The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-10
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

Low Water In the Upper Savannah
River Delays the Freight Steam
ers-A British Schooner Here for a
Cargo of supplies-German Ship
DuiIding-Other Items of Interest.
The steamer Ethel, which was due to ar
rive Sunday from Augusta, but was delay
ed by having trouble in getting over the
shoals, arrived yesterday morning. She
left last night on return, taking only about
half a cargo on account of the low water
in the river. There is large quantity of
freight at the Ethers wharf, which is de-
layed because the boat cannot get safely
over the shoals with full load
The British schooner William H. Alburg,
from Nassau. N. p. arrived yesterday. She
Is to be loaded with general merchandise
by M. Ferst's Sons & Co, and viii return
to Nassau with her cargo
The steamer Santee. Capt. Robson, from
Palatka and way landings, arrived yester-
day with a large cargo of naval stores.
She will leave to-day on return with a
large quantity of oil and general merchan-
disc. The business of the Santee has great
ly increased since she began running along
the Georgia and Florida coast.
The steam tender Hope, which is sta
toned at the naval station at Paris
Island, arrived yesterday with Commander
Rockwell, of the station. She will return
to-day.
According to the recent report of the
Hamburg-American Steam Packet Share
Company, there are at present fifteen
large steamers in process of construction
Tor the Hamburg American line which.
when completed, will give the fleet a total
or 4O6,9oO gross register tonnage. The com
pany IS now lncontestably the largest I'm
the world. On the first day of January
last the largest English company the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company, owned a total of $4,000 tons
the North German Lloyd 2S0,0O0 tons and
the Messageries Maritimes the largest
French company. 100000 tons.
The balance sheet of the Vulcan Works
at Stettin for 1897 makes q very favorable
snow IN dividend of 10 per cent for the
shareholders. The highest number Of
workmen employed was 5,7O4. the lowest
1856. There were, on the stocks and IN
process of completion, two second-class
cruisers for the German navy. the Norm
German Lloyd steamer Spree. three pro-
tected cruisers for China, an armored
cruiser for Japan, the twin-screw steamer
Patricia for the Hamburg American line
n locomotives, 5 boilers and 8 stationary
engines,
The Norwegian steamer Drot Cant
Hansen, from Baltimore. May O. for
havre, which was spoken at sea with shaft
broken, arrived at her destination vestar-
day, repairs having been made on board
by the ships engineer.
Simon Lake. the inventor of the sinh
marine boat Argonaut, has been taking
interestingly Of his 200-mile trip under ana
on the surface of the Chesapeake bay In
ms wonderful little craft. He says: Our
ing the trip we made various experiments
TO demonstrate the praetlcablity of our
system Of submarine navigation. The
whoie trip was made with our own mower
jhe Argonaut was handled very easi1x
either under the surface or when r,1nnine
on the bottom. and we proved that ira
boat was perfectly seaworthy. on baro
bottom where the water was comparative
~ clear. tho door was opened. and it was
beautiful sight We picked up a few
oysters as we were travelling along W.
discovered that we could see farther undar
the surface at night with our electric
hghts than In daytime. The greatest dis
tance seen In the bay was about tvventx,
rect. We hope TO get into the ocean next
week, where VIC viii set clear waters. ana
see much farther. Our divers were sem
out from the boat and demonstrated rho
entire practcability of our system" Mr.
Lake expresses confidence in being able TO
destroy mines laid to protect any harbor
in The world -