The Republican journal., 1896-10-29

Josephine, Greyhound Sunbeam, Morning Star
Ada s. Babson. Sarah W Hunt and Mary E. Sim
mons.
LAUNCHED. The steel steamer John Englis.
which will ply between New York and Portland,
Me- was launched from Roach's shipyards, at
Chester, Pa, Oct. 22d. The vessel is 3I3 feet in
length, 46 feet beam and II feet inches depth of
hold. Her displacement will be $500 tons She
VIII De driven by triple expansion engines develop
ing over 1000 horse power; speed 10 miles an
hour The passenger accommodations are COM
plete, there being 126 staterooms. The total cost
OF o. the vessel will approximate 100000. She will
nave capacity for 1000 tons of freight.
CHARTERS sch. Star of the Sea, New York to
Barbados. general cargo, S2,4OO, free wharf.
age at New W.. York and lighterage at Barbados
and bark Trinidad Asphalt 81 50. Sch Aetna
Perth Amboy to Manzanilla, Coal, 50 so, U. S.
Gold sch Levi Hart Brunswick to New York,
York to Ponce. ?, r. 81 $50, and port charges
Coal freights; Sch. Flora Condor, Pit johnson to
Portsmouth, 50 cents. Sch. Emma NJ. Fox,
Elizahethport to Bucksport, 70 cents. Sch. W.
L. newton, Perth Amboy to Salem, 90 cents
Sch Maggie Mulvey, Perth Amboy to New Bed
ford 45 cents
Modesty, from Bangor for Middleton, CT which
sank Tuesday night between Mino and Boston
lights, while putting into Boston harbor in eakv
condition, is arranging with the wreckers to raise
the sunken vessel. She lays about half mile
west of Harding's ledge, with her topmasts and
about third OF her lower masts projecting out
OF the water. The ModeSty was loaded with slate
and lumber in Bangor by Henry Lord 4 Co. who
own much of her. She is a two masted vessel and
HeI uliileHSIoHS are as 1Ol1oWS: GROSS tonnage.
1920; net tonnage 127.50; length 992:
breadth, 25.3 depth, 81. She was built in Der.
by, Ct, in 1866, and halls from Bangor Sch
Helen G. Moseley, at Boston Oct. GOTH from Surf.
nam (Fr. Guiana), with mdse. to l.. Williams &
Co., and sugar to James H. Shapleigh & Co., yes
sci to John G. Moseley, reports encountered the
recent violent hurricane, in which the vessel lost
and split sails, and had decks swept of all NOV
ables, including IA bbls of lines Contrary to
to the fears expressed the stranded sch Marv E.
H. g. Dow ashore at Dix Island, rode out the gale
last week without any material injury. Thursday
there were four big Bath tugs at work on her tax
ing the coal out of her preparatory to getting her
off the rock. They were the Della, knickerbock-
er, Seguin and B. W. Morse. Everything now
looks favorable to saving her. All the talk about
her being cut in two is absolutely false She is not
damaged above water at all, not even the pitch in
the deck seams is started 1t is, of course i'm
possible to tell how much her bottom is damaged
but her owners are confident that it is not serious
At Brunswick, Ga, Oct. "a, Sch Henry Cros-
by, before reported as there Sept. 29) lost 1s
feet of keel, twisted bottom rudder post and
knocked holes in bottom. Diver stopped leak
and made temporary repairs Vessel alongside of
wharf dlscharging balance cargo of coal. When
finished will proceed to Savannah for repairs
Bark Sonoma, Capt. Noyes from Portland Oregon.
for Vladivostock, got ashore at akodate (Japan),
but afterwards tioated and proceeded.