The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-21
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.


Bark UniOne Not Damaged by Get
ting Ashore but $50 Barrels of
Naval stores Lost-The New Fruit
Steamer Admiral Dewey Launched.
The steamer Clifton viii run an exeur-
sion to Beaufort to-day, stopping at the
naval station. Ii will be the last of the
| season.
Tomorrow, Middletons band has char
tered the steamer Clifton for an excursion
to Beaufort. The band was out last night
drumming up business, and it is expected
| that large crowd viii be attracted on
the occasion.
The United States steamer Angler be-
came disabled at Venus Point yesterday
and was towed to the city by the tug
Regis. on examination it was found that
her shaft was broken.
The Italian bark Unione, from Savan-
nah for Antwerp, which anchored at the
| Downs after being ashore. as before re-
| ported, has apparently received no dam
age There was a loss of about $50 bar
! rels mostly spirits turpentine, which were
| jettisoned while the vessel was aground.
The board of bureau chiefs of the navy
| department Is wrestling with the question
| of how best to turn over TO the owners
the vessels chartered for use as trans
ports and auxiliary cruisers, which it is
now desired to be rid of, the necessity for
their use having passed.
| The charters provide that when the de-
| partment is through with the vessels they
shall be turned over to the owners in the
| same condition they were in when the
| government took possession. Suggestions,
| possibly BY some of the owners have
| led the board to consider whether it would
! be best for the administration to attempt
| to refit the vessels as they We're, or 10
| turn them over to the owners as they are,
| with the payment of a lump sum to COM
| pensate them for the expense and time
employed in making the changes neces-
sary to carry out the terms of the char
| tiers.
It Is reported that new line OF steam
| ships will be run between Cuba and ia
| naica 1t is said that the line will begin
operations after the signing of the terms
of peace and that American capital will
! be back of it,
From an official statement which has
| just been published, it appears that during
| June 10000 tons of steam shipping were
added TO the register of the United King
dom, the removals, mostly by sale TO for
eigners amounting to about $1,000 tons, or
a net increase of about $1,000 tons. Sail
ing ships decreased @, 900 tons in the
| month.
] TIL 81 L pio
sailed from Baltimore for Rotterdam
Thursday with 1926 900 bushels of corn and
! wheat. This is the second largest cargo
of the kind which ever left that port. It
! has never been exceeded from any Amer
lean port except when the same steamer
| left Baltimore last autumn with $4,000
| bushels of grain.
| The first of four fruitlng steamers built
| for the American Mail Steamship Com
| pany of New York, was launched at the
| Cramp shipyard Thursday. She was nam
| ed the Admiral Dewey. There was a
large attendance of invited guests at the
| launching ceremony from Boston, New
| York and Philadelphia.
! The new vessel is 800 feet long with a
! carrying capacity of 1900 tons. The four
vessels, of which this is the first to be
/ completed, are the first vessels construct
ed in the United States for the West
India fruit trade.
The New York Commercial says: Grave
| fears were expressed yesterday in ship
| ping circles concerning the British bark
| Loeb RAMA, which sailed from this port
| for Savannah on July %, and has not
| been heard of since she passed Sandy
Hook Ordinarily she should have reach
| ed Savannah in ten or twelve days. She
was commanded by Capt Grmsditch and
had crew of eighteen men. The records
| show that the Loeb RAMA has had a re-
markable list of misfortunes. First she
had a collision in midocean, and this was
followed by a narrow escape from burn
ing at sea. Not a month later her cap
tan and chief mate were lost in a storm
The commanding officer who succeeded
him committed suicide. In heavy storm
the bark was on her beam ends for TWEEN
ty-four hours in a gale, and she suffered
serious damage in several storms. In one
of them a whole set of sails was blown
away. The long list of msfortunes in
cluded the munity of the crew off Sandy
Hook shortly before she sailed for Savan-
nah last month.
Capt. Puxley was the original captain
of the Loeb RAMA. IT was he who was
lost al sea, with his chief officer. J, r.
Livermore & Co, of No. % Beaver street,
are the agents of the missing bark"
The Loeb RAMA was reported off Frying
Pan shoals about ten days ago. The wind
has been unfaVorabe but there has been
no storms to cause any disasters since
that time She may be expected to arrive
any day.
Savannah Almanac.
Sun rises at 5:28 and sets at 6:37.
High water at Tybee to-day at 1000 a.
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