The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-06
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

Jennie Hall at Her Destination.
List of Vessels In Port - Arrivals
and SaiIings.
The British steamship Atlantic, Capt
Cooley, arrived yesterday from Fernando
ma consiged to Strachan & Co. She has
a part cargo of phosphate rock and will
finish loading with cotton for Havre.
The British steamship Ranmoor, which
arrived here Thursday with a part cargo
of phosphate rock, from Fernandna for
Stettin, finished loading with $50 tons yes
terday and proceeded to her destination.
The cargo was furnished promptly and
Smith & Kelly, the stevedores, did not
waste any time in getting it aboard. The
loading was done in the short time of
about four and a half hours.
The British bark Earl Granville, Capt.
Hughes, which arrived at quarantine sew
eral days ago, was released yesterday and
was towed to the city to load naval stores
for Australia.
The schooner Douglass Gregory, Capt.
Woolman, from Philadelphia, arrived yes
terday with a cargo of coal consigned to
c. H. Dixon & Co. Capt. Woolman re-
ports having encountered a severe storm
Sunday night, but the vessel sustained no
damage.
Complaints have been made at the bar
racks that several vessels have been
robbed recently. thief stole four suits
of clothes from the schooner Julia A.
War; Wednesday night, and the same
night some one entered the cabin of the
schooner Harry B. Ritter and stole a suit
of clothes.
The tug Brustar, towing p. Sanford
Ross dredge No. 7, from Charleston to
Brunswick where they go to do some work
in the harbor, came in and left yesterday
after taking on coal.
The tug Iris came from Brunswick yes
terday for tow of timber and returns to-
day.
The forecast for November, as predicted
at the United States photographic office,
states that frequent gales are to be eX-
pected between the New England coast
and the British Isles, and as far south as
the fortieth parallel. Between ATTITUDES
rs north and 40 north, and east of longitude
70 west there will be occasional gales, some
of which may be severe. Fog may be eX-
pected on the Grand Banks; but at inter-
walls only; also east of New England to
the sixtieth meridian. There may be some
icebergs in the vicinity of Belle Isle; prob
ably none south of the fiftieth parallel.
The schooner Jennie Hall, Capt. d. w
Leighton, which became wateriogged in a
gale on Oct. 5, while bound from Savan-
nah to Baltimore with lumber and was
towed into Jacksonville, Fla, Oct. Z, ar
rived at Baltimore Thursday. She was
I1PkGOnUilln nv no ctp
Three Friends. vessel which has become
internationally famous by the fact of her
filibustering experiences with Cuba. The
Hall will be repaired at Baltimore. She
suffered some damages to her topwork.
An instance of the longevity of wooden
ships whose places are being taken nova
days by iron and steel vessels Is provided
by the bark Minnehaha, built at st. John,
New Brunswick, in 1860, at a cost of ST.
000 and which for years following her
launching was engaged probably in the
passenger and cargo trade between Lon
donderry and New York. When she was
hauled out recently In Cardiff dock and
her old metal removed in order to be re-
placed with a new course of copper, it was
ascertained that her hull was in as COON
condition as when 1t first touched the
water. ..r'
recently placed in position and attracted
considerable attention owing to it's exposed
position, is not the first light vessel sta
toned there. Thomas B. Rowland of Nor
folk says: 1.-THE winters of 1926 and 1926
were rode out in that exposed place by g
lightship which was built and repaired in
Norfolk. and which was commanded by
Capt. Life Holden mariner sailing out
OF Norfolk, his danger at Hatteras being
shared by his wife and two daughters.
| Comparing the cookie shell vessels of that
| day with the superior outfits of the pres
| ent period the hazards and discomforts
| are in great contrast" The vessel could
not stand the strain at Hatteras and had
| to be removed.
The hawser used in towing the large
| floating dock from England to Havana
where it will be used by the Spanish gov
| eminent, is the largest and strongest In the
world, and the cable is of manila hemp
1t weighs nearly five tons, is twenty-five
| feet in girth, composed OF $500 threads of
! hemp is $50 feet long, and it's breaking
| strain is $50 TONS The dock weighs 5000
tons and the towing steamer is carrying
| 1900 tons of coal for the voyage, which will
take between eighty and 12O days. 1t
| required seventy men to haul and stow
| the hawser on a trolley, which was drawn
| by seven horses.
La Grande Duchesse, which was to have
sailed from New York yesterday on
her regular trip to Savannah, will not
make the trip. Information was received
that there were certain repairs which she
needed and it was thought best to make
| them at once. In order to do this, the
| trip had to be abandoned. The steamship
| will not leave New York now until her
next regular day for departure, which will
| be the 18TH She arrived on time when
she made the last voyage to New York and
the work which is to be done is not to re-
pair any damage done her on that voyage.
Wilmington, N. c., Nov. 5.-Tug Cecilia
| of Charleston arrived a Southport TODAY
| towing the schooner Sarah A. Fuller. Fer
| nandina to New York, with lumber The
| Fuller is leaking and double crew is kept