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days from the laying of her keel, which was a notable instance of energy 

 and expedition when the limited resources of the yard at that early day are 

 considered. Through sharp practice they were cheated out of the fair profit 

 they would have made on this contract, but the young firm were not dis- 

 couraged thereby. They then paid their workman from |4 to $4. 50 per 

 day. The partnership was dissolved in 1865, David returning and after- 

 ward opening a yard at City Island. Jesse Carll has since 1865 built some 

 large and highly successful vessels, which are regarded as specially excel- 

 lent in respect to beauty of model, speed and staunchness. He did not 

 preserve any record, however, and cannot give exact figures, but in the 

 following list accuracy is approached sufficiently for all practical purposes, 

 though in some cases the tonnage is not the registered number of tons but 

 indicates the carrying capacity. 



Some of the more noteworthy vessels built by him, with incidents in 

 their careers, are: Schooner Storm Cloud was sold and sent to California. 

 Schooner Joseph E. Nickerson, a keel boat, built for Boston and Cape 

 Cod parties, the builders retaining a quarter interest, was sold, and after 

 15 to 20 years of service Mr. Carll, with Messrs. Yates & Porterfield, of N. 

 Y. , the leading firm in the West African trade, bought her for that trade ; 

 after making several voyages in command of Capt. Israel Whitman, she 

 was seized by the natives while on a trading voyage up the Congo River and 

 destroyed. Schooner Wm. Mazyck, built for Capt. Conklin, of Smith- 

 town, was named after a Southern rice planter and employed in the 

 trade to Georgetown, S. C. , after one trip, in 1861, to avoid seizure she 

 had to make a hasty departure. Schooner Lucetta, designed expressly for 

 the fruit trade, was the second vessel of her kind built up to that time. 

 The years 1862-63 were dull in the building line, but the yard was fully oc- 

 cupied with repairing and rebuilding, in which branch of the business there 

 is less renown but more profit. In 1866, Mr. Carll, then running the yard 

 alone, built his first vessel, the schooner Goddess. In 1867 he built for 

 the Mediterranean fruit trade the schooner Jesse Carll, then declared to be 

 the handsomest craft of her class sailing out of New York ; she was also a 

 fast sailer, once making the trip from Gibraltar to Baltimore in 20 days and 

 beating by 5 days the fastest English fruiter afloat ; several thousand dollars 

 changed hands in bets on the passage, between the charterers of the two 

 vessels ; she was finally stranded on the Spanish coast in a hurricane, 

 while discharging cargo at an open roadstead. Brig Moses Rogers, com- 

 manded by Capt. Edward M, Jones, of Cold Spring, in the Malaga trade, 

 was of about 600 tons burden (383 registered). Schooner Ann E. Carll, 

 built for Capt. Benj. Tyler, was a fine craft, and after ten years service, 

 during which she was twice stranded — once off Norfolk, Va. , and once on 

 Block Island — was finally wrecked on a low coral island 60 miles from 

 Cienfuegos, Cuba ; it was inhabited only by alligators who came near devour- 

 ing the crew before they could make fires to protect themselves, but at last 

 the tables were turned (literally) and the crew, having used up all the pro- 

 visions they had been able to save, were forced to eat the alligators ; the 

 vessel was whole when they were taken off by a Spanish gunboat, but the 

 expense of floating her would have been more than she was worth. Brig 

 Osseo, of about 700 tons burden (454 register), 21 feet deep in after hatch, 

 with two full decks and poop, was designed for the Mediterranean trade ; is a 

 large and expensive vessel, costing about $40,000; is still running, and 



