The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-04-07
ODD NAMES FOR VESSELS.


Quaint and Other Conceits shown I'm q Wide
Range OF Titles
People who are called upon 70 name
vessels sometimes have strange ideas
Us 10 the fitness OF things, and the
list OF merchant vessels sailing or
floating or being pushed or dragged
along under the American flag shows
how affection, gratitude political pre-
ference, imagination, and humor are
all used 10 furnish names for sailing
craft system is adhered 10 only by
regularly established lines and by
a few OF them. even the big steamers
OF the American Line. the New York
aud Paris, having been named before
they hoisted the stars ana stripes
City or being dropped when that
interesting ceremony took place. Ac-
cording TO the New York Tribune
the largest list OF strictly American
vessels where system Is followed Is
In the case OF the Southern Pacific
feet running between New York
City and New Orleans the names OF
the steamers all beginning with the
steamship Company, running TO
Savannah. called upon cities and rivers
OF Georgia for names for its vessels
While the comparatively small
number OF steamers flying the Amer
lean fiag precludes any great latitude
Ia nomenclature, the sailing feet
makes up for the deficiency, with
room TO spare, and with that part OF
the nations commercial marine the
name Under had "A good time, Judging
by the results OF h efforts. A Texas
man, apparently doubling whether
he was or not, asks the question 10y
naming h S little fl,e-ton schooner
Am l, while some one in Noank.
Conn. drew on the Pe luod tongue ana
named his little two-master AQuo.
pimoQuk. A man in Westerly, Il. l.,
had pain, and recorded II by call
ing his sloop Backache, while Chief
Justice c. =. DAILY is the name OF a
sloop hailing from sag Aarbor Nor
folk County, Virginia, recalls other
days in New York by calling a sloop
the Helen Josephine Mansfield, but
who Filomina Cic aluga, who has a
scoooner named after her, may be is
probably known only TO the man who
wrecked pretty Italian name when
he christened Cow Bay, New York,
schooner the Gully Elma
Chincoteague, Va, has man who
is PROBABLY an agnostic, rs his lack OF
knowledge is blazoned on his schoon-
er's stern, which bears the name and
information, / Don't Know. Port
Huron, Mich, has name which IL
Il well TO recall when co lar button
Is lost 1t Is on an eightecn-ton
schooner called the Go Look. George
w. Childs has fifty tons OF shipping
named after him; George h McClel-
Ian was good enough for four vessels
aggregating less than $50 tons: the
Little John Trott floats around Cris-
field, Me. the Oval Agitator halls
from Chicago, while the Mississippi
River at New Orleans floats lighter
called the Puddicinedda Ctroiu.
WellHeet, Mass, reJoices In a sloop
which Is known as the o Thoy Know
Me. and the other end of the country
has at Port Townsend, Wash, a
man who had narrow escape, and
celebrated il by naming his sloop the
Never Touched Me. How near Dear
Isle, Me, and Norfolk. Va, Joined
hands is shown by the Maine boat
Naw,gawaw, and the Virginia Mas
sawaddux. 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 RECALLED by the name itcairn,
borne by vessel built, so the record
says, at Benecia, Cal, but now hail
ing from Detroit, Mich. What Proof
Glass Is is probably known TO lhe New
Workers who own slOop VI that
name. One Of Cooper's works is re-
called by the Baltimore schooner
Wishtunwish, and Michigan man
struck combination OF etroleum
V Nasby and Josh Billings when he
called his two. master the y 10 l. =.