Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-04
HOW VESSELS ARE NAMED.
some of the Curious Titles Selected BY
American Craft Owners.


People who are called upon to name YES
sells sometimes have strange ideas as to
the fitness OF things, and the list of mer-
chant vessels sailing or floating or being
pushed OF dragged along under the Amer
team dag shows how affection, gratitude,
political preference, Imagination and hui
NOR are all used to 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 De
American line, the New York and Paris,
having been named before they hoisted the
stars and stripes and "City of being
dropped when that interesting ceremony
took place. The largest list of strictly
American vessels where a system Is follow.
ed Is I'm the case Of the Southern Pacific
feet, running between this city and New
Orleans, the names of the steamers all be-
ginning with the Spanish Sci, while the
Ocean Steamship company, running &c
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 nomenclature,
the sailing feet makes up for the deficien.
oy, with room to spare, and with that
part of the nations commercial marine
the name finder had good time. Judging
by the results of his efforts. A Texas man,
apparently doubling whether no was or
not, asks the question by naming his lit
tie five ton schooner Am |, while some one
In Noank, Conn, drew on the Pequod
tongue and named his little two master
Aquopimoquk. a man in Westerly, r. l.,
bad a pain and recorded IL by calling his
sloop Backache, while Chief Justice G.. L.
DAILY Is the name Of a sloop hailing from
Sag HarbOr. Norfolk county, Va, recalls
other days in New York by calling a sloop
the Helen Josephine Mansfield, but who
Filomina Ciccaluga, who has schooner
named after her, may be Is probably
known only TO the man who wrecked a
pretty Italian name when he christened
Cow Bay N. " schooner the Gully Elma.
Chincoteague, Va, has a man who is
probably an agnostic as his lack of knowl
edge is blaZoned on his schooner's stern,
which bears the name and information,
Don't Know. Port Huron, Mich, has
name which IL is well to recall when
collar button is lost. 1t is on an Is ton
schooner called the Go 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 Crisfield, Md, the Oval Agitator
halls from Chicago, while the Mississippi
river at New Orleans floats lighter call.
ed the Puddicjnedda Citrolu.
Wellfleet, 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
narrow escape and celebrated ii by 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 so the record says, at Benicia,
Cal, but now hailing from Detroit. What
Proof Glass is is probably known TO the
New Workers who own a sloop Of that
name. One of Cooper's works is recalled by
the Baltimore schooner Wishtunwish, and
a Michigan man struck n combination Of
Petroleum V. Nasty and Josh Billings
when he called his two master the Y 10
U s.-New York Tribune.