The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-11
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
on AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

s+oomer Louisa Sold to Mer-
.,onts at Georgetown, 5. C-Capt.
,,,torg of the Filibustering
s,eoner HOrsa Released From
,,uisou-The Schooner Fanny Ar
. Ashore at sWarsaw-The Bel
ION steamer Iris Here For IA Big
,orno of Naval StOres-VesseIs
norud For savannah.
,rr r A. Ivey has sold the steamer
,--i-. to a company of Georgetown. S.
-,.rcbants for $S.OOO She will depart
.7,y for Georgetown in command of
r..f Coades one of her new owners. She
III he run on the Santee river.
7fr rvey will at once commence TO build
5,ar TO replace the Louisa. She will be
III feet in length, 30 feet beam and 6 feet
s.I3 II is expected that she will not draw
moro than 16 inches light. She will be
constructed of steel ribs, covered with
r,rks. and it is intended TO make her a
r,o1eI of speed while her cabins will be
4-ed out in elegant style for the accom-
ro,i9tion of her passengers.
private trial of the submarine wreck
M boat Argonaut has been had in the
dr., dock of the Columbian Iron Works,
Baltimore. where she was built. the result
of which is said to have been highly salts
factory to her inventor and owners. She
was submerged in twenty-one feet of wa
fer. remaining under the surface for two
hours. during which time constant COM
munication was kept up with those who
were in her cabin and engine room by
means Of a rubber tube.
Six gentlemen connected with the iron
work and the company which owns the
boat. accompanied Simon Lake, the in
yentor, on the submarine trip, and all
agree that there was an abundance of
light and air at all times, the compressed
air being so pure that cigars were smok-
ed in the cabin during the submersion
Many tests of her engines were made, and
while the trial was merely preliminary
the inventor asserts that enough was
learned to make it certain that the boat
will be able to perform the work for which
she is designed, viz, the recovery of car
goes from sunken vessels and all other
work of a submarine character.
Capt J. H. H. Wiborg was released
from prison at Philadelphia, Friday, af-
ter a sixteen months sentence for carry
ing on the Danish steamship Horsa fill
clustering expedition to Cuba. There was
a fine of $500 and costs, or $500 in all, at
tached to the term of Imprisonment, but
Capt. Wiborg could not raise the money
The regular term expired Oct. 2 but this
default would have added thirty days to
, E
headed by Philadelphia newspaper, rails
ed the money, however, and the captain
was restored to his wife and children.
The Ward Steamship Company of New
York, whose vessels ply between New
York and Cuba and Mexico, IS reported to
be nearly ready to contract for four steam
ships two of which are to be built by the
Cramps and the others by Roach of
Chester They are to be of 1000 tons reg
ister and to develop a speed of eighteen
knots per hour. They are to cost 100000
each.
The schooner Fanny Arthur, Capt
Douglass, sixteen days from New Orleans,
bound for Port Royal S. c., with a cargo
Of molasses is ashore on Warsaw beach.
The tugs VIM. F. McCauley and H. M. G.
Smith have gone to attempt to float her.
Full particulars of the disaster is publish
ed IN the news columns.
An unusual charter has been announced.
The brig Robert Dillon is reported TO have
been chartered for a cargo of lumber from
Brunswick to New York. The peculiar
part of the charter is that the brig is to
be towed to Brunswick from New York
and return.
The Belgian steamship Iris, Capt. Leen-
Dprs tWeOtV-tWO DAVIS from n
rived yesterday, with a cargo of cement.
Some of the steamships machinery was
out of order and caused her to be delay
ed four or five days over her usual pass
age. Capt Leenaers is accompanied by
his wife on the voyage. The Iris Is con-
signed to the Antwerp Naval Stores Com
pany and will take a cargo of naval stores
TO London and Antwerp.
The British bark Rothsay Bay, which
as+been at Tybee from Santos, since Sept.
g. awaiting her turn to go into quaran-
tine, was towed to the station to be disln-
fected yesterday.
The steamer Maverick arrived from
Jacksonville, where she went to discharge
a cargo of oil. She will tow the S. o.
barge IS to New York. The steamer will
take part cargo of rosin. The barge
finished discharging a tank of benzine
yesterday, ana dICer taxing on more TOSln
to-day, will be ready to leave for New
5rk in tow of the Maverick.
Savannah Almanac.
Sun rises to-day at 6:19 and sets at Sal.
High water at Tybee to-day 752 a. m,
ana 500 .. m. High water at Savannah
one hour later.
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES,