The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-29
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.


The Steamer Alpha Has an Expert
ence With the Beaufort Quaran-
tine-TweIve Steamers Here to
Load Cotton For Foreign Ports.
The Steamship Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse Breaks the RecOrd-Ar-
rivals and Departures.
The steamer Alpha arrived yesterday
morning from Button, where she went
Monday to take an excursion to Beau
fort. She took the excursion all right, but
when the steamer arrived at Beaufort the
quarantine officer would not allow the
boat TO land. There was a crowd of dis
appointed and indignant negroes on board,
but with all of their protests, they could
not go ashore to visit their friends, sew
eral hundred of whom were on the wharf
to greet them. Beaufort appears to be
quarantning against every city, including
their healthy seaside sister town across
the sound. 1t was stated, however, the
strict quarantine was imposed on account
of the steamer Alpha having come from
Savannah.
The steamship engaged to load cotton for
foreign ports continue to arrive. Another
large carrier arrived yesterday. consigned
to the Georgia Export and Import Com
pany, and was assigned a berth at the
Central railroad wharfs. where she will
load for Barcelona. In all, there are
twelve steamers now loading and about
twenty-five more chartered, which are ex-
pected to arrive during the next two
weeks. The receipts of cotton arc larger
each day than at any other Atlantic port,
and berth room on the steamers is fast
filling up.
The steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse,
the latest acquisition to the large fleet
OF the North German-Lloyd Steamship
Company, arrived at New York Sunday on
her maiden voyage, making the passage
from Southampton to New York in five
days, twenty-five Shours and forty-five
minutes, the fastest western voyage on
record.
On a consumption Of SEQ tons of coal per
day she developed a speed of twenty-five
knots per hour. She is commanded by
Capt II. Englebart.
The Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse is the
largest steamship ahoat to-day. The Old
Great Eastern was of greater length and
tonnage, and the Kaiser will be exceeded
next year by the Oceanic, now building.
The Kaiser is a tritie more than 64S feet
In length over ALL or 625 between perpen-
diculars, &c feet beam, 43 feet deep, &c
feet GraUChr and has a gross tonnage OF
1900 tons While her horsepower Is
given as 2S, 900, it is understood the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse has been so built that
10000 horsepower may be developed, ana
a speed of p knots. She will be easily
distinguishable at sea, being the only mer-
chant vessel having four tunnels. The
only other vessels ever seen in these wat
ers with that number were the Great
Eastern and the cruiser Columbia. The
Kaisers tunnels are ranged fore and aft
two being forward and two abaft the
amidships section Two pole masts are
designed for signal purposes. Little or no
provision is made for any spread of can
vas.
For safety the Kaiser Is divided into
eighteen water-tight compartments. There
are four groups Of boilers. each in a sep
arate compartment. A double bottom, eX-
tending the entire length of the ship, is
divided into twenty-five subdivisions. She
is also provided with twenty-four large
lifeboats. The motive power consists of
two triple-eXpansion engines each work.
ing on four cranlSs, with four steam cylin-
ders, one behind the other. The two
three-bladed screws are twenty-five feet
three and three-fourths inches in diane
ter They are of bronze and weigh
twenty-siX tons each. The crank shafts
and screw shafts are twenty-four inches
in diameter,
There are 200 saloon staterooms, 100 Sec
ond cabins and provision for 800 steerage
passengers. The crew numbers 450 men.
She is expected to be the most comfort
able ocean boat afloat her great length
reducing motion>to a minimum.
Muir, from New York, arrived yesterday.
consigned to the Georgia Export and I'M
port Company. She is chartered for
cargo of cotton from Savannah to BARGE
Iona.
The British steamship Strathisla, which
has been at quarantine for several days,
was released yesterday and came up to
the city She is chartered to load cot
ton for Liverpool Wilder & Co. are the
consignees of the vessel.
The schooner Island City, which sailed
Monday for Baltimore, encountered a
strong westerly wind, and came back to
Tybee and anchored for a harbor.
Fernandlna, Fla. Sept. 2S.-The brig Jen-
ME Hulburt. which sailed from New York
Sept. II for Fernandna, arrived yesterday.
Capt. Roderick reports that on Sept q,
IN latitude ol.4l, longitude T94O, at IL 80 p.
m, the vessel encountered a hurricane
from the northeast that lasted for four
teen hours. AT 2 p. m, in latitude 5000,
longitude $780, the wind shifted to the
northwest and blew away the mainstay-
sail and the lower foretopsail out of the
gaskets, throwing the vessel upon her
beams end where she lay with her waist
under water. The decks were swept of
everything movable. At p. m. the wind
moderated to a gale that lasted until the
night of Sept. %. That night he saw a
square-rigged vessel running before the
wind with everything gone above her low
er masts. On the morning of Sept "a
he saw a three-masted schooner in lati-
tude $40, longitude 77.30, with her main
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