Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-02-02
.MARSTON MOOR SAFE.
British Steamship at New Inlet
Floafed Last Night.
Overdue Liner arrives -I.uckcnback
After she chns. IL. H.cct-Dnnger TO
NAVIGATION Removed Mny L,bci
for Damngcs-Bargo Repaired.

| AoE kcnNtECU.
The British steamship Marston Moor
lay ut anchor off New Inlet bar at 10
o'clock last night, having been success
fully foated at s o'clock by the AIer-
ritt's steam wrecking barge William
Coley.
/ Night before last She lay stranded on
the bar,the bitterly cold northeast wind
and surging seas making her position
L precarious one. The wind luckily
chopped around to westward toward
morning and the sea had only the effect
OF looscning her i'll her bed. from which
two strong attempts were made dur
ing the day to haul her off but with
only the effect to swing her 4 trine
more broadside 10 the waves The
slight rolling motion given loosencd her
so that the last attempt, at about 730,
started her and two or three strong
| pulls sid her into deep wafer, and
from her dangerous position she was
lowed To Il safe anchorage. She is
apparently uninjurcd by her adventure
ana her engines work all right, so she
will probably arrive here to-day under
her own steam and take OH the five
men who preferred to take their risk
ashore. cargo and proceed to icstina-
ton. The statement of Yesterday was
incorrect, in that 1t gave the idea that
she WAS ON the beach. She lay inn
bedded in the sand from near amid
snip to her bow the bar at extreme
low tide showing her bow nearly back
10 lore rigging i'll the sand, though
she was 500 yards from shore
The Ariosto has not been heard from
lately but no change in her condition
has evidently been made, or word of
It would have been autographed.
The British steamship Chickahominv
| OF the Chesapeake and Ohio line. ar
rived yesterday afternoon and ended
the worry over her. She was nearly
week overdue. and the owners were
getting anxious. 1t Is reported that
she met heavy seas. thick weather.
fierce winds and the entire passage
was an unusually stormy one She
rode out the storms beautifully, how
ever, and arrived all right.
The tug Edgar f. Luclsenbach start
ed last night i'll search of the aban-
doned schooner Chas. b. Leet. owned
y,
crew OF which, after losing spnnker
and other sails. fighting increasing Wa
ter in the hold from opening seams for
,five days in Il fierce storm off the coast,
finally We're taken off by the schooner
Anne Lord last Sunday, in latitude
ISIS, longitude 1923, the Leet's bows
being then under water three feet of
water in her cabin. her deck load Shift
ed and the vessel unmanageable. Cap
tain Cramer, OF Suffolk, managing
owner says he'd give $4,000 for her
right now.
The revenue cutter Onondaga, Cap
tain Hamlet, reports pulling out the
spars of the schooner Fannie Brown.
foundered off Hatteras lightship as re-
suit of collision with the schooner Mar
garet B. Roper. Captain Cramer sew
eral weeks ago. and reported as q mem
ace to navigation for the last month
or more. The removal OF the sticks,
which protruded from the water.
makes the passage safe, the vessel ly-
ing too deep. to be any danger. The
spars were towed into Hampton Roads
y tug with two mud-scows in tow,
bound out, rammed the British steam
ship Silverdale. lying of Old Point.
I Tuesday night. damaging the steam
ship considerably. She proceeded to
Newport News for repairs and to Sc
cure the name of the tug. which. 1t is
understood, she Will libel for damages.
The Philadelphia Record says: evil
| liam p. Clyde & Co. one of the largest
| owners of steam vessels engaged in tho
coastwisc and West India trade. have
awarded n contract to the William
T. t,t. Il Igt,ft n
ing Company for two new teamships.
The vessels will each be 300 feet long,
&c feet beam and 30 feet depth Of hold.
| The boats are intended not only for
freight and passenger traffic along the
| coast. but they will also run to Haiti
and San Domingo. AS the Clyde Com
pany possesses valuable concessions
from the Haitian and Dominican Gov
ernmcnts. the building OF these vessels
is looked upon as an important feature
In trade development.
The barge John Smith, bought by Mr..
William Lauder. soon after The South,
! crn Railway warehouse fire Mt Primers
| Point, at which fire the barge was
somewhat damaged, she belonging at
| that time to the Southern Railway has
| since been thoroughly repaired and
| overhaulad. n new derrick and steam
hosting machinery Installed, and Is
now about ready to go again into COM
| mission in harbor work.
Captain Hammett OF the schooner
| Bradford g. French which vessel ia
now in Baltimore. at coal piers. wait,
| ing cargo. on demurrage. was in Nor
! foil, yesterday 20 set his masters
license renewed and returned to Balti-
more last night. lie paid visit to Il