The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-23
.HARBOR AND
! MARINE NEWS
lsHrPPINo TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

The fishing schooners Favorite and
Silva of the Saunders fleet entered
Yesterday with catches Of Ia. 900 pounds
iof snappers each
The steamer Manteo arrived yester-
day after missing several trips, due to
AN unavoidable sccident at New Or
leans She was later docked In Mo-
bile and thoroughly overhauled- she
brought over fair cargo.
The river steamers Fritz, Eugene
and ]. p. Williams were among the
arrivals yesterday of vessels with car
loading return cargoeS or merchan-
disc. feedstuffs. etc:
The schooner Nautilus arrived In
port yesterday with cargo OF 5000
pounds of skip jacks. which were pur-
chased by Saunders & Co and Will be
used as bait for their vessels
-Four steamers entered yesterday and
two of them were supplied with bunk
er coal by the Gulf Transit Co. They
were the Gretavale from 0ulfport for
Bahia Blanca, and the Clara from
Tampico for Venice
The city of Boston has awarded WI
liam McTSie Of East Boston the con-
tract for q ferryboat at his bid Of
$120,75O, work to be commpleted In
seven months
The big 5O,000-ton steamer building
Ing for the Hamburg American Line In
the Vulcan shipyards. II Is stated, Is
to be equipped with Parsons turbine
engines of from 70, 900 to $4,000 horse
power, 80 that she may compete in
speed with the Lusitania and Maure-
tania-
Rusia's new navy, for which an ap-
preparation Of $75,ooo,o00 was APP
proved by the duma on April IL, In to
be constructed at Nicolaev on the
Black Sea by an Anglo French COM
pany, Vickers, Sons g. Maxim. It is
stated that the emperor has approx
ed the details and ordered that the
contracts be signed at once.
The output of tonnage Of shipyards
tn Amsterdam was somewhat larger
in 1901 than in 1909. The principal
yard located there launched three
steamers Of 1904 tons, STA tons, and
8,055 tons, respectively, also a steam
boat Of ia tons and motor tank ship
Of 1,179 tons. Under construction at
the yards at the close Of last year was
one 8,100-ton steamer, one 1000 and
one 4,000-ton steamer, also a steel
floating drkdock having capacity of
12,000 tons. The principal motor-boat
yard built S6 vessels last year, consist
ing of various craft such as tugs.
yachts, etc., and having engines rang
ing from 10 to Is horsepower.
nodehnJHs Dialogue & Son, Camden. N.
J., launched the steel motor yacht
La Belle the 18th, for Alexander Win
4 ton of Rocky River, Ohio. The new
vessel is 140 feet long over all, Is feet
beam and Ia feet draft. She has
the appearance Of q modern steam
yacht with clipper bow and stern. She
win be equipped with three 200 horse
power gasoline engines and Will have
a cruising radiu: Of 1000 miles.
The U. s. cruiser Brooklyn, which
has been laid up at the Philadelphia
navy yard Tor the past four years, is
to be remodeied at cost OF nearly a
million dollars, and when alterations
are completed she will be rated as a
FIRST CLASS armored cruiser. It will be
remembered that this vessel was Adj
inirai Schiey's flagship in the battle of
Santiago in 1898.
Lists enumerating the articles which
are entitled to free entry into Germany
when imported for shipbuilding pur-
poses have been prepared by the GUS
toms authorities, together with the ad-
dresses of all shipbuilding yards In
the German empire. and can be OBJ
tanned from the Bureau Of Manufac-
lures I'm the Department Of Commerce
and Labor In Washington. AS there
are now under construction in German
shipyards for Hamburg shipowners
alone some thirty seven ocean-R going
steamers with q total tonnage OF SOS,-