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aboard this craft to sail her by themselves, if they could be all put 
to work at onct. Wliittier was great for discipline, and a mighty 
good sailor, too, and he didn't want no back talk from the agent. 
He was kind of sot in his ways of runnin' the vessel, and I guess 
the agent was sot in his ways of thinkin', so, the first thing we 
knew, old man Whittier left the vessel when we put into Kingston, 
Jamaica. 
"Well, we had two or three more captains before we got through 
in the South. The agent had to go ashore and inspect the ma- 
hogany lands to make his report to the firm, as we supposed. 1 
forget the name of the skipper that come into Mobile with us, on 
the way home, but at that port Capt. Randeleth took charge, and 
on the way up the coast we got some breezes that 'ud frighten 
you. Some of the squalls was great. And they would shift 
round and change their grip quicker than a trained terrier. Gee! 
they would blow the shingles off the lee side of a barn ! Of course, 
the only canvas we showed was close-reefed, and we was stag- 
gerin' along, rippin' the horn through the head seas, and about 
every third wave we was blue water to the foremast. 
"Capt. Randeleth was keepin' a pretty close watch all round, and 
after awhile made out that the vessel was straining at the stem. 
The bobstays showed signs of pullin' out of her altogether, and 
the skipper ran in under Cape Fear to try to get some shelter, 
while the whole crew worked at settin' up some riggin' forward 
to hold the masts in. This was to be in case the bobstays pulled 
out. Well, we dropped the big hook, and it held her all right, 
though we didn't get much shelter, and there was a devil of n 
sea runnin' all the time. And you'll know what a sea there was 
when I tell you what happened. 
"We didn't have time to set up more stays to the foremast, and 
then a big pitch aft pulled the whole front out of her, as you may 
say. The bobstays came up, and both masts jerked aft. The bow- 
sprit rose straight up in the air, turned a somersault on its heel, 
and swung inboard after the falling masts. Do you sec that big 
stick there? Now, that boysprit, 3ft. in diameter, fell just where 
you see it, with its small end p'intin' for the starn. We just lashed 
it where it fell, and that tells of the turn it took in the air. Why, 
talk about miracles! There was ten of us on deck at the time, 
and not a man was hurt! How do you account for that? You 
will know the amount of heavy steel rigging and ironwork that 
came flying inboard with the bowsprit. Then tliere was the 
.shrouds on both sides of both masts. Any one of them would 
kill you if it caught you in falling. 
"And here's one more thing that none oi ias C3n explain. The 
mainmast fell and smashed into three pieces, the piece still in the 
step, this middle part that is lashed to these skylights, and the 
masthead is overboard. Now you can't find a spot on the decks 
or rail where that mast could have fallen. The cabintop, just 
aft of it, hasn't been even scratched. Here's a line of skylights 
between the two masts, and not a single pane of glass was broken 
or a brass rod turned out of place. That long Spanish cedar gig 
hanging there in the davit.s was not touched. She used to belong 
to W. K. Vanderbilt's Alva, the steam yacht that got run into and 
sunk in the night. The other two, the longboat and the dinghv— 
well, there they are, and vou can't find a mark on them. That 
break in the starboard bulwarks was not made by the foremast, 
because this big sticlc fell where you p^e it »pw: close to the sky- 
lights and along the deck. " .' ' 
"We fellers in the fo'c'sle has been puzzlin' out this thing all the 
way home, and, though we was all on deck at the time, there ain't 
one of us that knows how them tons of timber dropped and 
smashed up without breaking a boat or leaving a mark. 
"While we were clearing away the wreckage and trying to get 
some of the raffle on the decks cleared up a titt, the schooner Flor- 
ence and Lillian saw us, and hove up to speak to our old man. 
They wanted us to go aboard and leave the yacht where she was. 
But our skipper only asked the schooner to send out a tug as 
soon as it could weather the sea, and then we_set up a jury rig. 
