The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-03-09
NEWS OF THE SEA.
The Ship Wachusett Saved
by Oil Bags.
The Australia Arrives With a Sweet
Cargo More Non-UniOn
Crews Are Shipped.

The ship Wachusett. which arrived at San
Pedro from NanaimO, aftSr a passage of
eight days. reports a rough experience. a
fierce gale was encountered. which, at lines,
almost submerged the vessel, sending heavy
seas over her until only hsr deckhouse
was visible, and the cabin was completely
flooded
Oil bags were at last got over the bows
and sides, and, stretching her canvas, the
ship literally ran with the sea. One day 2S5
miles were made. Captain Williams is of
the opinion that his timely use Of oil saved
the vessel.
The steamer Australia, from Sydney and
Honolulu. arrived yesterday.
She had forty-eight cabin passengers and
119 in the steerage, including thirty male
and four female japanese and one Chinaman.
The cargo consisted chiefly Of sugar, aud,
all told, she had 1917 tons Of freight in her
hold.
The Australia will 20 to the sugar refinery
to-day to discharge.
A telegraphlc dispatch from San Diego
yesterday recounts how the natives in the
neighboThOOd OF Ensenada and other ports
of Lower California ara being terrified by
the powerful searchlght of the tug Fear
less, which is in search Of the derelct
HOureslelG.
A San Diego paper also states that the
tug made Ensenada harbGr on Thursday,
the % inst. 1t was feared that she had put
to sea in Sundays storm and was forced to
tighten her weight at the sacrifice Of some
| of her coal.
What the Fearless is doing about Ensen-
| ada, unless in some way damaged, IL would
be hard to say, as the HOnresfeld when last
| sighted was fully 200 miles southwest from
| there.
The tug Relief, Captain Scott. provisloned
| for a three days cruise, left at 3 O'clock
| yesterday morning TO search for the dere-
liet sighted off Point Reyes. The wreck was
seen by Captain Marine of the schooner
Orient at O'Clock Monday night about
forty-seyen miles west by north from the
point.
The revenue cutter Richard Rush will
leave on Saturday 70 be absent a month at
San Diego and Southern ports. On her re-
turn she will probably be semitic Boring Sea.
The Union Transportation Company's
steamer Dauntless has been Overhauled
and is now running to Stockton.
The schooner Courser was purchased by
j. ID. Spreckels Bros. 81 Co. for $500 at
the United States MarshaPs sale.
The steamer Grandholm will 90 back to
the coal trade between here and NanaimO.
The schooner Neptune. bound for Gem
trial America, shipped non-union crew.
The Boulah left for Siberia with nom
union crew of four men.
The bafkentine Uncle John shipped six
nOn-union men. Two Of her crew deserted
and warrants have been issued for their
capture.
The schooner Orion yesterday left for
Eureka with four nOn-union men.
The schooner Eclipse left for Eureka
with nOn-uninn crew Of six Japs.
The barkeniine Catherine Sudden, after
suffering considerable damage from union
men at Grays HarboT, was. last Of all, de-
serted by four of her crew. Captain At
wood supplied their place by enlisting two
lOngshoremen ana two IOggers from the
lumber camps. The Sudden is now on her
way TO this port.
The British bark NicOyo, Captain Norris,
arrived from Hong-KOng after voyage of
ffty-three days. The vessel had had
weather throughout her voyage She sailed
January a. and Immediately encountered
strong northeast mOnsOOns across the
China Sea. These lasted fourteen days.
On February y, in latitude 80 dogs. north,
longitude l40 east. succession of heavy
gales struck the ship, accompanied by a
heavy cross sea. Three wat5r-tanks were
washed overheard and portions of the YES
sel's cargo. The galley and forecaste doors
and wiadows were smashed in and the
decks swept by water six different times
Battens were wTeuched off the hatchways
and considerable other damage done.
The bark InVercauld arrived from Java
last night
The British shin Hollywood has arrived at
Astoria after a 123 days passage from Liv-
erpooL She carried $1,000 cases of TIN.