The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-18
HOW VESSELS ARE NAMED.
A Wide Range in the Choice Of Titles
for American Graft,
From the New York Tribune.

pEOIu tue new 1oFK IflDuno.
People who are called upon to name
vessels sometimes have strange ideas as
to 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, graft
tude, political preference, imagination
and humor are all used to furnish names
for sailing craft. System is adhered to
only by regularly established lines, and
by only few of them, even the big steam
ers of the American line, the New York
and Paris, having been named before
they hoisted the stars and stripes, City
Off being dropped when that interesting
ceremony took place The largest list Of
strictly American vessels where a system
is followed is in the case of the Southern
Pacific fleet, running between this city
and New Orleans, the names of the steam
ers all beginning with the Spanish "El, I"
when the Ocean 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 Ghe American flag pre-
cludes any great latitude in nomenclature,
the sailing fleet makes up for the def
cheney, with room to spare, and with that
part of the nations commercial marine
the name finder had a good time, Judging
by the results of his efforts A Texas
man, apparently doubling whether b Q
was or not, asked the question by naming
his little hve-ton schooner Am 1, while
some one in Noank, Conn, drew on the
Pequod tongue and named hts little two
master AquopimOquk. A man In Wes-
terly, K. l., had pain, and recorded it
by calling his sloop Backache. while Chief
Justice q. p. DAILY is the name of sloop
hailing from Sag Harbor, Norfolk county,
Va, recalls other days in New York by
calling sloop the Helen Josephine Mans
field, but who Filomina Biccaluga, who
has schooner named after her, may be
is probably known to the man who
wrecked a pretty italian name when he
christened Cow Bay, N, Y.
schooner the Gully Elma.
Chincoteague, Va, has man who is
probably an aguostic, as his lack of
knowledge is blazoned on his schooner's
stern, which bears the name and informa-
ton, Don't Know Port Huron, Mich,
has d name which 1t is well to recall
when a collar button is lost. It is on an
eighteen-ton schooner called the Go Look
George w, Childs has fifty tons of ship
ping named after him; George B. Nc
Clellan was good enough for four vessels
aggregating less than $50 tons. the Little
John Trott floats around Chrisfeld, Me. 4;
the Oval Agltator halls from Chicago,
while the Mississippi River at New Or
leans floats lighter called the Puddi-
cinedda Citrolu.
Wellaeet, Mass, rejoices in a sloop
which Is known as the o They Know Me,
and the other end of the country has, at
Port Townsend, Wash, man who had a
narrow escape, and celebrated it by nam
ing his sloop the Never Touched Me.
How near Deer Isle, Me-, and Norfolk,
Va, Joined hands Is shown by the Maine
boat Nawigawe, and the Virginian Nassa-
waddux. 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 re-
called by the name Pitcairn, borne by a
vessel built, so the record says, at BENZ
cha, Cal, but now hailing from Detroit,
Mich. What Proof Glass is is probably
known to the New Workers who own a
sloop of that name. One of the Cooper's
works is recalled by the Baltimore
schooner Wishtunwish and a Michigan
man struck combination of Petroleum
V. Nasty and Josh Billings when he
called his two-master the X 10 US.