The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-03
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Local and General News OF Ships
and Shipping.

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The British bark Veronica cleared yes
terday with cargo of over 7OO,O 900 feet
OF yellow pine lumber for Buenos Ayres.
This is another of the several large ship
ments of lumber to be made by Savannah
exporters to South America. The de-
mand from there is being supplied
through Southern ports, though Savan-
nah is making the bulk of the shipments.
1t is probable the present orders on the
market will be supplemented by others
shortly, so that good movement of lum-
Der may be looked for during the next
few months. Special efforts are being
made to ship promptly the orders now on
board in the hope of giving the port the
most favorable showing possible with
competitors.
The gift of $4,000 recently made by the
White Star Line to the Liverpool Sea-
mems Pension Fund upon the anniversary
of the death of Mr.. Ismay has enabled
the council of the Mercantile Marine Ser
vice Association to add ten more pension
ers, who will each receive 500 per annum
from the fund. Recently the rooms of
the association in Tower buildings, Water
teresting, albeit pathetic, spectacle, that
day having been fixed to perform the diff
ficult task of allotting the ten new pen
sions and to fill three vacancies among
the many applicants, who total 400. OF
these, after careful wedding, forty-five
We're called to meet the committee Each
of the forty-five had previously been Wis
tied at his home by member of the
council, and the report on the applicant.
with ,aI 80
the candidate, enabled a final selection to
be made. The ages of the thirteen fortu-
nate applicants averaged II years, and
they in many cases had occupied all ranks
in service at sea.
The scheme of coaling naval vessels at
sea, by means of an aerial galloway, has
recently undergone a series of tests un-
der the Navy Departments supervision.
The vessel to be coaled lowed the coaiing
vessel in open sea, some hundred feet in
tervening. In all five trials were made
on different days. During the first, nine
loads were sent over the galloway. On
the next day thirty-fve loads We're sent
in about thirty minutes. On the third
day twenty-five tons were sent in one
hour. The next two tests were for M
durance and rough weather. the former
being of four hours duration. In smooth
water With Il nedNy SVEN, seventy
tons were sent in three hours, with the
possibility of indefinite continuance In
the last and fifth test, during a rough
sea, eighty trips We're made in eighty
minutes. ta
After the officers and crew of the i'll
fated schooner Joseph Luther had clam
bered safely upon the rugged top of
Whaleback Rock, and congratulated them
selves on escaping from a perilous posi-
ton says the Bath Times, a sailor dis
covered that one familiar face was miss
ing. 1t was the cat-a pet tiger cat.
which the sailors were very fond of. and
the thought of having the seafaring ca
reer of puss promptly closed in a watery
grave was most unpleasant. One of the
sailors, more daring than the others, an
nounced that he was going to save the
cat, and, springing to the line which was
attached from the Lodges to the crashing
schooner, had soon covered the seventy
five feet of space above the raging sea.
AS soon as he reached the deck of the
deserted craft he pushed for the hold and
after few long moments found the tiger
cat. With the cat clinging desperately
to his shoulders, he made his return trip
over the line to the rocky island The
crew and the pet arrived i'm town safely,
having come up the river on the tug
Knickerbocker. Their vessel is a com
plete wreck. 1t was indeed a close call
for the tiger cat, which has been mani
Testing its thankfulness by purring ever
since