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Show TORPEDO BOAT FOR COMMERCE. She Will Carry Fresh Herring to Ports on Puget Sound. Tho English torpedo boat Albatross, which was offered for snlo by tbo authorities au-thorities whon tho navy depot nt Ks-qulmault. Ks-qulmault. I). C, was abandoned, has boen secured by tho Nanalmo flshor-Ioh flshor-Ioh company of Nnnnlmo. 11. C, with tho object of running frosh herring to sound markets. Tho boat Is n very fast craft. Sho was bnllt some thirty yearn ngo for tho Chilian government, nnd saw service serv-ice In several South American Imbroglios. Imbrog-lios. Fitted with triple-expansion coin-round coin-round engines, nlr pumps nnd watertight water-tight compnrttnuntR. tho vessel enn bo drhen nt n IiIkIi rate of speed through or under the wnter, as opportunity offers of-fers In any wenthor. Her length ovor nil Is 100 feet, with but nino-foot beam, and her appear-nnco appear-nnco lying squat on tho water much moro resembles n fish than n fish carrier. car-rier. Fishing (iazotto. |