The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-15
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.


tOber-The Schooner Jennie Thorn
as Aground In the Chesapeake Bay.
The Schooner Emma l.. COtting-
ham Again FIOated.
Yesterday was a dun day along the river
front There were no arrivals and only
one vessel went to sea.
Lieut. H. K. Hines. who has been ap-
pointed to take charge of the branch hy-
geographic office at Savannah. is expected
to arrive in a few days. His last duty
was on the coast survey steamer Bashe,
which was employed along the Atlantic
coast. Mr.. Hines entered the naval acade-
my at Annapolis in 1882 and was appointed
a lieutenant in 1896. He is a native Of
Kentucky.
Robert Roberts, colored. was seriously
injured yesterday by falling through the
hatch of a vessel at the Savannah, Florida
and Western railway wharves. His left
foot was severely bruised in coming In
contact with a lump of coal. The ply
sicians who attended him say that he will
recover.
built by the New York Dredging Com
pany at the foot of Houston street, win
he launched tomorrow at high tide She
win be christened Port Royal. AS be,
fore stated in the Morning News, this
dredge will be used in the work of dredg>
ing the channel leading to the Port Royal
dry dock. The machinery of the dredge
has arrived and will be placed in position
at once.
Tandem towing on the Delaware river
and bay has become such a menace to
navigation that efforts are being MAIDS
through the maritime exchange to abolish
it. Very often tugs from New England
and southern ports arrive with five and
six barges astern, covering a distance of
a mile, endangering all vessels which may
be in the vicinity and frequently caus-
ing serious collisions. Nearly all the own
ers have agreed TO breast the barges in
the future. and, efforts will be made TO
secure the consent of all. By this means
vessels passing up and down the river, es-
pecially where the channel is narrow, can
avoid collisions.
The stranded schooner Emma c. Cot
tingham, which was driven ashore in the
Delaware river, near Delaware City, was
hoated on Saturday and will be towed to
Philadelphia to-day for examination ana
repairs. The October gale carried her
high and dry. For more than month Il
dredger has been digging a channel from
the river to where she was fast and by
this means enough water reached her to
cause her to float.
During a thick fog about midnight Sat
urday the schooner Jennie Thomas, Capt
Young, from Savannah, with lumber for
Baltimore while in town of the tug Mary
went aground on the west side of Chesa.
peake bay, between Hackett's and Sandy
Points.
The oyster schooner North Carolina, out-
ward bound from Baltimore, yesterday
went ashore inside the black buoys be
tween the Columbian Iron Works and the
outer end of Fort McHenry. She was
foated by the Sunbeam about $50 o'clock.
The administration of the bureau veritas
has just published the following list of
maritime disasters, reported during the
month of October, 1897, concerning all
flags: Sailing vessels, 10 American, 1 Ar
gentine, 2 Austrian, Brazilian, 81 Brit
ish, 1 Chilean, Danish, 2 Dutch, French
4 German, Italian, / Japanese, 1 Mexi-
can, 26 Norwegian, 2 Portuguese, Rus
sian, 10 Swedish; total, 1874. Steamers, 8
American, l Belgian. "a British, 2 French
l German, Japanese, Norwegian, Rus
sian . SnaOisb I Swedish. total AZ