Evening star., 1909-02-14
REVENUE CUTTER NOTES.

Constructor w. c. Besselievre. assigned
Foley. superintendent OF construction and
repair, revenue cutter service, has gone to
New London. Conn. to spend a leave of
absence with his family.
Second Lieut.. Ralph W. Dempwolf has
been detached from the cutter Apache on
the Chesapeake bay station and assigned
to the practice ship Itasca at Baltimore.
Second Lieut.. f. ID. Jones is detached
from the Itasca and will succeed Lieut..
Dempwolf on the Apache.
First Lieut. of Engineers John |.
Bryan. attached to the Tahoma, fitting
out at Baltimore. was a visitor to the ue-
partment. where he registered during the
week.
Second Lieut.. of Engineers Oliver p
Remick, retired, of Kittery, Me- is in the
city visiting the various libraries, gather
ing data for history of the revenue cut
ter service, which he is engaged in com
piling. Lieut.. Remick was retired in lS9i
for permanent disabilities received in
service.
The department has been advised that
Miss Emmie Frye White now Mrs. H. p
Stevens. sponsor for the cutter Androscog-
gin; Miss Edith Hepburn of this city,
sponsor for the derelict destroyer Seneca,
and Miss Anna S. Garrett of Wilmington.
Del. sponsor for the cutter Davy, have
forwarded their photographs to the YES
sells they christened. These have been
handsomely framed and placed in a posi-
ton Of honor aboard the ships.
Under orders from the department the
cutter Onondaga at Norfolk went to the
assistance of the bark Matanzas in dis
tress about five miles above Hatteras, and
towed her safely into Norfolk, thus saving
her owners a considerable amount of
money in salvage. The MatanZaS was
caught in heavy blow off Hatteras while
on a voyage from Fernandina to Philadel-
phia with lumber aboard. The vessel lost
most of her sails. and had the greater
part of her deckload carried away by the
seas. She was in grave danger of de-
struction when the Onondaga reached her
and took her In tow
The new revenue cutter and life-saving
steamer SnohomiSh, on her way from
Baltimore to Puget Sound. was at Val
parisO on February Z. After coaling and
taking aboard stores she sailed for Cal
lao. Peru. her next port of call. The YES
sci is now on her last half of her long
trip of over 1900 miles. and in addition
to Callao will make three other stops be-
fore arriving at Port Townsend. These
will be at Acapulco. Mexico. and San
Diego and San Francisco So far the
trip of the ship has been successful. AT
last reports all aboard were well.
The revenue cadet practice steamer
ItaSca, aboard which the classes Of cadet S
at the Arundel Cove School of Instruc-
ton of the service are taken on their an
nual training cruise. has been taken from
the Arundal Cove station to Baltimore
shipyard to have considerable repair work
done to fit the vessel for her cruise dur
ing the coming spring and summer.
Some changes in her interior arrange
ments are being made and her machinery
will be overhauled. In the latter part of
May early in June the young men now
taking the course of instruction at the
school of instruction. preparatory to being
commissioned as officers in the service.
will be taken on a three month cruise to
foreign waters
The new revenue cutter Tahoma, built
at Camden. n. j., for the service. is at
Arundel Cove being equipped for a long
trip to the coast of Washington state.
The Tahoma will be stationed at the en-
trance to Puget sound. Her cruising
ground will be between San Francisco
and the north boundary of the United
States.
The new cutter is similar in design to
the derelict destroyer Seneca. but smaller.
The dimensions Of the Tahoma are as fol-
lows: Length over all. 191 feet inches.
.172 feet between perpendiculars, 20 feet
s inches beam and II feet 6 inches
nodded depth. Displacement to mean low
draft IL feet inches. with 2fO tons of
coal In her bunkers and 13.NO gallons
of fresh water in her tanks. fully equip
ped and ready for sea. is 1.O5O tons.
The new cutter is equipped with every
appliance belonging to an up-tO-date yes
sci OF her type She has steam steering
gear, steam windlass, complete system Of