The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-03-19

fires, and no necessity for cleaning fires
(which last because Of the opening OF
fire doors and cooling OF OF furnaces.
is estimated to cause q loss Of ~ Ii
per cent of steam on q sevsn-day voy-
age. with q corresponding loss OF
speed; reduction OF bunker space to
hve-eights OF that required for coal,
and q great reduction Of the force of
stokers.
With all these factors IN its favor
there are also practically no serious
disadvantages In the change from ceal
to oil. In spite OF this, however, the
adoption Of the new fuel Is slow, be-
ing laid largely TO the fact as pointed
out In the Scientific American, that
the present transatlantic liners were
built IN the coal age. so TO speak, while
the ignorance OF shipcwners in the use
Of fuel oil prejudiced them against it.
The vast advantages that would &C
crue from the use OF oil In place sof
coal on vessels like the Mauritania, for
instance, is worked out by the Steam
ship as follows:
This vessel consumes $500 tons of
coal on a single voyage. II oil were
used $500 tons could be stored in the
double bottom Of the ship. leaving the
coal bunkers available for cargo. It
is estimated that 500 tons of OIL would
do, In twenty-four hours. the work
| now accomplished by 1000 tons Of
coal; and this would represent q saw
ing OF about 2,o00 tons OF fuel on the
five-day single voyage, or OF 1000 tons
on the round trip. It is also commended
that oil fuel (which as shown above
dent to cleaning fires, with coal) would
enable the Mauretania to make the
| voyage across the Atlantic IN an even
four days-Marine Journal
Arrived.
Marie Mcneil Ger SIS, Hiidebrandt,
1907. New Orleans TO Cary g. Co.
Laura c.. Br sch, Creaser. 24s. Mo-
biie 70 J. A. Merritt & Co.
Cleared.
Jeanne A Pickles Br sch, Richards,
zee, for Kingston, with $4,000 #
lumber; fox Port Maria, with 1000
It lumber; for Belize. with 100000 IT
lumber.
F. C. Lockhart, Br sch, King, ass,
for Belize, with $4,000 # lumber
Marie Mcneil, Ger IS, Hildebrandt,
for cstte. with 40 tons coal
The lee Bound Ports of Canada.
Marine Journal: This has been an
unusually severe winter In Canadian
North Atlantic coast ports, and navi-
CATION there is not expected to open
until late this spring. Ice foes thirty
feet in thickness have frequently been
met. solidly packed, by the lee break
1 ~ NJ xu1& {1I,
keep communication open between tho
mainland and Prince Edward Island.
The Strait OF Belle Isle Is congested
with heavy Ice. and no water is I'm
sight there. As late as February Is
the Gulf Of St. Lawrence was frozen
over almost solid, the Ice far out from
the shores being between two aad
three feet thick.
A Famous Pipe Of Wine.
Marine Journal: The most cele-
brated Of all Madeira wines was the
1914 pipe" It was fished up from the
! bottom of the Scheldt. a short dis
: lance above Flushing, in 1914. having
remained there since 1TTS In the cargo
OF vessel that had been wrecked at
the mouth Of the river In that year.
) It was sold by auction at Antwerp,
. the greater portion Of It being secured
for Louis XVIII, who dispatched an
u agent with instructions to obtain 1t re-
CARELESS of cost. Several dozen were
presented to the French consul at AnS-
werp, and ne sold them to the Due de
Raguse. In 1858, after the death Of
the Duchess de Raguse, four dozen re-
NAMED in her cellars, and these were
sold for more than their weight IN
gold 20 Baron Rothschild-