The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-01
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
VOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

a-f,ain Vessels Delayed on Ac-
mt of Continued Northeast
,,,-,ods-First Clearance of Cargo
s,r barcelona since Spanish War
nm and Ended-VesseIs in Port.
r-,,nna.se IA September.
,+.-nfon is being directed very forcibly
T.. l-,qI.nd to the decline in that country
IL sailing ship, the only school in
- -a.lors could properly learn the art.
result English seamen are much
- On the seas to-day, which causes
arm in the British admiralty Office.
-. -,3- The sailing ship tonnage built in
- 1-o.5ed kingdom reached a lower fig
,r4g any recorded at Lloyds. In 1892
s.l.re tonnage formed "a per cent. Of
~. s.s. a. In 1897 it formed only 8 per
49,. II a considerably smaller total. But
r. rom construction last year, there
5s81pearance of no less than $4,000
,7frs tonnage for Great Britain This
,aor, diam twice the net decrease for
.f5le world, and shows that in other
-.rries there has been a counterbalanc-
t,g movement in favor of the sailing yes
Sc
r.,-4g back over twenty -one years
-. we're in 1876 20 265 sailing ships, with
,5i-aa tons: there are now only S,545 En-
,.1 sailing ships, with tonnage of 8 09S,-
,1 q falling off of nearly so per cent. in
,,ro8gs. and nearly 60 per cent. in the
number Of ships.
Will England's sailing ships have been
5eciang other nations have been making
.af studies in steam craft. Take the
pa in he
.ord and see where England stands. 1t
vi, BE- found that only Two are English
,gre 5iznt are German built and two
American.
In s5a1ection with this. take one branch
NJ .rs j. alone-that between America and
IL. adm which these vessels play a
ers9r Da~t. Ten years ago there were five
great English lines running out of the
hort Of Liverpool-the Cunard, the White
:nr the Guion, the National and the In
man. of these only the Cunard and the
White Slar now remain. If we take the
existing merchant feet from the point of
view of armed merchant cruisers we shall
ind that of vessels with an ocean speed
Of over 10 knots Great Britain has only
six. while Germany has seven, Russia
fye. the United States four, and France
one In 1880 England owned all the fastest
ships in 1888 a third belonged 10 other
countries. in 1889 the numbers were equal
Now the proportion is almost three to
one in favor of other flags.
In addition to this in the twelve
months ending in November, 1897, sales to
foreign and colonial owners reached the
large total OF 1855, 800 tons (359,000 steam,
10000 saiD, which, some British shipown-
els claim, means that owing TO the strict
and sometimes VeXatious regulations of
their mercantile marine, English ships are
being transferred to foreign owners to
compete at greatly reduced expenditure.
sixteen vessels in the port of Savannah
nave cleared and are ready to sail. Two
Of them are steam hips. which will per-
haps sail to-day. There are four foreign
sailing vessels and ten American schoon-
ers waiting favorable winds for sailing
Al least six of the schOOners have been
anchored near the quarantine station dur
ing the past week, and have been unable
to 80 to sea on account of the prevailing
northeast wind.
The British steamship Gloamin Is posted
a the Cotton Exchange for a cargo of cot
ton to be shipped to Liverpool She is due
oct 20, consigned to the Georgia Export
and import Company.
The British steamship Buckminster, due
to arrive here Oct. 90 consigned to Rich
ards0n & Barnard, will load cotton for
Barcelona instead Of Genoa, as before re-
ported.
The schooner James Baird, from Fair
point Va, arrived yesterday with a cargo
OF dsh scrap, consigned to the Southern
Fertilizer Company
The first vessel TO clear from this port
for Barcelona, Spain, since the beginning
Of the late war, was the British steamship
Naparirna This vessel had remarkably
quick dispatch, arriving Monday morn
ing and clearing yesterday with 4,000
bales of cotton and Loco tons of pig iron
She was consigned to j. f. Minis & Co.
The British steamship Wastwater, from
London, arrived yesterday for a cargo of
cotton for Bremen.
The Austrian steamship Clio, from Dub
lin, arrived yesterday for a cargo of cotton
for Barcelona and Genoa.
The schooner Nellie Floyd, from New
York, arrived yesterday with 400 tons of
tankage, or fertilizer ma teral, for the Sa-
Y3nnah Guano Company.
During the past few days a large fleet
0i steamships has been chartered for the
West India fruit trade. The charter time
1850 - III ciAO u IL bli ~ lWGlNG iilOulLr-
Large importations of fruit to this country
are looked for in the near future.
some of the vessels, it is announced,
may load at Cuban ports Baracoa and
Gibara are the principal ports in Cuba
from which fruit is exported, ana these
are now under the military rule of the
United States.
The barge Montana formerly the Nor
Wegian bark Saeheim, was put into com
mission az Baltimore Wednesday by the
American Towing and Tightening Compa-
ny. She was towed to the coal piers TO
load her first cargo, which will be coal
Tor New York
Savannah Almanac.
sun rises al 500 and sets at 5:45.
Hlgh water at Tybee to-day at $40 a.
m and o;i9 p. m. High water at Savan-
nah one hour later.
Phases OF the Moon for October.
Last quarter, 18th. 0 hour and minutes.