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THE BRUNSWICK TIMES-CALL.
VOLUMEXI. NUMBER $l.
The Largest Sailing Vessel in the World Now Due in Brunswick*.
The Only Atlantic Port. South of Norfolk This Vessel Can Load
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Vf c Olv Below the Particulars Re
garding This Immense Vessel
As Taken From the New
Terk Herald of August
Twentieth
&L|jg W. >VeUt eoece.a.
i | Camden. Me., lat
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JP?V 16 it too
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■iiiflJw™ 8 fiv > mwer of ayj t e tan*,
■HP)bn B. Pre.cott, aud whan they
PKard that he was to hive a * x roaster
built they mad* up their minds fiat the
eoterp'Uios T*ua oil skipper had last
hia wits in following bis ambition t’o
build the fcUge.t schooner in the
worid. But Cap'.altfMolm G. Crowley
is a very practical sort of mao, and he
knew woat L was doing when ha care
to Harry M. Bean the contract fora
six-mast*;, a vessel that should carry
liya thousand tons or more at a lead
and set the shipping world agog with
her size and withal her haudini**.
It was on April 1, this year, ibavih
kiel of the six master was laid in the
Bean shipyard.
A big schooner is no novelty nowa
days, for thero are plenty of fo'S and*
afters of 1,500 tons and over, and a
number of more than 2,000 tons net
regis er; four master* ara numerous and
five masters have ceased to at ract
much attention, but a six ma t?r ot
3,750 loos register, with a carrying
capacity wf rising 5,000 tons, is some
thing to wonder at, and so among {Bail
ing voste's th 3 George W. Weils is le
garded with much me sane interest as
Is the Ocranic or tt,e tijutschland
am in/ ihot uns. tlam.ic express boats.
Auoihei six masted schooner, of about
ihe same size as the Gaoree W. Welfo,
is being built at Bath.
The Georg s W. Wells la a veel ef
raagu flceot di ntnslms. She is 302 feet
11 inches long on the keel, 345 feet long
on top, 48 feet 0 inches beam and 23
feet deep. She has two full deCKa,
with a poop four feet deep extending
from thetsffrail to lbe forward hatch,
and a set cf b< ams In hole
forward, braced with hanging and for
flld-aft knees. Uer frame is whi'e oak
throughout, and all her planking and
ceiling hard pine. Tue gaiboards ar
8 inches tblak sad other planking 0
iachj# Uer ceiling to the lower deck
t Jecu decks 10x14 inches.
A remarkable feature of the eonstruc-
Ition of the monster is her keeleou,
which is 13 feet high afl, running up to
khclghtof 17 feet forward
In ordinary vessels a man can easily
i climb over the keeleon, but in the
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THE GEORGE W. WE ELS
George \V, Wells it extends up to the
lower deck beams, wliicft ere bolted to
H, and acts as a great backbone to
strengthen the vessel. Tills fcee'au .is
built up of hard pine timbers 11 .inches
Sqaare, aucf is fastened with 50 tons of
13 8 meb Iron bolts. The celling id Inn
tened with 1 :J 8 and 1 J 4 I cii iron and
the planking with 13 4 inch ioewsttreu
na:ls and iron and coppi r butt bolts
So great is the sweep t f h r and c"n
that the vessel’s houses, althufigh of
generous size, look small. II -r after
bouse ia fit! feet fejaare. Amilrhlps is
the galley and forward the engine house
and forecastle, while she aso has a
wheelhouse for use in bad wea her,
something seldom found on coastng
vessels.
The yessers flttlngs include a Hyde
windlass, operated by a 30 horse pow
er engine; two pumps, with a combin
ed capacity of 1,200 gallons a minute;
a stockless anchor, weigh'ng 8 009
pounds, frem Chester. Pa.,acd a Cam
den anchor, weighing 7,500 pounds,be
sides kedge and stream anchors, weigh
ing respectively 900 and 600 pounds,
and 200 fathoms oi ~ 1 2 .inch bar
chain. She ha; a Hobson screw v.eer*
BRUNSWICK, GA. SUN DAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 1900.
Ing apparatus, bu' t c?per-ally for her.
ftf Uctl.iia 1 f f ie„ by tdo Hyde Hteani
Windless Company, of Barth. Her
water tank; hold 7,1-00 gallons.
Her six lower masts tre splendid
sticks of Oregon pipe, each 119 feet
lo.g aud ,30 Inehc; in diameter It, the
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partners; topmasts each 5* feet long, 1
tho foretopmast 20 vhclus in diameter at
the cap. Thejlbboom is 75 feet tosg,
20 inches at cap; driyerboero 75 fCtt
long, 18 iaches In the eiiigs, o'ler
b.octp* 12 feet long. 14 Inches in the
slings, Tier foretopnmsf, drive rboora
and jihboom are of Oregon pine, all the
other apart of native spruce. All the
standing rigging is of wire, set up
with tur-nbuekles; rigging cm the fore
man 4 1-2 inches, on otberniaet4 I*2
inches. The masts are named as fol
lows, beginning forward:—Foremast,
mainmast, mizzenmast, epankermasl.
jiggerraset and drlvcrm&st. The vee
sel will carry 12,000 square yards of
the heaviest ducks, ia the following
pieces:—Driver,jtgger,spanker, mizzen,
mala and fore sails, six gafftopsaile of
the sum- respective designation*, driv
ot jigger, spanker, mizzen and main*
topmass bta/salis and five jibs.
