The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-05
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHfP9 AND SHIPPING.

lea Given Up for LOst-Se0ttIe Fnr-
ties Purchasing Decrepit Vessels
for the kIOndiISe Trade-List of
Vessels in Port.
Messrs. w. S. Copleston and w. D,
Clarke of Charleston. S. =. came to the
city yesterday and spent the day with
their friend and fellow -countryman, Capt
Lodgsdail of the British steamship Ard
rishaig.
Mr.. J. A. P. Crsfield, who is a member
of the Savannah Yacht Club, is building
sailing yacht at the Mutual Gas Works.
She will be sloop-rigged. 10 feet long, z
feet width of beam, water line, 16 inches.
She will have five-foot center-board. The
yacht win be ready to enter the spring
regatta.
The Austrian steamship Istok. twenty
three days from Cardiff, arrived yesterday,
consigned to Strachan & Co. She is char
tered for a cargo of cotton to be shipped
TO Trieste. The captain reports that the
bad weather and heavy winds were en-
countered since Jan. 90
Out of the cargo of the Norwegian bark
Adele and Sabina, which went ashore near
Aatwerp on Dec. /. and afterward went
20 pieces while bound from Brunswick for
Rotterdam, there were washed up and saw
ed no barrels of turpentine and 70 bar
rels of rosin. At the auction held on Jan.
2S an average of two and sixteen forms
per 50 kilos was brought for the turpen-
tine and rosin respectively.
The British steamer Azalea, bound from
Baltimore for Stettin, previously reported
as overdue, has been officially posted in
LONDON as missing. She left Baltimore
Nov. II with a full cargo of grain and
has not been heard of. She was an iron
steamer, built at Law Walker, England
In 1871 She registered lib tons, and
hailed from North Shields. She was own
ed by ]. Robinson & Sons. Capt. Muir
ray was her master.
The photographic office has received
the following forecast of North Atlantic
weather for February: STORMY weather
north of the 10th parallel and along the
American coast north of Hatteras. Strong
westerly and northwesterly gales along
the transatlantic steamship routes. with
occasional periods of strong winds and
fresh gales from the northeast. Occa-
sional northers in the Gulf of Mexico. Fog
at intervals on the Grand Banks and near
the New England coast, but not in ex-
tended areas. Icebergs and field ice off
Newfoundland and on the eastern edge Of
The Grand Banks
William Adams, sailor on board the
British steamship Ardrishaig which ar
rived here last Sunday from North
Shields, died yesterday at the st. Joseph's
lnfirmary OF consumption. He was so years
old and a native of North Shields Just
orr IL
that one man who had signed for the
voyage had not turned up. AT this time
William Adams happened to be on the
dock and consented to take the absent
mans place. After leaving Shields rapid
consumption set in, resulting in his death
yesterday.
Seattle is purchasing all the old de-
crept vessels on the coast that nobody
else has any use for, says the San Fran
cisco Call. Some of the craft that will
be put into commission on the sound have
been ready for the boneyard for years.
and not a captain in San Francisco could
be hired to take them to sea. Some OF
them are fairly good; others again are
regular death traps, and yet these boats
are to be put in commission to carry min
ers from Seattle to Dyea. Several boats
have been sold within this last few days.
among them being the old Louis Walsh.
The Walsh has long ago outliyed her use
fulness, the Talbot when she could be
used for nothing else was turned into a
tank boat. and even at that she was
failure, while the Theobald changed hands
many months ago, and was recently sold
again for $1,4Oc. At that time her new
owners did not know whether to break her
up or turn her into a coal hulk. 1t was
found that she was not good enough for
the latter purpose, and orders were given
to dismantle her, but before anything was
done. Seattle people came along. and, it
Is said, paid $500 for the old-timer.
Senate bill No. S1Oe. introduced in the
Senate on Jan. II by Senator Elkins, re-
lates to matter that is of considerable
interest in shipping and mercantile cir
cles.
A bill to amend section Abs. Revised
Statutes of the United States:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
OF Representatives of the United States
OF America, in Congress assembled, That
section 4l96 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States be, and the same is hereby.
amended to read as follows:
THE Secretary of the Treasury may is
sue register for any vessel built I'm a
foreign country whenever such vessel
shall be wrecked in the United States. and
shall be purchased and repaired by citi
zen of the United States, if it shall be
proved to the satisfaction of the Secretary
that the repairs put upon such vessel are
equal TO three-fourths of the appraised
value Of the vessel when so repaired, pro-
vided that any vessel admitted to Amer
lean registry pursuant to this section
which shall engage in the coasting trade
or fisheries of the United States shall be
subject to forfeiture"
It will be observed that the amendment
consists in requiring the cost of repairs
TO equal three-fourths of the appraised
value" of the vessel when repaired. in
stead of three-fourths of the cost" as at
present; also that such wrecked and re-
paired vessels shall be prohibited from en-
gaging in coastwise trade. The four
ships of the Lone Star Line. plying be-
tween Galveston and New York, were all
wrecks. and were repaired by their pres
ent owners and admitted to American reg
istry under the act last quoted. Should
Mr.. Ellins' bill become a law no more
ships Of that kind could be placed In the
coastwise business.
Lantana, Fla, Fe-. 4.-The Norwegian
bark Lothus, Capt. o. Andersen, with 4.
cargo of lumber, from Pensacola, to Bue
nos Ayres, lost her bearings and strand
ed at 4:15 a. m. off Lantana. The crew
of sixteen men were saved. One boar
caDsfZed and one man was nearly drouyr