The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-10-13
SAILING
VESSEL AFLOAT
FULL RIGGED
SHIP WITH GREAT CARRYING
CAPACITY-GERMAN ENSIGN.

The Preussen Is the largest sailing
vessel i'm the world. She is "A five
masted full rugged ship the second to
be built for deep water, and as car
rer she has no equal among wind
TANNERS. As her name would indicate
she belongs to the Germans and in her
they have given to the sea another
triumph in naval architecture and adj
vancement The ensign of the Father
land now flies from the peak of the
fastest steamship and the longest
steamship on the waters of the earth,
and another year will probably see the
Teutons putting overheard a craft that
will Guido in size the new Star liner
Cedric and the greater mammoth,
whose keel is about to be laid at Bel
fast for the same company.
The Preussen is now on her way to
the West Coast to load nitrates at
| Iquiqui for Hamburg. She sailed from
Bremen on July 80 last and was re-
ported passing Prawle Point on August
/ A. There are two sets of dimensions at
hand, one giving her dead weight car
rying capacity of 5000 tons and the
other at $500 Which Is correct is not
known, but according to both lengths
and depths she is able to take not less
than the first tonnage mentioned The
measurement that gives a capacity of
/ 5000 tons reads: Length 44O feet;
breadth, so feet, depth 80 feet The one
that gives the greater capacity reads:
| Length, 40S feet; BREADTH 531a feet;
depth, q feet; gross tonnage, 5,142: net
1926; under deck Ass. Taking the
basis of 5000 tons She is given a net
! register of 1000 and displacement of
100. IT will be noticed that in the
larger measurements she is credited
with S26 tons less register and a small
er cargo space than in the others.
The windjamming leviathan is con-
structed wholly of steel and looking
down into her hold one sees three decks
and no bottom. She was turned out by
j. c. Tecklenborg of Bremen on the
order of f. Laeiz, a Hamburg ship
owner Her lines are said to be very
good and with reference to the
strength of her construction and the
predominance of steel in every part
she may be rated as first class. Even
her topgallant masts are of metal, the
only wood aloft being the brace blocks.
All the tOpsails are handled by steam
Winches, as are the pumps, steam
stearing gear windlass and capstans.
She carries fOrty-eight hands all told
before. There are SO yards to be look
ed after with their enormous spread of
canvas, which includes five sets of
double tOpgallantsails and five royals.
There is a double bottom. which will
hold from 500 to 600 tons of water ball
last, enough for stiffening, and a most
important item in the expenses of a
ship. There are three tiers of deck
beams, but only the two upper ones
are floored. The main deck is steel,
sheathed with wood.
The Preussen is peculiarly unique in
her rig, being the only five masted ship
ahoat. France had one a few wears
back, and La France, which proved,
according to all that was ever learned
about her, to be most unwieldly up to
the time she was lost. The owners of
the Preussen have in their fleet the
big ship Potosi whose length is 40 feet
less.
Perhaps the next largest vessel to
the Preussen is the American seven
masted steel schooner Thomas w.
Lawson, recently launched by the Fore
River Ship and Engine Company of
Quincy, Mass. She has a dead weight
carrying capacity of $500 tons. When
she was under construction sailors
were put to it to name her masts, final
ly settling on fore, main, mizzen, mid
die, spanker, jigger and driver. 1t
would be interesting to know what the
German call the Preussen's sticks. In
some four-masted square-rigged YES
sells they are known as fore, main, mir
zen and jigger and in others fore,
main, mzzen and jigger, and in others
fore, main, after main and mizzen
Possibly the after stick of the big Ger
man is called the jigger but the like
lihood is strong that old sailors will
call it a good many other things when
they get to clawing up it's wings in a
gale.