The Republican journal., 1903-02-05
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FOREIGN PORTS.
Turks Island, JAM 16 Sid, scL Clarence
A. ShaffOner (Br.) Belfast.
BuenOs Ayres, Jan. %. Sid, sch. Mabel
Jordan, New York for Boston.
AKIN, W. C. A., JAM 81. Sid, sch. John
Paul, Foss, Boston.
Rio Janeiro, Feb. /. Ar, bark Francis,
Erickson, Baltimore.
MARINE MISCELLANY.
Gilkey Harbor, Maine. Notice is given
that Thrumbcap Ledge buoy, No. /, a black
spar, reported adrift Nov. l3, 1902 was re-
placed Jan. %, 1908.
Spoken. Jan. IA, lat. N, Ion. % W. ship
%a % from New sr York for
Llaguno, from Hong Kong for New York.
The fOur-masted schooner Joseph G. Ray,
Captain Crock er of ThOmastOn, arrived at
Norfolk January 9th from Boston, after a
stormy voyage. She encountered gale off
the New Jersey coast and was blown far
ing. During the height of the gale the fore
sail was carried away and two tOpSails were
lost.
No tidings of the body of Captain Heal,
drowned in the collision of the Hattie C.
Luce and the j. H. Buttrick, have been re-
tie C. Luce, now at Vineyard Haven, was
visited by one of her owners, Mr.. Carleton
of ROckpOrt, last week, and it was decided
to tow the schooner to New York, as her
granite cargo Is very much in demand now.
After that she will be towed back to Rock
port where she will be repaired at Carleton,
Norwood & Co.'s yard.
Carlton, Norwood & Co., A. H. Bull &
Co., and other owners of the schooner Hat
tie c. Luce OF Rockport, in behalf of them
selves and the owners OF the cargo of stone,
and of her crew, have brought libel suit
in the U. S. district court against the schOon-
er John II. Buttrick, now at New Bedford,
to recover $4,000 damages for injury to the
libellants' schooner, her cargo of stone and
personal effects of her crew, caused by a
collision near Chatham light on the night
of Jan. % with the Buttrick. The claim is
that the collision was due to the fault of the
Buttrick.
Baltimore shipping men are financially
interested in the $4,000, 900 coastwise trans
portation company which has acquired the
| eight schooners of the Crowley fleet. The
% vessels belonging to the Consolidated
Coal Company will be absorbed by the new
corporation and will increase the tonnage
| controlled by 1851 tons net. This will
| make the total amount of tonnage 1898
tons net. The vessels owned by the Con-
solidated Coal Company are the steamers
Charles F. Mayer and Frostburg; the tugs
Savage, Cumberland and Piedmont, and the
barges Nos. /, 2, H. 5, 6, 7, s, 9, 10, IL, 49, IA,
! 10, Is, II, 18, 10 and 20.
| Vineyard Haven, Jan. 80. Master and
crew arrived here to-day to take charge of
the dismasted sch. Hattie c. Luce, which
was towed in here abandoned. Tug Storm
King will tow the wreck to New York.
Vineyard Haven, Jan. 81. Sch. J. Arthur
Lord, from Perth Amboy for Wood Holl
broke fore boom and fore gait this morning
in Vineyard Sound. Will make temporary
repairs and proceed. Sch. Charlotte f. Sib
lev, Williams, from Perth Amboy for New
buryport, tore foresail 31st, and put into
| Vineyard Haven for repairs.
Highland Light, Mass, February 1. The
life savers of the Pamet River station woulG
like to know the whereabouts of the crew
of the SchO ner Lyman NJ. Law, fhiladel
phia for Boston, with a coal cargo, anC
their reasons for hurriedly leaving the yes
sci, which the life savers found to-day an
chored four miles off the station, in appar
emily good condition. The schooner is now
in PrOvincetown harbOr, where the Port
land steamer North Star tOwed her this af
ternoon. Capt. Blake and crew were land
ed at Philadelphia Feb. . by steamship
Grecian from Boston. The Law was aban
doned Jan. 3lst eight miles southeast o
Providence, r. l.. Feb ,. German F
Small of Rockport, Me-, one of the crew o
the three-masted coal schooner Adele I
Carlton, fell overheard at $40 on Saturda.
afternoon, while the schooner was betweeI
Montauk Point and Block Island and wa
drowned. Small, who was 26 years old
shipped on board the schooner at New
York, Friday He was unmarried.