The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-03-05
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qAe Revenue Gutter Hamilton Saves
IA Lives of Two Men From the
bop NJ. D. White. Libel Of
Rhe Steamer Mccall. Other
Marine Matters.
Asel ashore at Assateague. Va,
The VIRo1NIAN Sunday,
4 tish steamer Oakdene, Capt.
81 3 Snndal, from Hamburg to
i $fe. with a cargo of kainit and
The vessel has been abandon
q will be q total loss. She is being
ebed by the Merritt Wrecking
er Coley. Her crew OF twenty
Aere saved by the wrecking tug
America and the men OF the life
station.
hHREE WEEKS OVER DUE.
= e-masted schooner Gov. Ames,
IL SA tons, the largest schooner
been at sea one month from
Ass.. bonnd for Norfolk. She
4 ~ Il Ie made the run within n
i. = q sh schooner Three Bells.
BID at Halifax February 2S,
Rico, reports that she saw
), WINES February II in latitude
81 longitude 66.27 lying to with
{ il set, ioresail gone, heading
Invest. The weather was too
IL communicate with her. In
sltion she was down near the
indies, and several hundred miles
R away from the cnpes than she
Fhep she sailed out of Boston.
sher report. which conflicts with
81 above, says the Gov. Ames
ighted about the same time ut
lSs in a gale of Kill Devil Hill,
bf North Carolina. The Gov.
Ion her first trip out of New
had oil her five masts aud
'Is Aaway in gale.
7 ~ 8 is 245 feet & inches long,
inches wide and u feet &
Yep. She was built in Waldo.
in 1883. She is owned by
%. A. Davis, who alternaies in
fand worth his brother.
s'se LOST HER DECK LOAD.
She three masted schooner Williams
Fickham, Capt. Evan. twenty Blk
out from Jacksonville. arrived at
port News Saturday afternoon In n
ed condition. She encountered
Apt storm off Hatterss. Her
pf Georgia pine WAS carried
Their with her jibboom. main
sAtf aud bowsprit head. Her
PAS smashed. Capt. Evan
eStul experince.
@ s6SSoSlR OVERRIDE.
3e overdue schooner George L.
$ Hey, which left New Haven Febru-
3y 9th for Norfolk, in ballast, has
On heard from at st. Thomas. w. l.,
4 her owners. She was disabled by
! accident and drifted two weeks.
lus VESSEL AND CARGO BURNED.
81 pc three. masted schooner Edward
5tearns, Capt. l.. Z. Heal, from
Export, Me-. bound to Charleston,
y, with cargo OF lime and hay, is
Rre at Hatteras Inlet, n. @. The
lssel and cargo are on fire and both
i'll be total loss. The crew were
yed. The Stearns was built at Rock
'rtin 1889. Her net registered ton
we was 32l.
n 10 BE SOLD FOR DEBT.
3phe steamer Mccall, the libelling of
|iich has already been mentioned u
tE VIRGINIAN, will he sold to satisfy
bt OH Friday next unless the obligs
ons are paid before that time. The
aims against the vessel will reach
,erly $4,000. The president of the
orfolk and Petersburg Steamboat
ompany, which owns the Mccall,
ates that his company will pay the
aims against the vessel and she will
on the river shortly.
Yesterday afternoon as the revenue
litter Hamilton, Capt. Blake. was
Gaming to Norfolk in heavy south
ess9ale her pilot saw the sloop NJ. ID.
,hie capsize IN Hampton Roads at
& O'Clock.
but. Butt ordered the Hamilton
Ned toward the sloop, aud Lieut..
iAonds, with five men IN the cutter,
scnsd Mr.. M. d. White. captain OF
9 sloop, and his nephew. Lieut.. Butt
at line to the sloop, made fast to
sp aud anchored. and sent Lieut.. Ed
onds with enter after the sloop's fur
ture, which was atioat.
II vas feared that Lieut.. Edmonds
q the men would os lost at one time,
hsrific was the gale, but they man
so % reach the ship. The launoh