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NU AY &s a et NY Z 2 i i U4, Vp _—————— ESTABLISHED 1878. Fauve VOL. X/X. NO. 37. CLEVELAND—SEPTEMBER 10, 1896—CHICAGO. THE OCEANICA RAISED. Capt. Harris W. Baker succeeded on Friday last in pumping out sufficiently to float the steamer Oceanica, sunk a few weeks ago by collision with the William Chisholm. He raised her from the channel opposite Windmill Point, and towed her down to the Detroit dry- dock. Capt. Baker completed the job in 11 days, and is entitled to great credit for the expedition which he showed on the job. : ‘The Oceanica, a wooden steamer, 265 feet long, and containing 1,900 tons of furnace coal, lay across the natural channel, with the current against one side; the collision had knocked away her stem. The hood ends sprung wide apart and a gap 8x4 feet was opened, through which the water entered. Capt. Baker began work on Monday, August 24, with six divers and 17 other workmen. Three days were spent in removing the steel sheathing forward, and closing the opening. A temporary stem was put in and the openings in the bows closed. The divers had to do a good deal of work inside the hull to get the necessary shoving in to sup- being put in fine condition by the crew. The slide from the boa.-house to the water is 200 feet long. Five mem- bers of the crew went to Grand Haven and secured the life-boat, which was in service at the World’s Fair. They towed back behind a steamer, and experienced some very rough weather. O00 — NAUTICAL TERMS. The difficulties of the lexicographer desiring the in- clusion of nautical terms in his list are not a little in- creased by the sailor’s love of contractions of his pervers- ities of pronunciation. Let me cite a few examples. The word “‘treenail’’ for instance—a wooden spike—in Jack’s mouth becomes ‘‘trunnel.’’ ‘“To reach’’ is to sail along close-hauled, but the sailor calls it ‘‘ratch.”’ “Gunwale,’’ as everybody knows, is “gunnel,’’? and so spelled by the old marine writers. ‘‘Crossjack,’’ a sail that sets.upon a yard called the ‘‘crosjack yard”’ on the mizzenntast, is pronounced ‘‘crojjeck.’’ ‘The ‘‘strap’’ of a block is always termed ‘‘strop;”’ ‘“‘streak,’’ a single 5 range‘of planks running from one end of the ship or port the temporary bulkheads. Canvas was stretched «boat to the other, is “‘strake.’’ “To serve’—this is, to wind small stuff, such as spun yarn around a rope—is over these bulkheads, and then work on the cofferdam THE OCEANICA, AFTER THE COLLISION. was begun. This extended from the stem to the after end of the boat. At the bows it consisted of heavy tim- bers of Norway pine. Part of the cofferdam was built on top of the rail, and consisted of 2x6 inch timbers» spiked one on top of another. This dam was also jacketed with canvas. Additional stiffness was given to the hull by fastening heavy booms between the three masts. These held additional braces intended to keep the hull from losing its shape, and then the pump- ing began. Two sandsuckers were set at work last Friday, and in 2% hours the steamer was afloat. The sandsuckers re- mained at work until a steam pump was put aboard and started. This pump controlled the inflow of water without difficulty. Good weather prevailed during the operations. The cargo was not removed. Capt. Baker says she is not in bad shape, and that she has sustained no structural strain that can effect any permanent injury. BAILEY’S HARBOR LIFE-SAVING CREW. Capt. Peter Olson, keeper of the new life-saving sta- tion at Bailey’s Harbor, Wis., has organized his crew as follows: No. 1, John Christianson; No. 2, Charles - Gaul; No. 3, Volney Brown; No. 4, Alfred Ollander ; No. 5, Gustav Egeland; No. 6, Albert Wilson; No. 7, Joseph Arle. The premises about the station are now “to sarve’’ The numerous contractions, however, are pre-eminently illustrative of the two distinctive