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BRIGAND— DESIGNED BY GEO. LAWLEY & SON CORP. 
Photograph by Jackson, Marblehead. 
interest there will be left in yacht racing! in the clubs. 
The racing men will flock to the association and the clubs 
will be put in the background. 
At its recent annual meeting, the South Boston Y. C. 
elected the following officers : Com., Simon Goldsmith ; 
Vice-Corn., A. S. Dole; Rear-Com., A. L. Whittemore; 
Sec'y, W. H. French ; Treas., Thomas Christian ; Meas., 
F. H. Borden ; Trustees for three years, Arthur Fuller 
and J. C. Merry; Regatta Committee, Charles Nordwell, 
F. A. Coupal, V. B. Johnson, E. J. McKee and G. W. 
Lane; House Committee. J. T. Ball, M. J. Lee, Maurice 
Levengston, D. M. Comar and W. J. O'Brien. 
At the annual meeting of the Columbia Y. C. the fol- 
lowing officers were elected for the year: Com., J. E. 
Doherty; Vice-Com.. F. E. Grainger; Rear-Com.. Hiram 
Patterson; Meas., J. R. Young; Sec'y, James Perry; 
Treas., A. E. Justice; Trustees, J. E. Doherty, A. E. 
Justice and C. J. Rushton. 
At the annual meeting of the Revere Y. C, the follow- 
ing officers were elected: Com., A. B. Thompson; Vice- 
Corn,, S. E. Lawrence; Sec'y, J- J- Connor; Treas., J. S. 
Dalzell; Fleet Capt., W. L. Greene; Regatta Committee, 
W. L. Greene, H. B. Pray. C. H. Vandcrslice, Thomas 
Wynne and T. S. Young; Directors, Dr. J. H. Strong and 
e. O. Frost. 
Kiley's Marine Agency has sold the following yachts: 
The cruising 26ft. cat Quissett to H. A. Holcomb. of New 
Bedford, and the 42ft. cabin naphtha launch Fairlie to 
Edward Bronson, of Pawtucket. 
John and Sam Small have started in business as yacht 
designers, and already have quite a number of orders, 
among which are a 40ft. cruising yawl for Southern 
waters, a 21ft. yawl for F. B. Rawson, of Sandusky; a 
2ift. auxiliary yawl, a 26.6ft. cruising yawl and' a 21ft. 
knockabout. 
Brown, of North Haven, is building a 35-footer for J. Mur- 
ray Forbes, of Boston; a 21ft. raceabout for C. F. Ames, of 
Rochester, and a 21ft. raceabout for George and Harry 
Shattuck, of Boston. All these are from designs by 
Crowninshield. 
The big lead keel for the 85ft. schooner for H. T. Sloane 
was successfully run at Lawley's Saturday. It weighs 55 
tons. Lawley is at work laying down the Canadian cup 
defender designed by Crowninshield. and expects to have 
her set up this week. 
Graves, of Marblehead, has nearly completed the 16- 
iooter designed by Crowninshield for A. D. Irving. 
Howland, at Monument Beach, is building an :8- 
footer for a member of the Hull-Massachusetts Y. C, and 
a 39ft. auxiliary yawl for De Ver H. Warner, both of 
Crowninshield design. John B, Killeen. 
The aitxiliary schooner Genesee, owned by James Sib- 
ley Watson, N. Y. Y. C. is now nearly rigged and the 
latter part of January will leave port for a foreign cruise. 
The Mediterranean and Black Sea will be visited. The 
yacht will be absent nearly a year. Capt. Shelldrake 
is in command. 
Banshee. 
