The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-13
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

SHIPS AND SHIPPING.
The Steamer Doretta Disabled.
Three More British steamers Ar
rive For OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
and Does Damage in st. Johns
River
The steamer Harry G.. Day, arrived last
night from stoney Blum and way land
ings. She was due to arrive last Sunday,
but got aground in the river two miles be-
low Hudson's Ferry and did not get off IN
til yesterday. She brought heavy freight
down, including 412 bales of cotton, 50 bar
rels naval stores, 30 tons of cotton seed
and a lot of miscellaneous merchandise
There were cabin and 10 deck passengers
on board.
The water-logged vessel Jennie Hail.
Capt. leighton, dragged her anchor sun
day night, while stationed in the St. Johns
river off Mayport and drifting down on the
bow of the schooner city of Jacksonville
Capt. Steelman, and broke that vessels
jib-boom.
The Halls anchor commenced to drag
at an early hour and finally allowed the
schooner to drift quite rapidly with the Tide
in the direction of the City of Jacksonville
The spanker boom of the Hall and the
yawl boat. which is suspended on davits
over the stern, were broken. The damage
to both vessels was considerable. The
Han is drawing sixteen feet of water, be-
ing water-logged.
Just as the steamer Doretta from Bluff
10. 1avr rrrN
holding the shaft broke and the steamer
was unable TO make her return trip. She
was taken to Rourke's for repairs, and
will be ready to resume her regular trips
to-day, leaving here at o'clock p. M
The British steamship Aislaby, Capt
hyperion, from Shields arrived yesterday
consigned to Wilder & Co. She is chartered
for cargo of cotton to Havre. Capt. Up
perton has on board an Eskimo dog which
was presented to him by Capt Nansen, the
Arctic explorer. 1t is said to be the only
dog that Capt Nansen brought back from
the Arctic regions.
The British steamship Evandale, Capt
Bingers, from New York, arrived yester-
day, consigned 10 J. F. Minis & Co. She is
chartered for a cargo of cotton to Bremen.
The Norwegian bark Winona, Capt. Jor-
gensen, 106 days from Beira. South Africa
arrived yesterday, in ballast. When the
vessel arrived, she was almost completely
out of provisions. Capt. Jorgensen re-
ports having had a rough and tedious pass
age.
West Palm Beach, Oct. 12.-Capt Leon
Vann of Daytona has chartered Capt u.
D. HendricksOn's schooner, the Emily b.,
and will take her north this week. The
schooner viii be put on the run between
Jacksonville and points tributary to Mos
quito Inlet. The Emily b. is now on
Hendrickson's ways undergoing a COM
plete overhauling.
The schooner Fanny Arthur, which went
ashore on Warsaw beach Saturday, was
pumped out and pulled off last night and
towed to Tybee, by the tug boats VIM. F..
McCauley and II. NJ. c. Smith. The
weather was favorable yesterday, allow
ing the wrecking crew to rig the immense
steam pump on the schooner, which soon
displaced the, water from her hold. At high
tide last night the two boats succeeded in
getting her into deep water, and brought
her safely to Tybee roads To-day she will
be towed to the quarantine station.
A dispatch in another column gives ac-
count of the stranding of the schooner
Naomi, Petersen, master, off Wrightsville
Inlet. The Naomi was bound for Beaufort
from Wilmington with a cargo of kero-
SCne.