The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-03-07
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
SHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

Para to Galveston, put into port yes
terday and filled her bunkers with 500
tons of coal for use on the return
voyage. The coal was furnished by
the Gulf Transit Co.
One Of the largest cargoes Of ma
hogany to be brought to this port In
many months. was that of yesterday,
when the steamer Richmond entered
from Belize, with 3,74S mahogany and
210 cedar logs aboard. Some of the
logs are of exceptionally large size.
They are being unloaded and will he
shipped to the Mengel Co. of Louis
vile.
The schooner Clara M. Littlefeld, Of
the Saunders fleet, arrived in port
yesterday from the snapper banks with
a catch of $4,000 pounds of snappers.
The fish are the first to be received
in over a week, but number OF yes
sells are now due.
The steamer Manteo arrived yester-
day afternoon from Mobile, bringing
over about fifteen passengers. The
vessel took on cargo here and pro-
ceeded to st. Andrews.
were among the arrivals yesterday
with cargoes of naval stores. Both are
taking return cargoes OF merchandise.
The tug Simpson will probably san
today for Millville with barges in tow.
The Atlantic Works, Incorporated,
Philadelphia, have received an order
from z. James Tull, Pocomoke City,
Nd, for a bevel band saw machine for
service in his shipyard.
The navy department will open bids
on March Is for the purchase of the
wooden torpedo boat Stiletto and coal
barge No. 7. The former is appraised
at $3.50. and the latter at $500.
The naval appropriation bill as
passed by the house provides for the
construction of two battleships Of
displacement between $4,000 and $4,000
tons each, two feet Golfers, eight tor
pedo boat destroyers. and four subma-
rine boats, all to be constructed under
the eight-hour day law.
The Fore River Shipbuilding Com
pany, Quincy, was awarded a contract
last week by the New England Coal &
Coke Company for steel steam COL
lier, 3s9 by "a Ia by 81 feet, capable
Of carrying 1900 tons of coal. She
will be Of the self-trimimng type, suit
able for coal, ore, or general trade,
will be named Newton, and is to be
ready for service in about nine months.
The Spedden shipbuilding Company
OF Baltimore was the lowest bidder for
building a 12o-foot steel cargo barge
for the Independent Pier and Trans
portation Company Of Philadelphia.
No contract has yet been awarded by
B. Tucker & Company Of Philadel-
phia for the S0-foot stel tugboat for
which they have asked bids.
The torpedo boat destroyer Tripps.
built by the Bath Iron Works, in d
gale of wind made 31.56S knots an
hour on her Standardization and speed
trials on Washington's birthday. Her
contract calls for a speed Of 20 Ia
knots.
The new steamship Suwanee was
launched at Camden, N. J., for the
Merchants and Miners Transporta
ton Company Saturday, and when
completed will be placed on the route
between Savannah and Jacksonville.
The steamer Yucatan Of the North
Pacific Steamship Company. which
was recently wrecked in Alaskan wa
tiers, is to be repaired at Portland,
Ore, by day labor, and it is estimated
that the cost will be about $4,000 af-
ter which she will be put on the route
between Portland and California ports.
The Duma of Russia has been asked
for an appropriation of $60,o00,ooo for
the construction of four battleships 10
be named Sebastopol, Petropavlovsk.
Gagnut and PoltaYa, and to be COM
pleted by 1915.
The oil-burning turbine torpedo
boat destroyer Monaghan, which was
launched by the Newport News Ship
building and Dry Dock Company Feb
ruary Is. is named in honor of Ensign
John Monaghan, who lost his life in
Samoa in 1899 in the service Of the
United States navy. This vessel is
2sO feet long, 81 feet beam. and IS
contracted to make 20 IL knots an
hour when completed. The launching
was informal, and the vessel was
christened by Miss Ellen R. Monaghan,
of Spokane, Wash.
The equipment of a 5000 ton vessel
with two sets of combustino cylinder
engines of the Diesel type, with i'm
provements which are said to have
overcome the difficulties connected
with starting and reversing, is attract
ing considerable attention In shipping
circles. This vessel is being built on
the Clyde. The Standard Oil Com
pany has also given a contract at
Hamburg for the equipment Of its ship
Excelsior with Diesel oil engines and
It is predicted that in the near future
motor ships will be competing to a
considerable extent with steam-pro-
PEELED ships.
Arrived.
Kendall Castle. Br IS, Dash, 1851,
Galveston to A A. Brown & Co.
Benedict, Br IS, Balm, 220s. Para to
Gulf Transit Co.
Richmond. Br SIS. Pengred. 205s.
Belize TO Gulf Transit Co.
Cleared.
Inchmaree, Br SIS. for Hamburg. with
400 tons coal.
Benedict, Br IS. Balm, 22os. for Gal