The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-12
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
ANDE DUCHESsE GIVEN AN oVA-
TioN ON Der DEPARTURE.

Much Good VIII Displayed Towards
Capt. HanIon and His ship-British
Bark Carl Won DObeln, Bound for
savannah Delayed by Trouble
with Crew at Delaware Break
yvater-Changes Made by Lowery
Round Bale People in Their Meth
DDS of BnIing-Threc Arrivals and
Two Departures Yesterday.
The steamship La Grande Duchesse was
given an ovation. yesterday on her de-
parture on her final trip under her pres
enc engagement with the Ocean Steam
ship Company. Everything on the river
human and mechanical, seemed to unite
to give the departing liner a grand send
off. All the steam craft in port and
everything along shore that had steam
whistle took particular pains 90 give the
full salute and the Duchesse was kept
busy responding on her way down the
river. The vessel was IN gala attire,
with her colors flying and all her flags
set The passengers, of whom there
were a large number, crowded TO the
port side of the vessel and exchanged sa-
lutes with she people who crowded the
balconies and wharVes on River street
The little bugler of the Grande Duchesse
was a prominent figure, and people blocks
away got the impression that a regi-
mental dress parade was being held on
the river front.
The many friends of Capt. Han.on and
his good ship, the Grande Duchesse' W.sh
both him and her only fair weather ana
pleasant voyages until both return TO Sa
vannah together again.
The schooner Horace P. Shares, Capt.
Kennery. sailed yesterday morning with
222 coo feet of timber for New York. She
was loaded by f. b. Hunting & Co
The schooner Robert Mcfarland, Capt.
MONTGOMERY completed her cargo yestef-
dav. and will sail this morning Tor Ner-
plapck Point Y. Y. She has 556,429 feet
Of lumber. by the Georgia Lumber Com
pany.
The Philadelphia Record of Sunday con-
tributes the following interesting Dudget
of ship news: The British Consul mas
paid off the crew of the British bark Carl
Won Dobeln which recently arrived "a
the Delaware breakwater from Barbados,
and who refused duty when capt. WIZ
Jams the master and owner of the yes
sci, ordered them TO get tile NidIL uiINNi
way to proceed to Savannah. The entire
crew were examined yesterday by the
immigration authorities. 1t was shown
that two of the crew had signed articles
to work for a shilling a month and these
the authorities will have to send back TO
their homes in the West Indies
The three-tnasted schooner Lucia Por-
Ter. in command of Capt. Farrow from
Brunswick Ga. for New York, with
cargo of lumber. was ashore at cape
Hatteras. She struck on the Diamond
shoals at 1870 o'clock on Friday night,
but f1oated yesterday morning, and was
assisted to deep water by the life saving
crews of Cape Hatteras and Creeds Hill
stations. She is now under way working
along the coast northward, leaking slight
w. but otherwise apparently uninjured.
The accident was due to the schooner
deviation from her proper course and the
subsequent mistaking of the light at Cape
Hatteras for that on the Diamond shoal
ightship The home port of the Lucia
Porter is Belfast Me, and her net tom
mage is 2S4 tons.
The American bark Harvester, which
sailed from Cape Town on April % for
Newcastle New South Wales, was total
" wrecked on Seal Rocks. Australia The
crew were all rescued. The lost vessel
was i'm ballast She was owned in San
Francisco and was built at Bath, Me,
in 1875.
The new British steamship Hudson,
| owned by the STANDARD Oil Company left
| New York yesterday for Philadelphia to
! load a full cargo of refined petroleum at
| Point Breeze for Japan. The Hudson -
! lust from the shipyard and is registered
| in the name of the Anslo-American on
| Company.
| While bound from Newcastle, n. B., for
/ New York the British schooner Avalon
/ mmber-laden. ran ashore yesterday TWO
n,i1ee south Of N1uset lifc-saVing station,
| Massachusetts Efforts are being made
to float her. which, 1t - believed VIII
be successful to-day.
| The new British steamship Cumbral,
! from New York for Valparaiso, has put
| into Bahia Brazil, with her machinery de-
! ranged and her engines broken down.
| The steam yacht Scythian, owned by
| Mrs Cardiff. before reported on fire and
! towed back to Boston in badly damaged
! condition. has been abandoned to the I'M
The brig NJ. c. Haskell, Capt Wing
/ field. lumber-laden, for Barbados, put
/ back to Wilmington n. c., yesterday on
account Of the sickness of her master
The pilot boat ]. II. Estill, which re-
Gently completed her repairs is now on
! the marine railway, across the river,
where her hull will be given a coat Of
amt.
The damage caused 10 piar No. . of
stin No 1. OF the Ceorg Terminal Com
any by the caving in few days since
/ Of "A portion Of the wharf is being re-
paired The damage is rot al all serious.
! Mai r. 4. Blandford, constructing en-
gineer OF the company states that the
! trouble was not due to deep dredging in
the slip. but to the giving away Of the
/ iron stay rods, connecting the piling with