The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-26
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.


| The WatcrIOg@cd Schooner Minnie
4. BonSau Passed by the British
! Steamship NorsIey HaIl-A Pecu-
liar LifebOat-The British Steam
ship Murcia Cleared for Bremen
and Hamburg with COttOn--Reye-
nue. Cutter COIfax Here to he
DocIxed.
! Capt. Lewthwaite of the British steam
ship Worsley Hall reports Sept. "A. 12:57
| p. M. passed the water-logged schooner
/ Minnie A. Bonsall. The position was in
longitude n 81, latitude 81 IS, about 1873
miles, east, half-south from Tybee.
The first officer and four men went on
board of the Bonsall Water was wash
ing the vessels decks and a portion Of her
deck load of logs was still on board. but
was fast being washed away. The men
rescued a cat, the only living object on
board.
The wreck was previously reported by
the schooner Haroldne, which arrived at
Charleston Thursday. The vessel, when
seen by the Haro.dne was in latitude 81,
and longitude 70 10. A telegram from
Charleston stated that the crew had been
saved
The schooner Minnie A. Bonsall was
cargo of logs.
The tug Cynthia of this port went on a
search for the water-logged schooner yes
terday.
Sir Edward Birkbeck Capt Vincent Ne
pean, and other prominent officials Of the
British National Lifeboat Association in
spected on the Thames at Charing Cross,
London, Sept 6, the new steam life boat
Queen, which has been built for the asso-
citation by Thorneycroft of Chiswick.
The Queen, which is the largest boat in
the life boat fleet, is of 50 tons displace-
ment, and has satisfactorily gone through
a series of trials. She is peculiar in that
her propelling power is hydraulic, the sys-
TEN being that of pumping seawater in and
then forcing it out through tubes which
are fitted fore and aft. By this means the
danger which is associated with the pad
die and the screw when operations are
being carried out in the presence of a
quantity of wreckage or near sand banks
is obviated, while speed is not interfered
with in any way.
The Queen carries a crew of nine men,
and is able to accommodate forty passen-
gers. She is fitted to consume either coal
or liquid fuel, and will be stationed a New
Brighton.
The British steamship Murcia, Capt.
Dawson, finished loading yesterday and
cleared for Bremen and Hamburg. Be
sides having about 2,00O tons of phosphate
rock on board, there are $3.50 bales of up
land cotton. The steamship was cleared
by J. f. Minis & Co. She was loaded by
Col Harmon's force of new stevedores.
The consignees say that they are pleased
with the work
Capt. H. c. Daggett of steamship City OF
Augusta reports, Sept. Is, p. M, Cape
Hatteras bearing west by south half south,
fifteen fathoms, passed a mast heel up, APP
parently attached to a sunken wreckage.
The wreck is directly'in the track of yes
sells and is dangerous to navigation.
The revenue cutter Colfax, Capt Roath,
which is stationed at Charleston, arrived
here yesterday, and viii be hauled on Will
inks marine railway to have her bottom
painted and receive other necessary re-
pairs.
The steamship Gate City arrived yester-
day on her first trip from New York since
her collision with the schooner Joel Cook
about two weeks ago She has been thor
oughly repaired and is again in a perfect
seaworthy condition.
The British steamship Worsley Hall,
Capt. Lewthwaite, from Newport, Eng
land, arrived yes terday consigned to the
Georgia Export and Import Company. She
is chartered for a cargo of cotton from this
port to Bremen.
The barge Joseph Souther was towed
to Port Royal yesterday with a cargo of
cotton seed consigned to the Southern Fer
tilizer Company. She will return with a
cargo of phosphate rock.
The schooner Robert w. Dasey, Capt.
Hunter. bound from Jacksonville for
Philadelphia, with a cargo of lumber, put
into Charleston yesterday, with sails and
part of deck load gone.
Washington Sept 25.-A telegram re-
ceived at the life saving bureau states that
the British steamer TORI Head of Belfast,
from New Orleans to European ports with
a general cargo, which stranded on Frying
Pan shoals, on the North Carolina coast
yesterday, fioated off this morning, and
proceeded to sea.