The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-05
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

some Vessels Purchased by the Gov
crnmcnt and the Prices Paid for
Them Lost Five Vessels During
the War - Little announcement
Given TO the Proposed Line OF,
steamers to Havana and Porto
RicO-Vessels in Port.
Custom house records show that the
government paid the following prices for
vessels purchased during the war:
Steamships Ell Sol, Ell Rio Ell Norte and
El Sud, all Morgan liners. $575,OOO each;
steamship John English $45OO0O, Maine
Steamship Company; steamship Creole,
$4,000. Cromwell Line; steamship
Yorktown, $4,000, Old Dominion Steam
ship Company; steamship Niagara 100000,
New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Com,
pany steamship Menemsha, s145,OOO, Miami
Steamship Company; steamship Nictheroy,
$575 900, Charles r. Flint; steamship Merri-
mac, $4,000 Miami Steamship Company;
steamship Alice, $4,000, ]. NJ. Worth &
Co.. tug FL Toro $4,000, Morgan Line; tug
Edgar Luckenbach, $4,000, Lewis LucKen-
bach; tug John Dwight, $4,000, Transfer
Company tug J. d. Jones, $4,000, Merritt
Wrecking Company; tug Hercules. $4,000,
S, 0. Company; tug Atlas, $4,000, s. o.
Company; tug Waiter Luckenbach, SIS 900,
l.. Luckenbach; tug Right Arm, $4,000,
Merritt and Chapman Wrecking Company;
yacht Kanawha, $4,000, j. p. Duncan;
yacht Sovereign, 100000, M. c. Borden;
yacht Shearwater, $26,000 II. r. Wolcott;
yacht Stranger, $1,000 M. Lewis; yacht
Thespia, S65, OO0 T. Dows; yacht Viking,
$50, 600, H. A. Hutchings; yacht, Elfrida,
5000, w Seward Webb; yacht Almy, $780,
600, Fred Gallatin; yacht Alicia, SLIT 800,
II. NJ Flagler; yacht Aileen, $4,000, r.
Stevens; yacht Corsair, $225,0oO Pierrepont
Morgan.
Before the war Senior AntinogeScs Men
endez, head of the Spanish shipping firm
Of Menendez g. Co, whose vessels traded
among the ports of Cuba, was the owner
of seven fine steamships of this fleet. He
now has only two the other five, which
he valued at $S7S,OO0 having been either
captured or destroyed by American war
ships. The two captured vessels are the
Reina de Las Angeles and the Argonauta.
The destroyed vessels were the Purissima
Conception. the Jose Garcia and the Clio
ria. 1t was a peculiar fact that every one
of the vessels were built in American ship
yards.
The Munson Line steamer, advertised to
sail from this port Nov. 10, will probably
not arrive, as sufficient freight and pas
sengers have not been secured to guaran-
tee the expenses of the trip. MIR. c. w.
Howard the agent of the line, has made
| special endeavors, not only in Savannah,
but throughout the state, to secure BUSH
ness for the steamer, but has met with
but little encouragement.
The demand for steamers to carry grain
| to Europe shows no sign of declining, and
vessels are being daily chartered to load
| several months ahead. The scarcity of
| November tonnage and the high freights
demanded are restricting business and In
many instances encouraging owners to
hold prospective tonnage at eXorbitant
rates Square-rigged sailing vessels are
being chartered to load cereals at fair
rates.
Capt. Samuel w. Skinner of s. W. Skin
| ner & Son, proprietors of SINNERS marine
railway at Wilmington, N. c., and sue
| cessful wreckers along the coast, was in
| the city yesterday. He was here looking
after. his interest In a claim against the
schooner Florence Randall, which the firm
hoated from Edisto beach about two weeks
ago. Inc NeSSel WAS bONSu mere
The British steamship Juno has been
chartered for a cargo of cotton from Sa-
vannah to Liverpool. She is due to arrive
| Nov 25, consigned to the Georgia Export
and Import Company.
The barge Cipher sunk in Catalogue
sound yesterday, while being lowed from
Coosaw to Savannah by the tug Jacob
Paulsen. Tho barge was loaded with
phosphate rock, consigned to the Southern
| Fertilizer Company. When she sprung a
| leak, Capt. Rogerson of the tug tried to
pull her into shallow water, but she sunk
| before il could be done, and is lying In a
| dangerous position in the channel.
The schooner Ida Lawrence, from Balti-
more. arrived yesterday, with cargo OF
railroad iron consigned to the Savannah,
Florida and Western Railroad.
The steamers Santee and ID. Murchlson
| lafT Yesterday for PurVsburg whera thew