The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-01
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.

Local and General News of Siphs
and Shipping.
The schooner Blanche Hopkins will
sail for New York to-day with a cargo
of lumber.
The bark Matanzas will sail for
Philadelphia with a cargo of lumber
either to-day or tomorrow.
The Norwegian bark Guldass, which
reached this port yesterday from Lon
don. in ballast, reported the loss of her
foretopmast and main royal in a hur-
ricane which struck her in latitude
1927, longitude Il. The vessel was not
otherwise damaged.
Norfolk Dry Dock Contract Award
ed-The contract for the construction
of a dry dock at the navy yard at
Norfolk on July q was awarded by the
Navy Department to John C. Rogers
Of New York, whose bid of $4,000 was
the lowest.
Cable Repair Steamer Bought-Off-
GERS of the cable steamer Iris announce
that the cable steamer Scotia has been
purchased in London for use as ca
BILE. She will be stationed at San Fran
cisco. The Scotia is an iron twin
screw brig rugged steamer Of 2,176 tons,
and was built at Glasgow in 1852.
Kaiser Wilhelm II Lowers Her Rec
ord-The North German Lloyd Line
steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II, which sail
ed from New York on July q, clear
ing the bar at ESQ p. m, arrived at
Plymouth at 1905 p. m July q, max
ing the passage in FIVE days, fifteen
hours and ffty-five minutes, thus low
ering her best previous eastward rec
ord of five days, II hours and thirty
minutes by one hour and thirty-five
minutes.
No more powerful blow has been
struck at the Morgan ship trust, says
the Marine News and Review, than
was delivered by the Hamburg Ameri-
can Line directors in deciding to make
Dover a port of call for some of the
biggest ships in its service.
Hereafter eight ships of the Ham
burg-American Company will call
weekly at this port, which thus, at
jump, becomes one of the most i'm
portant calling places on the British
coast.
The largest ships of the Hamburg
American service will call here, vessels
Fuerst Bismarck, and the service will
not be limited to- the New York trade.
but to the South American, Mexican
and Far Eastern as well, both out
ward and homeward bound.
The innoVat ton is a step of the ut
most Importance, and may result in
shifting the entire course of trans
Atlantic travel.
Hitherto Liverpool and Southamp-
ton have been the two big ports in
Great Britain. Dover has taken rank
only as the point of embarkation and
debarkation for passengers bound to
and from Calais. Under the present
methods. returning tourists must land
at Dover and travel across England
to Liverpool or Southampton to en-
bark if they are travelling on other
than the lines sailing from Continental
ports.
With the new arrangement the tour
list may land at Dover and embark at
once on a Hamburg American liner
and make no more changes until the
ultimate destination is reached. 1t is
estimated that thousands yearly will
avail themselves of this opportunity
and thus avoid the more or less tire
some trip across England by rail.
The damage that will thus be done
the Morgan ships will readily be seen.
As move to circumvent the ship
trust it is regarded as one of the clev-
crest that could have been devised.
The Morgan ships could call at Do
yer also, but if it should be decided
to take this step, however, twelve
hours at least would be added to the
voyage of every ship so sent; so it is
not likely that Morgan will attempt
to meet the new competition in that
way.