The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-04
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
SHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

| THE BAY FRONT.
The steamer Skogland cleared yes
| terday for Buenos Ayres with a cargo
of over 100000 superficial feet of
| lumber.
The steamer Tarpon. which arrives
| this morning, is expected to bring a
number of passengers from points
| down the coast, who will witness the
| circus and remain for several days
| taking in the fair.
Most of the steamers and schooners
| which arrived during yesterday and
| the day prior with naval stores, de-
parted as soon as they could discharge
| their cargoes and take on cargo, and
| will return today or Monday with
| Choctawhatchee boats arriving Mon
day will also bring in many passen-
| gers for the fair.
| Nothing has been heard of the miss
| ing schooner Merchant, which passed
| ST. Andrews Bay Oct. IS, and which
has not reported at Gulfport for which
| place she was bound. 1t is feared the
vessel has been lost.
The Hyde Windlass Company last
| week cast a 90 600 pound bronze pro-
| peller wheel for the United States col
| Iier. Neptune, which was the heaviest
| casting ever mad in the city of Bath.
| This wheel has three blades and is ID
| feet inches in diameter. The sec
| ond wheel for this vessel will also be
| cast by the Hyde Windlass Company,
and when both are completed they
| will be shipped to Sparrow's Point to
the Maryland Steel Company, where
the collier is building.
| 1t is stated that Charles M. Schwab
| has concluded important contracts
| will insure the construction and equip
ment by American builders of the ne.
vessels that China is eontemplating
| building for it's navy in the near flu
| ture.
The Standard Oil Company has
| contra cted with the New York Ship
| building Company of Camden, N. j..
| for two tank steamers capable of car
rying 100000 gallons of oil, to be
! built of steel and fitted with all mod
ern appliances including wireless
| telegraphy. Both vessels are intended
| for the coastwise or transatlantic
| trade.
The Warwick Machine Company,
Newport News, is repairing the United
States army trnspOrt Sumner at Il
cost of about $4,000. This is one of
| the largest contracts received by this
| company in several years, and will
necessitate the employment OF between
$50 and 200 men for several weeks for
this work alone.
The construction of a great naval
station at the Atlantic entrance of the
/ hpr a1 fnr
| the reason that President Taft did not
! approve the plan for such, and in its
place Col. Goethals will build a fully
| equipped modern shipyard for docking
and repairing vessels of the merchant
| marine as well as the navy. In Or
| der to have this plant ready by the
| opening of the canal in July, 1918, Col.
| Goethals will have to break all records
| in government drydock construction,
as it has heretofore always taken any
| where from three to four years to
| build a government drydock and these
! two docks will have to be built in
| less than two years.
The five vessels which the Ameri-
| can Hawaiian Line contracted for last
| week with the Maryland Steel Com
! pany comprised the largest single or
| der for merchant vessels that has ever
been placed in Baltimore. These YES
/
capacity, and when completed will
| give this line the largest fleet in num-
/ bers and tonnage of any exclusive
| freight line in the United States. They
| will be 430 by SO IL by SO feet, driven
| by a single screw at a speed of IL
| knots an hour. The engines will be OF
the four cylinder type with diameters
rs, SO. So. and rs inches with a COM
| mon stroke of 81 inches. This con-
tract was placed in anticipation of the
| increased business which is expected
to come to the American Hawaiian
Line upon the opening of the Panama
| canal.
| For the week ended October 81. the
bureau of navigation assigned official
numbers and signal letters to 1 sail
| ing vessel, gross tonnage, 6: 81 steam
and gasoline vessels. gross tonnage
S67; IL unrigged vessels, gross ton
mage, 1889.
Six big freighters are under con-
struction in European shipyards fol
the Harrison Line, which operates be-
tween San Francisco and European
ports. This line was started wher
the construction of the Panama canal
was begun, in order to be well estab-
lished by the time that waterway is
| completed, and in anticipation Of
| which operates between San Fran
cisco and European ports. This line
was started when the construction OF
| the Panama canal was begun. in or
| der to be we'll established by the time
| that waterway is completed. and in
| anticipation of which it is making this
large addition to its feet.
The keel of the naval collier Jupiter
! was laid at the Mare Island navy yard
I October Is under direction of Nava
II Constructor Thomas +. Ruhm without
ceremony. This vessel will cost tC
build s1200.000.
Cleared.
| Skogland. Swed ss. IngvarsSen. 1887
for Buenos Ayres, with 2,217,S25 fl
lumber.
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