The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-10
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
I AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

o-,ooner Ida LAWRENCE in the Re
Hurricane-Use OF OIL on
.bted waters by Bark Elise.
coils Built in the United States
~eor-VesseIs Bound for Sa-
,annab
,,.t,rns to the navigation bureau show
during the fiscal year ended June
sos there we're built and documented in
,-oited states 952 merchant vessels
7so i5s gross tons, compared with OIL
of 232. 2S9 gross tons for the pre-
, 6scaI year The decrease in con-
Tan is almost wholly on the great
- where the new documented ton>
a,. amounted to only 54,OS4 TONS COM
"a with 1857 tons for the previous
- wear. The construction on the Pa
..s. coast was 1873, compared with 749a
.ons for the previous fiscal year, this
,..roase being chiefly steam vessels de-
.,sd for the Alaskan-Pacific and Alas
80, river trade. The decrease in con-
-,-,.,ion was wholly in the first half of
t1a fiscal year, when ship-building in
Srost Britain and other maritime nations
oIso showed a falling off of about 20 per
lnt During April May and June-the
antbs of the war with Spain-the ton
mage built and documented in the United
cr9res was double that of the correspond
inc months of 1891
The tonnage built and officially num-
bared during the first quarter or the cur
,tnr fiscal year, ended to-day, comprises
aIt vessels of SO, 1871 tons, compared with
ar vessels Of 26 sos tons for the correspond
mo quarter last year. Indications are
that construction during the current ifs
cal wear viii be greater than any annual
output for twenty-five years, except 1890
1891.
The great floating dock recently con-
strIcted for the Vulcan company, Stettin,
Germany. by Messrs. Swan & Hunter of
Wallseud Newcastle-on-Tyne, surpasses
IN capacity the floating dock built by the
same firm for the Spanish government ana
now in operation at Havana. The prin-
cnal dimensions are: Length over all, $40
feet: extreme breadth, 10 feet inches;
hight from bottom of pontoon to top Of
walls AZ feet inches. The internal width
is sufficient to allow vessels up to 80
feet beam to be docked, and the depth over
the keel blocks is "a feet The maxi
mum lifting power is about 1900 tons.
The British admiralty is cudgeling its
brains to solve the question as to why
there is such a difference in coal con-
sumption by their battleships and cruis-
ers of the Channel squadron The Ma
iestic in one day consumed 40 tons, the
MAGNIFICENT S. tons, and the Hannibal only
20 tons while the Arrogant, without half
the displacement of the latter vessels, con-
sumed 40 tons in one day, and the Furious,
a sister ship to the Arrogant, 80 tons. These
figures are all for the same day. The
ing to the boilers. The ships that burned
the most coal have the old service boil
ers while those that consumed less coal
were fitted with the new water-tube boil
ers.
The free use of oil during a terrific hur-
rlcane on Sept. u saved the German ship
Elise, which arrived at Philadelphia Fri
day, from London. Capt. Backhaus be-
leves that it rescued his vessel at a time
when there was no other alternative. For
seven hours the Elise was at the mercy
of one of the widest storms that ever
swept the North Atlantic ocean. An en-
tire suit of sails was torn from the yards
and blown away.
Capt Thorpe of the schooner Ida Law
renee arrived at Baltimore from Savan-
nah, took the late gale on Saturday and
Sunday, accompanied with heavy seas and
rain squalls of great violence. The YES
SCI was placed before the gale, and scud-
ded under bare poles, making, 1t was cal
culated fully nine miles an hour before it,
The vessel sailed from this port Sept. "a
The British steamship Gloamin from
Rotterdam for Savannah, arrived at
Shields Sept. 10 to repair her bows, which
were damaged Aug. % in collision with
the British steamship RAMA. She is due
here Oct 20. The RAMA is also due to
arrive here this month.
Savannah Almanac.