The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-14
CARRIED A GIANT CARGO.
THE RAMA TO SAIL TODAY WITH
1920 BALES OF COTTON.

The Largest Cargo Ever Shipped
Largest But One Ever shipped
From the United States-Its Weight
Nearly $500 TOns-The Cargo to be
Taken to Bremen-Large CarGOes
From Savannah in Former Years.
Savannah shipped yesterday the largest
cargo of cotton that has ever been cleared
from an Atlantic port, and with one ex-
ception the largest cargo of similar char
acter ever shipped from the United States.
1t has been the endeavor of the Georgia
Export and Import Company to break the
record of big cargoes from this port and
in this the result has greatly exceeded ex-
pectations. The company cleared the
British steamship RAMA with 1920 bales
of cotton for Bremen, the cargo being over
1000 bales, larger than any previously ship
ped from Savannah.
The weight of the cotton was S,963,S55
pounds, an average of 494 pounds to the
bale
The Ranza is :, 4S4 tons net register, and
her cargo averages SO bales to the ton.
tons of coal in the ships bunkers and 400
tons of water ballast in her tanks. With
all of this dead weight the RAMA is draw
ing only p feet 10 inches.
She is one of the finest tramp steamships
that has ever come to this port Capt.
John Stanhope, who is in command, is de-
lighted with the excellent slowing of the
w ic ba Iar Of ly;p
that his ship has ever carried. He sails
for Bremen to-day, with the
hope that he will revisit Savannah
again very soon and receive the same
treatment he has on this unusually sue
cessful trip.
There has been quite a number of large
cargoes of cotton shipped from Savannah
during the last few years, but none of
them came within several thousand bales
of the enormous cargo taken on the Ran
"a. The details of the cargo is as follows:
Seventeen thousand nine hundred bales of
upland cotton, weighing S,S4O,41 pounds,
valued at $5O5, 1872 and 800 bales of sea is
land cotton, weighing 1913, 439 pounds, val
ued at $4,000, making a total of 1920
bales, weighing 1858, S55 pounds, valued at
$524,952. Other large cargoes previously
shipped from this port were as follows
The British steamship Emir, Dec. 9, 1898
carried 1909 bales of upland cotton,
weighing 4,S55, 1856 pounds, valued at $685.
S13.
The British steamship Skidby, Dec. g.
1894, carried 1854 bales of upland cotton,
weighing 39H,250, valued at $213.S79. and
5000 bales of sea island cotton, weighing
1924 pounds, valued at $203, 315; a to-
tai or 1921 bales, Weighing 5A4l64
pounds, valued at $416.69.
Inc British steamship Lamberts Point
oct a. 1895, carried 8S9S bales of INLAND
cotton, weighing 4,432,S53 pounds, valued
at SS93,610, and 1854 bales of sea island cot
ton weighing S96,597 pounds, valued at
Slo5, S0S; a total of 11463 bales weighing
o'4Z9, 400 pounds, valued at $547. 573.
Inc German steamship Dorothea Rick
mers' Nov &c. 1895, carried 10. 365 bales of
valued at S425,OSS
The British steamship Lismore Nov 1s
1896, carried S,555 bales of upland cotton
weighing 4i23,09S pounds, valued at 1901. 5SS
and 2,403 bales of sea island cotton
weighing 9S8,76O pounds, valued at $lSS. 9sS
total of lO959 bales, weighing 5,O6l $50
pounds, valued at s446,579.
The British steamship Baron Tnnerdala
Nov. p, 1896, carried 1907 bales Of upland
cotton, weighing 3,41747O pounds, valued at
$249,74O, and 372S bales of sea island cot
ton, weighing LAT 761, valued at $229. S25; a
total of 1870 bales, weighing ass. 23I
pounds, valued al $479 $50.
The British steamship Strathnairn
Dec. 2S, 1896, carried II $3.50 bales of upland
cotton, weighing 5S4S, POS valued at $4O9, SO
The British steamship Searsdale. Jan 9.
1871, carried lO957 bales of upland cotton
weighing 5,370,27S pounds, valued at 1874. 400
The British steamship Evandale, Nov 6.
1897, carried n,000 bales, weighing $50, Cos
pounds, valued at 1882, 235.
The British steamship AswanIy Nov
20, 1897, carried 10000 bales of upland cot
ton weighing 5,O9374S pounds, valued at
SZ7s,7O5, and 100 bales of sea island cotton
weighing 1884 pounds, valued at s.. 500 a
total of 1890 bales, weighing 5,133 e97
pounds, valued at $2S5, 205.
The British steamship Strathclyde. Dec
"A, 1887, carried 10000 bales of upland COT
ton, weighing 4,97S,62 pounds, valued al
S272, 4S2.