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

stephen G. Loud-List of Vessels
hound for This Port.
The schooner Stephen G. Loud Capt
person. loaded with lumber for Boston,
WAS ready to go to sea yesterday, but she
could not get off, as several members of
the crew refused to go. They claimed that
the vessel was loaded too Deep and was
unsafe to go to sea.
The barge Joseph Souther was towed to
Port Royal yesterday, where she will re-
ceive a cargo of phosphate rock to be
transported to this city for the Southern
Fertilizer Company.
The United States steam yacht Chere
Anne came off of Jones' Marine Railway
Yesterday, after having had her leak re-
paired The steamer Doretta was imme-
dately thereafter hauled out for repairs
to her bottom.
The Merchants and Miners steamship
Gloucester, running between Baltimore
and Boston, met with an accident to her
propeller and shaft while on the run from
Baltimore to Norfolk Friday. She return
ed to Baltimore and was hauled out for
repairs. Her cargo and passengers were
transferred to the steamship Berkshire
which proceeded without unnecessary de-
lay
The latest report from the Norwegian
bark Mentone, from Savannah for Ham
burg which has been previously reported
having capsized while towing from TeXel
TO Nieuwe dep, is that the vessel is
again af1oat and was towed into Nieuwe
dep full of water. Part of the cargo is
lost
While on her way up the Delaware river
In tow the schooner Charles M Patter-
son, from this port for Philadelphia ran
ashore on Cherry Island flats. She was
foated by al tug and afterwards lowed to
her destination.
The steamship City of Macon arrived
yesterday from Boston via New York
with nearly 100 passengers With the eX-
ception of three passengers from New
York, the entire party took passage at
Boston. Most of the passengers are help
to be employed at the Florida hotels.
There are several officers on board of
the British steamship Dorset loading cot
ton a the Central wharf who are anxious
to become expert bicycle riders. There
was a general school of instruction in
session on the wharf yesterday. AS the
progress was slow among the recruits, the
first officer undertook to teach the others
and exhibit his proficiency in the art of
s,raddling wheel. In his efforts to dem
onstrate how easy it is to control the two
wheeled machine, he made an unfortunate
miscaculatiOn and went headlong into the
canal, from which he and the wheel were
fshed out by his shipmates After that
the riding school closed for the day.
The steamer Dauntless arrived yesterday
at noon from Jacksonville. She is pur-
ported to come here TO enter into the tow
ing business and demonstrated that fact
by catching the Swedish bark Otago off
Sapelo and towing her to Tybee where she
was bound for orders.
The Dauntess was boarded off Jackson
vile bar by the officers of the United
States dynamite boat VesuVius, and was
followed by the revenue cutter Boutwell,,
whose officers boarded her off Fernandina
bar. As soon as she arrived at this port
she was inspected by the boarding officer
under instructions from the government.
There was nothing suspicious found about
her. She will take on a supply of coal
to-day.
The Dauntless is closely watched by the
government authorities. 1t is said that she
has made eleven successful flibustering
Il trips to Cuba.
The Hamburg American Line has order
cd a sister ship of the Pennsylvania and
Pretoria, the largest carriers in the world.
These ships are of 1900 gross register
tons and $500 tons displa cement. The
company has also contracted for two other
steamers of 10000 gross register tons each.
These three ships will be laid down at the
81 Yards of Blohm & Noss, in Hamburg.
81 There are besides building for the Ham
purg-American line at different yards in
Germany and England, three steamers of
81 1000 gross register tons each, one of 1900
and two of 5000 tons.
representative Simpkins of Massachu
setts received information Friday at
Washington that the schooner Julia A.
81 war; lumber-laden, was drifting bottom
up about 175 miles off Cape Cod in latitude
u A, longitude SIS AZ, and that it was fear
ed several officers and crew were in, the
wreck. Mr.. Simpkins Immediately placed
me matter before Capt. Shoemaker, chief
OF the revenue cutter service who wired
me captain of the cutter Manning, now t
Boston, to proceed at once to sea and
search for the derelict and her crew.
Tacoma, Wash, Jan. 7.-Superintendent
IroWbridge of the Pacific Coast Steamship
company announces that his companyWill
nave five passenger ships in the Tacoma
Alaskan trade shortly after the 1st Of Feb
Iuary. He says that the company Will
aso have a number of freight steamers
IN The same trade.
# After long stay on the west bank OF
M le delaware river the schooner Emma 9.
Il loJungham was, Friday. floated by the
& lug Lille Graham and towed TO Phila-
az %oephia. She was driven ashore on Oct
80 last during the great storm, and il be-
gaIne necessary to dig channel before
sue could be floated. The expense neces-
,1h'y incurred in The work of saving her
s. "'s been considerable
81 Johns. N. r., Jan. 9-The steamer
-anoerts Point, Capt. Humphreys, which
n'd been lying here since she arrived with
"'' cotton cargo on fire, sailed for Liver
lo9I to-day with the deckload of cotton
ui ailre The Grey refused to sail in her
I''I compelled by the police If the fire
" ONES serious it is intended TO jettlson
queenstown, Jan 9-The Norwegian
'N !iovding, capt. Reynolds, which ar
."l mere yesterday from Pensacola was
I'p.E battered by a hurricane Dec. 20.
was submerged for a time and the
man drowned After a huge sea