The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-13
THEIR NEW SHIP.
WEIGH s Company Make
a Purchase.
THE BARK MARTHA DAVIS
Brought Out From Hong-Kong
for the Firm.
THE sEAFARER'S COLLISION.
She Was Pretty Badly Damaged by
Rub With the Beacon Rock.
Marine Notes.
THE SEAFARER'S COLLISION.

Welch & Co., owners Of the Welch line
OF Honolulu packets, have bought the
wooden bark Martha Davis and will enter
her in the island trade as soon as she can
be discharged
The Martha Davis arrived here yester-
day from HonG-K Kong where she has been
for number of years employed as car
rier between India and China. The pur-
chase was negotiated in the Orient and the
bark brought to this city. The amount
paid for her is not yet made public.
The Davis is vessel well fitted for the
business that the Welches intend her for.
She has splendid cabin accommodations,
and can carry a number of passengers.
Her cabins are all finished in hard wood
and are more handsome than those of an
ordinary vessel.
The Davis is a wooden bark of 81 tons
gross. She was built in Boston ID 1873.
Her dimensions are: Length 1853 feet 3
inches, beam SO feet Z inches, depth of
hold 81 feet.
The British ship Seafarer arrived yes
terday 1876 days out from South Shields,
via Dungeness. The Sesfarer's long trip
is accounted for by her having been in a
collision with the English ship Beacon
Rock on the LIST of Dece her when off the
English coast.
The day was foggy and the two vessels
came together while drifting about in the
mist. The Beacon Rock struck the Sea-
faTeT on the port quarter, cutting her
down nearly to the water-line.
Several plates were stove in, the main
deck was smashed in and four deck beams
broken. The entire after cabin was
wre ked, the force of the collision carrying
away all the port jigger stays and braces.
and breaking the jiggeT mast off close to
the deck
On the Sd of December the ship made
Dungeness after drifting about for two
days The steering gear had been dam
aged, which made 1t difficult TO guide the
ship.
For two months the Seafarer remained
in port repairing, and on February 1 sailed
on her voyage to San Francisco.
| Bad luck overlook her again. when ow-
Ing to heavy weather she was obliged to
| come to anchor in Portland Roads, remain
| ing there until the gale subsidized.
On the 18th Of February she put out to
| sea. reaching this port without further
| accident.
Boatmen at Folsom street float captured
| two tiger sharks about four ieet long in
the bay yesterday morning, and had
plenty of sport while the big fish were be-
| ing hauled in.
After hauling the catch ashore a rope
was ID ade fast 10 the tall of each fish. a
pl6Cb O1 plduh IlCu 70 the rope anu the
sharks cast adrift. 1t did not take long
for the fab, rope and board to disappear
as soon as the former touched the water
The Adyentists are ready TO sail again
for Pitcairn. The little white missionary
brig Pitcairn is now being provisioned at
Oakland and will sail next Thursday for
the island.
President Mccoy will return on the
vessel, as will six missionaries and their
families, all members of the Seven th-day
Advent ist COLONY of Oakland, who will
act as teacher of the gospel to savages OF
the islands near Pitcairn, and tutors to the
defendants of the mutineers of the Bounty.
There will be nearly thirty-five passengers
by the brig.
The Pacific Mail steamship Colima, ad-
vertised as due yesterday, has been delayed
at one of the Central American wayports
| for cargo and will probably not be in port
until Tomorrow.
There is a movement on foot in Vallejo
to secure subscriptions for a monument 10
be erected in memory OF the seamen of the
Vandalia and Nipsic who were killed 10
the hurricane at Apia, Samoa, in 1889. The
shaft will be placed over the graves of the
| men.
The w. 81. Meyer sails to-day for the
Arctic. The band of Laplanders that ar
rived on the Umatilla will 60 ON her.
The new ferry steamer Sausalto will be
granted slip privileges at the new LON.
| bard-street slip.