The morning news., 1898-12-19
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LEGAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

Report of Marine Disasters During
OctOber-New scheme for Building
Life Rats ON Ocean steamers.
List of Vessels Bound for Savan-
nah.
The Bureau Veritas figures for the mari
lime disasters of the month of October,
show that 142 vessels of all flags were re-
ported lost, as against 121 during the
month of September. In the sailing list
class 122 vessels met their end while only
% steamships passed out of existence. The
American flag lost IS sailing vessels
in october, against Is the month previous,
and 2 steamships against none in Septem-
her. The Norwegian flag suffered compar-
atively the most severely, losing 80 sailing
vessels and 1 steamship, whose total ton
mage aggregated 1861 The American
losses in tonnage was 1852, and the Brit
ish 1873.
In detail the report is as follows;
Sailing Vessels Reported Lost-Sixteen
American, q British Danish Dutch,
French, 10 German, 2 italian, 80 Norwe-
gian, Russian, 10 Swedish; total, 122. In
this number are included vessels report
ed missing.
Steamships Reported Lost-Two Ameri-
can, 1 Brazilian, II British, l French, 2
German l Norwegian, l Spanish, l Swed-
ish; total, 90 In this number is included
l steamship reported missing.
Causes of Losses-Sailing vessels
Stranding, Is; collision, A. fire, 4; founder
ed g. abandoned, 8; condemned 19; miss
ing, 5; total 122
Steamships-Stranding, z: collision, g.;
foundered, 1; condemned, 3; missing, /;
total, 20.
According to a Paris cable dispatch the
French government is being urged to test
on the two new liners now under con-
struction for the French line, a scheme of
carrying two great, well-equipped RATS
so constructed that they cannot be sub
merged The idea is to carry the RATS as
shade decks, and in the event of a ship
sinking like La Bourgogne did, the passen-
gers, the inventors say, will have some
prospect of being saved
The French experts who present this
scheme will make the raft to be carried
forward 50 feet long, % feet wide external
ly, and 10 feet wide internally. The after
raft will be 100 feet long and of the same
widths as the forward raft. The two RATS
will temporarily accommodate 1000 people
The year 1898 has been phenomenal one
in the amount of traffic that has passed
through the canals at the 500. Up to Dec
J. 1898, the freight tonnage amounted to
90 667 S33, and d few days later it passed
the p 100000 mark and it as expected that
by the close of navigation it will amount
to 600 tons greater than in 1897 when
it was IS, ,965 net tons. The probabili-
ties are that the record will again be
broken next season.
fri1ff ste ar1aeh NiPara-
qua, now at New York, and which has
been running in the New York and Jamai-
ca service for the Tweede Trading Com
pany, has been chartered by w. D. Nun
son. She will be fitted with cattle pens,
and will engage in the cattle trade be-
tween Cuba and Mexican ports.
A successful trial trip has been made by
the American Mail Steamship Company 5
new steamship Admiral Schley. She was
tested both in the Delaware river and at
sea, just outside the Capes. The Schley
viii be gotten ready Immediately for the
Jamaica trade. The trial trip of the Ad-
miral Farragut the last of the four
steamships for the American company,
will be made in about two weeks.
The British steamship Brinkburn, Capt
Martin, from Galveston via Norfolk for
Havre, is ashore near Scilly. Crew land
ed at Bryher She is sunk in 80 feet of
water aft, fore part resting on the rocks.
Her cargo which is washing ashore, con-
sisted of SS3l bales of cotton and 800 tons
of cotton seed oil cake. and is valued at
$275 O0O The Brinkburn is chartered to
load cotton at this port and was due to
arrive early in January
Passengers on steamship Tallahassee
from New York Dec. 16.-Mrs. e. Grbble,
+. B. Trett, B. Mayer, II. NJ. Solomon,
G. F. Bacon, E. w. Southers and wife, H.
B. Moore, N J. McNally, Thomas F..
Ryan, Isabel Days, E. Lewis, L. Powers,
six Italians.