The San Francisco call., 1896-08-11
KNIVES FLEW ON
THE CALIFORNIA,
The Steward Was Slashed
and the Engineer
Attacked.
NO SERIOUS DAMAGE.
Trouble Brewing Between the
Officers and Men of an
Oregon Steamer.
BRITISH BARK RAvENSC0URT
Arrives at Last After a Long But
Uneventful Voyage From
London.
BRITISH BARK RAvENsCoURT

The wharves are again beginning to
present a busy appearance. During the
past week quite feet of deep-water ships
got in and nearly all of them were docked.
All the arrivals made unusually long pas
sages, but strange to say the fast vessels
took, as general rule, from fifty to sixty
FIVE days to round the Horn, while the
slow sailers made the run from so to 80 IN
from thirty to thirty-fye days. Very few
of the new arrivals are under charter and
in consequence they will have TO join the
idle fleet at Sausalito or Oakland Greek.
Among the late arrivals are the British
bark Ravenscourt, 173 days from London,
and the Italian bark F. S. Ciampa, 17l
days from Cardiff. Captain Mclean of the
Ravenscourt reports succession of heavy
gales to the Bay of Biscay and from that
on light but favorable winds. The genial
skipper is well known in San francisco
and his bark is very handsome craft
even if she did make long run of it.
Captain Cocurullo of the F. S. Ciampa
also reports a succession of gales, light
winds and calms. They were thirty-six
days rounding the Horn, but once safely
in the Pacific their troubles were over as
lar as STORMS were concerned.
All yesterday afternoon the sailors on
the Ravenscourt were engaged unbending
sail. She presented a pretty appearance
as she lay off Angel Island, with the men
on the yards handling the sails.
The tug Vigilant towed the schooner
Free Trade to the wreck of the Pacific
Mail Companys Colombia yesterday.
The engines and boilers are to be taken
out of the steamer, and when there is a
load on the schooner another vessel will
be sent down and the Free Trade towed 20
San Francisco.
There is trouble brewing on the steamer
State of California. Saturday night last
one of the walters slashed the assistant
chief steward with a carving knife, and on
| Sunday night some of the fremen got
Chief Engineer Kress on the wharf and at
tempted to thrash him. Before they seri-
ouslv injured him several of the crew
went to the chiefs assistance and rescued
him. The iremen had been dismissed by
the engineer for cause, and they thought
they had a grievance against him.
The steamer George Loomis arrived
from southern ports yesterday, and the
captain reports having passed off Point
Conception German bark flying the sig
nal R. J. B. T. This is probably the Ger
man bark Artemis, now out over 10 days
from Hamburg for Port Los Angeles. Her
signal letters are h. j. y. i. Inc captain OF
| the Loomis may have made a mistake in
letter, as no other German bark would be
likely to be IN the neighborhood of Con.
ception at this time.
The English are going in for tramp
steamers and in a few years sailing ships
will be thing of the past. The Algoa,
now on her maiden voyage, is the largest
cargo carrying steamer ever built in Eng
land. Her deadweight capacity is IL, 375
tons and her dimensions are, length over
all 465 feet, beam 55 feet, depth of hold 81
feet. In comparison with tue building OF
this steamer is the sale of the ship Damson
Hill in Liverpool last March. The vessel
is well known in San Francisco and ship
ping men will remember her as one of the
best found ships that ever came into port.
She was built by Harland & Wolf in 1893
and cost about $115, 900. When offered at
auction he- owners were glad to accept
$64. 600, which shows a depreciation in
value of over 5000 in less than three
years.
Three little steamers the Water Lily. 80
tons, Manx Fairy, q tons, and st. Mawes
Castle, 25 tons, which were formerly en-
gagged in the passenger trade on the Man
chester Canal. have been SOLD to some
parties in Perth, Australia. AS they can
not carry coal sufficient for II, 000- mile
voyage, they were rigged as fore and aft
schooners. They are now on their way
and English papers say they are the
smallest vessels that ever attempted so
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