THE SEVEN-MASTED SCHOONER.

Evening Post, Issue 73, 23 September 1903, Page 4

THE SEVEN-MASTED SCHOONER.

The Philadelphia Inquirer repiesents that the SGveu-masted schooner Thomas W. Lawson, which was launched 10th July. 1002, is an ackuow edged failure, and is to be jlismautled her c aborate machinery to be taken ont nnd her hu l to .be converted into a barge. With all her elaborate machinery for the handling- of her soils she has proved to be a very difficult craft to umuwre. It looks ns if the limit of the fore-and-aft rig had, theiefore, been passed in the seveu-master The Thoin.»s W. Lawson is a steel vessel, 403 ft over all. 50ft brood, nnd 36ft deep. She has a cargo capacity of 8100 tons, the displacement " S fully loaded being 11,000 tons. Her ur n.of canvas was 43,000 square feet, stretched from e^ven masts 155 ft hi*h. There were sa engines m board, one forward of 40 h.p. to work the capBUn and hoist the anchors, and five others of 10 b p. each to handle the sails and work tho hatcliw.iys, It is anticipated that the barque Colbert YrM leave for New Caledonia at about the end of the The barque Kinfauns, which left Liverpool for WsUinjiton on 15th June, has 1218 tons of cargo to

put out lieie. Ales«» Johustou & Co. are ngeuts for the vessel. The Huddarfc-Parkor steamer Westralia will not arrive from Duuedm and Lyttelton uutil about 10.30 to-morrow nioruing, as she will wait for the express i.t tlio latter port. The vessel -will get away for Sydney via Napior, Gisborno, and Auckland in the ufteruoon. The barque Firth of Clyde, which is now on her way from Glasgow to Wellington via Port Chalmers, has 960 tohs of cargo for this port. Captain WilUio has command of the vesaul, which is lo the ngeucy of Messrs Turnbull aud Co. Tlie Shaw, Savill Coinpauy's steamer Athenic' left Capetown on Saturday in continuation of her vojiige from London to Wellington. The same company's liner Cornithle, which left Wellington for Loudou on tlio 27th, continued her voyage from Bio de Janiero last Saturday.