The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-12
hARBOR AND
. MARINE NEWS
SHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
| NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
/ THE BAY FRONT.

The British steamer zingara entered
yesterday from Gulfport and was sup
piled with LOO tons of bunker coal by
]. A. Merritt & Co. The vessel will
proceed today to Buenos Ayres with
cargo of lumber. and timber.
The steamer Simpson has returned
from Miliville, bringing back several
barges loaded with lumber from the
mills Of the German-American Lumber
Co. -
The river steamer Captain Fritz will
sail this morning with heavy cargo
Of merchandise for Freeport and way
landings.
kearsarge Survivors.
Marine Journal: From the records
Of the navy department it is learned
that there are living in various parts
Of the United States twenty-five men,
bers Of the crew of the wooden cruiser
Kearsarge who took part in the de-
struction Of the Confederate privateer
Alabama on June 10, 1864, off the port
Of Cherbourg, France. The crew OF the
kearsarge numbered 1853 men. Austin
Quinby, Salem, Mass, one of the crew,
said this week that there are at least
four other survivors Of the crew,
whose names and residences are at
present not known to him. Three Of
the crew OF the Kearsarge were wound
ed in the engagement, one dying three
days after the fight. Mr.. Quinby had
the distinction to fire the first and last
shot at the Alabama The names OF
the other surviving members OF the
crew are:
George H. Harrison, Charlestown,
Mass; Patrick McKeever, Maiden,
Mass, John c. Woodbury.. Beverly,
MTau DIV hrTTT
Mass; Timothy Hurley, Bristol, r. l.;
Joshua T.. Cary, Portland, Ne; Charles
A. Poole, Waltham, Mass; William
Wainwright, Lawrence, Mass; Martin
Hoyt, Portsmouth, N. H; John r..
Beckford, Gloucester, Mass; Peter ".
Ludy, Dorchester, Mass; Jonathan E.
Orchan, Boston; William Y. Evans,
New Hampshire; Thomas Buckley,
Pittsburg; Frederick Walden, Wayne,
Mich; William Alsdorf, Orc Grand, N.
M; James Kerrigan, San Francisco;
Henry S. Hobson, Palmer, Mass; John
W. Sandborn, Hyde Park, Mass; Hugh
Mcpherson, McPherson's Ferry N. s.;
John McAleer. East Cambridge Mass.
So far as known none of the officers
survive.
The New Orleans Naval Drydock.
Marine Journal: 1t was the gener-
al opinion that before the Sixty first
congress adjourned the matter Of NOV
ing the New Orleans drydock to Guam
tanamo was abandoned by the secre-
tary OF the navy through the strong
opposition Of southern congressman
and others who had sufficient influence
to aid in having this dock built for
this southern naval station. The Army
and Navy Register contends in a re-
\ centsissuej that Congressional stipula-
lton of a, station OF q dock does not
Interfere with the exercise Of execu-
tive discretion In changing the location
Of floating dock" and cites q prece-
dent for 1t in the Dewey, which was
intended originally to be stationed at
Cavite, and which was taken instead
to Olongapo, where 1t has remained
since its arrival in Asiatic waters. This
influential publication also goes on to
say that "the very character of the
floating dock makes 1t possible to re-
move II whenever the exigencies of the
service require such change of base;
else II might as well be a permanent
structure and have done with it for
all time"
Our esteemed contemporary evident
~ knows little about the big rise and
fall OF the Mississippi river at certain
seasons, which is all the way from
twenty to forty feet, and, as a conse-
quence, makes permanent excavated
dock there an impossibility, as during
a low-water sage the entrance to the
dock would be several feet out of wa
ter, and consequently make docking
impossible.
The Marine Journal is Of the opinion