Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1902 — The Shortest on Record. [ARTICLE]

The Shortest on Record.

The Ea, says the Philadelphia Record, Is said to have the shortest name for a vessel in the world. She is a Spanish steamer, and she reached Philadelphia laden with Iron ore, after a voyage so rough that three of her sailors were incapacitated by sea-sickness. The Ea was named by a Spanish nobleman after his daughter, Esmeralda. She belongs to a line that has set in in the matter of short names, an example that other lines are beginning now to follow. The Eolo, the Aro and the Oria are sister ships of hers. In all the fleet there is not a name that is more than five letters long.