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/ Avéust 8, rgot. : THE LARGEST CRAFT AFLOAT. ~The steamer Celtic, owned by the: White Star line, Liy- erpool, is the first vessel yet constructed to exceed 20,000 tons. Measuring 700, feet in length, with a beam of ‘75 feet, and a depth of'49 feet, her gross tonnage works out at 20,880 tons, and the net tonnage 13,650 tons.’ Perhaps the truest measure of the vessel’s greatness is, however, expressed in the fact that she displaces at a load draught of 36 feet 6 inches, no less than 37,700 tons, or 10,300 tons more than the.displacement ofthe Great Eastern, and more than double that of the largest battleship afloat. As to her construction the shell plates; of which’ there are 1,392, av- eraged 30 feet by 5 feet, were 114 inches thick, and in some cases weighed as much as four tons. As in the case of the Oceanic, machine riveting’ was adopted, wherever, pos- sible, in the keel, double bottom, ‘hull and stringers; 167,095 1% inch rivets being driven.in.this way. There are alto- gether nine decks in the Celtic. With obvious exceptions they aré all plated decks ‘and’ of full length. She is able to feed and sleep double the number of people the biggest hotel on: earth can accommodate, for there are quarters for altogether 2,859 passengers, and a crew of 335. The first-class accommodation is on the upper’ deck, and is the full width of the ship;.with the library and the smoking room it forms a very handsome suite. Aft, on the upper and bridge decks, there are quarters for 160 second-class passengers. The dining saloon for this grade is, like that for the first-class, situated on the upper deck; it is com- fortably furnished, and looks very handsome in its finish of white and gold. Third-class passengers, to the number of 2,352, are provided for on the upper, middle and lower decks, some in state rooms and others in open berths. The deck crew numbers 64. The engine room and stokehold staff is 92, and there will be 179 stewards to attend to the wants of the passengers. Though we have given full particulars of the vessel in previous issues of the Recorp, for purpose of comparison we may state that the Oceanic, the second largest steamer afloat, is 705 feet 6 inches long, 68-foot beam, and 49-foot depth, her/registered tonnage being 17,274 tons. The Great Eastern, it may be recalled, had a tonnage, of, 18,915. The Celtic’s displacement is'‘féearly double that of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse; and 10,300 tons more than that of the Great Eastern. 4 » FLOTSAM, JETSAM. AND LAGAN. The body of Capt. Joiner of the sunken whaleback barge Sagamore was recovered on Friday last by divers. Capt. Larrabee, of the steamer Peshtigo, was drowned at Lake Linden, Mich., last week, by falling from the dock while trying to board the steamer. The bodies of two fishermen, lost off Sheboygan March 18, have just now drifted ashore near that port. This five months submergence of bodies may be considered notewor- thy for future reference. The information has been given out that the Chicago-Ham- burg ships are paying no dividends. It is sad, but not sur- prising. These are good ships of their class, but they are not of the transatlantic class.—Marine Journal, New York. The old-time word ‘‘wreckers’’ has tcday completely lost its original meaning and fascination. The wreckers : of romance and history lived by plundering wrecks, for which they themselvés were responsible as often as not. The wreckers of ‘today live by an honorable. calling, for the wrecking of a ship now means the saving of ship and cargo for the benefit of her lawful owners. Capt. Sylvanus Mott, died at Houghton, Mich., last week, aged eighty-four years. Capt: Mott was born in New York state in 1818, and for forty years was a sailor on the Great Lakes, going to Portage lake with the tugs Hancock and Houghton in the 60’s to do work in connection with opening the canal, lake, The coastwise steamship lines, running out of New York, including the Ward, Clyde, Mallory, Old Dominion, Morgan and Southern Pacific lines, have been notified of the adop- tion of a new wage schedule by the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial association. These figures are an advance over the present scale, but it is said that the steamship owners are disposed to grant the demands of the engineers, though they consider them unjust. This is probably a prelude to the severance of the coast, river and lake marine engineers. That excellent journal the Marinz RECORD notes the loss of several steamers and a score of other vessels this season on the Canadian route to the ocean, and says it is the most dangerous to shipping in the known world. If the Gotha- mites get their other eye open and devote a small part of the $20, 000,000,000 wealth of their city in providing a deep water- way from Lake Erie to the Hudson river, they may regain the traffic. Allthe great country tributary.to the Great Lakes is deeply interested in this matter—cheaper trans- portation.—The Republican, Wauseon, O. Fora time he was range light keeper on Portage Where there is one accident to a naphtha or gasoline launch there are probably one hundred casualties to other class of vessels and yet when an accident occurs to either. of the . former, there is one of the greatest fusses made over it by some of the newspapers. There is no more danger of a naphtha or gasoline tank exploding, if proper precaution isat all times exercised, than there is for a kerosene lamp to explode.. The whole trouble is people get careless at times and if they do so they must suffer the consequences. 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