The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-08
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
,oCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

,.ou,,oa.ian steamship DrOt Arrived
Tor COtton-GOt Aground in Try
;no 70 Make Her DOck-An Electric
Vessel Here For a Cargo of "Origi-
oI Packag es'-Experie OF
Some whaling VesseIs-The Mer-
liant and Miners New Steamship
Juuiata.
The Norwegian steamship Drot. Capt.
manson with a part cargo of phosphate
rock from Fernandina, for Bremen, arriv-
sd Yesterday to finish loading with cot
+or An attempt was made to swing the
steamship opposite the Ocean Steamship
Coupanys wharf when she arrived, but
tho ride being low and the current strong,
she got aground just out of the channel.
sbe was pulled off at high tide last night.
The Drot is consigned to Richardson &
Barnard.
The electric launch Beulah of Charles
ron arrived here yesterday to take a car
90 Of original packages" to Charleston
ond Darlington, S. c. She is a small
craft. especially adapted to run in the in
land rivers. She is about fifteen tons net
register and makes eight knots an hour
The bark Greyhound, a whaler, arrived
of New Bedford last Thursday, after COM
Melting a five years cruise. She left st.
Helena six months ago with 5SS barrels
enerrn and seventeen barrels oil; had sent
home 252 barrels oil, 1888 barrels sperm,
1901 pounds bone and At pounds amber
girls. Three men died on passage home of
berl beri and two of them were buried at
sea. third body brought home; five others
are down with it.
The steamer Alexander has arrived at
San Francisco from Point Barrow, Alas
ka and reports having left at Herschel
Island Aug % whalers Grampus Fearless,
Eric. Newport, Jennie, Belvidere and W an
derer. hemmed in by ice with little or no
chance of escape, although none had pro.
visions enough to last through the win
ter. The Alexander was eighteen hours
making four ships lengths through the
ice. and finally cleared it Sept. IT,
The first line of first-class steamships
to the Klondike has been organized at
Philadelphia with Charles H. Cramp of
the shipbuilding firm of that name, as
president There will be five vessels in
ALL and the first will start in April next.
clearing from New York or Philadelphia
and stopping at San Francisco, Seattle
and Tacoma.
The new Merchants and Miners line
steamer Juniata will leave Wilmington,
Del tomorrow for Baltimore. The Ju-
niata is a four-deck ship of 30 feet length
on the water line AZ feet beam moulded,
and "a feet depth of hold. She is built
almost entirely of iron, upon the model of
the steamship Fairfax, built by the Har-
Ian & Hollingsworth Company in 1881. The
hull, all the deck beams, all of one and
PARTS of two other decks are of iron. Inc
deck planking of the first and second
decks is of yellow pine, 31Ax6 inches, and
of the third deck of white pine of the
same dimensions. The iron plating Of the
third deck is covered with pressed bricks
laid in cement. The spaces between the
decks are about feet wide each, the
lower hold being feet inches. The
passenger saloon is on the third deck aft,
and connects with the fourth deck by
large open double stairway. This sa-
loon will include twenty staterooms and
all the necessary pantries and closets. 1t
will be finished in light hardwood. The
saloon proper will be 70 feet long. The
house enclosing the machinery, kitchen
and seeond-class rooms on the third deck
amidship will be rs feet long. On the
fourth deck there will be a house about
100 feet long and 20 feet wide, which will
enclose the engineers rooms, the social
hall and toilet rooms and passenger state
rooms. Another house will surround the
smokestack on this deck, and will enclose
the machinery, smoking room, passengers
stateroomS and officers quarters. On the
fourth deck forward of the smokestack
will be an elliptical room, which will con-
tain the steering engine, first and second
officers rooms and toilets. On the top OF
this room will be the pilot house, the cap
tain's rooms and a stairway leading below
decks. The joiner work of the saloon will
be of hardwood, and of finish equal to that
of the other ships built for this company
The engine will be of the direct-acting
triple compound variety, with inverted CYL
inders-the high-pressure cylinder %
inches, the intermediate cylinder, 45
inches and the low-pressure cylinder, p
inches in diameter The stroke of the en-
CINE will be as inches. Steam will be sup
piled to the engine from four cylindrical
return tube boilers of 10 feet inches in
diameter of she'll, and IL feet inches long
The working pressure of these boilers will
be 100 pounds to the square inch. The
speed Of the Juniata is expected to aver
age fifteen knots an hour at sea when
loaded, and she will draw IS feet of water
The propeller will be four-bladed The
capacity of the Juniata will be 2,675 tons.
The steamer H. G.. Day arrived from Au-
gusta and way landings at 8 O'Clock last
night with 1870 bales of cotton, 50 barrels
of naval stores, 700 sacks cotton seed,
bundles hides and IS cabin passengers and
seventy-five deck passengers.
Savannah Almanac.
Sun rises to-day at SAT and sets at 5:13.
High water at Tybee to-day 646 a. M
and 100 p. m. High water at Savannah
one hour later.
Phases of Moon For November.
First quarter, LIST, hours. IS minutes
morning; full moon, 9TH hours, II min
utes, morning; last quarter, 18th, hours,
- minutes, morning; new moon, oath,