The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-21
NEWS oF THE SHIPS.

NEWS OF THE SHIPS.
Maritime Matters of Local and Gen.
eral Interest.
The schooner S. E. Merwin, Capt.
Sneed, which sailed from this port Feb.
10, with a cargo of lumber, arrived at
New Yark last Sunday.
The snagboat Toccoa will be used as
quarters for the surveying party, who
will shortly make survey Of the harbor.
The Norwegian bark Cyphrian, Capt
Hansen, tifty-one days from Sharpness,
arrived yesterday. She is chartered by
J. F. Minis & Co. to load cotton or naval
stores for Europe
The schooner Annie Bliss, which sailed
Monday, is bound for Wilmington, Del
Her cargo of lumber consists of 25S, 1853
feet of pitch pine lumber, shipped by
Dale, Dixon & Co.
The suagboat Satilla arrived yesterday
from the Ocmulgee river where she has
been at work. The water was so high
that she could not continue the work
She will lay up at Savannah for awhile.
The Savannah Lighterage and Trans
fer Company's tug boat Regis will be
hauled out ON Willinf's marine railway
to-day TO be thoroughly overhauled and
painted.
The barkentine Canning, for Hamburg,
schooner Martin S. Bement and schooner
M. B. Millen, for Darieu, went to sea
Yesterday. The latter was light and will
load lumber at Darien for Philadelphia.
The schooner Leila Smith passed out
at Tybee yesterday. She came through
the inside coast channel Monday from the
south.
The Norwegian bark Ajax, Capt Ped
ersen, siXty-nine days from Hoiyhead,
arrived at Iybee yesterday for orders
She is consigned TO Paterson, Downing
x Co.
The Italian bark Amedeo was yester-
day launched from Willink's marine rail
way, where she has been undergoing re
pairs to her bottom, she having put in
here leaking some time ago. She will
flush repairing and then reload her cargo
of lumber, which was shipped from Pen
sacola for Genoa, and proceed to her des-
tiration,
The German bark Theodore, which
sailed from Bordeaux on July 25, for New
Brunswick, and the Norwegian bark To
Brodre, which sailed from Chatham, n.
B., on Nov. Z, for Garston, have been both
posted as missing. There is no hope of
any of those on board.
The lumber which was in the wrecked
schooner Joseph Souther and recently
purchased by f. B. Hunting Il Co., will
be shipped to Baltimore. The schooner
Vanlear Black has been chartered to
take the cargo, and will commence load
ing tomorrow.
Capt. VIM. A. Graves, for many years a
prominent shipbuilder of Norfolk, died
FEB. II, after lingering illness of COM
plicated diseases, aged IA. During the
late war he was appointed a naval
constructor by the confederate authori-
ties, and placed in charge of the navy
yard at Richmond.
The telephone line was completed to
Tybee lighthouse yesterday The news
of the arrival and departure of ships was
heard by telephone from that quarter for
the first time since the line was destroyed
by the great storm last August.
The squirt in the shipbuilding trade has
been further simulated by the rise in iron
and steel prices and the consequent firmer
attitude of shipbuilders themselves in
contracting, says the London Transcript
of Feb. 2. There is very widespread
impression that this important industry
has now really got the turn and that there
is before US year or two of activity and
high prices. Fearing that prices will
further advance, shipowners are showing
more anxiety TO close pending contracts,
The number and tonnage of British yes
sells, respecting whose loss reports were
received at the Liverpool board of trade
during the month of January, and the
number of lives lost were as follows
Steamers twenty-five, sailing vessels fifty
nine, lives lost 80 This is a record of
reports received in the month, and not of
wrecks which occurred during the month
Many of the reports received in January
relate to casualties which occurred in
previous months. Casualties not result
ing in total loss of vessel, and the lives
lost by such casualties are not included.
The following charters are reported ::
Schooners Harriet for cargo of salt from
New York to Savannah, and return with
cargo of cross-ties for New York Ed
ward P. Avery. cargo salt from New
York to Savannah, returning with cargo
of lumber for New York; Ida Z. Latham,
with cargo of bone black from New York
for Savannah, returning with lumber for
New York.
The following act passed the House
Dec. II, and is now before the Senate for
its action: "Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in congress as
sembled, That every steam vessel of the
United States, of 900 tons or more, shall
at all times, while under way, have one
engineer and one helper or oiler on watch
in the engine room, and every steam YES
sci of the United States that is under
steam and is navigated for more than ten
hours daily, shall carry two licensed en-
gineers; provided, however, that the last
clause of this act shall not be construed
to apply to ferryboats or to steam vessels
whose usual or regular employment does
not exceed ten hours daily"
The Atlantic Contracting Company
launched, Yesterday, one of their new
lighters, which wasbuilt at the Savannah,
FLORIDA and Western railway wharf. II
is one of the largest and finest lighters on