The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-05
SEA AND SHORE.
Arrival in Port Of a Large Fleet
of Coasters.

The use>of oil in heavy weather to prevent
the sea from breaking over vessel is re-
ceiving much attention from ship-owners
and captains, and the number of times it
has been used with good effect is the best
proof of its value. Captain Smith and
Chief Officer Lossius of the mail steamer
Oceanic consider it almost as necessary as
other life-saving appliances required by law
Once off the coast of Japan oil was used on
board the Oceanic for sixty hours in heavy
southwest gale with very high sea, and
not single sea came on board the ship and
she rode out the gale without the slightest
mishap. Ten gallons of paint oil were used
during sixty hours. The brig Marina also
used it while hove to in heavy gale. a
canvas bag was partly filled with oakum
and saturated with fSh-oil. This was hung
from the lee-quarter and allowed to dip into
the water. The oil was used for twenty
four hours, and during that tune the vessel
lay quite easy and never shipped u drop of
water.
The bay presented lively appearance at
daylight yesterday, and was crowded with
vessels. All day yesterday the feet kept
coming in and by night about fifty had en-
tered the harbor. The large fleet was COM
posed entirely Of coasters which have been
weather-bound in the northern ports.
Forty out of the number were laden with
lumber, four with coal ana the rest with
miscellaneous cargoes. OF coal the fleet
brought nearly 5000 tons and over 100000
feet Of lumber. There were three steamers,
three ships and four barks in the fleet and
the others were schooners.
At s O'Clock yesterday the barometer
stood 30 "a, at noon 30.03 and at o'clock
2999. The weather at Point Lobos at 6
o'clock yesterday was clear, wind northwest
50 miles; ut 8 O'Clock hazy wind northwest
n hnZV mil
and at o'clock haZy, northwest 80 miles.
The British ship uesperides has been
libeled by the Alex Mcneil in the United
STATES District Court for S53S7 damages, al
legged TO have been sustained in the col
lision on tie bay on the Goth ult. The own
ers of the Alex Mcneil place the blame on
the HeSperides for not maintaining suffi-
cient watch.
The mail steamer Zealandia went to her
dock early yesterday morning and landed
her mail, passengers and bananas, after
which she went up TO the refinery TO dis
charge her sugar.
The mail steamer Alameda will not sail
for Sydney until Saturday at 3 O'Clock. She
is detained by the non-arriyal Of the
English mails.
The suear-laden bark George H. Douglass
came in yesterday from Kahulu with $500
bags of sugar. She lost part of her port
bulwarks by shipping a heavy sea during
the trip.
Every berth in the harbOr is taken and it
will be some time before the last of the large
fleet now in port will be able to discharge.
The ship }, B. Brown. that got into port
yesterday from Nanaimo, dropped her
anchor on the Oakland cable and had some
trouble in clearing 1t.
The Chinese travel on the outgoing and
inward bound steamers is very light to
what it was two or three months ago.
The City of Picking is due here on the
10th from China and Japan, and the Belgic
will sail on the same day.
The steamer Columbia sailed for Astoria,
the Lakme for Port Angeles and the bark
Wayfarer for Dunkirk.
The steamer State of California. from
Portland, had Al cabin and IS steerage pas
cauOaTS