The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-06-13
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
SHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

One of the large cargoes Of lumber
to go out of the port during this
month is that of the British steamer
Alcana, which cleared yesterday for
Rosario. The vessel carries about o.
100000 superficial feet
The steamer Ryde, which entered
yesterday from Montevideo, reports
having passed the German ship Hide
garde in latitude 20:5 so north, longi-
tude IS: So west. The Hildegarde ask
ed to be reported all we'll
Three vessels entered yesterday, all
to take lumber and timber cargoes.
The Craighau came from Gulfport
consigned to c. W. oliver & Co., while
hesteamer Ryde entered from Monte
video, consigned to G. B. Catfero. The
bark Giovanni T. was the third arriv-
al, coming from Palermo and consign-
ed to G. B. Cafero.
The Titanie's Rudder.
Marine Journal: The New York
Herald recently contained an illustra-
ton of the 100-ton rudder with which
the gigantic steamer Titanic, now un-
der construction for the White Star
Vine, viii be fitted. This vessel was
launched from the yard of Harland &
Wolf In Belfast, Ireland, on the last
day of May in the presence of thou
sands of witnesses, prominent among
whom were J. Pierpont Morgan, one Of
the directors of the White Star Line;
]. Bruce Ismay, chairman of the In
ternattonal Mercantile Marine Com
pany; and Lord Pirrie, chairman of
the building company.
The Titanic is $50 ID feet long,
90 IL feet beam, disp1aces $4,000 tons,
q rnUJGtnrhn Of A
She viii carry 500 f1rst-c class, 500
second class and 1900 steerage pas
sengers. The crew will number $50
men, and she will enter the White Star
Lines New York Southamptop SER
vice some time toward the end of the
year. The Titanic is a sister to the
Olympic, which is very nearly ready
for service Both these vessels are
luvuriously equipped, but they will not
try for speed records.
The Gulf Stream.
From the U. S. photographic ONCE
Report: The Gulf of Mexico is a land
locekd body of water, about 900 miles
in one direction and 500 miles in the
other, with a small opening, the Yucca
tan Channel about 100 miles wide and
1900 fathoms deep, by which the wa
ters of the equatorial steams enter
the gulf in great volume, and a small
exit, the Straits of Florida, 80 miles
wide and $50 fathoms deep, by which
the waters of the Gulf Stream leave 1t.
In the Gulf the lines of contour are
the principal factors in determining
the directions of the flow; the gradi-
ents are very steep between the 100
fathom line and the 1 1000 fathom line,
and the vast body of water, moving
at the rate of l to konts through the
cot fTo val
ing, which it does, following the wall
of contours with a velocity of 1.5
knots per hour, which rarely changes,
The high temperature of the water
In it's northward movement, cerated by
the Intercepted region from which
the currents take their origin. is
maintained in the gulf, where the wa
ter is heated to a degree scarcely
equaled in any other part of the
world, and the extreme sadness, due
to the evaporation, and the tempera~
ture combine to give the waters, as
they issue from the gulf, character
distinct from the waters through which
they pass. The great equatorial cur
rents entering by the Yucatan Chan
mel, reheated in their passage through
the gulf, go swirling past the Florida
Reefs and pour over the natural dam
at Foweys in the most wonderful cur
rent on the globe, the Gun stream,
which carries its waters northward
in unbroken volume, easily distlng-
uished from the surrounding ocean by
the difference of temperature and by
the deep-blue color.
The line of separation is clearly
marked, more clearly on the west than
on the east, and the 100-fathom line
still gives its direction. Soon after
passing Canaveral the contour be-
comes irregular and the current Is. dis
turbed on the surface, swinging back
and forth in a most uncertain manner
with small whirlpools, and sometimes
divided into two distinct streams. The
contour line still guiding its couse, 1t
pases near to Hatteras, where it d.
verges to the eastward. From this
point, unconhned by contour. the
waters spread out with diminished We
locity. and when they reach the longi-
z hn GlIIf