The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-04
FARRAGUTs FLAGSHIP.

| Francisco.
A royal welcome ought to be giver
| to the good old flagship Hartford, or
/ board of which Farragut won the rank
of admiral and made his name illustri-
Gus in the annals of the American navy
| The old craft, the most famous wooden
ship now flying our ensign, is on the
way ON the long voyage around Cape
Horn following the course of the re-
| cord breaking trip of the formidable
battleship oregon in the Spanish Ameri-
can war.
| The Oregon, the wonderful example
of the end Of the century steel battle
ship, made the coyage with the aid
of all the intricate and powerful machn-
cry devised by modern naval engineer
ing, while Farragut's fighting flagship
is coming around under sail. In the
last year of the century this peaceful
voyage of the Hartford may be the last
journey around the Horn Of an Ameri-
can sailing war ship. and it may be the
last long voyage that Farragut's ship
will ever make.
The rebuilt Hartford has auxiliary
steam power, as she had in the civil
war, and when she left San Francisco,
three months ago, she started her pro-
peller, but very soon after getting I'M
der way. as has just been learned from
dispatch sent by her commanding off,
Ger, Commander John M. Hawley, from
Montevldeo the machinery gave trou-
BILE, and it was necessary to go ahead
under sails alone
Like many another old sailing ship
of the American navy, the Hartford a
few years ago was in danger of being
sent to rot away. When she was lying
in Mare Island navy-yard six years
ago, a mere hulk, seemingly destined
for Rotten Row., patriotic Americans
appealed to the government to save the
old ship, and make her a permanent ex-
hibit for the nation, as England did
Nelson's flagship, the Victory, but Con-
gress turned deaf ear to this appeal,
and for a while 1t was feared that Con-
gress would not even grant an appro-
priation to make the ship again sea-
worthy. Under law passed some
years ago, it was decided that when
repairs necessary to put any war ship
than one-third of the cost of the vessel,
the ship should be broken up Under
this law not only the Hartford, but even
the more famous fighting ship, the
Kearsarge, would have gone to destruc-
ton. An exception was made in the
case of the Kearsarge, and she did ex-
cellent service for the navy until she
met her sate on Roncador reef Every
patriot is glad that the name of this
most famous fighting ship of the CEN
Jury Is now perpetuated in the mightcst
steel battle ship afloat.
After the kearsarge had been re-
built money was found to put the Hart
ford on the seas, She has been rebuilt
at the Mare Island navy-yard. and is
now naval training ship. For four
years the carpenters were at work on
her, and now she is almost a new ship
although her graceful lines are little
from the time when Admiral
Farragut walked her decks.
The Hartford was one of the class OF
built in the three years pre-
ceeding the civil war, and she is now
the only one of that class in service.
She was built as a full-rigged sailing
ship, with auxiliary steanl-power and
under both steam and sail she could
make IL knots.
Rebuilt, she is to be used to teach
young Americans the good old art of
sailing "squareriggers. In these DAYS
of steel battle ships, equipped with all
the intricate power devices of modern
science, our jackies," learn too little
OF sailing, and aboard the Hartford they
will become able seamen before they
Join the crews of our modern fighting
ships.
Only the original timbers of the Hart
tord-the solid oak planks of the hull
remain in the ship. Amidships, she has
.opsides of steel and she is in war paint
She has been equipped with enough mo-
Tern machinery to make her u comfort F,
IDLE ship to handle. She has steam
Ninches, blowers for her ventilators
steam steering-gear. dynamos and cleo |
tic lights and two searchligts Her
battery too, is constituted on modern |
ines
When Farragut fought her in Mobile
Jay she carried one of the eight-inch
and II nine-inch smooth
'ore guns. That was formidable |
ornament 40 years ago, but insignif-
ant nowadays. Now the Hartford
las IL tive-inch rapid-fire guns, in some
Ways the most serviceable of modern
laval artillery; two six-pounders, seven
ne-pounders and a Colt automatic gun
Nj VI these guns are of the rapid-tire