The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-05
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.


est Tug In the WOrId-Other Items.
The steamer Clifton brought an excur-
s,on from Beaufort Saturday night,
which remains here until tonight, when
they will return
Yesterday the steamer took the Zion
Raptist Church (colored) to Beaufort, re-
mining al 9 p. n, and returned last night
10 Beaufort to bring over another excur-
sion to-day.
Pilot D. S. Delaney of the revenue cut
ter Boutwell,, who has served on the
steamer between Savannah and Palatka,
Fla. for twenty-one years, has oeen hon
orably discharged. Delaney had been six
wears on the Rescue before he went On
the Boutwell,.
The following reports have been received
from Port Royal: Schooner Collins w.
Walton, from Philadelphia, reports, Aug.
Al south of st. Helena, passed schooner
sunk. with two masts standing; also saw,
miles ENE from the lightship, schoon-
er totally dismasted, one schooner ashore
On Trunkard beach, one schooner ashore
on Hilton Head beach totally dismasted.
schooner A. B. Sherman, Pillsbury, from
Baltimore Aug. II for Brunswick, was an
cbored near the hghtship with loss of fore
topmast jibboom and all headgear One
brig and four vessels were seen at anchor
between Port Royal and st. Helena.
Schooner Sarah ID. J. Rawson, Frencn,
which was towed in here dismasted, while
on the voyage from New York for Darien,
1eports that the captains head was in
iured and one rib broken; also reports saw
quantities of wreckage, including the top
of a house; was in company with schooner
John II. Plat, Ives, from New York for
Brunswick in ballast, but saw nothing
OF her after the weather cleared.
A large, light schooner came in under
iurymasts and anchored off lightship
The Marine Review, of Cleveland, in de-
scribng the new ocean-going tug Robert
W Wilmot says that the new vessel will
be the largest and most powerful tug in
America, and probably the largest and
most powerful In the world. Her length is
l56 feet 8 inches over all; 143 feet 4 inches
between perpendicularsi 80 feet BEAM
nodded; II feet 6 inches depth, nodded;
spring of BEAM amidships inches. The
main draft. when loaded for sea, will be
"A feet. The tug will have a coal capacity
of $50 tons; 2,10O indicated horsepower of
engine, or 200 collective horse power in
Guiding pumping engines and must, ac-
cording to the contract, develop speed of
% knots The vessel was launched last
Saturday from the Globe Iron Works,
Cleveland, and when finished in November,
of this year, will represent an outlay Of
considerably more than 100000. She will
be taken to New Orleans via the St. Law
renee and the Atlantic, touching at Nor
folk and Key West, making the total Voy-
age AIS miles.
The announcement is made that the Bos-
ton Fruit Company will name the. last of
its four steamships now being constructed
at Cramps yard, Philadelphia, the Admit
raj Walker. This will make the quartette
of steamships the Admiral Dewey, Admi-
raj Sampson Admiral Schley and Admiral
Walker. The launching of the Admiral
Sampson will take place in about iwo
weeks and the other two boats will be let
off the ways within few weeks there
after.
Baltimore is to have direct steamship
service to the West Indies. The project
has been actively agitated since the close
of the war by the business men of the city
who wanted to develop their trade between
Baltimore, Porto Rico and Cuba.
A new corporation, known as the Balti-
more and West Indies Steamship Com
pany has just been Incorporated and will
charter a steamship for the opening of the
line. The company is Incorporated under
the laws of West Virginia, and the incor-
pOrators represent important business and
financial interests of the city. The capital
stock is 100000.
But Baltimore alone is not to be the only
dependency of the company. 1t claims 10
have the assurance from the railroad com
panies of cooperation in carrying freight
to Baltimore for shipment 10 other ports.
A proposition under consideration is to es-
tablish a service between Baltimore and
New Orleans via Havana. Thousands of
tons of freight destined for Texas and the
Southwest, it is said, could be handled
over this route in addition to the Cuban
business, which, at first, may not be suffi-
Gent to support the line.
The navy department has delivered at
Cramps, in Philadelphia, the four vessels
chartered from the International Naviga-
uon Company, formerly known as the
New York, Paris, st. Paul and st. Louis.
The ships are to be restored to the exact
condition in which they were when taken
by the navy department for use in the
war
Capt. Paine of the tug Regis returned
yesterday from Indian Spring. where he
has been spending his vacation. He was
not due to return for ten days, but hear
ing of the damage to his company's light
ers, came home to render his assistance.
lie was on the road since last Wednes-
day.
The Savannah Lighterage and Transfer
Company has succeeded in securing four
of its lighters, which were blown in the
marsh during the storm. Two of the larg
est lighters are still ashore on BarnWell
Island and at Screvens Ferry. Unsuccess-
fu attempts have already been made to
get them off. but it is expected that both
IF ba iob is "A
total loss. The company estimates It's loss
at $1,000.
The buoy tender Wisteria was along the
coast between Charleston and Tybee yes
terday, replacing the buoys which got
adrift during the storm of last Wednesday.
The tugboat MoCauley, Capt. Jacobs,
made trip along the coast as far north
as Martins Industry lightship, in search
OF vessels. Nothing was sighted except
the wrecks already reported.