New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-06

raising the vessel. She is IN tho hands OF the
marine underwriters.
The derrick used is the largest and most power
full in the world according to the owners. II has
a lifting capacity of 300 tons. the main blocks
weighing five tons apiece.
People are inclined to think there must be vast
profits in the salvage business hut they apt
TO forget that II requires proportionately large
and costly plant. The derrick referred TO cost not
less than $4,000. There must be a fleet Of tugs
equipped with big centrifugal wrockng pumps
feet OF big pontoons a corps OF skilled divers and
a thousand and one odds and ends and appliances
that mean an enormous outlay in plant alone.
Then. salvage cases do not arise every day; they
plant must be ready at moments call Divers
receive large salaries and not infrequently the
RAISING THE GEORGE W CLYDE.
The Clyde Line steamer George W. Clyd" was
into and beached off BAY Ridge on tho same
evening that the Ailsa came to grief. but she was
raised within few days and has been chasing way
down to San Domingo and Hayti for months There
was no pontoon business about raising her. Divers
patched up the holes In the hull with canvas oak
UNI and planking the hatches were secured. the big
een,rfugal steam pumps were 7e 10 h@ srrck al
ready described and one two Others. were noorcd
alongside. Diver@ passed great chains beneath the
Of the derricks Steam was turned on and the der
ricks strained until their inner gunwaleS %gre
awash Slowly. but surely, IN" straning cane
raised the sunkcn hull from It's s9ndy bed while inc
big DUMPS threw torrents OF water from H. IN
few hours the vessel WAS raised enough 10 be
patched securely and then drydocking was soon
almost beyond belief for The owners the under
writer's. II the vessel is insured IN marine h con-
ers The most noteworthy cas- around TINS coa Az
in recent yg1T por E s. pan on the shore
the Egvptian Monarch. Of the Wilson Line. which
ed 20 OF Guy Fre ISsnd The 0ranto Of the Wilson
Line also and the French liner la honrs0gn ~,
the shin channel aid tried to climb into Fort Ham
Wilson steamers were sold and turned INTO saihhs
vessels o ,,oro &c q largo
c,ap df smaller ones that the wrcckcrs nigh, be
paldoned for calling pot locrs aro t.t
keep the wrcckers' hands IN.
TWO WRECKS IN PORT
,ov wears ago a big clipper snip came into port
win nor cargo OF Calcutta jute on fire. She hdd
been becalrned in the Bay OF Bengal Tor some sN
weeks in intensely hot weather. and the supposilo"
j. that this started spontaneous combustion " '"n
tho sbp's matches were taken off at Pierrepont
Stores the smoudering fires burst inio hamr' "hich
could not be subdued until the snip "%s ,r o m,
and sunk This was PIE h io exnsns,on Of the
fibre mad started all the deck beams ana " toT c
$40 90 10 put hcr in shape again Nndt ~" y" ~
"a %, ot of the affair never stated but IL was
Curious accident, occurred at Woodruns S,o res
some years ago. bark formerly cpp Ta1o t i.
London and New-IeaIahd liT IL mn had been iop
w. md vas cut down TO a bark. The skipper had
devoted much of his time hit'I nj ,irs nd one
Sa,nrisv ordered ali the ballast taken out 'eavnb
ne hui sitting on surface OF IN. Watei ;1i
eas, fIav came on that night and the snip cal's'Z'
Enr,unatev the starboard cathcad caueh' on ~
.. - oriece nd saved her from utter wren anu Wv
strIspiere "r",n crashng through the convcycr OF
Frankiin Woodruff elevator There she nuhg VIZ"
$500 ro"rning da wn.d. and all day cro"ds Nslt'i
~ sore I, cost three days work ana *lWo 10 ulio
the result Of h ,k xxi cSs , f5Gss and ne was S
iu"f ma Years ago the balance drydock or twenty
a re" yeans,@sd while the Spanish bark Maria
Sih ill.,. ,,ron II There bad wreck as theT"
,r ,ea rIv one hundred Canary Islanders on poard
one or two were killed ana """'" VIZ