The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-18
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
eHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

The river steamer Capt. Fritz enter
ed yesterday from Freeport and way
landings with cargo of naval stores
and is loading for the return trip.
The fishing schooner Louise F.
Harper, of the Saunders feet, arrived
yesterday with a catch Of $4,000
pounds Of snappers::
shipbuiIding on the Clyde.
May of this year was a record month
in the tonnage launched from the
Clyde shipyards, which numbered
twenty-eight vessels of a total tom
mage of 1886. In the history Of the
industry this monthly record is ex-
ceeded only by that of June, 1905,
when thirty six vessels, of 124, 544 tons,
were f1oated. That months tonnage,
however, included the Lusitania and
the battleship Agamemnon, and the
May tonnage Of this year includes the
dreadnought battleship Conqueror, but
without this vessel the figures would
have exceeded all previous May
records. At other than Clyde yards
there were launched during May 10
vessels, of 4,404 tons, making total
for Scotland of forty-one vessels Of
93,250 tons. Trade prospects continue
good, and a number of new contracts
were booked during the month. Some
of the labor questions are still unset
tied, but the prevailing opinion is that
they will soon be satisfactorily ar
ranged.
The total output for the Clyde for
the five months ended May 80, 1911,
consisted of 112 vessels, of PSI, 1856 tons,
against 1S4,601 tons for the same pc
Rod in 1910, 139,939 tons for the 1903
period, and 114,826 tons for the 1908
period.
The Olympic and the Great Eastern.
The steamship Great Eastern was
launched in June 1860, and like the
Olympic, which recently visited this
port on her maiden voyage, was the
marine wonder of her day for size. A
comparison of the dimensions of these
two great leviathans is interesting.
The former was 500 by S3 fy So feet
with a tonnage of $4,000 tons. The
latter is sS2 Wy 80 by 81 IL feet with
a tonnage of $4,000 tons. The Great
Eastern was equipped with both side
wheel and propeller engines, while the
Olympic has a combination Of turbine
and reciprocating machinery. The
builders OF the Great Eastern made the
fatal mistake of not taking into ac-
count the depths of channels and har-
bors then existing, and aside from be-
ing utilized to lay the first Atlantic
cable, the vessel was the greatest
failure probably of all history in ma
rine construction. Twenty eight years
after her launching she was broken
up.-Marine Journal
Shipping Sales.
The steel steamship Buenos Ayrean,
4,193 tons gross register. dimensions
ass IT, by AZ IT. by 81 #, built in 1879,
fitted with new engines and boilers in
1896, owned by the Allen Line Steam
ship Company, Limited, has just been
sold through James H. Elliott to an
English firm of shipbreakers. The price
is understood to be slightly under
$3.50 pounds.
The steel bark Glenesk, 1887 tons,
now on passage from Mexillones with
nitrate of soda for United Kingdom or
Continent, has been sold to Norwegian
bueyrs, for 2,400 pounds, subject to
safe arrival. She halls from Dundee,
and was built in Glasgow. She was last
surveyed at London in February, 1903,
and released 100 Al. Her late own
ers were the Dundee Shipowning Com
pany, Limited, w. o. Taylor & Co.,
managers.
British Wrecks in June.
The board of trade announce that
nineteen British vessels, with a net
tonnage of 11,4S4 tons, were reported
to them as lost during June, the num-