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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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e water-logging aggravated the generation ofthe noxious gas, for which no means of escape were ever pro-vided for in the construction of the vessel, otherwise this fore-peak had long been a wholesale innoculator of disease and death.In all my experience of life, I have never before witnessed such asure and speedy infusion of poisonous vapor into the system, andhave no doubt that there are many men who would have fallenvictims to this one nights operations in the unventilated bow ofa steamboat, if their lot had been directed to this quarter. Very respectfully, yours, s. B.Maxitowoc, Wis., Sept., 1854. SCHOONER JAMES MILLER. The Schooner James Miller, Captain Braddock, is the nameof a new three-masted fore-and-aft schooner, built in Essex,Conn., by Nehemiah Hayden, Esq., who has kindly furnishedus with a copy of her draughts and tables, with a list of scant-ling and spars. This vessel, now on her first voyage, was built,by the day, for Lane & West, and others, of this city, and cost
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Schooner James Miller. 93 $27,000. She was built for the Southern coasting trade, towhich she seems admirably adapted, and, being constructed inthe most thorough and workmanlike manner, and well found,may be expected to render a satisfactory account in her futureperformances. This schooner is of the largest class, measuring,by government rule, 491 tons. In the style of her finish anddeck arrangements, she presents the features of sea-going craftof more dignified rig; but, in the dimensions and model, the ex-panded proportions of the once modest fore-and-after loom upto the observer in beautiful outline, and in striking contrast torthe ships that, twenty years ago, registered the same tonnage.It has come down to the last five years—and may we not, withequal propriety, add, the last five months—to prove that theschooner rig, under its various modifications, has found no limitfor its adaptation to vessels under 800 tons—a tonnage oncedeemed at the maximum of prudence in nautical co

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