| Show RAISING WRECKED SHIPS it to is now more than a month since the steamer city of now new york not the atlantic liner once known by that name but a fine steamship engaged in pacific coast traffic went agnore on abb rocks outside of san francisco harbor the rocks pierced the hull bull of the vessel in several places and held her fast strong and persistent efforts were made to float the ship but all to no avail she was too firmly imbedded embedded im bedded on the submarine crags to be bitted off the vessel has shown remarkable strength th of in withstanding the force of the waves against her for such a length ot or time the holes in her hull bull have been enlarged the past few days by bythe the shaking received fram the and she has settled so fio that there is no DO longer any hope of preventing her going to pieces she was built at the roach shipyards on the ibe delaware and the ma manner n der in which she was held together is ie a high compliment to the quality ol of the workmanship which was bestowed on her when built in 1875 the moist improved im proved methods for getting a vessel off the rooks were used need in this instance but the fact of PA a very urge large piece of took rook getting into the fore part of the hull bull was a tore more than thai could be overcome by L he 9 mease at a hand had the ship been k ove aved d under udde such circumstances it w would L ave a been regarded as a great triumph of skill over even the remarkably 88 work with the north german 16 avyd steamship eider bider which went orri on toe t rocks ou on the isle of wight about two years ago in that ease case the vessel was wrecked in a storm and fog and it was with the greatest difficulty that the passengers and mail were got ashore the elder bider was at first regarded as a hopeless wreck but when the storm ab kte 1 she was round found to co be sound except for the hole in the bottom through which had pierced the rook rock that held her in position it was then that efforts were put forth to lift the vessel off and carry tier der into dock across the 8 bent Sd ent south agupton companies were engaged for the work but met with little success till a company of german wreckers was put on when the vessel was soon tilted up by pumping and other means till a canvas bottom b ottom was provided and the vessel was safely taken into dock and repaired la in toe case of the city of new york there were too many rocks to get the canvas under this task of raising ships calls for much skill and technical knowledge on oil the part of those engaged I 1 i the work and the diffusion in late years of knowledge regarding the principles of dynamics has been the means in connection with contrivances tri vances of saving millions ot of dollars worth of property lifting and saving a ship that is wrecked on a rocky coast Is an undertaking of great magnitude and the success which attends this branch of business is a high compliment to the mechanical ingenuity of the age the case of the failure to save the steamer at san ban francisco la ja more than likely to result in bringing out sonne some contrivance that will meet the difficulties there presented and draw a closer limit to the powers of the ocean over its partially disabled victims |
