The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-26
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
SHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.


The British steamer Chelford, which
has been discharging cargo of kainit,
has completed and cleared for New
Orleans in ballast, where she will load
cargo.
The tug Simpson arrived yesterday
from Millville with barges laden with
lumber in tow from the German
American mills.
The steamer Tarpon sailed last night
for points down the coast, carrying
out heavy cargo of merchandise and
miscellaneous shipments. She had a
number of passengers aboard.
The steamer Monginevro, hence, has
arrived at Genoa.
For the week ended July Is. 1911,
the bureau of navigation assigned off,
cial numbers and signal letters to
sailing vessel, gross tonnage, 141; 81
steam and gasoline vessels, 564; II I'M
rugged vessels. gross tonnage. 1856.
The Perth Amboy Evening News is
sponsible for the statement that A. c.
Brown, the senior member of the A. c.
Brown & Sons shipbuilding firm at
Tottenville, had the courage to be
launched in one of the vessels of his
own construction, which is the first
time he has INDUCED in such action
since he has been a shipbuilder and
launched $50 boats of all descriptions.
The vessel on which Mr.. Brown took
his first launch the other day was the
three masted schooner George P.
Cluett.
The first of six Curtis turbine en-
gines building by the Fore River
Shipbuilding Company for the Italian
navy was shipped from that yard July
Is.
The steamer Japanese Prince, build
ing for the Prince Lines New York
River Plate service, was launched at
Sunderland, England, July 13, being
the fourth steamer built for the same
owners recently. She will be follow
ed by the British Prince, which is to
be launched in the near future. These
vessels will have speed Of IL knots
and will enable the Prince Line to
furnish semi monthly sailings on this
route after the first of September.
The three sternwheel towboats which
were advertised for construction by
the United States engineer at Cincin-
natl, Ohio. have brought bids from the
M. A. Sweeney Shipyard and Foundry
Company, Jacksonville, Ind; Charles
Burne Company, Cincinanti. Ohio; NJ.
J Howard, Jeffersonville, Ind; T. VI.
Reese, at Pittsburg, Pa, and the Du-
buque Boat and Boiler Works, Dubu-
que, Iowa. The lowest bid was $4,000.
the highest s4S,50o.
The new U. S. collier Neptune, equip
ped with turbine engines and recently
completed by the Maryland Steel Com
pany, attained a speed of IT knots an
hour during a run on Chesapeake Bay
on July IL in command Of Capt. ]. r.
Thompson of the Maryland Pilots AS
ISOLATION. The speed called for in her
contract was IA knots. Her official
trials took place off Rockland, Maine,
this week. A feature in the equipment
of this vessel is device which en-
ables the speed and operation of the
engines to be controlled directly from
the bridge, while attached to the 1000
! horsepower turbines are reduction
gears to equalize the difference in
revolutions between the turbines and
the propellers, thus reducing the con-
| sumption Of coal. This vessel was
built to the requirements of the rules
the American bureau of shipping for
classification in the record.
| President Hyde of the Bath Iron
Works has awarded the H. P. Con-
verse Company Of Boston contract
for a new pipe shop and sheet and
metal shop for that yard, the three to
be under one roof. The new build
ing is to be completed by November
1. and its construction will be of steel,
glass and concrete.
The steam yacht Sovereign. recently
completed by the Gas Engine and Pow
er Company and Seabury & Co., Cons,
Morris Heights, for NJ. G. D. Borden
of the New York Yacht club, is now in
commission and making daily runs be-
tween the Battery and Oceanic, N. J.
This vessel was guaranteed a speed Of
So miles an hour, but on repeated
trial trips 3S to 80 miles per hour was
attained, and this with only $50 pounds
of steam, although 325 pounds are al
lowed, hence it is safe to say that II
full steam pressure is carried at any
time, 40 miles an hour would probably
he the result. This vessel is 165 feet
long over all and her motive power is
furnished by two four cylinder triple
expansion engines of the Seabury type
developing $500 horsepower each,
steam being furnished by Seabury pa
tent safety water-tube boilers.
Pacific Coast "WhaIins Plant"
Hoquiam Correspondence Portland
Oregonian: Two twenty-five ton
whales were brought to the new South
Bay whaling station today, the first to
be handled at the plant and the first
ever brought into Grays Harbor. Thew
were killed by the crew of the steam
er Patterson. the first Of the new twin
ships built at Seattle to be put into
commission.
The Patterson left out on her frs,
whale hunt, and the first ship sent
from the Grays Harbor plant Friday
She cruised down to the mouth of the
| Columbia river without sighting a
whale and then cruised back. Early
this morning she sighted four whales
and killed two.
The South Bay whaling plant has
just been completed, and is one Of tho
finest on the Pacific coast. Every part
of the whale will be utilized. The
company has had two steel steamers
the Patterson and the Moran. built
The latter will be in commission this