The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-08
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
SHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT,

The big steamer Rathlin Head en-
tered yesterday from Port IngIis and
was furnished LOO tons of bunker
coal by Cary & Co The vessel is to
proceed to New Orleans to take cargo.
Work is now quite brisk at the rail-
road wharves, as three vessels are
loading cargoes Of naval stores, one is
discharging a cargo of copper ore and
another is taking a general cargo, in
Guiding cotton for Liverpool.
Notice to Manners.
Louisiana-Sabine Pass: Sabine
Pass gas buoy No. 2, relighted Aug.
80, heretofore reported extinguished.
Coast and Geodetic Survey charts
SIT, 203, 20.
List of lights. ETC.. Atlantic coast,
1911, page 176, No. 1906.
List of buoys, etc, Eighth District.
1908, page As.
United States coast pilot, Atlantic
coast, part viii, 1910, pages $50 to 1O9
By order of the commissioner of
lighthouses.
The five-mast bark of 1000 tons
building for LIE Blond & Leroux. at
Bordeaux. France, is to be launched
some time this month and will be
christened La France. This will be the
largest sailing vessel in the world, ex
ceeding in size even the Pruessen,
stranded last year on the English
coast, as her displacement will be TO-
$50 tons, and she will have a length OF
393 feet and beam 50 feet. The new
vessel will also spread 1880 square
feet of canvas and will be equipped
with two motors Of the Diesel type.
When completed she will enter the
nickel ore trade between France and
| New Caledonia.
No Bids For Carrying the Mails.
Marine Journal. Bids which are be-
| ing advertised for by the postoffice
department under the postal subsidy
act of March 8, 1891, for carrying the
mails between this port, San Francis
| CO, and Seattle via the Panama Canal,
are not being responded to by domes-
| tic steamship companies interested in
| the Panama trade, for the reason that
vessels of the requisite size and speed,
| built in American yards, would be I'M,
| able to compete with foreign tonnage,
| as the cost of operating an American
| ship to Colon is approximately $4,000
a month as compared with $4,000 for
! the average foreign vessel.
| The law under which these bids
are asked provides a maximum COM
| pensation of 81 a mile outward for
| American built steamships of from six
| teen to twenty knots carrying the
mails under contract with the gov
| eminent and constructed on designs
approved by the naval authorities with
| reference to prompt use as auxiliary
| cruisers of fast transport in time of
war. Vessels to fill these require
ments would have to be built especial
| ~ for this service, as none such are
] Il.
! companies interested, which are, so far
| as the American flag is concerned, the
Panama Railroad Steamship Company,
! Pacific Mail, the Hawaiian
| Steamship Co, the Pacific Steamship
and the Atlantic Pacific Steamship
| companies, while the foreign lines in
| terested are the Atlas Service of the
Hamburg American Line, the Royal
Mail Steam Packet, and the United
routes to be covered, namely, New
York to Colon, calling at Charleston
! or Savannah, once a week; New Or
| leans to Colon, once a week, and Seat
! tie to Panama, with right to call at
Astoria, once every two weeks, also
calling at San Francisco and alter
nately at San Pedro and San Diego.
The difference as shown above is
| 5000 a month in favor of foreign
| operated vessels. and the compensa-
ton for a round trip, which would
include certain onerouS and scheduled
time duties in carrying the mails
which would reduce it to about S3,4S0,
! hence it can readily be seen that
American vessel owners could not
compete with the foreigner. Congress
| should have considered these facts and
provided against them.
LARGEST Gun For the Canal.
! One of the first steps toward forti-
flying the Panama Canl will be taken
by the shipment to the Canal Zone OF
the big 16-inch gun which has been
| stored at Sandy Hook for some time
which is capable of throwing a 2,400
pound projectile a distance of Is miles
and carrying within its mass about 15C
pounds of high explosive powder. This
looks as if the authorities in charge
were in earnest about making the ca
nal proof against any hostile warshiI
that might threaten to destroy it.
|
Arrived.
Rathlin Head, Br SIS. Brennan, 47O7
Port Inglis to Cary & Co.
Borneo. Aust SIS, Randich, 1887 Vera
Cruz TO South Atlantic Steamship Co
Cleared.
Rathlin Head, Br SIS, Brennan, 400
for New Orleans with LOO tons coal.
| VESSELS IN PORT.
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