The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-07
MARINE INTELLIGENCE
al AND GENERAL NEWS OF
" SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

SHIPS AND SHIPPING.
,a,mship NacoOchee to Be Over
s,uIed and Receive New Rollers
Neyv YOrk-Steamer Regis Fly
- the Penant of HarbOr 36-List
vessels Bound for Savannah.
40 steamer Regis of the Savannah
.'s,srage and Transfer Company is the
vessel in this port to fly the penant
,,,rbor SO, of American Association of
',ssrs and Pilots of Steam Vessels. The
,.nt was received from New York
S,nrday and was hoisted to the top of the
s.,stsff. Capt. Paine of the Regis and
4 i. George T. Clark, superintendent of the
-,bterage and Transfer Company, are
,.b members of the association. With
,r exceptions the masters of all of the
.,yannah tugs and steamers are members
;. Harbor No. SO, as are also the harbor
plots.
The British steamship Buckminster,
rpl. Elmes, from Genoa, arrived yester-
law on her second trip to this port this
s,son for cargo of cotton. She is char
srd by the Georgia Export and Import
mmpany and will load for Reval. . The
,,py friends Of Capt. Elmes are glad TO
ee him here again. "a
Arow occurred between a sailor and the
s,tswain of the British steamship Hin
mstan yesterday, In which the boat
main would probably have been killed
lad It not been for the timely interior
,ce of Capt Thomas Laird of the tug
Trest City, which was alongside of the
saamer. The sailor was making a des-
prate attack on the boatswain with a
brge knife, when Capt. Laird promptly
Knocked him down with a stick of wood.
That ended the trouble.
The steamship Nacoochee, which took
cargo of cotton to Boston last week, will
roceed to New York, where she will be
huled out to receive new boilers and a
general overhauling to machinery and hull
before being again placed in commission.
The German steamship Essen, Capt.
SHREDDER, from Savannah, has been re-
ported in collision with a coaster at Ham
burg. The damage was apparently slight.
The British bark George Thompson,
Capt. Jenkins, from Rotterdam, arrived
Yesterday with a cargo of cement consign-
ed to the agent of the Central of Georgia
Railroad.
Capt Savage of the steamship City of
Macon from Boston and New York, re
4 he,
coast On Saturday at noon off Frying
Pan shoals, he passed the Merritt tug I'm
derwriter, towing derrick Chief, bound for
havana. The Underwater put in at
Charleston yesterday with slight damage.
The steamer Alpha arrived yesterday
from Matthews Bluff, where she has been
undergoing repairs during the past two
months. She has been chartered to take
The place of the steamer Clifton, on the
BEAUFORT route, and will leave on her first
Zip tomorrow. The Clifton will be over
hauled and fitted for the coming excursion
sason.
The steamer Harry G. Day, Capt. Had
den, arrived yesterday afternoon from Au-
gusta and waylandings with 70 bales cot
ton, 50 barrels rosin, and a lot of miscel
hneous merchandise. Eighty-five pas
Singers came on the steamer. A large lot
Of freight, principally fertilizers, awaits
the Day, and she will leave for. Augusta
tomorrow heavily loaded.
The steamer w. S. Cook had heavy
freight on her trip to Augusta last week,
and was detained along the river making
deliveries She did not reach Augusta I'M
tl Saturday. She is expected to arrive
here this morning.
The position of the Diamond shoals
lghtship has not been changed by the dis
appearance of the mooring buoy. The
buoy sank, but with the aid of a spare
aachor the lightship is still securely moor
cd A mooring buoy that sank some years
ago on Cherrystone flats was recovered
last fail. 1t was found to contain several
bushels of fine oysters.
The schooner Isabella Gill, Capt Coli
son is at Tortugas coaling the United
States men-of-War at that point. On
thursday the Texas was coaling up from
the Gill She has been on demurrage for
several days
A practical idea of the small amount of
money coasting vessels clear in a years
I'LL bO ScllAAOQ lEOul luc dtGOuIlI VI
schooner Lizzie j. Call. During the past
year she earned $3,SS3.45 while her ex-
penses amounted to $SS47s7, leaving in the
hands of her owners the "snug" balance
Of }354S
Inc twenty-knot torpedo-boat Mckee
was launched at Baltimore Saturday. She
Is a small, gracefully lined craft, built to
carry torpedo expulsion tubes and rapid
nIe guns on deck. She win be propelled
py a qaudruple expansion engine. She
mas Communications below for four Off
-is and eight men. The Mckee is 100
l.et long, 1912 feet BEAM and S15 feet mean
uIaught The engines are to develop $50
I"Se-power, and make over 400 revolu-
D'Hs minute. The craft will have one
mast coming tower forward, and one
,Noke stack. If necessity calls for it,
oue Mckee can be completed in a little
over month
81