To the Sft. stump of the foremast we lashed the boom of the" fore- 
sail, as you see it standing there, and we gave it four rope shrouds 
on each side and a forestay. But the jury mainmast was not so 
easy, because the big stick bad cropped off exactly at the deck. 
Here we had to lash the broken spars to each side of the sky- 
lights, and then put a cross-timber between them, to which the 
foot of the jury mainmast could be lashed. We used the foregaff 
as a mainmast. Afterward two trysails were h'isted and a sort of a 
forestavsail forward. Under this canvas we were sailing into South- 
port, N. C, when the tug met us and towed us to Wilmington. 
"But the damage did not stop there. When Capt. Randeleth 
delivered over the vessel, a new captain came aboard and made 
a fire in the saloon fireplace, the day bein'' extra cold. But the 
stovepipe had got knocked out of place down South, and the first 
thing he knew the inside staterooms was all ablaze. He called 
a passing tug that had her fire hose handy, and she put out the 
fire. But everything in. the staterooms is spoiled with fire and 
water. 
"As to the wreckage, the experts have been here and made their 
report. She will want new sticks everywhere; booms, gafl's, top- 
masts and jibboom, as well as new canvas from end to end. The 
talk in the yards is that it will cost iflO.OOO to put her as she was; 
before, and I'm told that the charterers have to pay for it all, be- 
cause the agreement was wrote out that way." 
Around the yards it is said that a nice point in marine law may 
come up. It is said that the defense may he that the Republi'c 
was not in a reasonably fit condition to perform her work; that 
her mainmast was in a bad condition, and that she was too old for 
the service of that long voyage. The Republic is sixteen or seven- 
teen years old. In 1885 she was lengthened 15ft. bv Mumm, and in 
1893 she received a new stern from the same builder. She is 112ft. 
long over all, with a water-line of 9Sft. and a 23ft- beam. Her 
model is a very powerful one. and since her drydocking here the 
experts have reported her oak hull to be now In excellent condi- 
tion. 
The New Steam Yacht for Col. Payne. 
The steel steam yacht just contracted for by Col. Oliver H. 
Payne with the Bath Iron Works is described as follows by the 
New York Herald: 
The yacht will have an extreme length of 300ft. Cin. ; l.w.l., 25Sft.; 
beam, 35ft.; depth of hold, 20ft. 6in.; mean draft, 15ft. Triple ex- 
pansion engines giving 3,001) I. H. P. will drive the yacht, which 
will have a single screw, and she will be constructed to withstand 
the pounding of the heaviest seas. 
The contract calls for a minimum speed of fifteen knots under 
natural draft. This is expected to result in an actual speed of 
sixteen knots, which can be increased by forced draft. Her bunk- 
ers will carry ISO tons of coal, or a ten davs' supply. Col. Payne 
was .so much pleased with the bark rigging ol the Steam yacht 
Fleanor, in which he took a party of friends last summer on a 
three months' cruise about European waters and to the North 
Cape, that he has adopted a similar rig for his new craft. The 
sails give steadiness when the boat is under steam, and in emer- 
gency would enable her to make fair speed under canvas alone. 
A bachelor and a lover of blue water, Col. Payne has not pro- 
vided for any big salon on his boat, and his idea seems to be to 
secure ample deck space and freedom at sea rather than large 
rooms in which to entertain. Unlike Mr. Goelefs and other 
yachts in which the salon extends the whole width of the ship, 
making an apartment as large as that of a country house. Col. 
Payne's vessel will have a deck space of Gft. in tne clear between 
the rail and the housings on either side. This somewhat narrows 
the rooms, but on the other hand, when one stands on the quaj-ter- 
deck and looks forward, instead of being confrontetl with the 
side of a house extending across from rail to rail, he will have 
an unobstructed view of the entire length of the ship and an 
unbroken promenade from stem to stern. 
