The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-15
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL ANIL GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.


.be savannah River-Steamer GOV.
Stafford Arrives From Brunswick
1Vi,b n Cargo of COttOn-An Iron
st.amer to BE Built at Bath, Me-,
"a Compete With Foreign Tramps.
The Norwegian steamship Drot, while
sr.inrtng in the river al the Central rail
road vharves yesterday morning, got
.cro,,nd and could not be pulled off by
two tugs. which worked on her. The
steancr was drawing over twenty-five
g. and it was at high tide when she
struck bottom. The tides are on the
uaue and unless an easterly wind should
blow the water in the river, she will prob
abIv have to lighter part of her cargo
or wait for the spring tides a week hence
The Drot arrived here Sunday, Nov. 6,
from Fernandina, and got aground before
she was locked. She afterwards finished
loading with cotton for Bremen. She
was to have gone to sea yesterday.
The schooner Mary F. Godfrey, which
sailed from Tybee Oct. 9, after a series
of disasters previously, and for whom
,here was considerable anxiety as to her
safety during the recent storms, arrived
at Philadelphia last week. She is now
undergoing repairs.
The Norwegian bark Seier, which arriv-
ed at quarantine Thursday from Table
Bay via Barbados, was released yester-
day. and was towed to the city She had a
small quantity of ballast taken on board
at Rio Janeiro some months ago, which
had to be discharged.
The schooner Emily F. Northam. Capt.
johnson, from Philadelphia, arrived yes
terday with cargo of coal consigned to
the agent of the Savannah Florida and
Western railway.
The steamer Gov. Stafford, from Bruins
wick, arrived yesterday with POS bales of
cotton, to be loaded on the Norwegian
steamship Olaf Kyrre, which will sail in
q few days for Bremen.
Mr.. Justin Mccarthy, who was supern-
tendent of the building of the Port Royal
dry dock, and who is now engaged on a
large government contract at Norfolk, is
in the city engaging men for the work.
peculiar marine libel will shortly be
heard in the courts at Baltimore. Mr..
James Ronaldson, the master and owner
of the barge r. j. Ronaldson, through his
attorney, has filed a libel against the
tug Peerless, claiming $4,000 damages.
The barge, with a cargo of car wheels,
valued at $6,000 was in tow of the Peer
less en- route from Baltimore to Ports
mouth, Va, when she sunk in the bay,
off Eastern Bay, in a storm, and, in con-
sequence, as alleged, of the tugs refusal
to make a safe harbor. The barge was
valued at $4,000.
The Bath iron works, at Bath, Me-, has
closed a contract for building a steel cargo
steamer for a New York house The di-
mansions of the steamer will be: Length,
SOB feet; breadth, AZ feet; DEPTH % feet;
dead weight capacity, 1913 tons. She will
nave triple expansion engines of 1900
horsepower, capable of driving the craft
at ten knots. The steamer will be COM
pleted next May, and will compete with
foreign tramps. She will be the first YES
sci of the kind built in America.
Statistics just prepared show that Amer
lean square-rigged vessels are rapidly dis
appearing In 1871 there were 2. 466, while
to-day there are only 49, a decrease of
ships was 6O7, banks 1885, and briggs 664
Masters of vessels bound into Norfolk
report narrow escapes from collisions with
hulk of schooner Walker Arlington, load
ed with coal, which was sunk on Horse
shoe some time ago, and which was drag
sed on bottom by recent storm a distance
OF some 1000 yards to a position in the
center of James river channel, where
she now lies menace to navigation.
1t Is said that schooner C. s. Glidden.
which stranded at Egmont Key, near Port
Tampa, while on passage from Tampico
for Port Tampa, is in a bad condition. and
feared that she will be a total wreck. The
loss will be a heavy one, az the schooner
was comparatively new.
The Merchants and Miners steamship
Essex will arrive this morning from Bal
tmore, in command of Capt. Bnlups. She
Is one of the larger ships of the company,
being $3.50 gross and l, S73 net tonnage. She
takes the place of the steamship d. H.
Miller, which is laid up for repairs at Bal
tmore.
Vineyard Haven, Mass, Nov. 14.-Three
vessels came into port yesterday. more or
less damaged by the heavy winds of the
past week. The Schooner James D. Sew
ELL Newport News for Boston, came in
with the loss of her main and part of her
mizzenmasts
The schooner Commerce Rockland, for
New York, carried away her jbboom dur
ing heavy westerly squat off the Isles
OF Shoals on the 10th inst
The schooner Henry Lippett Brunswick
ia, for Boston, while anchored off Vine
yard Sound yesterday, had her windlass
SO badly damaged by the heavy seas that
she could not weigh anchor, and the Gay
House life-saving crew went to her assist
GHce, After working some hours, she was
hnally gotten under Roadway.
Savannah Almanac.
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