October 5, 1861 — Launches Built in Algiers

Messrs. John O. McLean and John Mahoney have each just finished six launches, twelve in all. These are larger than the two built in Mobile, of which we see quite a description traveling the rounds of the papers. Those built here are forty feet long, twelve feet beam and three and a half feet deep, will carry twenty-five men, of whom twenty will be oarsmen and will be armed with a 24-pound howitzer, besides small arms to each man. When fully armed and manned, these boats will draw only two and a half feet of water. They are built of superior materials, and those who know the builders will hardly need to be told, in the very best manner. The reputation of Messrs. McLean and Mahoney as builders of yachts, pilot boats, etc., is known all over our seaboard. These gentlemen can turn out, between them, one such boat in every week. Intended to thread the bayous, track the coasts, and scour the bays of our Gulf coast, they may be able to do us more good than any more pretentious vessels which could be furnished us in our present besieged condition — Algiers News Boy

New Orleans Daily Crescent, New Orleans, LA

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