
lean flag shows how affection, gratitude,
political preference, imagination and hui
NOR are all used Ia furnish names for sail
ing craft. System Is adhered TO only by
regularly established lines, and by only
few Of them. even the big steamers of the
American line the New York and Paris,
having been named before they hoisted the
stars ana stripes and "City Of" being
dropped when that interesting ceremony
took place The largest list of strictly
American vessels where "A system IL follow
ed Is In the case of the Southern Pacific
fleet, running between this city and New
Orleans, the names of the steamers all be
ginning with the Spanish "El, while the
Ocean Steamship company, running "a
Savannah, called upon cities and rivers
of Georgia for names for its vessels.
While the comparatively small number
OF steamers flying the American flag pre-.
cludes any great latitude in nonem clature,
the sailing feet makes mp for the defcien-
cy, with room TO spare. and with that
part Of the nations commercial marine
tho name finder had good time, Judging
by the results OF his efforts. A Texas man,
apparently doubling whether he was or
not, asks tho question by naming his lit
tho five ton schooner Am ], while some one
In Noank, Conn, drew GU tho Pequod
tongue and named his little two master
AQuopimoquk. A man In Westerly, X. L.,
had pain and recorded IL by calling his
sloop Baokache, while Chief Justice G.. =.
DAILY is the name of sloop hafling from
Sag Harbor. Norfolk county, Va, recalls
other days in New York by calling sloop
tho Helen Josephine Mansfield, but who
Filomina Ciccaluga, who has a schooner
named after her, may be Is probably
known only 70 the man who wrecked a
pretty Italian name when he christened n
Cow Bay N. Y. schooner the Gully Elma.
Chincoteague, Va, has u man who is
probably an agnostic, as his lack OF knowl-
edge is blazoned on HIS schooners stern.
which bears the name and Information, ]
Don't Know. Port Huron, Mich, has a
name which Il is well 20 recall when "A
collar button is lost IL Is on an Is ton
schooner called the Gro Look. George w.
Childs has 80 tons of shipping named aft
er him, George b. Mcclellan was good
enough for four vessels aggregating less
than $50 tons, the Little John Trott floats
around Crisiield, Md, the Oval Agitator
halls from Chicago, while the Mississippi
river at New Orleans floats lighter call
ed the Puddicinedda Citrolu.
Wellheet, Mass, rejoices in sloop
which is known rs the . They Know Me,
and the other end Of the country has, at
Port Townsend, Wash, man who had a
narrow escape and celebrated 1t 10y nam
ing his sloop He Never Touched Me. How
near Deer Isle, Me-, and Norfolk Joined
hands is shown by the Maine boat Nawi
gawaw and the Virginian Nassawaddux.
Names where Mary, either alone or IN
combination with other words, appears
are borne by more than 500 United States
sailing craft.
The mutineers OF the Bounty are recall
ed by the name Pitcairn, borne by YES
sci built, 80 the record says, at Benicia,
Cal, but now hailing from Detroit. What
Proof Glass is is probably known TO the
New Yovkers who own a sloop of that
name. One of Cooper's works Is recalled by
the Baltimore schooner Wishtunwish, and
a Michigan man struck a combination OF
Petroleum V. Nasty and Josh Billings
when he called his two master the X 10
u s.-New York Tribune.