In the after h •> *■ are the ot hi ns, and
six staterooms, beside* a Ohtfxfr'dom .
Tht stetfcjooui; will t>- occupied by the
op*ain, his two rr. ites, steward and
engine-'-, end., 'including the chart,
room, which cat' ho II 'ed up with
sleeping secernniosinth n• , there will
b. two spire room ■ for pass-ngers.
The cebits/nd s’atercnms a.e llnished
in sb, sycamore and cherry, and sup
plied v i'h abeam bee', hat hr, h't and
oolil water, eiec'.rc bat's and i tele
phone line to and -ng'ne
house. *
In :be construction of this vessel
there have barn used immense quanti
ties of materials, inoluding tons of
white oas timber, over one million
feet of bard pine, about one hundred
thousand feet of white pine deck plank,
and KSTcral hundred tons of iron and
copper bolts. Her material* would
make a load for several good e zed
■ schooners.' •
She ia not only a very large vessel,
hut also a hand,on,a oraft, being much
the best, looking of all the large schoon
er* Htr great length tskci away ai:>
appearance of balkiness, and she looks
like au immense yacht, with her sharp
bows, elean run af;-, and graceful lines
ad over.
A mere s'atement of her dimensions
oonveys to the landsman but a faint
Idea of her size. Some comparison will
assist.
Few full-rigged ships, either wooden
or metal, are as large ss this tobooner,
and the next largest schooners now
alloat, the John B. Prescott and Na
thaniel T. Palmer, are eaoii about five
hundred tons smaller than she. The
largest steamer running to iipogor is
fifty-eight feet shorter on top than the
eix-master; twelve vaurcls like her,
ranged in a tine, would oocnpy a mile
of pier frontage, for from the tip of
hor driver boom to the tip of her jib
boom is about 425 feet. She can oarry
as much coal at one load as can three
of the Philadelphia and Reading rail
road steam oolliera, and about twice as
much as ia carried by the first flve
mas.ed schooner ever built—the Cov
eroor Amur. A sobconer that would
have been cslled large twenty years
ago could not osrry enough coal to
ballast this giant of the Camden yards.
Will the big aobooner be profitable?
There seems to be oo reason why she
URICTE FtYE CENTS
should not be a grrat money-maker
Carrying at least five thousand tons of
coal on a draught of only twsnty-fsar
feet, and with only fourteen men, all
told, for crew, (master, two mates,
steward, engineer and nine
her managing owner, Captain John G,
Crowley, claims that she can best tb*
barges to death at coal carrying, even,
when freights arc low. She oarries at
least six hundred tons more than
either tbs Joho.B, Prescott or the Na
thaniel T. Palmer, and only one more
man than is required for those great
live masters. A. full-rigged ship, of
equsl size, would carry at least thirty,
one men all told.
Messrs. N. Emanuel &. Company
who haye chartered this immense Tea
sel are probably the largest erosstic*
shippers in the United States. They
do a very large foreign business in
connection with their and )aiestlo busi
ness,
They were the first people to bring
the four masted schooners to Brunswick
the barges and the five masted schooners
and now this charter ot the largest sails
ing yessel nffoat with a capacity of at
least 50,QU0 ties places them amongst
the largest shippers along the Southern
coast.
In an article on the building of six
mast, the Nautical Gazette, of New
York, the leading marine publiaatioa
of this country, says:
•‘The great question now is as t*
whether the six-mast will be success
ful. They certainly ought to be eco
nomical, for, with much greater car
rying capacity than the five-mast,
they need but one more man in their*
crews than the five-stick requires
nli told, A full-rigged ship of equal
size carries about 31 men all told. If
they prove to be st.fi - , and steady in
hard weather, then but one difficult
will remain—their draft. The Gc jA
W, Welle will draw if->1 of
with 5,000 tons
hst< up i*
depth."
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today at .lie tVenby terian church. At
themormnglsorvice, Rev. W.U'ephens
Tucker wl I preach. The pastor wit
preach at the evening service, woiob
begins at 7:30. Attractive music will
be rendered by a chorus choir. The
Sunday eebool sneete at 3:30p. m. A
oordial invitation and weloom* Is ex*
tended to Christian people and tba
public, to ali the services. The offer
ing today will be for the Assembly’s
colored evangelistic work.
We all need “Other People's Maoey. *