Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-07-16
SMALL CAPTURES,
British Blockade Runners Cap
tured With Cargoes.
Bound for Cuban Ports With Cargoes Of
Provisions---No Resistance.
Grenow Castle One OF Prizes. Has Trouble in
Making Key West.

Key West, July 15.-Three prizes Of
war We're brought here today. but none
Of any great consequence and the cap
tures We're effected with only ordinary
incident. The English built steamer
Grenow Castle. WATCH for several years
Piled on the Cuban coast under the
Spanish flag. hut on June s. last. re-
turned 10 her British registry. was
taken by the Dixie off Cape Cruz. last
Thursday. She was bound from King
ston. ia. FOR Manzan.llo. with large
cargo Of food supplies
Her captains name is Rost and as
supercarso she had one Wilson, an ex-
pert mechanical engineer. Lieut.. Lay
ton Of the Smith, with two marines AMI
two sailors from the Dixie was put in
charge. The prize crew left Cape Cruz
the same day. taking She western route,
but as the steamers chronometer and
compass We're out OF order, they lost
their bearings and narrowly escaped
being wrecked east Of Cape Antonio,
on Friday night.
Next the steamer blew a hole in her
boiler and was compelled to tie up At
a little KY near Jard.nelles. Then her
coal gave out and when the damage
had been temporarily repaired they
were forced to make for the Dry Tor
tugas. where she obtained coal. after
which She put into eKy West. The
crew Of the Grenow Castle consisted Of
six Spaniards and four jamaican ne
grocs.
The day before this capture the Dix
ie took also two schooncrs. the Three
Bells and the Pilgrim. both flying Brit
ISL flags and both bound from Montego
BAY to ManZanillo With cargoes of food
supplies. The Three Bells was origi
nally a Nova Scotian boat. She is of
about 1875 tons and the Pilgrim Of about
% tons. Lieut.. NJ. Blunt. With TWO sail
ors ana two marines. was put in charge
to bring her to Key West, but she has
not arrived yet.
The British schooner f. r. Nickerson
was also among todays arrivals. She
was becalmed near Cape Cruz on June
20. when the Hornet steamer along side
and informed her commander that the
vessel was 4 prisoner. There was no
attempt at resistance. The tug Wam-
patuck and the gunboat Hist were
within signalling distance at the time
and Ensign b. o. McDugal of the Hist.
the boatsWain's mate and a sailor from
the Wampatuck were put on board as
a prize crew The Nickerson has ne
gro captain, three seamen and cook.
cut to be agents for the cargo, were
on board. They are a. Won Gouthari
and Frank Berger. and they vigorously
protested against the capture, declar-
ing that as British subjects they could
ana would claim a large indemnity
from the United States.
The vessels cargo was food, includ-
ing a deck load Of pigs. goats. chickens,
-four pork, potatoes and the like. She |
was bound from Jamaica for Manza-
Milo.
The auxiliary gunboat Uncas lowed |
in, today. a little Spanish sloop, the
Bella Yonz taken off Cardenas. The /
sloop had no cargo and when caught
was close in shore. Four of her crew
If six jumped overheard and got TO
and. The Uncas brought also 9sidfo
lie Soto, a Cuban messenger from the
amp of Col. Carlos Rojas, bearing pri-
,ate dispatches for the United states
government
The gunboat Castine brought in, to-
lay, three iSpaniards who had deserted
rom Spanish gunboat in Havana
larbor and put off to the blockadinS
lee. in small boat. The launch OF
he monitor Terror picked them up ana
them to the Castine.