Identifier: monthlynauti118541855newy (find matches)
Title: Monthly nautical magazine, and quarterly review
Year: 1854 (1850s)
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Subjects: Shipbuilding
Publisher: New York : Griffiths, Bates
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as freighting vessels, while the oceansteamers are flat, and they also are freighting vessels ; and, in-deed, some of our full ships are flat, and they are freighting ves-sels. Will you give this commercial community, with the restof mankind, some rule of determining the capacity of vessels*that is, free at least from this long list of exceptions ? A NAUTICAL INQUIRER. (The rule referred to by the Nautical Inquirer was copiedfrom Griffiths Treatise on Ship-building, where it is denomi-nated Mr. Pooks rule for determining the capacity of vessels;and had the quotation been complete, with the authors remarks,there would have been no occasion for the inquiry, the sensehaving been destroyed by the abridgment. Perhaps we can inno better way put the Nautical Inquirer on the right track thanby furnishing an article on the subject of tonnage, or the meas-urement of vessels, a part only of which we shall have room forin the present number, and which may be found in the Mechan-ical Department.)
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Log of Ship Romance of the Seas. 43 CLIPPER RACE ACROSS THE PACIFIC.We give below an abstract of the logs of the ships Romance of the Seas andDavid Brown, which have just completed one of the closest and most remarkablepassages from San Francisco to Hong Kong, China, that has ever yet been recorded.The two ships towed to sea side by side, in good ballast trim ; parted company, and,after a fine passage of 44 days and 22 hours, came to anchor in the same hour, at thesame port of destination. It will be remembered that both vessels sailed at about thesame time—the Romance of the Seas from Boston, and the David Brown fromNew-York—in December last, for San Francisco, China, and home to Boston andNew-York, respectively. The two vessels were close to each other off the coast o*Brazil; and after a passage of 96 and 98 days, reached San Francisco on the 23dof March, 1854. Their dispatch at Hong Kong and subsequent run on the home-ward voyage will be the subject of a still more lively inter

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