In the interior arrangements the officers and entire ship's com- 
pany are located forward, while the apartments of the owner and 
his guests are in the after part of the vessel. The housing struc- 
ture, which extends about IGOft., leaves a quart er deck of 60ft. long 
and the full width ot the ship, and an ample forecastle deck 
forward, the two, as noted, being united by a clear space of 6tt.. 
along either side the entire length. fJccupying the extreme for- 
ward part of the structure is the dining room, 30ft. long by 17ft. 
wide, and in the extreme after part are the owners' room, Kift. 
square, and two guest rooms, each 16ft. by lOtt. Each of these 
has separate toilet room, with bath. Between the dining room 
and tiiese staterooms, along amidships, stretcn the engine room 
galley, laundry and drying" rooms and pantries. Communication 
between all without exposure in bad weather is secured by an 
inside passage traversing the entire length on the starboard 'side. 
A stairway adjoining the dining room gives access to a smoking 
room 16ft. square in .an upper structure 32ft. long, the rest of 
which is devoted to use as a chart room and the room of the 
captain, who is thus placed in the eye of the ship. 
From the owner's and guests' quarters aft, a tiroad staircase 
leads down to handsome apartments on the main deck. Here are 
six staterooms for guests, four of the rooms being 14ft. square and 
two of them lift, by lOft., each having a nrivate bathroom at- 
tached. Asterir of these apartments are servants' rooms. Just 
forward of this portion of the ship assigoed to guests is the 
engine room. Here is the steering engine, appliances for evapo- 
rating salt water, the plant by which "the vessel is lighted with 
electricity and the apparatus for making ice for the tables. For 
cold storage there is an arrangement in the forward hold, with 
rooms for preserving fish, flesh and fowl. Sticking to the main 
deck, however, one passes forward from the engine room between 
two coal bunkers, holding 280 tons, into the tire room, equipped 
with four tubular boilers of Scotch iron, and still forward of this 
another coal bunker, with I-IO tons capacity. All the rest of tlie 
space on this deck forward is occupied with the officers' mess 
room and the rooms of the captain and engineer and their subordi- 
nate officers, space for the crew and petty officers' quarters. The 
ship is amply protected with water-tight compartments, and in the 
stem and stem arc trimming tanks by which she can he lifted or 
depressed fore and an. From davits above the main deck swing six 
boats. Two of these, on either side astern, are 2.'?rt. lifeboats; two 
forward are 2Sft. launches — one of them steam — and the two amid- 
ships are an ISft. dinghy on the port side and a 2Sft. gig on the 
starboard. 
Capt. C. W. Scott, who sailed the Eleanor, and who superin- 
tended the construction of that vessel, will command Col. Pajme's 
new yacht. He and the chief enginter will live at Bath whi'e the 
yacht is being built under supervision of her designer, Mr. Ridge- 
way Hanscom, and remain until its completion, which, under the 
terms of the contract, will be March 1, 1S99. The handsome cabMiet 
work, upholstering and general finishing will be done in Nf^'v 
York. The new vessel will be fully equipped in time to join in the 
New York Yacht Club cruise of next year, after which Col, Payne 
will take some of his friends across the ocean on .her and make a 
prolonged trip in foreign waters. 
The Foundering of Vineta. 
The following account of the loss of a well-known German racing 
yacht is from the Field. We cannot agree with the Field's con- 
clusion, that the overhangs caused the garboards to open; but, 
considering the construction of the yacht, it seems more probable 
that the plank fastenings gave way generally about the waist and 
bilge. The yacht was of composite construction, with steel frames 
and only single skin, caulked, as we understand, in the usual 
manner. As mentioned by the Field, she was badly strained in 
her first season in racing in a heavy sea, as then reported, the 
screw bolts that held the planking to the frames giving way. 
