The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-13
MARINE INTELLIGENCE e
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

ID. MurchisOn to Augusta and Re-
turn-ImprOvements in the Harbor
at LiverpOol-Icebergs Passed at
Sea.
The steamer D. Murchison, Capt Had
don, arrived from Augusta and wayland-
ings yesterday afternoon. She made one
Of the quickest round trips, if not a record
breaker, between Savannah and Augusta
Leaving here last Friday night at IL 30
she arrived at Augusta Sunday afternoon
and was detained seventeen hours in dis
charging and loading her cargoes. Re
turning she left Augusta at u m. Monday
and arrived here at $50 p. m. yesterday
making the round trip of $50 miles in
ninety-one hours, including the lay over
at Augusta and regular stops at wayland-
ngs.
James Boyle, United States consul at
Liverpool, writing to the department at
Washington regarding the port of Liver
pool, says:
Parliament has just passed two acts CIV
ing the necessary authority to the Mersey
docks and harbor board TO make the pro-
posed improvements and extensions in the
Liverpool dock system, upon which a re-
port has already been sent to the depart
ment.
The total amount authorized by Parlia-
ment to be spent on these improvements is
larger than the sum originally estimated
The exact total provided for in the two
acts is $24 115, 800 OF this amount 1884,
0O0 is supplementary to the sum of S7,776,-
600, authorized by a special act of 1891, to
be expended for extending, deepening and
~ innnrnUinor tha docks These
improvements are nearing completion. I'm
der the act of 1891 and the two acts just
passed there have been authorizations for
the enormous expenditure of $91, S91, 800 for
the improvement of the Liverpool docks.
Even this amount does not give the grand
total. The acts of 1891 and 1888 are for
special and extraordinary improvements;
and, in addition, there are the ordinary
improvements made from time to time and
paid for out of the current revenue of the
board.
The last of the sailing pilot boats has
just been withdrawn from active service,
and now the Liverpool pilot boats are all
steam vessels. Formerly there were six
l~sailing pilot boats, but NOW four steam
boats perform the service. The total cost
was $15S,679. There are PIP pilots at pres
ent in active service, and of this number
forty-four are attached to certain large
steamship companies and are called spe-
cial pilots. In addition to the four regu-
lar steam pilot boats there is steam
launch for river work, and one of the
sailing pilot boats has been retained as a
reserve boat in case of accident to one of
the steamboats,. These steam pilot boats
are very swift and strong. Two of them
have a tonnage of 274 tons and two of 275
tons. All of them have draft of 10 feet
They have been specially built to enable
them to stand any sea.
The Neptune Line steamer Tabasco ar
rived Sunday at Baltimore, after a run of
fourteen days from Sunderland. Capt
Pinkham reported having passed two large
icebergs on July 3 in latitude 1896 north
longitude 4S.15 west. Two hours later
the Tabasco passed three unusually large
icebergs, one of which was about 1000 feet
long and 500 feet high. On July 8. in lati-
tude So north, longitude 72.40 west, the
steamer passed a large school of whales
From available information to hand,
says the New York Commercial, il is learn
ed that there are twelve Spanish steam
ships and nine Spanish sailing vessels
which were employed in the transatlantic
trade, now tied up in different Cuban har-
bors, the majority of them being at Ha-
vana. These vessels are likely to become
prizes for Uncle Sans navy. There are
twelve Spanish vessels in Manila bay,
which may also become our property.
Shippers of coal to Mexican ports will in
the future be required to give to the col
lector of customs at the ports of departure
security in a penal bond that the cargo
will be delivered to the proper consignees
and not to an enemy of the United States.
This has been done because of efforts to
deliver American coal to Spanish auxiliary
war craft
The schooner J. e. du.Bignon, Capt Tur-
ner, five days from Philadelphia, arrived
yesterday with a cargo of coal consigned
to d. r. Thomas & Son.
A mud scow belonging to r. Ritten-
house Moore. which had been undergoing
repairs for several days on Willlnk's rail-
way, was launched yesterday.
The Norwegian bark Saeheim was sold
Saturday at United States marshars sale
at Baltimore for 800 to Robert ]. Brad
ford, secretary of the American Towing
and Tightening Company, which has a
claim against the bark for salvage.
The steamer Petrol has been purchased
by the United States engineers depart
ment of the army to carry supplies between
harbor fortfications.
A firm in Charleston. S. c., has char
tered the Norwegian steamer Agnes, for
eleven months. to carry bananas to that
port from Honduras.
The steam pilot boat J. H. Estill came
to the city last night for a change of pi- |
lots.
The White Star Liner Britannia, a short |
time ago, arrived in the Mersey from New |
York, after a passage occupying only sew |
en- days, eight hours despite her 250th |
rOuu0 n XnrIr md
her 50Oth passage across the ocean. This !
means that she has Travelled distance Of |
go times 6,2OO nautical miles, or more |