Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1919 — SEEK TO SAVE OLD VESSEL [ARTICLE]

SEEK TO SAVE OLD VESSEL

Effort to Bo Mod# for tho Preservation of Admiral Forragut'o Flagship, tho Hartford. Fnrragut’s old flagship, tho Hartford, is lying at Charleston, S. C., and Is condemned to an Ignoble end unless American patriots rescue her from the scrap heap. The flagship of tho first admiral of the American navy la already a dismantled hulk, the bully old boat that distinguished herself In the battles of New Orleans, Port Hudson, Grand Gulf, Vicksburg and Mobile Bay, and which was tire home of that gallant, fighting sailor, Farragut, during the entire Civil war. I The Hartford Isn’t going to the boneyard If the associated veterans of Farragut’s fleet can help it. There Isn’t a great number of the veterans of those wonderful old days left, but enough of them to stir up American patriotism with the rattling old slogan : “Don’t give up the ship 1” . The voice of the late Admiral Dewey was raised on behalf of - the historic Hartford, as well as that of every veteran organization In tho country. The efforts to save the ship have found approval In the person of the secretary of the navy. She Is only a wooden ship, Is the old Hartford, and was built In 185 a But she was built on the graceful Unea of the clipper and was the apple of Admiral Farragut’s eye. It was In her rigging that Fart-agut lashed himself during the battle of Mobile Bay and shouted his famous command: “Damn the torpedoes 1 Four bells ahead, Drayton.”