SHIP LAUNCHES.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXII, Issue 2885, 24 October 1866, Page 4

SHIP LAUNCHES.

There was launched on August 11, from the building yard of Messrs. J. Duthie, Sons, and Co., Aberdeen, a fine clipper ship of about 1,020 tons register, named Australian. The vessel is the property of the firm, and will be commanded by Captain James Duthie, late master of the ships John Duthie aud William Duthie, now in the Sydney trade. The Australian is destined for the Sydney trade also. On August 10, from the building-yard of Messrs. John Reid and Co., Port Glasgow, a fine ship named the Antiope. The dimensions of the vessel are :—: — Length, 233 feet ; breadth, 38 feet ; depth of hold, 23 feet 9 inches ; builders' measure, 1,620 tons ; register ionn»gA, 1,453 tons. She is to class A A at Lloyd's and 22 years iv the Liverpool Roginter of iron vessels. She is owned by Messrs. Joseph Heap and Sons, of Liverpool, and was named the Antiope by Miss Heap, daughter of one of the owners. The Antiope is a sister ship to the Marpesia, launched in May last, and, like her, has been built expressly for the Australian and Rangoon trade. Messrs. Clover and Co., of Bhkenhead, on August 11, launched a fine iron vessel, called the Daflam Tower, which has been built for the Lancaster Shipowner's Company. The vessel was christened by Mrs. Wilson. The Dallam Tower is 254 feet long over all, 230 feet between perpendiculars, 38 feet beam; 23 feet 9 inches depth of hold, 1,500 tons register, and 1,634 tons builders' measurement, and will be immediately placed on the berth at Liverpool for Melbourne.

Arhital of the Boat Bed White and Blue in the Thames.— The ship-rigged boat Red "White and Blue, of 2£ tons, Captain Hudson, which has made such an extraordinary passage across the Atlantic from New York, and put into Margate a few days since, has arrived in the river off Greenhithe. There were only two persons in the boat, Captain Hudson and his mate, F. E. Fitch. There was also a dog on board, which, however, died shortly after leaving Margate on her way round to the Thames. On the 18fch, in lat. 40*31 N., long. 56' W., about midnight, the boat struck something very solid, and glancing on the port bow, all tail set, stopped ship's headway, but found she did not leak. After the 15 th did not see any sail until August 5, when they spoke and went alongside the barque Princess Royal, of Yarmouth (N.S.), long. 21 1 W., seven days from Dublin for Quebec. On the 6th a blind sea came upon port quarter, which threw the ship on her beam ends j she righted ia half-a-minute. Bth, the boat was again thrown on her beam ends. 14th, 27 miles N. of Uohant, shipped a heavy sea, which threw the ship for the fourth time on her beam ends, and had to bale the waterout. 14th, noon, made the Bill of Portland. 16tb, blowing heavy, and got towed into Margate. There was no chronometer in the boat, and the ship was worked by dead reckoning. Captain Hudson and his companion were only enabled to have their provisions warm on very few occasions owing to the sea making over them. They kept watch and watch, and when they landed at Margate they were, as may be imagined, in a somewhat distressed condition.- The boat is of iron, 27 feet long, and 6 feet 1 inch beam. She carried 120 gallons of water for the voyage. — Mitchells Register, August 25. The Monarch of the Seas. — Yesterday Admi. ral Halstead, of Lloyd's, received a letter from the Admiralty in reference to the Monarch of the Seas, an emigrant ship, which sailed from Liverpool for New York on the 19th of March last, with 738 souls on board, and has not been heard of since. On the 21st of July last, Mr. T. K. Martyn, Master Attendant at Devonport Yard, forwarded to the Admiral Superintendent a paper taken out of a bottle which, having by some means passed into the hands of a boy of the Scotia tug, had till then remained unopened. The paper bore the following: — " Monach of the Seas. — Left Liverpool on the 19th of March. May 2 — No wind. Short of provisions and no water— dismasted in a gale. 3rd of April, lat. 25-20 N., 4?'B W.— William Johnson, passenger." The letter of yesterday from the Admiralty addressed to the committee for managing the affairs of Lloyd's states that Mrs. Johnion, mother of William Johnson, who was on board the Monarch of the Seas, has identified the handwriting on the paper as being that of her son. — Times, August 15.