The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-16
ITEMS FROM
SEA AND SHORE.
Vessels Lost i'm This Harb0r and
Vicinity in the Year 1858.
Three More Whalers Arrive From the Fox
Islands-Doubts as to the Less CT the Sill
yer Wave-A Dangerous Rick

in this paper partial list OF vessels lost in
this harbor and the vicinity from 1S49 to
1868. In the list no mention was made of
vessels lost during the year 1853, as the in
formation was not available at the time. but
subscriber has forwarded the following
list of vessels that were lost during that
year IN or near this harbor:
In January the pilot boat Sea Witch was
lost in the bay. In March the steamship
Tennessee from Panama went ashore at the
north entrance of the halbor at place now
known as Tennessee Cove and became to-
tai loss. In April the steamer Lewis from
San Juan went ashore ten miles north of
Point Bonita and became a total loss. The
British ship Jenny Lind, while outward
bound for Callao on December 10Th, went
ashore at the North Heads and became to-
tai wreck.
In the list as publ shed the following dis
as tiers were omitted: November 10, 1850,
British bark Gloucester, used as store
ship by Starkey Bros, capsized in the bay
during gale. On June 10, 1851, the ship
Mary Stuart outward Bound fer Mazatan,
went on the beach at the South Heads and
became a total loss. On August q, 1851, the
bark j. Sarkie. inward bound, was lost six
miles south of Point Lobos. On November
%, 1851, the United States revenue cutter
Lawrence was lost four miles south of Point
Lobos. On May IS. 1854, the schooner
Velasco, lime-laden, ilom Santa Cruz, went
ashore on the beach two miles south Of Point
Lobos and was lost.
THREE MORE wHALERs IN PORT.
Three whaling barks arrived in port yes
terday. The Hunter was twenty-five days
from the Fox Islands, and brought $50 bar
TelS of oil and J5O0 pounds OF bone Tor
James Mckenna; the bark Wanderer. TWEEN
ty-three days from the Fox Islands, $50 bar
rels of oil and 1000 pounds OF bone for }. N.
Knowles, and the bark bounding B!llow.
twenty-five days from the Fox Islands, 425
barrels OF oil and 5000 pounds OF bone Tor
Wright, Bovine & Co.
Captain Cogan Of the Hunter reports that
the Silver Wave, before reported In this
column as lost up north. left Point Barrow
just anead of him. In going down the coast
she struck Oh Sea-horse Island, about four
miles eff the mainland. The next day Cap
tain Cogan sent his mate and some men over
| the ice to see if the vessel needed any assist
ance, but the captain refused it, say that
| if the vessel could be got off at all his own
crew could III; mage 1t.
The white crew of the Silver Wave stopped
| by her. Size also had six natives on board.
| Two OF these came down here on the Hunter
| and the other four were distributed among
the fleet Captain Cogan says that II the
| Silver Wave WAS got off she would winter
| ND there; if not, the crew could easily make
| the shore on the mainland and reach Point
| Barrow, sixty miles distant, where shelter
| and provisions could be obtained for the
| winter.
| DEPARTURE OF THE ZEALANDIA.
The steamer Zealandia, which should
have sailed at o'clock, did not leave until
| o'clock yesterday afternoon. owing to the
| mails being late. She took 40 passengers,
Of bnm VIZ in tho "a hin and had al
u large list of freight. Among the cabin
| passengers was baseball nine, which is
| going TO show the Kanackas how TO play
pail. Shortly before the vessel lett the dock
a city front saloon-keeper who had bill
| against one of the iremen went down into
the fire-room to try and collect it. He met
! with a rebuff and pulled knife on his
| creditor. The other tiremen came to the
assistance of their chun and literally wiped
the floor with the saloon man. He was a
| sorry sight as he walked mp the dock with
| his eye in sling.
An enormous crowd Of people visited the
Warspite yesterday. The tugs Sea King,
Relief, Monarch Ethel and Marion, Ida,
Robarts and the Annie and the stern
wheeler Caroline, Captain Leale, made ire
| ouent trips and were loaded each time. At
| times the crowd on the decks of the man-Of-
war was so great that locomotion was I'M
| possible.
The weather was thick and foggy at Point
| Lobos yesterday and the wind light from the
northeast until O'clock in the afternoon,
o'clock in the morning, 3012; noon, 80 10 ;
o'clock in the evening, 30.0S.
ENCOUNTERED A TYPHooN.
| Captain S. b. Peterson has received a
| letter from Captain p. Basch of the bark
entine Modoc dated Taku, October Sth,
| from which the following extracts are taken :
arrived in Taku all safe after seventy-two
d,t.a he l1s Z
very hard 10 make. j had all the equlnoxial
| gales In the worst place, 300 miles off the
Louchu Islands, and lyphoon IN The bargain.
| There were Two big steamers and a man -of-war
| lost ana all hands lost except one Chnaman.
| don't know Today how the Modoc stood IT, That
gale Is something never experienced before; cab
I'm and foi ward house full OF water cooking for
TWO days, The port caibead carried away and lily
| ing jb stay, lower topsall blown away aud had
| sails washed oil tie jib-bOOm, and think about
| twelve pieces of tweive-fcot luWber washed off.
| Taku Is a hard place to discharge. Tue vessel
Wing five miles off shore, and when there Is lit
| tie breeze we cannot discharge. There are only
eleven feet water on the bar; II there comes no
| more will have 10 discharge the whole cargo
| outside, and That will lake long time. have
| been discharglng four days and AIN only Level on
| the rail. i will write as soon as can
get a charter. l am the only sailing vessel out
side the bar, tie rest are all Observation-Disclosures
there six or eight.
WELLINGTON CoAL-MINERs.
The steamer Wellington. Captain Salmon,
sailed last evening Tor Nanaimo, taking up
about fifty miners who go to work In Duns-
muir's mine at Wellington. Among the
Wellington'o passengers also was Henry
Varian, well-known newspaper man OF
this city, who has accepted a posluon on a
Seattle paper.
Notice was received yesterday at the
Brancn photographic Office that sunken
rock has been discovered about four miles
north, five-eighths west, from Cape Oxford,
Oregon. The sea breaks on the rock at very
| low water.
The Belgc arrived az Yokohama on the
| 10th, and the MaripOsa at Sydney on the 14th
inst. The Acapulco sailed from Panama for
this port on the 18th inst
The big new American ship Rappahan-
| mock sailed from Hiogo for this port on the
10Th inst.
The British ship Clackmannanshire was
spoken on October 9th in latit ude 46o south,
longitude go west.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
The ship Dunn barton Rock went up to
Port Costa Yesterday.
The bark Oregon locked at the sugar re-
| finery.
The whaling bark Triton went on the
Union Iron Works dry-dock.
The w. f. Jewett shifted from the chan
mel to the sea-wall.
The Emma Utter hauled into the stream
| from Folsom street.
The San Buenaventura came from Oak
land creek and locked at Pacific dock.
Tie BERTHE Nina from Port Costa has
locked at Mission No. 2.
The Gardiner City has gone to Section OF
| the sea-wall.
The Ardmilan has gone to Newcastle
| Tyne to complete her cargo for this port
Yesterday 30 per cent premium was paid
| on the ship Dean6e!d, now 100 days out for
| Hamburg from this port
| The steamer State of California, Captain
| Ackley, will leave to-day for Portland.
From this time on the Oregon steamers will
leave here every three days instead OF every