The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OK
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

The steamer Doretta Damaged in a
CoIIision-sfeamcr John ROurke
Destroyed by Firc-ArrivaIs ANA
Dcpartures-LumbeF Shipments.
Passengers by Sea.
The steamer Doretta colllded with the
schooner Rob Roy yesterday and sustain
ed considerable damage to her hurricane
deck. She had just arrived from Bluffton
with an excursion. In making a landing
the link chain to the rudder parted and
the boat drifted into the schooner at the
wharf foot of Barnard street. The rail
and awning on the hurricane deck was
carried away and the smoke-stack receiV-
ed a blow. almost upsetting it. The
schooner was not damaged. The Doretta
returned to Button yesterday afternoon.
While the steamer Doretta was in coils
ion yesterday morning John Graham
negro driver of a street wagon, was steer
ing his "hatrack" in the direction of the
wharf. EIe had on a full head of steam
and was doing some reckless steering. He
ran into the harbor masters buggy,
Reilly out on the stone pavement. The
negro drove off hurredly. not waiting to
see what damage he had done. Capt.
Reilly was not seriously hurt.
The schooner Nellie w. Hewlett, Capt.
Bierman, fifteen days from Norfolk, ar
rived yesterday with a cargo of coal con-
signed 10 G. l. Taggart
The British steamship Ainslaby has
been chartered by Wilder & Co for a car
go of cotton from Savannah to Havre.
She is due to arrive here Oct 5.
The steamer John Rourke of Savannah
was destroyed by fire yesterday morning
at Clinch's plantation on the Satilla river,
about four miles from the Florida Central
and Peninsular railroad bridge For full
particulars see news columns.
The famous schooner yacht America has
not entirely lost her prestige as a white
winged flyer. Since her memorable race
around the Isle of Wright, in which she
won the cup which is now the most IA
nous and most sought for by our British
cousins. many faster vessels have been
constructed, and it was thought that the
old boats days for speed were over. 1t
seems not, however. for on Saturday last,
off MaTbehead, Mass. she won the race
for schooners. and beat the Puritan
which. as a sloop. successfully defended
the cup in the international yacht race at
New York, in 1855 minutes and sec
onds, actual time. The schooner yacht
Adrienne was the other boat in the race,
and she was given an allowance; she
came in AZ seconds behind the America,
and whipped the Puritan by minutes and
20 seconds, corrected time.
A new kind of gangplank has been in
vented by a Portland concern on which
the stevedores take their places with
their trucks of freight and are carried by
electric power from the wharf to the yes
sci and vice versa. The plank is some
thing after the fashion of the floor in a
threshing machine horse power and is fit
ted particularly for unloading and loading
at wharves where very high tides make
work with the ordinary gangplank very
difficult.
1t is reported that the steamship Della
ware has been purchased from the Clyde
line by a Boston syndicate for $4,000, and
she will be refitted and sent TO the Pacific
coast to ply between San Francisco and
Alaska The Delaware was built in 1880,
in Philadelphia, for the Clyde line, and
has been running on various passenger
and freight routes on the Atlantic coast
ever since.