The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-03
NEWS OF THE SHIPS.
Maritime Matters of Local and Ge
eral Interest.

NEWS OF THE SHIPS.
/ Maritime Matters of Local and GEN
eral Interest.
! The MORNING News shipping reports
show that there are thirteen steamships
and thirty-four sailing vessels cleared for
( this port to arrive during September.
! Eight of the steamships are chartered to
load cotton and one or more of the sailing
vessels will also take cargoes of cotton.
The shipping season is unusually late
this year on account of the Iateness of
the cotton crop. AS a rule the work of
slowing cotton aboard ship is well under
way at this port by the middle of Sep
TENDER.
The Norwegian bark Augustine, Capt.
Larsen, ninety days from Danzic, ar
rived yesterday, in ballast, consigned to
! Chr. G. Dahl & Co. TIL captain reports
having had head winds for the entire
three months of the passage.
The steamer Ethel, Capt. Carol, from
Augusta, arrived yesterday, with part
cargo of 127 bales of the new crop
cotton.
chartered TO take a cargo of lumber and
naval stores from Savannah to PaysaudU.
| The vessel was last reported having
sailed from Belfast, Aug. l, for Chatham,
n. B., for orders.
Thirty-four foreign sailing vessels have
sailed for this port and are due to arrive
| during this month. The most of them
are chartered to take cargoes of naval
stores for Europe.
There is very little doing in coastwise
| freights. There are only six schoouers
up to arrive within the next ten days
These will bring principally coal, and
load with lumber on return north of Hat
teras.
Two unknown foreign banks arrived at
| TYbee yesterday afternoon, and will prob
ably come up to the city this morning.
Business in steam freights is reviving
There are thirteen foreign steamships up
to arrive within the next two weeks, and
| several others chartered, but not vet re-
/ ported. One of these steamships will
| load with naval stores eight with cotton
one or two with phosphate rock, and the
others will arrive at Tybee for orders
Orders have been issued from the Gus
tom house, that no one will be allowed to
go on board of a vessel entering this port
from foreign port, until the boarding
officer has first made his inspection of the
vessel. Frequent complaints have been
made, that runners for mercantile estab-
| lishments, stevedores, watchmen and
others crowd on board of the vessels be-
fore the custom house officer has com
pleted his duties.
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| circular to the collectors of customs stat
ing that in reference to the recent order
enforcing the readmeasurement of Nor
wegian vessels entering American ports,
only those vessels which have had their
certificates of admeasurment changed to
comply TO the royal decree of the Nor
wegiau government will be readmeasured
Those holding the old certificates will be
allowed to enter as usual.
Among the recent improvements made
| in the London West India docks is a new
entrance lock 4S0 feet long, with uniform
depth of thirty feet of water over the stills
| connecting the river with the basin, and
| allowing the largest vessels which 90 up
the Thames to enter the docks. In letting
in the water a novel device is used to pre-
| vent cross currents. The water is adj
mitted through openings at the bottom of
the dock, covered by metal disks, as in a
bath.
The British government is testing a
new plan for signalling at sea. 1t con-
sists merely of an ordinary gong fastened
to the bow of the ship below the water
line. This acts as a transmitter, and the
receivers are gongs of exactly similar
tone and rate of vibration, one on each
side of the ship below the water line. The
receiving gong will take up and repro
6upn the GOIgnd of the cpnHipCr
a lang distance. Signals already have
been clearly transmitted ten miles
The photographic Office of the navy at
Washington, d. c., is in receipt of an
ocean current report that was thrown
overheard from the British steamship
Maine, Capt. BOrquet, Oct. ~, 1891, in
north latitude Is 40, west longitude q "a
a position on the transatlantic steamer
routes about 450 miles southwest
from the coast of Ireland. II was found
by Mr.. Robert Gray on the eastern side
of Great lnagua island, Bahama, May s,
1894. In this interval of thirty-one
months the bottle containing this report
most likely skirted the coast of Europe
and Africa, and then crossed the Atlantic
west in the equatorial current, drifting
about 5000 miles
During the past few years the Italian
. merchant marine mas Deen increased Oy
some very fine steel ships and banks,
which have been built in that country
under the stimulus of the subsidy which
that government grants builders and own
ers of merchant vessels. One of the lat
est of these vessels is the steel ship Aus
tralia which arrived at New York Aug.
"a from Baltimore. The Australia was
launched at Sestri Ponente, Italy, in May
last, and is classed 100 a. l. in Lloyds
Her Dimensions are. length 24b feet 4
inches, breadth of beam 81 feet 2 inches.
depth Of hold p feet : inches and she
registers $40 tons net. The Australia
was lowed from Baltimore by the Phia-
delphia tug K. v McCaulley, and the run
was made in the short time of tfty-four
hours. She will load on the line for
Australia.
TO ASSUME A PULPIT.