The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

vanuah line, which arrived at New York
from Savannah had narrow escape
from collision with a derelict near the
Northeast End lghtship, Off Cape May,
at dusk on Wednesday. There was
heavy sea on, and the derelict. the top
mast of which nave been just visible for
several weeks. was lifted by the heavy
swells until the top of her deckhouse APP
peared above the sea. The man in charge
of the bridge on the Kansas City did rot
see the derelct until her masts bobbed
up twenty or thirty feet above the rollers.
The first officer also saw the spars, and
rushing TO the wheel he put Il hard over to
port. The steamship was making fifteen
knots and just shaved the derelict. Capt.
Fisher of the Kansas city thinks the gov
ernment ought to remove this dangerous
obstruction, which is unmarked.
The steamer City of Key West, Capt.
Bravo from Wilmington, Del, bound for
Miami, passed Tybee yesterday and Ie-
ported all well.
The Norwegian steamship Folsjo from
Hamburg. arrived yesterday with a cargo
of kainit She will discharge and after
necessary repairs win enter the service
Of the Munson Line and take a cargo of
general merchandise to Havana. c. w
Howard & Co will be consighees of the
vessel. The inward cargo is to j. Il. Minis
& Co.
The lighthouse tender Azalea arrived
at Wood Han. Mass, Thursday after a
fruitless search of two days FOR the light
ship which has been missing from the
Hen and Chickens Shoals since Sunday.
Capt. Gibbs cruised for miles in the vicln-
ity of Cuttyhunk and failed to find any
trace of the missing lightship. The Azalea
will take the relief Iightship No. and
place her on Great Round shoal, which
is now vacant, owing to the regular light
ship having gone astray during the biz
zard.
The Pollock RIP lightship No. AZ was
anchored in the mouth of the Delaware
bay Thursday by the Red Star Line steam
ship Switzerland which picked her up
adrift off Nantucket shoals Tuesday.
The United States coast survey schooner
Eagre, which has been on survey duty in
the Chesapeake bay for the past two years,
sailed Thursday for work on the bar eff
the entrance to the harbor of Brunswick,
Ga. She Is in command of Capt. Per-
kins
The British steamship Baron Cawdor,
which arrived at the Delaware brealkwaser
Thursday from Java, shifted her cargo of
1900 tons of sugar, smashed boats, and
had her decks flooded on Nov. n, during
a severe hurricane from the south-south-
east. During the storm the barometer
dropped to $40. The steamer left the
breakwater for New York.
President Michael Jenkins of the Mer-
chants and Miners transportation Com
pany, has stated that he steamer Fairfax
may be saved. The Merritt-Chapman
Wrecking Company arrived at the scene
Thursday. Five hundred bales of cotton
and the ships furniture were removed.
Passengers by steamship Chattahoochee
from New York. 10 a. m, Dec. I'd. Haas,
Geo. Webb, b. Scott, Mrs. A. Barker,
Sergt c. II. Hooper, b. #. O'Brien, Chas.
Ryan, r. Ruth, w. Byrnes. X. Edison.
Passengers on steamship Gate City for
Boston.-tDr John T. II. Slayton, Miss
Harriet M. Cutter, G. A. Annis and mother,
Miss Katherine Covie, Florence Moore,
Sallie Jane ellison.
Passengers on steamship Chattahoochee
from Boston, Nov, 3O-Miss Il. c. Sherlock,
Miss B. $. Kline, Thos. O'Neil Robert
Adams j. w. Fuller and wife, Mrs. Liz
zie Myers, Miss Caudele Myers, Jas. d.
Alexander, s. l.. Wadsworth, c. A. WEIGH,
c. WEIGH, f. H. Miller and wife, r. o.
Garcelon, II. K. Harris and wife, Miss
M. L. Slade Miss Nellie Doran, G. b. II.
Burnham, Chas. II. Cook, II. +. True.
Fred Lang, ". s. Sanburn and wife, Mas
ter Robert Bedford. VIM. Smith, A. l..
Buck, Royal o. Leavett.
Passengers on steamship Itasca from
Baltimore, arriving yesterday.-D. Line,
Harry f. Webster, f. S. Webster, W. s.
Eiglehart and wife, S. o. Mitcheal, Daniel
Glenn, w b. Spane, w. J. Joyce, l. Back
man, Il. Backman.
Passengers on steamship Tallahassee
for New York.-Lleut. II. y. Stotter, Mrs.
Charles r, Warren, Miss f. Deslandes,
w. p. Savage, Frank ID. Dudley, II.
Raphal, c. e. King, Jr., N. Cohen j. j.
Higgins, James Becky, Charles II. Hayne,
IL. Kohen, N. j. Smith.
savannah Almanac.