qualities of the English sailor, nimblenrss and alert- ness. Everything must be done quickly at sea. There is no time for sesquipedalianism. If there be a long word, it must be shortened somehow. To spring, to jump, to leap, to tumble, to keep his eyes skinned, to hammer his fingers into fishhooks—these are the things required of Jack. He dances, he sings, he drinks, he is in all senses a lively hearty, but underlying his intel- lectual and physical caper cutting is deep perception of the seas as a mighty force, a remorseless foe. The matter seems trifling, yet the national character is in it. —Contemporary Review. rrr a NEWLY ENROLLED TONNAGE. Following is a list of lake vessels to which official numbers and signal letters have been assigned by the Commissioner of Navigation, for the week ending August 29, 1896: TONNAGE. ee all Rig.| Name. lecoas, | WAM | Net, |W ere Built) Home Port 97,742 |St. s. |Maud. Moon 13.85 11 .23| Buffalo Buffalo 116,732 |St.s, |SirW.Siemens| 4,344 48] 3,293.08 Cleveland Duluth 34,259 |Bge. |CSCCo.No,11| 162.04) 162.04|Elizabethport |Cleveland 84,258 |Bge. |CSCCo.No.15| 168.83| 16883} N. J. Cleveland Capt. Dan. McLeod, manager of the Inland Lloyds, has issued the usualsupplement to the vessel register, which is dated on the first of each month of the season, and which contains a record of additions and changes for the month just closed. he only new vessel enrolled was the little schooner Wm. Stone, built at Vermillion this year by Crosier, for J. Stone and others, of Delray; she has a net tonnage of 160, a valuation of $5,500, and a rating of A1¥%. New enrollments for this season in- clude the old schooner Cascade, built at Lorain by G. W. Jones, in 1853, measuring 215 tons, and now rating B2 and valued at $1,200; schooner W. H. Dunham, built in 1873 by D. Robertson at Grand Haven, now owned by D. D. Ludwig, Benton Harbor, rating B1% and valued at $1,500 ; and the schooner Col. Ellsworth, built in 1861 at Kuclid by Treat, rebuilt in 1872, and lately released after lying stranded in Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior, for nearly a year. She is valued at $2,500, and rates B1 plus. Lhe schooner John S. Parsons, owned by Phelps of Chaumont, after being lengthened and fitted with machinery, is now enrolled among the steamers. Her tonnage is raised from 109 to 122 net, and her value Bons | ices y Bac aie Sem) 7 OCEANICA, AFTER PATCH AND COFFERDAM WERE PUT ON. from $5,000 to $7,500, and her rating cut from Alto A1%. The little schooner Reliable, owned by Davis, of Detroit, who built her in 1880, has also been transformed into a steamer;ishe now rates B1 plus and has insurance valua- tion of $3,000. The steamer Jim Sheriffs, which spent the winter ashore in Green Bay, has been re-enrolled, after extensive repairs at Milwaukee, and has been given a valuation of $35,000, and a rating of A1%*. The Egyptian, after being considerably strengthened by the introduction of new timbers forward, has had her rating raised from A2!g to A2, and her valuation from $30,000 to $38,000. The little steamer Pewapkee has had her rating changed from B1¥% to B1 plus. The name of the steamer St. Louis, now awaiting a rebuild at Buffalo, has been withdrawn from the register. The tug Birck- head’s valuation has been increased from $4,000 to $5,500. ‘The schooner D. S. Austin has been raised from £3,000, B1, to $5,000, A2. The rating of the schooner Sophia J. Luff has been changed from A2¥% to A2. : at B We are just in receipt of first copies of a new Hydro- graphic Office chart of the St. Mary’s River, covering the distance between Shifting Point. at the head of Little Mud Lake, and the Turning Buoy, in Mud Lake proper, with a part of the Winter Point Range. ‘The price of this chart is only 25c, although made from the latest surveys. For sale at MARINE RECORD offices, Fourth Floor, Western Reserve Building.