The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-04
ALONG The WATER FRONT
The New British Ship Glengowan
Put Into Port Stanley
on Fire.
WAS SCUTTLED AT ANCHOR.
A Large Fleet of Vessels Have Lost
Their Charters Owing to
Long Passages.
WAS sCUTTLED AT ANCHOR,

probably be a total loss. She sailed from
Swansea for San Francisco seventy-nine
DAYS ago. and at first all went we'll. When
a month out the cargo of coal was found
to be heating, and Captain Doughty at
once took every precautlon possible to
save his ship. The matches were battened
down and water was pumped constantly
on the heated deck. The fire spread
rapidly, and seeing there was no chance to
control it, Captain Doughty headed the
Glengowan for Port Stanley. When the
anchor was dropped the hold of the ship
was raging furnace. All control over
the fire was gone, SO the captain ordered
the vessel sCuttled. This was accomplished
on December II last, and the latest news
from the wreck is that the Glengowan will
probably be total loss.
The Glengowan was a new ship and was
on her maiden voyage. She was 1900 tons
register and was consigned to J. ]. Moore
& Co. Captain Doughty is we'll known in
San Francisco as an able seaman and
first-rate Shipmaster.
Long passages have been the rule of late
and several vessels have forfeited their
charters in consequence. The British
ship Inversnaid now out seventy-eight
days from Newcastle, n. S. W., and the
British ship Hahnemann, now out 157
days from Hamburg, are two of the uufor-
Inmates. Their charters expired with the
old year, and when Captains Williams and
Neuson reach port they will find thai rates
have dropped ut least five shillings 4 ton.
The British ship ForfarShire secured the
splendid rate of 81 lis 90 TO load wheat at
Astoria for Europe. On Noyem Der u Cap
tain Evans got his ship under way and was
towed to sea from Port Los Angeles. All
went we'll until off the Colum bia River bar
! ard then it began to blow gale. The
! Forfarshire was driven up the coast to
! Puget Sound and came to AN auchor III
! Challam Bay. Captain Evans sent for the
| tug Tyee, and three times she failed in at
tempts to get the Forfarshire past Cape
! Fiattery. Finally, on December II, the
/ ship got to sea, and she has not been
/ heard from since. The chances are that
she has been driven off shore, but the char
1 Ter party expired on December 81.
The German bark FIottbeck is another
OF the unfortunates. She left Santa Rosa
/ liz III ballast to load wheat at Portland.
She picked~up a pilot off the Columbia
River, but gale springing up she could
not make port. Driven by stress of
weather the captain took refuge in Shoal-
water Bay, and there the vessel has been
ever since. The captain succeeded in get
/ ting 10 Astoria, and there hired the Relief
20 90 to the assistance of his vessel. The
tug could not get the Flottbeck out in face
of the gale, and that charter was also lost.
Among the vessels that got in yesterday
was the British ship Seafarer. Captain
Tupman reports speaking the Hahnemann
in latitude 30 south, longitude So west, on
| November Ii last, so the vessel ought TO
be along in few days. The Seafarer had
an uneventful voyage, except when round
lug the Horn a number of iCebergs were
/ encountered and some or the men got
/ frost bitten.
The British ship Snaigow, which arrived
DIN aI1ar, ~ 4
from Newcastle, n. S. W, beating the
! Inversnaid and Fresno. The latter is an
American bark, and is now out 81 days.
She is an old vessel, having been built at
Bath, Me-, in 1874, and fears are enter
tanned for her safety. Captain Atwood is
a very careful commander, however, and
his friends say the Fresno Will turn up in
GOOD time.
The cruiser Boston came down from
Mare Island yesterday and anchored near
the Philadelphia. The admiraps flag was
saluted and the roar OF cannon made the
echoes ring on the water front for about
twenty minutes.
The steam schooner Sunol had rough
experience on her last trip up the
coast. She was caught in the gale that did
so much damage on the coast and had to
put into Coos Bay for repairs. She was
still in the hands of the carpenters when
the Alice Blanchard sailed.
The Alaska Commercial Company S
steamer Dora is being thoroughly fixed
up for the coming season in Alaska. There
was not sufficient accommodation last
year. so new Lighthouses are being con-
structed and the steamer is getting a
thorough overhaulipg. The Dora will
start running between Sltka and Unalaska
on April next.
The barkentine c. c. Frank, which was
in collision with the schooner Volante,
has been thoroughly repaired and will sail
for Nanaimo, B. u, next Monday. AT the
latter place she will load coal for Homo
lulu, and on arriving there will bring
sugar back to San Francisco. The barken-
tine S. G. Wilder is also going to Homo
lulu, and the ]. d. Spreckels is having a
new foremost put in, preparatory to- start
| ing on the same route. All three vessels
will carry sugar.
The little steamer Reyna Barrios, that's
to tow coffee-lighters in the port OF San
Jose de Guatemala, had an engineers trial
trip on the bay yesterday. 1t was sue
cess in every way, and the boat will be
turned over to her owners in time to ship
| by the next steamer.
Detectives Egan and Croker are very
anxious to lay their hands on Private
Smith of the marine corps on the Phlladel'
phia On Thursday last he was given
shore liberty, and going into one OF the
stores where the ships provisions are pur-
chased presented a check and said Captain
Coffin wanted it cashed. The money was
paid over and Smith disappeared. The
check was forgery, and the harbor police
are now anxious to know his whereabouts