THE HOLLINS TURTLE

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 19, 1861

THE HOLLINS TURTLE.

The following description of the Turtle, with which Greytown Hollins attempted to destroy our fleet, has reached us by a circuitous route from New Orleans:

The Turtle is a vessel of great power of engine. She has a bow 9 feet long, of oak planks, secured all around by timbers 6 feet in thickness, also covered in the same manner, and made perfectly tight and solid, beside being shielded with iron plates two inches in thickness. The hull is only 2<span class="s">¼</span> feet above the water level. She is destined to run into the Brooklyn, which lies down on the Balize, and to sink her. She is provided with a

steam-borer or auger, about the size of a man's arm above the elbow, intended to make a hole in the vessel. Twenty-five hose are kept to throw boiling water over the Brooklyn to keep her hands from defending her. Already several trials have been made with her, which the rebels say, have given complete satisfaction. Cannon balls have rebounded when fired upon her, producing no injurious effect, and in fact it is very difficult to hit her, so small a portion of her being above water.—N. Y. Tribune.