The Yachting World gives the following interesting de- 
scription of Col. H. L. B. McCalmont's new steam yacht 
Banshee, which was built last year by Ramage & Fergu- 
son at Leith. She is about goo tons measurement, and 
her dimensions are : 229ft. 6in. on the water! ine, 29ft. 6in. 
extreme beam and 18ft. 6in. depth. Banshee will have 
a sea-going speed of fourteen knots. Col. McCalmont was 
formerly owner of the steam yacht Giralda, which was 
sold to the Sp&nish Government during the recent war 
between Spain and the United States : 
"In appearance the Banshee is ahogether different from 
the usual yacht, being in design similar to a Government 
cruiser, inasmuch as she is fitted with a round stem, with 
owner's coat of arms on the fore side, and relieved on 
each side with an appropriate carved trail. The stern is 
very handsome, being a perfect elliptic, relieved with rope 
moulding and finished in handsome carved trail of rose, 
shamrock and thistle design. The vessel is"^ plated up to a 
height of about 7ft. 6in. above the main deck stringer for 
about looft. of her length. She also has a raised fore- 
castle deck about 50ft. long, and abaft the plated-up por- 
tion a raised quarter deck about 30ft. long. 
"The propelling machinery consists of two independent 
sets of inverted direct-acting surface-condensing engines 
of the triple-expansion type, capable of developing 1,800 
indicated horse-power, and steam is supplied by two steel 
C3'lindrical tubular boilers, each 15ft. 6in. in diameter by 
lift. long, constructed to work at a pressure of iBolbs. 
per square inch, each with a separate funnel. 
"Two small pole masts, with a short yard on each, and 
helm signaling apparatus on the mainmast, as used in 
Her Majesty's Navy, together with the two funnels, all 
contribute to make the appearance of the yacht very simi- 
lar to a Government cruiser. Most comfortable accommo- 
dation is provided for a full complement of officers and 
crew, numbering about fifty-five all told, the crew of thirty 
hands being berthed forward in a forecastle hav'ng over 
8ft. of clear height. Beneath these quarlers are lavatories 
for the_ crew's use, a carpenter's shop, storerooms, etc. 
A spacious wardroom for the use of the chief officers, 
together with cabins for commander, chief officer, sur- 
geon, etc.. with pantr3^ bathrootn and the necessary offices, 
are on the main deck in the fore end of the plated-up por- 
tion. Over the main boilers is a spacious gallery, with 
separate cooking ranges for owner s and crew's use, also 
main pantry, rness rooms for engineers and stewards, etc. 
"On the main deck also are two large staterooms for 
guests, each with separate bath and dressing room. The 
main gangway entrances, one on each side of the vessel, 
are abaft Lhe main funnel, and a special feature is a hand- 
some vestibule amidships, opening off the gangway en- 
trances, with ornamental fireplace and cozy corners. A 
corridor amidships, extending aft from the vestibule, leads 
to the dining room, which is about i8ft. long, and in 
width equal to the full breadth of the yacht, being finely. 
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fitted in dark brown oak, and with dome skylight over, 
glazed with stained glass. 
"Abaft the dining room is another vestibule, and here 
on starboard side is the owner's private cabin, while on 
the opposite side of the vessel is owner's bath and dress- 
ing room, etc. Descending, a staircase aft leads to the 
women's boudoir of most recherche design, superbly fitted 
m satinwood of matchless quality. From the after vesti- 
bule mentioned a staircase leads out on to the quarter 
deck, while another staircase at fore end leads to the 
spacious staterooms below, four in number, and a room 
for women's maids, all fitted in choice hardwoods. On 
the promenade deck, and arranged between the main 
funnels, is a drawing room and smoking room, both 
fitted in satinwood and walnut respectively, each with 
dome skylight over, glazed with stained glass; also a chart 
room fi.ted in teak, and replete with every conyenience 
and requirement for the navigation of the ship. 
"The ventilation throughout the vessel is perfect, four 
large electric fans being fitted in the engine room to 
exhaust air from all staterooms and officers' rooms be- 
low the main deck. The yacht is also fitted with hot- 
water heating throughout. The Banshee is electrically 
lighted, the total number of lights being very nearly 300,. 
exclusive of two powerful searchlights. For supply- 
ing current she has two generating plants and two bat- 
teries of storage cells, each plant being a duplicate of the' 
other. She is also fitted with a fresh-water distiller of 
double distillation pattern, and evaporator. 
"A powerful steam windlass and warping capstan is" 
fitted on the forecastle deck; also steam warping capstam 
aft. and steam steering gear placed over the rudder head! 
and worked from the bridge by means of controlling: 
wires. The armament comprises four Hotchkiss quick- 
firing guns, with automatic mountings, and steel shields 
with attachments for each gun ; also twenty-four magazine 
rifles, twelve army revolvers and twenty-four cutlasses. 