She was very thoroughly repaired and has since been in regular 
service. 
ments to the mighty force of the winds which sometimes sweep 
over that almost^desolate country. These piles of sand resemble 
huge drifts of snow in their pure whiteness. Here and there the 
wind had scooped out immense hollows in the sides of sonic of the 
hills. This caused their upper edges to ctirl over and to resemble 
the crests of huge rollers about to topple on the beach. Sparsely 
scattered here and there could be seen the rude, unpainted shanties 
of fishermen. Some of the roofs of these shanties were thatched 
with salt meadow grass. 
It is but half a mile across the narrow neck of land that sepa- 
rates Napeague Bay from the ocean. We coidd plainly see the 
flagpole on the roof of the life-saving station, so started to walk 
in that direction. After walking a third of the distance to the 
lieach we made out a road ahead. On the further side of the road 
we coidd see the railroad track which skirts the line of low sand- 
hills. We knew tliat by gaining the top of one of the sandhills w'e 
w^ould be able to look down upon tJtc ocean, for we could plainly 
hear the rumble of the surf from where we then were. 
Why Stanley should clothe himself in a heavy black sweater and 
wear a thick skull cap with a tassel attached to a cord leading from 
the crown of the cap, so that the tassel dangled up and down near 
the center of his back or swung crazily to and fro as he walked, 
is entirely beyond my comprehension. However, clad in this out- 
landish manner and carrying a Winchester shotgun, he resembled 
more a wild and bloodthirsty pirate than a civilized oysterman from 
Greenwich. He no sooner heard the roar of the surf than away he 
went, giui in hand, on a dead run in the direction of the sandhills. 
He had almost reached the road when we beheld a horse and open 
carriag'e approaching along the road. Suddenly the horse stopped, 
pricked vp its ears, snorted, jerked its head around with a snap, 
and fastened its inquiring eyes on the white-capped driver who 
occupied the carriage seat. After gazing at its driver in a "what- 
the-devil-do-you-call-that-thing?" manner for a while, the animal 
jerked its head around again and stared with wild eyes at the 
long-legged, long-armed apparition that was sailing over the 
landscape ahead. He then snorted twice, and, much to the con- 
sternation of his scared driver, he tried to. turn a back handspring 
into the carriage. Not succeeding in this, he tried his utmost to 
tiu'n the whole combination around in a Sft. circle. While the 
frightened animal was engaging in these interestmg contortions, it 
■was plainly evident that his driver too was half scared out of his 
wits. He probably mistook Stanley for the advance guard of a 
gang of highway robbers who entertained questionable designs 
against him and his outfit. Be this as it may, he heaved a 
mighty sigh of relief when Stanley sailed across the road ahead of 
his horse at a Star Pointer clip. As thf man drove by we saw 
that he was one of the crew of the life-savihg station. 
After gaining the top of the nearest sandhill, Stanley rested the 
butt of his gun on the ground and struck a remarkably ungraceful 
attitude. A fisherman's shanty stood a short distance away, and 
we sawr a man come to the door and level a pair of marine glasses 
at the black scarecrow on top of the hill. Like a flash he suddenly 
disappeared in the shanty. Probably he had gone after a gun. 
After reaching the side of Stanley we also stopped, and struck 
attitudes of wonderment if not of grace. Further than the eye 
could see the blue summer ocean basked beneatli the summer sun. 
A dazzling sandy beach extended from the base of the sandhills to 
the water's edge and stretched away for miles on either hand. 
Tremendous ocean surges ceaselessly rolled landward in blue, swell- 
ing hills. When on the point of striking the shore they reai'ed 
themselves in stupendous, snowy-crested comoers, which paused 
and threateningly shook their white manes in the air, then fell 
thundering on the beach. .Away to the left and to the right the 
sands were smothered in floods of pearly foam, which swept seeth- 
ing far up on the beach, only to retire again. Filled with the 
softest rainbow tints, a gauzy curtain of mist drifted away to sea- 
ward from the breaker's edge. Thrilled and awed, we gazed en- 
raptured upon the grand, majestic sight for a long' time, and no one 
spoke. Then a flock of gulls flew by and mingled their plaintive 
cries with the solemn roar of the surf: this broke the spell. Stanley 
ran down the hill to the water's edge, and the rest ot us followed 
him. 
