Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-25
LOCAL men ON
LONG VOYAGE.
Iug Has Arrived at San Francis
co IN Tow of the Steamer
Porter.

iSle NEW ioFk ABOUT TWO months ag1
in charge of Captain George McGold
rick, of this city, and his brother
John McGoldrick, who is the first of
icer on the boat, has safely arrived a
San Francisco. The captain and frs
officer OF the tug are the sons of Mr.
and Mrs. Michael McGoldrick, of 6.
Commerce street. A brother of thu
two men, Joseph McGoldrick, is EN-
ployed as a salesman in Cannon &
Sheehy's clothing store in Smith
street and yesterday received the fol
lowing clipping from the San Fran.
cisco Call of January 10 describing
the voyage:
Two Famous vessels, to be added tC
the fleet of the Associated Oil Com
pany on the Pacific coast, arrived In
port yesterday, theN tank steamship
w. S. Porter and the tug Navigator
The Porter is the largest tank steam
ship afoat under the American flag
being 400 feet long, so feet beam and
having a carrying capacity of ST.
900 barrels. This vessel was built al
Newport News last ear for the com
pany named. The Navigator has a
history, having been repeatedly used
by judges and others in the inter
national yacht races on the Atlantic,
The Navigator came in tow of the
Porter. The two vessels lost the
company $1,7O0.0OO.
The Porter towed the Navigator
the entire distance from New York to
This port. They made the trip in the
fast time of 81 days and Is hours.
Captain Borressen, of the Porter
said last night that the weather ex-
oerienced during the voyage was ex-
cellent. He said that on December
20, when in latitude 20 AZ south and
longitude Sc "a west, he sighted the
Dark Jessie Osborn.
Only one accident occurred and that
was on Christmas day, when they sud-
denly ran into a rough sea, and n OF
the sailors slipped on the deck and
broke his leg. Otherwise there were
no mishaps among the crews of either
vessel.
When in the South Atlantic the ca
BILE between the two vessels parted
twice, but there was little trouble in
again making fast, as the lei was
calm.
The tug Navigator is a great ac-
QUESTION to the feet here. She was
built in 1898 at Camden, n. j., by ].
H. Dialogue & Sons. She is 1874 feet
long, 26 feet beam and draws 16 feet.
She is commanded by Captain G. Nc
Goldick, her first officer is John Nc
Goldick and her second officer is
Charles Elledge. The NavigatorNcost
$4,000. She can make thirteen
mean average and sixteen knots
under forced draught.
At present she uses coal, but is to
be changed into an oil burner.
Many questions we're asked yester-
day on the front for the reason that
the steamer towed the tug from the
The reason is that it saved the
owners exactly $4,000 by this means
Of procedure.
The Navigator was one of the best
known tugs on the Atlantic coast. For
two years she was the committee
boat of the New York Yacht Club in
he international races. She was also
brought into prominence in her life
exploit in August, 1908, when.
1er crew rescued nine men and two
from the schooner Henry p.
Mason, which was wrecked off Long
Beach.
She is painted crimson with two
White smokestacks topped with black.
The new arrivals attracted much at
.ention as they steamed up the bay
With these additions the Associat-
ID Oil Company has seven vessels on
he coast for use in the oil carrying
.rade. These are the Porter, Navigat-
Or, Rosecranz, Roderick Dhu. Santi-
lgo, Marion, Chilcat and Falls OF
Clyde. The addition was much need
I'd because the carriage of California
between the fields in Kern
md Fresno counties and San Francis
% by rail has been entirely suspended
)y the Southern Pacific company for
months and there has been a
scarcity of sea carriage. One result
Of this is that various manufacturing
that depend upon crude petrol
sum for fuel have been closed.
There are 100000 barrels of oil
N tankage of the Associated company
n the Kern river field. The move
mento of oil from the McKittrick field
by reason of lack of cars, has been
suspended for months. The company
has been compelled to rely upon two
pipe lines TO get its oil to ~tidewater,
The line from Gaviota and the line
from Coalinga to Monterey. The adj
iitional vessels will Increase the trans
portation facilities sufficiently, it is
expected, to make the oil supply at
San Francisco catch up with the de-
nand.