| Show MET WITH DISASTER the strange fat ity the nei j the latest vessel launched the brooklyn navy the maine says the now york times waa the trenton abo steam frigate whose bones now lie at tho bottom of the harbor at abia apia where they were sent in the terrible hurricane two year sago A number of the officers who witnessed the launching of the maine recalled scenes and in cedenia of the Tren tons launching which occurred january li 1876 i constructor samuel H pook now retired was the superintending super intending officer fully a thousand persons gathered to witness the sight the inVite tL guests occupying the decks of the old delaware and susquehanna n ow broken up and scattered the first attempt to launch the trenton Pe cember SO proved a failure owing to the poor material used in lubricating the ways but the second attempt was altogether successful i tho that waa launch edat the navy yard was the wooden frigate sabine in whose sister ship the savannah was constructed abbe same time and place both were afterward raz edat the brooklyn yard the next vessel launched there TV as the sacramento atten came ho monongahela oneida ceroga and lackawanna in regular order it is a singular coincidence thata nearly all these vessels disaster went ashore ov tho ireland twenty years morion cahela wa caught liy a tidal wave on the snore and carried inland and loft afterward boiten down to the beach and launched and is doing active duty today to day aitho oncida foundered while on her way home from china theold the old new york t was nearly coia abandoned and finally sold for ten dollars as she lay on the hayg the trenton eliose sad fate has been mentioned completes this 1 mortuary list f r |