We strolled along the beach a ways, and picked up shells and 
stones. Some of the stones had been worn into curious shapes by 
the continuous action of the water upon them. We also saw a 
number of flocks of snipe and plover. Stanley tried in vain to get 
a shot at some of them; they were very wild, and it was utterly 
impossible to get within shooting distance of them. 
After walking along the beach for half a mile or so we came to a 
fisherman's shanty. It was one story high, and built of plain 
boards which had never known paint. There were two doors. One 
faced the ocean, and from the other one could look across the 
sandy hills and see Napeague Harbor and the glittering blue 
waters of Gardiner's Bay. 
Two dories were drawn well up on the beach near the shanty, 
and a number of nets were stretched on the sand, to dry. We 
were examining the dories when a fisherman appeared in the door 
of the shanty and w'e engaged him in conversation. He invited us 
to seats on a bench in the shade of the shanty, ana we accepted. 
We found this to be the home of four surf fishermen; and after a 
half hour's conversation with them we concluded they must earn a 
good living. They told us that they iced their fish as soon as the 
day's catch was landed, and always shipped them to New York city 
by the first train. This they could easily do, as the railroad was 
but a stone's throw from their dwelling, and they had but to flag 
a train when they had any fish to send away. They fished on the 
sandy bars, which could be plainly located by the brownish appear- 
ance of the water a short distance outside the surf. They were very- 
intelligent men, and kept themselves in daily touch with tlie 
world's doings through the New York papers, which they re- 
ceived regularly. 
"If you had only been here this morning you could have seen us 
go out through the surf," said the man who appeared to be the gen- 
erally recognized spokesman of the fishermen. "We didn't find the 
fish in any numbers, so came in early. We thought some of gomg 
out again this afternoon, but backed out. Too much surf, you 
see." 
"You don't always have so rtlucb. surf then?" I asked. 
"No; it don't often run so high unless there's a storm. We al- 
ways have plenty of surf, though, even in the quietest weather. 
Take it in an old southeaster, and you won't find an uglier stretch 
of lee shore from Maine to Florida than Napeague Beach." 
Besides two or three kittens, the fishermen had a couple of hand- 
some water spaniel puppies for company. While making ourselves 
acquainted with the puppies we were surprised to hear a colt win- 
now^ under our feet it seemed. He was stabled in the cellar under 
the shanty. 
We talked a while longer with our new acquaintances, then I 
arranged to run over in the morning and snap them with the 
camera while going out through the surf in their boat. Stanley 
and I then started off along the beach in the direction of the life- 
saving station. We left Bub and Sam talking with the fishermen, 
they having decided to return to the sloop by the route we had 
taken to reach the shore. 
The Dismasting of Republic. 
The following interesting story of the dismasting of the schooner 
Republic is told by Mr. Stinson Jarvis in the Tribune: 
The schooner Republic, owned by George Matthews, of New 
York, which arrived last week at Manning's slips, in the Erie 
Basin, has experienced one of the most curious kinds of wrecking 
that ever happened to a yacht or any other kind of vessel. The 
story of the voyage, a record of disagreement, dismay and dis- 
aster, makes good reading, though the wreckirig w as of a kind 
which no yachting novelist would dare to use in his fiction, be- 
cause the facts are almost too strange to be believed. The ap- 
pearance of the hulk as it floats beside the wharf, with its huge 
bowsprit on deck and its broken masts lashed on each side o£ the 
skylights and companionway, tells a great deal without words. At 
the bow the planking of the bulwarks and the timbers of the rails 
have been pulled out of her. Not a sign of a bobstay appears on 
the stem. Long strips of sheet lead are closely nailed down the 
whole length of the stem, where the butts of the forward planking 
pulled away from it. Amidships the starboard bulwarks are 
smashed flat to the deck. Huge bits of galvanized ironwork. Sin. 
in diameter, that were once cros^trees and davits, lie twisted and 
curled up as if the steam hammer of a rolling mill had been used 
on them. The jury rig still stands on her, as it was set up while 
at sea ofif Cape Fear— an interesting piece of work for a yachtsman, 
and evidently set up by sailors and men who knew their business. 
