The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-08-02
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
SHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

tered yesterday from Pomaron, orougnt
full cargo of sulphur ore from that
place, consisting Of 2726 tons, which
will be discharged at one Of the L. &
N. wharves. The steamer is consigned
to Merritt & Co.
The steamer Tarpon sailed last night
on her regular schedule time for points
down the coast. She took out full
cargo and a number of passengers.
The steamer ]. P. Williams arrived
yesterday from Blackwater river
points with a cargo of naval stores,
and is loading for the return trip.
The auxiliary schooner Lucy H is in
She brought in naval stores.
The New York shipbuilding Com
pany has been awarded the contract
by the navy department to build the
two sea-going tugs authorized by con-
gress last March, and the Maryland
Steel Company will build the two 49,
000-ton 14-knot colliers that are not
to be constructed under the eight
hour restriction. This with the con-
tract recently given the Newport News
Company for the two Golfers to be
built under the eignt-hour law dis
poses Oh Ill new CONSTRUCTION duIHOT-
ICED by congress last March saving
the two first class battleships, eight
torpedo boat destroyers, four subma-
rines, one submarine tender, one gun
boat. and one river boat.
The cruiser New Zealand. which
was launched from the Fairfield ship
yard July Is. is the first contribution
to the new British imperial navy by
British colony. This vessel was built
and furnished entirely from funds
contributed by New Zealand, for which
she is named. She is $50 feet long,
so feet BEAM 26 feet inches draft,
has displacement of $4,000 tons,
main armament of eight 12-inch guns,
and will have a speed of % knots.
Her complement of officers and crew,
all told. will be 900 men.
The Newport News Shipbuilding and
Dry Dock Company has been awarded
the contract by the navy department
fox two GOLFERS at a cost of $995,000
eaS'h. to be built under the eight hour
lag, and to be completed in a little
less than two years. This makes
about $10.000,0 900 worth of contracts
nov on hand at that yard and includes
ths battleship Texas, two revenue cut
teRs, a freight steamer each for A. H.
Bull & Co. and the New York and
Porto Rico Line, two submarine tor
pe7o boats, two big turrets for FORTH
cations at Manila, boilers for the bat
tleship New York, a sister to the
TeAas, and considerable repair work.
Some 5000 men are now on the pay
roll. and this number. it is said. will
tie coming year -.---------~--
The steam yacht IIydonia was
laRnehed the 25th Of July for w. A.
TSSaon of Chicago by the Pusey &
Jones Company. Wilmington, Del. She
is intended for service on the Great
Lakes, but before being taken there
will make a cruise to the West Indies.
The H. I. CrandalI & Sons Company
of Boston is installing a marine rail
way in the yard of the Spedden Ship
will enable the latter to haul out YES
sells of 1000 tons lightweight instead
OF only 500 tons as heretofore.
The Cunard Line has announced
that the big ship to be named Aqui-
tania, which it will have built at
Clydebank, will be over 900 feet long
on about ten feet longer than the In
perator, which is being built for the
Hamburg American Line. She will
also be one knot faster than her Ger
man rival, and will be capable of ac-
commodating 1900 passengers.
The latest sea monster yarn is told
by officers of the German freight
steamer AxenfelS, which arrived at
Boston, Mass, July Is, 1911, from Cal
cutta While IN the Indian Ocean,
laying to for Some repairs, Third Of
ficer Miller, who was on watch, was
attracted by a great commotion in the
water, and a few minutes later there
appeared alongside the steamer the
strangest monster of the deep he had
ever seen. It's great fiat body stretched
out over the surface of the water fully
fifty feet. Its head was large, with a
big beak, and it had two octopuslike
arms, with which 1t beat the water.
Its tail was long and pointed, and 1t
was a. dull lead color, with a bright
yellow stripe running along it's back.
The monster swung it's arms as though
endeavoring to reach over the side of
the vessel. The Lascar sailors who
saw 1t fed in terror to their quarters,
and nothing could induce them to
come out until the steamer was on her
way again. The German officers of
the steamer watched the monster as
| it circled the vessel four or five times.
| their action had the effect of making
| the creature fighting mad, for it dashed
| the water with it's long arms, opened
its great mouth and snapped its beak
repeatedly. None of the officers had
ever seen anything like 1t before. Some
declared it was a monster sea lizard.
1t was fully thirty feet wide across
the center of it's back. The monster
did not attempt to attack the vessel,
but remained close by until the pass
age was resumed.