Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — FIRST FOREIGN WHALEBACK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FIRST FOREIGN WHALEBACK.

A Rival of Captain Mac Dou gal’s'ldea Cornel Into New York Harbor. Not since Ericsson’s famous monitor slipped from the ways has such a singular-looking craft appeared in these waters as the pioneer British whaleback Turret, which steamed into New York harbor the other day after a nine-days’ voyage from Tucacas, Venezuela, with 3,022 tons ol copper ore abroad. They don’t call her a whaleback in England but a turret steamer, but she is none the less an adaptation of the American whaleback principle. She is 280 feet long by 39 feet beam and can carry

3,250 tons dead weight on an eight-een-foot draught of water. Below the water line there is little unusual about the construction, but above her freeboard tumbles home in a short curve to a turret running from stem to stern, and she looks -like an ordinary ship set into the back of a monstrous turtle. The vessel was launched a year ago from the yard of Doxford & Sone, Sunderland, and is owned by Peterson, Tate & Co., ol Newcastle. She has proved an easy boat in a seaway and several sister ships are in course of construction. The Turret will remain at the Erie basin this week and will then proceed to Philadelphia.

THE ENGLISH WHALEBACK.