The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-31
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
AID GENERAL NEWS OF
lO'A SHIPS AND SHIPPING

.,ov--British Steamship Ar
arrives for a Cargo OF
u.or-British Steamship sir wal
raleigh TOws T" Dis"oie"
hin Into HaIifax-iist OF
70 Arrive at This Port.
a,ildinE of the World
FOO hung over the harbor all
yesterday. Vessels passing AyDee
oa' r,t he discerned from the observer
couiu ~ several arrived TO the city that
s'a''' previously reported passed in.
Weie .,r,sbip Essex, for Baltimore, and
In' Augusta, for New York, went to
O'@ ...tardav morning, having been de-
sea from sailing the night before on
N'. If the heavy fog. The steamship
ota,taboochee, from New York. arrived
.,or5sv at o'clock, few hours over
w., account of the thick weather.
,.,+isb steamship Ardrishaig. Capt.
.-.5,u twenty-five days from North
a'F.,,s arrived yesterday for cargo of
' ...r to he shipped to Liverpool. She is
.,n,o7 10 the Georgia Export and I'M
loIt o1asdail reports having had fair
her during the trip across the ocean.
4 NJ steamship arrived at the quarantine
I.aIion Saturday at o'clock p. m, put
/ IN account of the thick wealher' she coulu
% he seen from the signal station, and
nonsonuentIv was not reported.
can't I.odgsdail of the British steamship
,r5rishaig reports passing at l o'clock p.
~ Ian %. twenty miles east-southeast of
rTrbee sea buoy, a buoy painted with red
sn5 black horizontal stripes, adrift in the
sea.
The schooner Carrie r. Balano, Capt.
uagertnv. from Norfolk, arrived yester-
day with cargo of COAL consigned to G.
/ Taggart.
The schooner Annie T. Bailey, from Phil
odalnhia. arrived yesterday with a cargo
Of coal consigned to c. H. Dixon & Co.
She will be loaded with lumber on re-
urn by John A. Calhoun.
The tug Sophie. Capt. John Rafferty,, left
Yesterday for High Point, Sapelo, towing
the dredg? Alabama. She will return with
the dredge Fairplay, which will take the
place of the Alabama on the Savannah
river work.
The Philadelphia Record says Reports
Of disaster to the outside coal barges come
IN nearly every day. and unless something
IS done toward making the vessels of a
different type they will be declared by
the underwriters as of the extra hazard
GUS class, and risks will be advanced ac-
cordngly. The loss of life on these YES
sells during the past twelve months be-
tween Newport News and Boston has been
very heavy. The latest disaster to this
type Of craft was TO the barge Charles
Petbone, which foundered on Wednes-
day night OFF the Stamford light The
crew managed to reach Stamford.
Lieut. Edward Simpson, who has been in
charge Of the Baltimore branch hydro
graphic Office for about twenty months
and who has been ordered to duty in the
coast survey, has been assigned to COM
mand the United States coast survey
steamer EndeavOr at this port. He will
relieve Lieutenant Commander Forse. who
10 take command of the Patterson in
coast survey duty on the Pacific coast
within the next six weeks a number Of
changes viii be made in the officers at
laehed to the coast survey fleet now in
Baltimore.
The Georgia Export and Import Com
pany received a telegram yesterday from
apt Jones of the British steamship Sir
waiter Raleigh, stating that he had ar
nVed at Halifax, n. S., with the disabled
1lISh steamship Balmoral in tow He
aSo stated that his steamship would sail
Today for Savannah. She is chartered
70 load at this port with cotton for Ge-
Ayr 49, % - on
Inc British steamship Balmoral Capt.
MeRchie, SAILED from London Jan. 70 for
Philadelphia
Inc following is an extract from Lloyd's
year 1897, ~
20. Exclusive warships, 591 vessels, of 952.-
so IONS gross wiz, 545 steamers, of 924.-
Ious' ana 46 sailing vessels of 2S1O4
WpnSl, nave been launched in the United
nIusuom The warships launched at both
q Y'e t and private yards amount to
or.o VI 800 tons displacement. The total
raopu, Oh the United Kingdom for the
lO4195l tons '" O0' VESSELS Vi
vi ~ output of the year in the United
to tisooin is less than that of 1896 by POI. 900
Tb uu' IS about equal TO that of 1896
raao 'redse occurs mainly in steam ton
Will ne construction of sailing vessels,
iloa mas been rapidly falling off since
tba i'S lhls year reached lower point
nre, any oil which Lloyd's Register has
for rri'1S record. In 1892, sailing tonnage
n - u per cent. of the output; in 1897
sp ,oriIS only per cent. of a considerably
pko 1ne "arship tonnage launched in 1897
ersaso snow, SHOWS very considerable de-
gqs 7, goo'VO tons) from the figures for
sb me tonnage launched for the Brit.
he navy navy Is less by $1,000 tons than was
"e case last year
The oo- lizards the material employed for
in tho ITS,l .lu of the vessels included
II Is ni'ed Kingdom returns for 1897
az nd lound that, of the steam tonnage
II nor cent has been built of steel and
naga g.. eenl OF iron. The iron steam tom
ana practically made up of trawlers
ls tonl pIlses no vessel of more than
cent ba. vi the sailing tonnage. 95.5 per
cent Of wood Jun ol Steel ana 40 per
has b"I % per cent of the total outpu,
end co,,r,. nullt to the order of foreign
raro5 O ,.'lia ship-owners in 1897. as com
cent N, ~. ny, 80 per cent. in 1895. and 20 per
vide5 1882 Japan has this wear pro.
British largest amount of work for
tons co,l. builders IA vessels of 50, AS
pun bo, per cent. of the total out
German, been built for that country.
&57 tos follows with eight vessels Of
me coJor,. 'over per cent?. Next come
Hol'ar5 'eS' with % 600 tons y a mar cant \.