The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-25
SEA AND SHORE.
Report of the Ship Indian Empire
From Hamburg.
The Largest Schooner EHoat - Changes o
Captains of Coasting Vessels-A Whale
Stranded on the Beach

Only one deep water ship arrived in port
yesterday, and that was the British ship
Indian Empire, Captain Watson, which
made the passage from Hamburg in 14S
days. The captain reports that the vessel
sailed from Coxhaven on March 29.h, and
crossed the equator April 2Sth, in longitude
go % west
On May 18th. when in latitude 100 south,
longitude 290 west, she was run into by the
ship County of RoXbury, bound to Calcutta.
Both vessels were on the port tack. We had
our spanker-b boom and wheel-house CARR ed
away, several plates and frames broken, and
received other slight damage.
From latitude 29o south to st. Johns
Point, Staten Island, had succession of
heavy westerly gales, during which we
stove in the topgallant bulwarks and port
life-boat. Passed Staten Island June 14th.
and had fine weather off the Cape. Crossed
the equator in the Pacific July 18th; had no
northeast trades. From latitude $50 to
longitude 1859 west, had north-northwest
winds to port.
The captain of the Indian Empire came
ashore shortly after she dropped anchor.
In few minutes afterwald the ship vas
swarming with clearinghouse runners,
and when the captain returned in the alter
noon, all the crew but four men had de-
serted her.
A STRANDED WHALE.
Capital Hannah of the steamer Corona,
which arrived yesterday from Eureka,
states that while the vessel was up there a
right" whale was found stranded on the
beach. 1t measured about seventy-fve
feet in length and forty feet in crcumfer-
ence 1t was expected that it would yield
sixty barrels OF oil and at least 1000 pounds
of bone. 1t is the first right" whale ever
seen in that vicinity.
Among the coastihg steamers that arrived
yesterday was the City of Puebla, from
Victoria and Puget Sound ports. She made
the trip in fifty and a half hours, and
brought down nnety-two cabin and sew
entv-siX steerage passengers. The steamer
Corona, from Eureka, brought down sew
enty-three cabin and twenty-One steerage
passengers.
The weather was hazy at Point Lobos
yesterday, and in the afternoon there was
a very light breeze yeering from southwest
to west. The barometer read: Eight
o'clock in the morning, 1885; noon, 80 03 !;
o'clock III the evening, 29.79.
CHANGES OF CAPTAINS.
Captain Drobsch, chief mate of the
schooner Eclipse, has been appointed to the
command of that vessel, vice Captain Mat
tison. who has taken command of the
lin of the Bertha Dolbeer is supervising the
construction OF schooner now on the
stocks at BendiXseu's ship-yard for Dolbeer
& Carson. He viii take charge of her when
comp ieted.
Seventeen vessels. with an aggregate ton
mage If $500, are now due here. or nearly
so, from Atlantic and foreign ports. Among
them are the Tacoma, Yorktown and
Charles Dennis, 1J4 to l2i days out FROM
New York; kahane, 135 days from Ant
werp; Melpomene, III days from Ham
burg; City of Hankow, forty-one days from
Japan Armida, 142 days from Liverpool;
HoSpOdaf Gretna. w. j. Pirre and Priar
hili, from London; Jason, 124 days from
NeNcastle-on-Tyn Louise, from Swansea,
and Henry Buck, Desdemona and ComDer-
mere, from Australia.
The ship r. l.. Belknap was spoken on
August 18th in latitude 240 north, longitude
l26o west. She l6tt here August 1st for
Liverpool.
Another coal laden vessel arrived yester-
day. the steamer Jeanne. She brought 1874
tons for John Rosenfeld's Sons from Ma
nalmo.
LARGEST SCHOONER AFLoAT.
The Governor Ames, the largest sch ooner
af0at, which got into considerable trouble
on her first voyage, as reported in this col
umn some time ago, is now at Philadelphia
has carried 1888 tons OF coal, and on one
trip to South America carried the largest
cargo of lumber ever taken in one vessel,
1856. 600 feet Her dimensions are: Length
over al! 200. on keel 232, beam 80 and depth
OF hold q feet.
The Buteshire and the barks c. D. Bryant
and Sherley tOwed to sea yesterday.
The bark Dunfilan will come down from
Vallejo City to-day and anchor In the
stream.