The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-07
BIG FIVE MASTER.
To Launch Connecticut's Largest sail-
 ing Vessel February il.

TO Launch Connecticuts Largest SalI-
 ing Vessel February H.
 Mystic Feb. 5.-The largest sailing vessel ever built on the Atlantic coast outside of Maine, and the first of its size to be constructed in a Connecticut shipyard, will slide down the ways, February Il, at the shipyard of the Holmes shipbuildiug company at West Mystic
 Arrangements fol< the launch have not yet been completed, and no an- nouncement has yet been made by the owners as to who will bestow the name upon the new vessel as she starts to leave the ways and takes her maiden plunge into the sea.
 It is planned to make the launching of this first five master from Connecti- cut shipyard a notable event, and for mer Lieutenant Governor James D. Dewell, of New Haven, who is to be managing owner of the schooner. is sending out invitations to business men all over this state and in Rhode Isiand, to be present at the launch. The build- CTS hope to have the vessel ready to launch in about ten days. and it is now being planned to have the event take place on February il.
 REVIVAL OF INDUSTRY.
 To the inhabitants of the town of Mystic the event is of great importance, making the first fruits of a revival of an industry that years ago made the town famous, but reaction of many years' standing has caused suspension of work in the shipyards and enforced idleness of the ship builders. In the construction of this new five-master, which is to hail from New Haven Mys- tic people see the beginning of a new era in the shipbuiding industry of the town and greater activity than has been witnessed there in many years is expected.
 THE NEW SCHOONER.
 The keel of this vessel, which is to cost one hundred thousand dolla.s, was laid in April last Its construction has furnished employmen for more than a hundred men fol the last eleven months. Three large cargoes of lumber from the south have been put into the massive hull of the craft, and a train of eight cars has pushed it's way across the continent with spars from the Ore gon forests.
 The oak frame weighs five hundred tons and makes load for three masted schooner Some four hundred ten and twelve-inch knees are used. The yellow pine for the planking and covering of the three full decks will az gregate over a million feet and has been cut especially for this boat by the Triton, Ga, mill of H. H. lift, a native of Mystic. Over one hundred tons of iron have been used for the fastening. The five sticks of Oregon pine for the masts are over a hundred feet long and planned down to nearly the same num- ber of inches in circumference.
 The big keel sixteen inches square is )f Ohio oak. Beneath this is smaller and outer keel. and still lower tough wooden shoe" sixteen inches wide by three inches in thickness This should protect the keel if the yes sel scrapes along the bottom in shoal water,
 DEEP WATER VESSEL.
 The new schooner is designed for either coasting or for deep water. She will be an all-around sort of craft, ca 1able of carrying thirty-four hundred ons of coal or about two million feet of umber. An idea of her great size can ,e gained by study of her dimensions. She is two hundred and thirty feet long ,n the keel two hundred and seventy i've feet over all, twentysix feet deep md forty- six feet wide The engine will be of thirty horse bower. Three powerful wreckine pumps will be installed in the vessel, nd they will be able to throw eight lundred gallons of water minute if hey are ever called upon to put forth heir full power The Dubois is to be commanded by 'aptain Edward H. Smeed, of East R. l., a sailing master who well known in New Haven. Captain need was for many years the master f the New Haven three-master Gene al S. E,. Merwin, which went ashore on he Georgia coast about year ago. + aptain Smeed was not in the vessel at he time she was lost, but was at his ome in East Providence suffering from n attack of rheumatism.