The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-12-03
.HARbOR AND
MARINE NEWS
SHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

The steamer Brentwood cleared
yesterday for Rosario with a cargo
of 100000 feet of lumber. The
shipment, is by the Export Lumber
Co.
The excursion steamer Beaver was
libeled yesterday, two suits being FL
ed against her in the United States
court. one by J. E. Concannon & Co.
for $67 for supplies, and the other
by George Bruce for $95 for repairs
to the vessel.
Quite a number of sailing vessels
are taking on lumber and timber car
goes on the bay and tonight should
see the payment of considerable
money to baymen. According to
shippers work will be more plenti-
full as December advances, as a num-
Der of vessels are due within a short
time for cargoes.
The vessels of the quartermaster's
department of the army have again
changed their landing place, moving
from Baylen to Pafafox wharf, where
they formerly landed.
Notice to Mariners.
Mississippi-Norn Island Pass into
Mississippi Sound-West bank buoy
I, second-class can, replaced Nov.
%, having been found missing
Lighthouse Board list of buoys, etc,
Eighth District 1908, page Is.
Mississippi-Ship Island Anchorage
and Mississippi Sound, by South
Channel-Buoys replaced, Nov. %.
having been found missing: Shin
Island flats, "A, a third-class spar;
Ship Island flats, 4B, third-class
spar: Ship Island fats, &C, a third
class SPECIFICATIONS List of
Buoys. etc, Eighth District, 1908,
page Is.
By order Of the Bureau of Light.
houses.
DISTINCTIONS OF the American Coast.
Nov. 27.-AhOut eight miles S. E.
IL E. from Cape Henlppen saw two
pontoons about 20 feet square,
Steamship Paraguay, Berg.
Nov. 27.-Diamond Shoal lightship
bearing w. IL S., about four miles
distant, passed heavy mast stand.
ing upright and projecting about
eight feet out of water, attached to a
wreck.-Steamship Comus.
Nov. 16.-Lat. q IS. lon. .ss 25,
passed wreckage about so feet long
with a winch attached. One end OF
the wreckage projected about IS feet
out of water, and appeared to be the
stern of a vessel.-British steamship
Aston, Wyatt.
British Sailing Tonnage Sold.
Since Sept. 9 twenty more British
sailing ships have been sold to for
eigners, making a list OF eighty in
all this year. OF these. thirteen have
been placed under the Norwegian
flag, two undo. the French flag, one
under the German, one under the Bel
gian and one under the American
flag. OF the eighty ships sold, fifty
were built Of steel and thirty of iron.
The average was twenty-five years,
the average tonnage 1872, and the av-
erage price per ton paid $575. The
last twenty sold are the Marion Jo-
siah. Hyderabad, Samaritan, Procyon.
Musselcfag, Fairport. Windsor Park
Dechmont, East Indian, Gael, Mem
wen. Yola. Nellie Troop. Pax, Haw-
thornbank. Cadogan, Ravens&ood,
Charles COtesworth,. Sophie Kirk
and Fulda. OF these, the Charles
COteSWOrtn Will De broken up, and
the Ravenswooj will be converted in
to a barge. The Hyderabad brought
$3.50 less than when she was sold
eighteen months ago.-New York Ma
rine Journal.
From the Wreck Of the Portland.
Travis from the fishing schooner
Ida Silva brought up mass of cleo
trio fixtures Off the coast of Massa-
chusetts one day last week which are
believed to have belonged to the
steamer Portland, out of Boston, lost
in the blizzard of November, 1898
The name of Williams, Pake & Co..
on the chandelier. leads to the belief
that the fixtures belong to this unfor-
tunate vessel Efforts will soon be
made to locate the wreck.-New York
Marine Journal.
Japan's Trade.
Japan's exports for the month of
September this year were valued at
s41,017. 595, as compared with $685.
366,778 for the same month Of 1909
For the nine months ended Sept. 80
the value of her exports was $685..
$4,000, as compared with $2SS,1s1,-
O4S for 1909. Imports for the month
Of September reached a total value
OF $34,912 4s0, and for the nine
months ended Sept. 80 the amount
was S347, 599,S63. being $3S,45O.196