New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-01
INFORMATION FOR MARINERS.
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TIE UYpROGRAPIIIr OFFICE ISSUES ITS Sep
TENDER PILOT CHART STATISTICS
OF DERELlCTS.

Washington. Aug 2l-The Naval Hylrosraphc
Office to-day issued It's pilot chart OF the North Al
lantlc ocean for September Among It's specia!
features I, shows the track OF the famous derelict
Fanni. T. Wos;on accompanied by the following
notice;
A report received from Captain Pother. Of the
British schooner rba.n T. states mat on Voyaes
from the West Indies to Nova Scotia he fell IN WIN
iot LATITUDE SDlG north longitude CO % west. ON
boarding the dcrclict the hull was found In good
IN , Sr' an 'p The hoY ard stcrn sun vlsibe
on August 6 she again sighted by captain
Tompsett Of the british schooner Merida. in latitude
Gs norm longitude - % west The current at the
time was setting northeast.
Since the derelict was abandoned october 10.
been dercllct l.0S days during which she has
VT her, track Win probably be sill further extended
\ 'u accoun, is also given OF the encounter th'
United States steamship Atlanta had with the
floating wreck OF the British schooner Golden Rule
of the New South Shoai Light on August I. and
makes clear to mariners the importance OF the
prompt reporting OF derelicts and their removal or
destruction.
Whenever possible timely warning TO mariners
OF these inenaccs TO navigation Will De published
on the pilot charts and photographic hHlct!ns. as
In the past.
During the last seven years 1857 TO 1899, the liy-
drographic Office received 502i reports concerning
total number Of lG2s dcrellcts. u which number
erare number of derelics constantly aoat Is esti-
mated 10 be 232 annually, or about nineteen per
month Statistics compiled from me reports re-
c.vel show that the average prrioi a dertiict IL
anoat after having been abandoned Is ABOUT th!r'y
days. 4, D.,
The dangerous character OF these dorclicis Il Il
Illustrated by the fact that IN this period Of seven
wears there have been fory-hve collisions win
them which caused the total loss OF nine Nesse.s
and considerably damaged seventeen others. Sr'-
enfy dcreIcts have been destroyed one by torpe-
docs and the ram ~ the United states steamer
san Francisco. and siXty-ninc by fire seven other
attempts 20 destroy dereic,s by fire are considered
10 have been unsuccessful. as the derc.ictS re
main ii anoat for time after having been set
on ire Five OF these seven had cargoes of lumber
that had become waterlOgged as not II be IN
nammablc: the other two we're In ballast. H.
efficacy OF destroying derelicts by nrc IL mus u
hstrnf.d. In the OF the sixty Mn" attempts
regarded as successful the fact that these deere
lets were never seen subsequent To the time th'y
were set on fire is regarded as sufficient proof OF
their destruction.
The weather forecast FOR September provides tor
moderate or fair weather generally over the Norh
Atlantic but tho outlook IL n,trreassurng To those
whose friends are voyaging homcward from Eu-
rome as sonal gales are expected north OF the
thirty-nfth parallel. or a line drawn from cape
Uatteras To Gibraltar. and tropical cyclones or
hurricanes are very probable.