The Banshee has a bunker capacity of about 250 tons, 
and carries fully 5,000 gallons of fresh water. 
What Modern Saxlors Fezt, 
Not Winds and Seas, 6ot an Explosion Which Sends (be 
Ship to the Bottom. 
"Boiler explosions are the terror oi the seafaring 
man," said an old-time deep-water captain, speaking of 
the frightful disaster at the carbolineum works. "Such 
a thing is bad enough on dry land, hut imagine a catas- 
trophe of that kind at seal In ninety-nine cases out of a 
hundred it means the absolute wiping out of the craft 
itself and every soul on board. 
"The average landsman would be greatly shocked in 
looking over the maritime records to see how many 
vessels disappear each year and leave absolutely no clue 
to their fate. They run well up to the hundred mark, 
and such a mystery is not to be explained away by storms. 
A Chinese typhoon may swoop down like lightning out 
of a clear sky and tear a ship to pieces, but some floating 
wreckage is sure to tell the tale. A boiler explosion, on 
the contrary, will blow a hole as big as a railroad tunneli 
right through the center of the hull, and the strickem 
vessel simply goes down like a shot. There is no time 
to unfasten a boat from the davits or cut loose a spar. 
"In the opinion of seamen, that is the story of aC: 
least 90 per cent, of the ships that leave port and are 
never heard of again. Luckily the modern system o!ll 
marine boiler inspection is extremely strict and thorough, 
but it is impos.sible to absolutely prevent carelessness and 
fraud, and often enough, no doubt, the fault lies wiitl* 
Lhe engineer. 
"There is an old story of a drunken Scotchman who 
mistook the thermometer for the steam gauge and 'cussed 
out' the stokers because he couldn't get the pressure 
above 80. That yarn will hardly hold water, but I've- 
seen cases almost as bad. I am glad to say, however,, 
that during the past ten years there has been a steady,' 
diminution of the nuuber of vessels which 'mysteriously 
disappear.' That is due, beyond all question, to the in- 
creased stringency of boiler inspection and the greater 
strictness of examinations before a science is issued to 
engineers. Nevertheless there is still considerable room 
for improvement in both branches." — New Orleans 
Times-Democrat. 
A Seesaw Tale of the Sea. 
"The Burgermeister Petersen, in yesterday from 
Shields, had mighty pleasant weather a-plowing oceam 
fields until she reached Nantucket Shoals on Monday- 
morning last, when from a sunless sky there came ai 
marvel of a blast. The Petersen's an oil tank, and when 
she's westward bound she carries water ballast to keep 
shipshape and sound. Her skipper's no teetotaler, like 
many a German salt, and the ballast that he carried was 
partly made of malt. The Petersen had steered a course 
near polar latitudes, and met old Papa Neptune in the 
mildest kinds of moods. Down in the lane of liners he 
was playing ugly pranks that he never thinks of trying 
on the greasy German tanks. The skipper saw a cloudlet 
gather near Nantucket Isle and noted that the course i% 
steered might hit him in a while. It turned to a tornatja. 
with his glass he so made out, and now and then dipped 
in the sea and formed a waterspout. And then it bounded 
skyward on a weird and circular tear, a perfect whirling 
dervish of the circumambient air. 
In vain the skipper cried "Heave to!" and the mate 
exclaimed "Avast!" The corkscrew squall it struck the 
ship and .sprung the jiggermast. The skipper clung fast 
to the rail and railed against the fates; his hair was 
twisted of! his head, as likewise was the mate's. The 
squall dipped down the funnel and drew the fires out, 
and grabbed two ventilator hoods and whirled them up 
the spout ; and then it pirouet ed east, its business end- 
aglare with furnace coals and other things and lots of 
sizzling hair. The skipper and the cabin boy, likewise 
the oil tank's mates, are cruising now for wigs to hide ■ 
their squall-denuded pates. — New York Sun. 
The 70-iooter Rainbow, owned by CorneHus Vander- . 
bilt, arrived at City Island a few days ago, after being 
piartially rebuilt at the Herreshoffs', and has been hauled.' 
out at Hawkins' yard. 
