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THE CULLINGWOOD BULLETIN, 1 nk The large steel, steamer Moreland ; be-} which went ashore last week off. Kee-! md, wean Point, Lake Superior, is to be off' cut in two in order to save the stern 'th) and the machinery, The cargo of ore. rt, id- (he 'he les ey les nd vd to y= he ith yh was discharged into the lake. | ' The tug-Queen caught fire while 'in| burned 'off before the blazewas extin- | guished. The crew was up town at the time, and it is claimed that- there had ' been mo fire on the boat for some hours previous to the discovery of the flames. The tug is owned by Capt. A. Craigic and Mr. Wm. Gillies of Tober-| moray, they having purchased it last | spring by Mr. A. F. Bowman. . Mr. Ben. Tymon went to Thessalon on Saturday by the Germanic to take! charge of the engineer's department of ' the tug Dyinent, The Olyinpic, the first of the White (MARINE NEWS ,Soughampton harbor and her her house | Star few leviathans, was Jauncked at Belfast on Thursday. The new vessel | is of 43,000 toms. She is a triple | to| screw steamer, her principal dimen- ng/Sions being: Tength over ans SS2'; . fic, ft. ; breadth over all, 92", {[t. > height o x trom hottem of keel to top of cap- tain's house, 145'T4t. She exceeds by oo tons, any ship axoat, The Olym- pic will accommedate 2500 passengers and a crew of S60. She has It steel decks aml 15 watertight bulkheads. The gigantic measurements of this vessel are best appreciated when it is jknown that in' length the Olympic lovertors the height ol the Metropoli- tan Tower in New York by 182 feet, is twice as long as the height of the dome of St. Peter's at Rome, and equals in length the total drop of the famous Rridal Vet! Fall in'the Yose- mite Valley. Indeed, if the Olympic: and her sister vessel, Titante {soon to be latmched) were sued end to end under the Brooklyn Rridge, they would completely block the East River, and rjextend in feet on each side. It is "5 * -- SRR TT TT SS ~~ = | SS 2 SS SS SS also interesting to note that the length of cach ol these ships is four times the . height of Bunker [Hill monument. | ro The C.. 8, steainharge Wyoming was | burned to the water's edge at E rieau on Saturday. The steamer ran into | struck a pier. Something of a com- bustible nature took fire and betore the! blaze was extinguished the boat was! i ee The steamer Langham which has oc. {° casionally visited Collingwood, was. on Sunday afternoon. The boat which | was bound for Port Arthur with a ear- owned @v John I, Adams & Ce., of | Detroit. The crew of seventeen, 16 inch and one wotmat, escaped in the stnall boats, The Shipbuilding Co. are pushing the erection of the new power house which west_of dry dock No. 1. On Monday the bricklayers commenced operations, tke stecl frame having betn previously erected. When the building is complet- ed the power for the yards, including ! and one battery of boilers will be dis-!: persed with, thus reducing the cost of production of the necessary motive power. The tug Demcke cane in with its consort om Monday from the Bruce Peninsula, The consort was loaded with lumber for Wilson Bros, propeller while coming to her dock at the Soo and collided with the Choc- taw. The former was uninjured, but the latter was damaged to the extent of $2,000. will be west of the pumping station T The steamer America dropped her} nearly too fect in length and by 14,-_ <--. --- sme es ee ee --a ec a the harbor for shelter and in doing xo |, I destroved, The steamer had a cargo | ¢ of ism toms of hard coal amd Was ,& bound) from Tonawanda. ty z ¢ burned and sank off Keweenawa Point re go of coal, was 200 feet long and was, 0 di the pumping station, will be together | in o! 14 he PL: th The R. & ©. liner Belleville struck a vj shoal near Alexandria Bay on Satur- a day, but got off uninjured. kt The steamer Mary Louise went a- = shore below Kingston on Sunday pe night. Tugs were sent to her assist- th MISS LENA senrrrrisn