The record-union., 1894-03-23
HOW VESSELS ARE NAMED
The Government List Shows a Wild,
Range in the Choice of Titles,

Inc government List Shows a Wide
Range in the Choice of Titles.
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
of being dropped when that in teresting
ceremony took place. The largest list of
strictly American vessels where system
is followed is in the case of the Southern
Pacific fleet, running between this city
and New Orleans. the names of the
steamers all beginning with the Spanish
Ill" while the Ocean Steamship Com
pany, running TO 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 nomencla-
ture, the sailing fleet makes up for the
deficiency, with room to spare, and with
that part OF the Nations commercial ma
rine the name-fnder has a good time,
judging by the results of his efforts. A
Texas man, apparently doubling whether
he was or was not, asks the question by
naming his little five-ton schooner Am l,
while someone in Noank, Conn.,, drew on
the Pequot tongue and named his little
two-maSter AQuopimoquk. A man in
Westerly, r. l.. had pain, and recorded
1t by calling his sloop Backache, while
Chief Justice G. p. Daily is the name of a
sloop hailing from Sag Harbor. Norfolk
County, Va, recalls other days in New
York by calling a sloop Helen Josephine
Mansfield, but who Filomina Ciccaluga,
who had a schooner named after her,
may be is probably known only to the
man who wrecked pretty italian name
when he christened a Cow Bay, n. Y,
schooner the Gully Elma.
Chincoteague, VT, has man who is
probably an agnostic, as his lack of
knowledge is blaZoned in his schooner's
stern, which bears the name and infor
nation, | Don't Know. Port Huron,
Mich, has name which it is we'll to re-
call when collar button is lost. 1t is on
an eighteen-ton schooner called the Go
Look. George w. Childs had fifty tons of
shipping named after him; George b.
Mcclellan was good enough for four ves-
sells aggregating less than 150 tons: the
Little John Trott floats around Crisfield,
Me-, the oval Agltator halls from Chi
cago, while the Mississippi River at New
Orleans floats lighter called the Puddi-
MEDIA Citrolu.
Welltleet, 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, a man who had
narrow escape and celebrated it by NAM
ing his sloop Never Touched Me. How
near Deer Isle, Me-, and Norfolk, Va.
joined hands is shown by the Maine boat
Nawgawaw 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
vessel built, so the record says, at BENZ
cia. Cal, but now hailing from Detroit,
Mich. What Proof Glass is is probably
known to the New Workers who own
sloop of that name. One of Cooper's
works is recalled by the Baltimore
schooner Wishtunwish, and a Michigan
man struck combination of Petroleum
V. Nasby and Josh Billings when he
called his two-master the X 10 y s.
New York Tribune.