The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-08-16
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
SHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

The steamer Tarpon, Captain Bar
row, sailed last night for points down
the coast, carrying out full cargo Of
merchandise and miscellaneous ship
nents.
The steamer Edna c and Eugene
were among the arrivals yesterday
with cargoes Of naval stores, and both
are loading for the return trip, in
tending to leave today.
The tug Monarch, which has been in
the dock at Bagdad for several weeks,
was brought to the city yesterday and
will have the remainder of the work
into commission she will be in first
class shape and will engage in deep
sea towing.
The steamer Welberforce arrived
yesterday from Bahia consigned to FIR.
Julius Schreyer and will load a cargo
of lumber and timber.
The schooner John Francis entered
yesterday from Havana for lumber.
The steamer Cuban cleared yester-
day for Liverpool carrying out lumber
and timber by a number of shippers.
shipbuiIding, Etc.
The ChiliHn government has con-
tracted with Armstrong. Whitworth &
Co. of New on-Tyne, England,
for the two dreadnoughts for which
bids wee asked some time ago.
The Fore River Shipbuilding Com
pany of Quincy, Mass. will launch the
battleship Rivadavia, which it is build
ing for the Argentine, August 2e at
1880 p. m.
ing two large steel tank steamships
be built on this coast. Each ship
will carry over 750 900 gallons of OIL
Only two fair sized vessels have
been launched from Maine shipyard
for the merchant service, and only
two vessels of more than fifty tons
register are at present on the stocks,
which is about the lowest ebb that
shipbuilding has ever reached in that
state.
John H. Dialogue & Son, Camden,
n. j., were awarded a contract this
week by the War Department for a
tug, 100 by 20 by ~ feet, to be used
in the Ambrose channel by the U. S.
Army engineers in charge.
The following bids were opened the
18th of this month by the Navy Depart
ment for the construction of eight 2e-
knot torpedo boat destroyers Of 1000
tons each: The Cramp Shipbuilding
Company, four boats at $3.50, 600 each;
the Bath Iron works, two boats at
$766,000 each; the New York Ship
building Company, one boat at s7sS,-
600; Fore River Shipbuilding Com
pany, one boat for S7s8,S00; Union Iron
Works, two boats, $803,75o each;
Newport News Company, one boat on
the Navy Department design $S25000,
or on its own design $780, 900. No con-
tract has yet been awarded
For the week ended August s, 1911,
the Bureau of Navigation assigned of
fetal numbers and signal letters to s
sailing vessels, gross tonnage, 1,547;
38 steam and gasoline vessels, gross
tonnage, SeT; "a unrigged vessels,
gross tonnage, 4. ia.
The annual report of the French
Line for 1910 shows gross receipts of
83,0e5,000 francs compared with IT,
100000 frances for the previous year
After paying all fixed charges the re-
port shows Gross profits of 1888, 900
francs as compared with 1888, 900
francs, for 1909. During the current
year this line will strengthen it's ser
vice to this port by the addition of
the new steamer Rochambeau, which
will be something of a novelty so far
as her prepelling machinery is con-
cerned, as she will be equipped with
two turbine and two reciprocating
engines.
The United States cruiser North
Carolina, which left Havana the Sth
of this month for the United States,
ant Enginee Merritt, who was killed
by the explosion of the Maine in Feb
ruary, 1898.
The steamship Santurce of the New
York and Porto Rico Steamship Com
pany sailed on schedule time from
New Orleans on the 9Th with a full
crew of firemen despite the efforts of
the International Seamans Union to
prevent her getting away by trying to
compel the employment of all union
men at union prices. The owners of
the Santurce outwitted the union by
taking longshoremen on board and
drilling them for their new labors as
iremen several days before the
steamer was advertised to leave.
Thomas Fleming Day, editor of the
Rudder, who recently crossed the At
lantic in the yawl Sea Bird, took pas
sage TO this port the 7th of this month
on the North German Lloyd steamship
Koenig Albert. The Sea Bird has been
dismantled and is being brought back
on the same steamer.
British Ship Building Looking Up.
Lloyd's Register of Shipbuilding Re
turns TOT Ine quarter onueO June ~
this year shows that excluding war
ships, 496 tons gross were under con-
struction in shipyards of the United
Kingdom, as against 394 vessels of
1,11S,5S7 tons gross during the same
period in 1910. This shows a decided
Improvement in the shiPbuilding in
'dustry on the other side, and prices for
new vessels are reported to be fully
ten per cent higher than they were at
the beginning of the year. with pros
poets for a still further increase.
The internal combustion engine for
marine purposes is also making rapid
strides abroad. and particularly so as
far as large cargo steamers are con-
cerned. Great economy in the work
ing of steamers so fitted naturally
follows both in cost of population and
engine room stats, whereas the carry
ing capacity is increased. For the mo-
ment the first cost of Diesel engines is
greater than reciprocating machinery,
but directly the experiments now be-
ing made prove to be satisfactory this
will soon find its own level.
Naval Strength of Great Britain.
MARINE Journal.)
The comparative strength of the
navies of the world, and especially
those of Great Britain and Germany.
is exhaustively discussed in an article
T,,I,- af h.