A sailor on board told this story of the cruise: 
"It was the curiestest kind of a trip I ever made. We went out 
here last summer, and thev gave us quite a send-off as we h'isted 
oiu- hock at the Atlantic Yacht Club and dropped down the bay. 
The yacht had been chartered from the owner, Mr. Matthews, by 
some people who ha'd bought mahogany-growin' lands in South 
America. They say there was English money in the thing, and, as 
near as I can recollect, the name of the firm that sent their agent 
aboard was Kean, Van Cortlandt & Co. Our old. man at that time 
was Capt. Whittier; but, Lord love ye, we've had enough captains 
Cythera. 
In a letter to the Marin:; Journal, in which, by the way, he pays 
the highest . compliment to the yachts designed by Mr. A. Cary 
Smith, Capt. F. F. Norton writes as follows concerning the very 
doubtful yarn of the loss of the yawl Cythera in the March 
blizzard, which we noted a few weeks ago. Capt. Norton's state- 
ments confirm our impression of the story of the alleged survivor : 
I noticed in your columns a recent editorial article in regard to 
the loss of the yacht Cythera in the blizzard of March, 1SS8. 1 
was at that time in command of the yacht Iro'iuois, owned by T. 
Jefferson Coolidge, Jr., of Boston, and sailed from New York in 
company with the Cythera, bound for Savannah, Ga. The wind 
being from the eastward, we beat out by the Hook and stood away 
down the beach on the port tack. We parted company during the 
night, and I never saw Cythera again. The gale .struck us about 
10 o'clock the following night, but being warned by the movements 
of my barometer and all the appearances of the weather, of the 
coming of the usual revolving storm, which happens off this coast 
at that season, I was all prepared for it. 
The wind had gradually worked around Irom the east by way 
of the south to southwest during the day (Sunday), and I was, 
when the northwest wind came, forty miles southwest by south 
from Barnegat. I immediately hove the yacht to on the star- 
board tack under storm trysail set on the mainmast. We were not 
far from the western edge of the Gulf Stream, and drifted into it 
in a short time. By 2 A. M. on Monday the wind was blowing 
very hard and a tremendous sea was working up. I attempted to 
use oil bags in the usual wa>% but could not make them work satis- 
factorily and gave it up. I then thought of the forecastle closet, 
and taking a 5gal. can of oil which we had on board for that pur- 
pose, I made a small hole in it and let it run into the bowl and 
kept a man there to pump it out every few moments. The oil 
coming up under the stem and spreading out to windward, formed 
a most perfect nrotection. 
When daylight came on Monday morning the wind was blowing 
fearfully. The top of the ocean was as white as a snowdrift, and 
the Iroquois w'as the only speck on it. Sne w^as lying lee rail 
under most of the time, but doing most beautiful work^ The wind 
increased, if possible, all Monday and Monday night. Tuesday 
morning it had got arouiad to about north-northwest, and at times 
seemed to moderate. About 10 A. M. I kept off before the wind 
and set fore-trysail, and scudded for seventeen hours, averaging" 
eleven knots under the two trysails. I finally ran out of the 
storm and got fine weather and arrived at Tybee In less than six 
days from New York. 
