The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-12
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS or
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

Steamship Aston Hall Goes Two
NiIeS Above the City Drawing Is
Feet 6 Inches-Ncw Charters OF
ships To Take Cotton TO Europe.
The Schooner Fanny Arthur sim
Ashore on Warsaw Beacb-Wreck
of the British steamer Hesperides.
Arrival and Departure of Vessels.
a further demonstration Of the depth
Of The river for TWO miles above the city
was made yesterday when the British
steamship Aston Hall was successfully pi-
loted to the factory Of the Commercial
Guano Company, drawing Is feet inch
es. This is the deepest draught Of any
vessel that ever went that far up the riv-
en- and dlspeis all doubt as TO the safety
Of the vessel property in going to the fer
tilizer factories along the river in that
vicinity to discharge their cargoes The
last steamship that discharged at the
Commercial Guano Company's works was
the Oscar II. She drew Il feet, II inches,
or seven inches less than the Aston Hall.
Three more foreign steamships. TO load
cotton at this port. were posted on the
y
They were the British steamships Arthur
Head chartered by the Georgia Export
ana Import Company. due Oct. p 10 load
for Bremen. The British steamship Graf
foe chartered by Wilder < Co, due, Oct.
Is. 10 load for Bremen. and the British
steamship Thyra, chartered by Richard
son 81 Barnard, due Oct. a. TO load Tor
Rotterdam, Antwerp and Client.
The tugs which went to pump out the
schooner Fanny Arthur, which is ashore
on Warsaw beach, could do nothing yes
terday on account of the strong south
east wind and rough seas. If the wealth
er is favorable this morning another at
tempt viii be made to float the vessel
The steamer w. S. Cook arrived from
Augusta and way landings at o'clock last
night a day overdue. She had a cargo
consisting of POS bales of cotton, 30 bales
OF waste, 40 bales of domestics, 60 casks
of spirits turpentine and AZ barrels of ros-
in There were two cabin and twenty
deck passengers. The Cook will leave on
return for Augusta a o'clock tonight.
The British steamship Briardene, Capt.
Kf,gour. from Rotterdam, arrived yester-
day, consigned to the Georgia Export and
Import Company. She is chartered for
cargo of cotton from this port 10 HaYre.
The british steamship Strathisla cleared
yesterday for Liverpool with the largest
cargo of cotton shipped so far this season.
The amount is published in the foreign ex-
ports department in this column. The
Strathisla will sail to-day
Norfolk Va, oct. 1.-THE steamship
Hesperides is ashore on outer Diamond
shoals, off Cape Hatteras, and the vessel
will be a total loss with her cargo of pig
iron She was bound from Cuba to Balti-
more and struck the shoals during
dense fog. which hung about the coast so
thick that the crew were not taken off
until late yesterday afternoon, after they
had been clinging to the wreck for several
hours. There is no hope of saving the
ship, although tugs viii attempt the task
Norfolk. Va, Oct. 1.-THE schooner Sal
lie Purnen Beswick, from the North Car
DINA sounds to New York, with lumber,
arrived in Hampton Roads to-day, leak
ing and in distress. She had eighteen
inches of water in her hold, and in the two
successive gales she encountered off Hat
teras, she lost some 1000 feet of her car
go of lumber. Her rigging was also bad
ly damaged and she lost several
sails She will reft in Hampton
Roads before proceeding northward