The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-31
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

The L. s. Lighthouse supply Steamer
Armenia i'm POrt-SchoOner HarOI-
dine Spoken at Sea With Sails
Gone = SchOOners VanIear Black
and Annie T. bailey, From savan-
nah Bound North, in Distress
steamer Harrow a Wreck.
| The schooner Vanlear Black, Capt. La
/ eey, from this port, for New York, with
cargo of lumber, put in at Hampton
| Roads Tuesday with loss of jibboom fore
topmast and headsais.
The schooner Annie t. Bailey, from this
port bound for Philadelphia. arrived Dec.
y at Delaware Breakwater with foremast-
mead and jibboom gone and sails split.
She was towed to Philadelphia.
Ihe barge Joseph Souther was yesterday
towed to Port Royal for cargo of phos-
phate rock to be brought to this city for
the Southern Fertilizer Company.
The United States lighthouse supply
steamer Armenia is on her regular winter
cruise along the South Atlantic coast.
she arrived here yesterday She has a
fun cargo of general supplies to be dis
tributed among the lighthouses and light
ships along the coast.
Inc tug Bristol On Dec. %, at p.
m, in latitude 80 degrees, 4 minutes. lon
gitude 70 degrees. "a minutes, spoke the
schooner Haroldine from New York Dec
Il bound for Key West. The first night
| ont WhpO off
| Vessel encountered a heavy northwest
pIoW, in which sails and some from work
Were carried away. She was still under
| mlzzeh storm trysail, and the crew were
| repairing the torn sails.
The British ship Euphemia. Capt Kin
| ney, arrived at Tybee yesterday for orders
sne made the unusually quick passage of
| 81 days from Marseilles Can't. Kinney is
| accompanied by his wife and three chill
dren. The family is stopping at P. Man
| hihg EXchange restaurant. Capt Kin
hey IS Wen known in shipping circles here,
| ms vessel having sailed from Savannah for
Santos last spring with a cargo of lumber
| Inc vessel went to sea drawing 2315 feet
at that time The Euphemia is consign-
ed to Richardson & Barnard.
It is probable that the 2,OOO-ton five-mast-
| ed schooner now being constructed in the
| rainier shipyard at Bath will not be
| launched before spring. She will be .larg-
er than the Governor Ames, and will be
named Nathaniel T. Palmer. She will be
| ADDED to the fleet of schooners owned by
| the builder. One of the owners of the ne "
| hve-master will be Capt. Clement Harding
OF Chatham. who will also be her COM
mander.
Considerable excitement was created
| Wednesday afternoon on board of the Nor
1 N~ar Tor a~t- IL sk1.
| Savannah, Florida and Western railway
| wharf loading cotton. Capt. Andersen had
| purchased a turkey for yesterdays dinner
| at which he had invited a party of friends
| One of the sailors sped the bird and was
snaklng arrangements with man on the
| dock to cook it for him. The mate of the
| vessel chanceI to see the transaction and
| got hold of the turkey without being SEEN
| and took it back to the vessel. He ac-
| cused the sailor of having stolen the tur-
| key and a war of words, which came near
| being an encounter, resulted. The captain
| did not go to his vessel until later in the
night When he went on board the mate
informed him of the stealing of the tur-
| key The sailor, fearing trouble, or per-
| haps by a prearranged contract, jumped
| in the boat of a sailor boarding house run
| ner and was taken away from the vessel
The captain and mate were very much
exasperated at the stealing of the turkey
and the sailor, but had to be satisfied with
the recovery of the bird.
st. Mchaels. Dec. 30.-The British
| steamer Maylands, Capt Turner here
| since Nov. q, before reported damaged
from collision, has been repaired and will
| proceed to-day to either New Orleans or
| Galveston.
| The British steamer Silverdale, from
Galveston, via Newport News, from Brem-
en-, before reported having caught fire in
| her afterhold, while at this port, is reload
| ing her cotton, which was discharged when
| the fire was eXtinguished.
| Amst&fdam, Dec. 30-The British steam
! er Harrow, from Savannah for Bremen
! before reported ashore at Nieuwe dep
! has parted amidships. Many bales of cot
ton have floated out of her. 30 of which
have been picked up
London, Dec 3O.-The gales continue
| about the British coast and the anchor
! ages are filled with vessels which have
! sought shelter. The channel service be-
| tween Dover and Calais and F'olkestone
and Boulogne was suspended this after
| noon.
Savannah Almanac.
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