The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-21
Government Wishes to Replace
Her With a Larger Vessel.
CAREER or THE FAMOUS CRAFT
Saw More Service I'm the Arctic and
Penetrated Farther to the North
Than Any other United states
steamer-FIoated the stars and
stripes ON Herald IsIand--Rescued
Many Notable Expeditions.

u The government has ordered the United
States revenue cutter Corwin, Capt. J. A.
,6lamm, sold at public auction. The sale
will be made at Port Townsend In Febru-
AIRY. From now until the 10th OF next
month sealed bids viii be received. ana
presumably on. or very soon after, tnat
date they will be opened.
II is In pursuance of a desire to replace
her with larger and more modern yes
sci that the Corwin Il to be sold. As for
seaworthness, Capt S.amm says there Is
none better. and that she is good Tor
many years safe service.
y Six weeks ago Capts. Kilgorc ana Her
ring and Chief Engineer Broadbent made
: survey OF the Corwin for the purpose OF
estimating her value Since then board
OF revenue marine examiners composed
Of Capts Tozier and Slamm. First Lieut..
Uberroth and Chief Engineer Broadbent
made an inventory inspection Of the Cor
win TO ascertain what part of her equip
ment and fixtures the government wished
TO retain. These articles include her guns
and armament small arms chrenomcters,
charts, fog signals, etc. She has three
guns, two twenty-pound naval rifles and
one six-pound rapid-fire gun. So the sale
will involve chiefly the vessel proper. her
anchors, sails. etc.
at should not for a moment be surmis-
cd Capt. slamm said that the govern
ment is selling the Corwin because she Is
worn out The action is taken simply be-
cause she is too small for the rapidly
growing demands upon the service OF the
North Pacific. The Alaskan business Is
growing enormously, and 1t requires large,
modern revenue cutters to look after at
fairs up there. The Corwin is one OF the
strongest vessels afloat. She Is not very
old and Is in no way impaired for the
merchant marine. Indeed. / SHOULD like
to own her, for think she would prove
! gold gatherer in the Alaskan trade"
Her Eventual Career.
The Corwin has had an eventfui career
She Is a Puget sound product, having been
built at Port Blakeley In 1876 She has
had a continuous service In Pacific ard
Arctic waters of nearly quarter of a
century. At various times she has been
commanded by Capts Hooper. Healey,
Herring, Roth, Munger and S1amm, As a
rescue vessel she has had an exceptionally
varied career. Her notable efforts in this
direction were the rescue Of the celebrated
Greedy and De Long Arctic expeditions.
She did not actually locate either expedi-
ton, but some Of the men on one OF them
were returned from the Arctic on her.
Year after year she went into the Arc
tic, ana claims the distinction OF having
penetrated farther into the Arctic gia-
cial region than any other United States
steamer. On one of these voyages she at
tanned the far northern latitude of Her
aid island, there planting the stars and
Stripes. Capt. Hooper was then In COM
mand OF her. She transported the ma
terial for the famous government house
of refuge at Point Barrow; then was I'M
der tho command of Capt Michael Healey.
More recently she went to the rescue Of
the Inflated steamer Jessie party, lost at
the mouth Of the Kuskokwin.
It was on this voyage that her seawor-