Now, my opinion in regard to this story you mention, that the 
sailor Engleson tells, is that it is all a yarn. I think your idea in 
regard to the loss of the yawl is about right, and I have always 
advanced the theory that, as Cythera w^as bound to Bermuda, 
and the wind, when it struck from the northwest on Sunday night, 
Avas a fair wind for her port of destinatioin, they kept her off and 
undertook to run head into the southeast sca still running from 
the wind of Saturday. The northwest wind coming so heavy, 
and probably no preparations having been made to heave the 
vessel to, she ran under, and washing ofif skylights or companion- 
ways, foimdered. And as to a man floating on a cabin door, even 
for an hour, wdien the whole surface of the ocean was beincr 
blown away like smoke, as it seemed, is an improbable story. 
It will be remembered that, prior to building tlie second Meteor, 
his present racing craft, the German Emperor owned a twenty- 
rater, a vessel of thirty "sail units," called Vineta, \vhich was 
constructed at Kiel from designs by Mr. G. L. Watson. In one of 
her first races on the Fjord of I'Ciel, Vineta was severely strained 
in the short, choppy seas, of¥ the StoUergrund, a bank at the 
mouth of the Fjord of Kiel. No subsequent patching seems to 
have done her any good, though she was raced with great skill 
in the regattas on the Solent two years ago, under the command 
of Cant. Arenbold. 
When the present Meteor was being built on the Clyde, his 
Imperial Majesty presented Vineta to his brother-m-law, Prince 
Ferdinand of Schleswig-Holstein-Gluecksbiirg. Vineta was launched 
in the year 1895, when there was an exceptionallv strong class of 
twenties at Kiel. In addition to Mr. Robert E. Loesener's Elisa- 
beth, built at Hamburg from designs by William Fife, Jr. ; Count 
Douglas's Ellen, constructed on the Clyde, and Lord Lonsdale's 
Dragon, there was an importation from America which made her 
debut that season — the late Baron von Zedtwitz's ill-starred Isolde, 
built by Herreshoff, which subsequently caused her owner's death 
on the "Solent, in a collision with the Meteor. 
At the close of last season Vineta was given fn exchange by 
Prince Ferdinand of Schleswig-Holstein-Gluecksuurg for Mr. Robt. 
E. Loesener's schooner Elisabeth, nee Pelican. After laying up 
Vineta for several months at Messrs. Oertr and Harder's yard 
on tne Elbe, her new owner decided to send the vessel to the 
Mediterranean in order to compete at the regattas there. Leaving 
the Elbe in tow of one of Messrs. Sloman's steamers, bad weather 
was encountered off the Dutch coast, and Vineta, though battened 
down and made tight, foundered in the North Sea, after parting 
the hawser by which she was towed. No lives were lost, and the 
ve.ssel was fully insured. It is pos.sible that while ponnding in the 
heavy seas, the overhangs caused Vineta to open her garboards. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
The Crescent Iron Works has contracted to build a steel steam 
yacht for a New York yachtsman from designs by Lewis Nixon. 
She will be similar to the steam yacht Josephine, of 150ft. over all 
and 19ft. beam. 
The 20-footer Shark has been sold by Messrs. Rouse and Hoyt to 
F. M. Hoyt, owner of Syce, who will take her to Bermuda. 
The Yachting World, in addition to its regular weekly issue, 
publishes a handsome special "Xmas and Mediterranean Number." 
It opens with an interesting summary of the origin and growth of 
steam yachting bv Mr. Dixon Kemp; Miss Edith E. Hughes, one 
of the "Solent "sailoresses," has an article, "Y''achting Remi- 
niscences," and .Mr. C. N. Boyn writes on the "Coupe de France/' 
the French itrternational yachting trophy. There are other inter- 
esting articles on the Mediterranean and various yachting subjects, 
and many excellent illustrations. 
We have received from the Thomas Laughlin Co., of Portland, 
Me., its large and complete catalogue of marine hardware, blocks 
and' fittings. The companv manufactures or deals in everything 
connected with the construction of ships, yachts and boats, for 
which purposes it has an extensive plant in Portland. 
Yampa, schr., arrived at Southampton on Jan. 10, after a, rough 
passage of taineteen days from New York. 
