New-York tribune., 1905-08-06
THREE NOVEL VESSELS.
One Sailors Mission, AnOther fOr
Y. N. c. Il. Cruises, Third
to Carry Sick.

New uses are constantly being found for
sells in New-York Harbor. Merchant vessels,
war vessels and ferryboats have been familiar
objects in these waters since the early days of
the city. Fireproof boats for fighting fire
no longer novelties This year three vessels
have been or are being equipped for the of
bodies and souls They the Fleetwng, the
Amazon and the "Claudine."
The FIeetwng is a famous old yacht. Once
an ocean racer, she has folded her wings and
settled down as a sanatorium for souls. On
June 25 the American Baptist Home Missionary
Society, which had secured the hull of this beau
tifu vessel for 81 500, dedicated her whose fore
foot once proudly Glove the waters of the At
lantic Ocean, as mission for sailors. The music
of hymns finds its way upward through the
rigging which once whsted the storms. The
orders of the officer of the deck shouted in
stentorian tones, and not unlikely spiced with
oath black as a pirates, have been replaced
by the sympathetic words of the preacher he
prays that the sailors life may be saved from
moral shipwreck.
The Fleetwing is no shovel nosed skimming
dish, She is one of those broad-sterned deep
bodied vessels that seem to overflow with the
abundance of their strength and lend confidence
to the landubber well the sailor In her
prime she of the best known of the
large sailing yachts of New-York. She was
built in 1865 at the close of the Civil War for
G. & F. Osgood The next year she was entered
for the first transatlantic yacht race. 1t was
for purse of 900, contributed by the own
ers Of the three yachts entered. The others were
the Henrietta, owned by James Gordon Bennett
and the Vesta, owned by Pierre Lorfllard. The
Henrietta considered by some not to have been
the best boat, but to have been favored by the
weather, The Fleetwing was second at the
Lizard.
Since that day the big yacht has had a score
of owners. Now her sporting days are over
Often church past its prime is turned over to
some secular occupation. In the case of the
Fleetwing the process has been reversed. The
cabin where men once discussed the outcome of
q race over glasses of whiskey is now equipped
as a chapel. Here. when the weather is not ia
vorable to the occupation of the deck for the
purpose, services are held for sailors who may
chance to be in the harbor. A part of the equip
r1ent IS an organ, given to the vessel by John
Tanamaker. Those in charge of the vessel and
its mission the Rev. William Jones' the
SAILOR evangelist from Wales and Captain
Knoblauch a converted seaman
The schooner yacht Amazon is an "ounce Of
prevention" She is intended as a preservative
of the health of body, mind and soul This YES
Sci was given to the Young Mems Christian As
sociation of the City of New-York early
this summer. for the of its members
as a school of instruction in yachting and
to provide opportunity for young men
TO secure an enjoyable. wholesome and econOm~
ical method Of spending vacation. Every week
or two since the season opened parties of from
twenty to thirty young men have sailed on her
for cruise, extending over period of
two weeks on Long Island Sound Besides =