The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-05
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

Steamship ChattahOOchee Aground
Near Quarantine statiOn-Capt.
kilROre of Revenue Cutter Bout
well Ordered to the Perry-Y elbow
Fever in Rio JaneriO-FOrecast for
March-LiSt of Vessels in Port.
The steamship Chattahoochee. Capt.
Lewis, which left for Boston yesterday
morning, got aground near the quaran-
tine station during the dense fog which
hung over the haroor. Two lighters were
sent to her assistance and a quantity of
her cargo was discharged. At high tide
last night two tugs pulled on the steam
ship. but did not succeed in floating her.
Another attempt to get her off will be
made this morning
Capt W. F. KIlgore Of the revenue cut
ter Boutwell, has been detached from this
station and order to the revenue cutter
Perry at Port Townsend Washington
He will leave Monday. His sue
cessor on the Boutwell, has not yet been
appointed. Capt. Kilgore has been in COM
mand of the Boutwell, at this station for
three years, during which time he has
greet that he has been ordered away
A letter from Rio Janeiro, Brazil gives
the situation there as very bad from yell
low fever. The master of a Baltimore
vessel. writing his owners. says that one
of the crew of Rollins bark Baltimore,
Capt. Malcolm, dropped dead on deck
from the disease.
One of the crew of Stewards barken-
tine Glad Things Capt Collier was in
the hospital, and 1t looked as though both
vessels would have to send others there.
The Baltimore sailed from Rio Janeiro on
Feb. and the Glad Tidings on Feb. z.
The Priscilla, Capt. KIages, of Stewards
fleet. sailed on Feb. 20. All are bound to
Baltimore.
The photographic office has issued the
following forecast for March-Gales less
frequent Than in February and not so VIC
lent. OF the American coast north of
Hatteras occasional northwesterly gales.
Along the transatlantic steamer routes
gales about once in six days with periods
of strong uortheastery winds. Near the
Azores gales about once In ten days.
Fog on the Grand Banks and near the
New England coast. Ice on the Grand
pdHhS Dis lar SOutN as 10 degrees N, Win
field ice south and east of Newfoundland
The light house steamer Maple has gone
to tow the Diamond Shoal llghtship No
SO, from Hatteras to Edgmont, Delaware
to be repaired. As previously published
the lghtship broke from her mornings
during a recent storm, but managed to
get back TO within a few hundred yards
of her proper position Those in charge
rnFIi1 he Al
buoy to which the vessel had been moored
had disappeared. The new lightship II
will temporarily take the place of the
Diamond Shoal lghtship.
Capt. S. C. Loveland of the Philadel-
phia schooner Sarah d. Fell, has received
from the Spanish government a silver
medal and a handsomely engrossed paper.
in recognition of his humanity in saving
crew of Spanish fishermen on Jan. IS,
1897, while on his way from Huelva Spain
for Philadelphia, with a cargo of copper
ore. Capt. Loveland put the Fell about
and landed the fishermen on Spanish soil.
The British steamship Pocklington. I.iv
erpool from Demerara, sighted the aband-
oned British schooner Portland on Feb. IS
in latitude 50 north, longitude 80 west. A
boat was dispatched to the derellct and
on boarding her it was found that the
rudder head, mainsail and mainboom were
gone, but the vessel was tight An at
tempt was made to tow her, without sue
cess. The Portland was abandoned 1.1OO
miles west of the Irish coast on Feb
while bound from Alicante to St. Johns.
N. f. The crew were landed at Queens
town on Feb. IA by the British ship Loeb
Carron.
The schooner Henry Crosby, Capt.
Stubbs, from New York arrived yester-
day with a cargo of salt consigned to G.
NJ Gilbert & Co.