The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-17

But all this substracted from the car
go space and was little ship load of
lumber in iteslf; so that, although the
schooner was bigger outside, inside she
had hardly increased enough over the
five-master to pay for the difference.
Even with this great stiffening keelson,
by sigh ing along the rails of the six
masters when they are travelling light,
and in head sea, you may see them
hit and sag several inches in their
length; and designers and builders
seem to agree that a seven master sim
ilarly constructed would be an unwise
undertaking. 1t is even possible that
no more wooden six-masters will be
built, so that the two now in exist
ence, out of sheer loneliness, may con-
tinue to look each other up on foggy
mornings, as they did the other day
off Cape Cod, and rub noses in collis-
ion with more or less disastrous re-
suits. For with them the wooden
schooner, apparently, has reached her
limit.
Therefore, the new seven-master is to
be of steel, and she is building, accord
ingly, not at one of the wooden yards
where schooners have come from be-
fore, but a a modern steel "battleship
yard" On the Fore river beach she
will extend on her concrete foundations
nearly 100 feet farther than the Dee
Moines, only about so feet less far
than the New Jersey or the Rhode ISL
and, building alongside; and the same
gigan ic steel structure which is being
erected for the battleships, with ii
service of fve-tons travelling cranes,
and the great seventy-five-ton gantry
crane, which is being put up nearby.
will be required also in handling the
cons truction of the new seven master.
For The first time we have, that IS,
the logical modern schooner built in
accordance with the most modern me-
chanical methods. But many things
besides that make her craft OF un-
usual interest. To go with her 400 feet
of length she is so feet wide. When
loaded she will sink 261s feet deep, and
in 80 doire with displace 10000 tons
of salt water-which is the same as
saying that. loaded and ready for sea,
she weighs 10000 tons-an amount that,
measured in coal, would mean the
whole domestic use of the city OF Au-
gusta, Me. for example, for an entire
year. The hoops that hold her sails
TO her masts are big enough for cir
Gus rider to jump through, and her
rudder, stood up against an ordinary
building, would reach the fourth story
windows, or, laid fiat, would provide
ample space on which to place large
dining table, and assemble nearly two
dozen guests around It.
In short, take her bodily up and set
her down in Broadway and she would
completely fill It from Wall street 10
cedar street. covering the United Bank
building. the schermerhorn building,
he American Surety building, Pine
street and the Equitable building
A. intervals along her decks are 70
he Eve powerful little steam engines
FOR hoistlng sails and cargo; ana
six n. larger one. for getting up the
onchor Most sailing ships have been
/ content with a single engine Tor an
,,,,enoses. Her biige keels, TOO are
po,eitv. except az they are seen on
/ l,..,,eys They serve a double pur-
nose. Long, straight steel ms, tney
I sye one On each side, not only 70 pre-
80, her rolling-fOr schooners' ifDm
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