The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-07
Pulled Off Last Night
BY United Efforts Of
Powerful Tugs.
=UNCAS5 5COLLlDED
CARRYING AWAY RAIL.
ItDevclopcd That There Was Ne
Native Pilot Aboard the Ves-a
sci When She Entered the i,
Capes, One Having
Offered and Been
Refused. 3
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NORFOLK, VA, May G.-The Rhode "
Island was noated tonight after having 6
been aground on the York Spit Bar since a
Saturday morning. II was due to S tho o35
efforts of four powerful naval tugs the y
Uncas, Wahneta, Hercules nnd MohaWk. ~.
that tho big wnrship was drawn fro n d
the sand-bnr. She was noated at high
tide at $3.50 o'clock this afternoon. The
United States cruiser Minneapolis stood
by and saw the Rhode Island pulled from
the shonl, and would have assisted IN 5i
getting her of but for her inability 70
get n hawser aboard the battlesfip.i
Uncas Collided With Her. @
When the naval tugs reached tho Il
stranded wayship, after a thirty-mtleA N
run from tho Norfolk navy-yard, she
found the Rhode Islands bow high on
the shoal at the eastern entrance to y
York River. Early this morning TIE tie
cruiser Minneapolis endeavored to get q IF
line aboard the Rhode Island s stern,g
with the assistance Of the naval tug
Uncns. In manoeuvering, the Ijncas was 4
In collision with the Rhode Island. and N
carried away part of her rail. LnterSthe Il
Mohawk went aground alongside the
Rhode Island while passing q hawserg
aboard that vessel. but eventually got
afloat. \. #SE l$s
5 Efforts to float the Rhode Island at high
tide this morning did not move the rves-B
sci. At low tide to-day, tho battleslnps
was drawing twenty-four feet of58Water#
saft, and eighteen feet forward Water
was pumped from the forward tan1s al ei
and every piece Of movable material
was shifted from the forward part Of the
ship with the view OF tightening that
quarter This afternoon tho naval tugs
tandemed up at high tide for n try at 1
the battlcshlp. Their efforts were suc-#
ccssful The Rhode Island then dropped
|lanchor In the mouth Of York River and (
will come to Hampton. Roads to- morrow
! ilnornlng. sfti i4S
Course Too Far Eastward. BSs
1T Is believed that the course Of the
warship was laid too far eastward In
entering tho York River. 31 s.8$
The Wahneda, Mohawk and Hercules
returned to the navy yard tonight, eaV-s
Island. @ 81 N M
The extent Of the injury to the ship Isl
not known tonight. III
It develops that there was no native
pilot taken aboard the vessel when She
entered the capes. The Virginia pilots
say that one was offered, but refused.
No other pilot would have undertaken
to take the ship to York Bay. ss III
The battleship Is supposed to haVs
passed In the Virginia capes at 4:Iea
o'clock yesterday morning It took her
probably three hours to get from the 4
capes to the point at which she ran I
aground, and, If that be true, she went N
ashore at high water.
Fair Weather Saturday.
There was fair weather at York Spitt'
yesterday morning and no sea was rum
ming. Tho wind at Cape Henry at s Il
O'Clock yesterday morning was blowing /
from the southwest four miles an hour.
1t was reported here to-night that the 4
government is negotiating with tho Mer-i
rift & Chapman Derrick and Wrecklng
Company to float the vessel,
b Not one Of tho naval tugs, the Mohawk,
Hercules or Uncas, which went to the
aid OF the vessel, has yet been heard &
FROM Tho Uncns is the most powerful Y
tug In tho navy. l5E55 at$l8j