The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-21
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
&HIPPINe TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

Another big cargo of kainit entered
port yesterday when the steamer
Heinrich Kayser arrived from Ham
burg. She has aboard $500 tons which
will be unloaded and shipped to the
interior.
The steamer Eugene from Choctaw-
hatchee river points arrived yesterday
with a heavy cargo Of naval stores and
is loading for the return trip.
The schooner Magnolia entered yes
terday from river points with naval
stores.
The American schooner McCurdy,
which arrived from Boston with a
cargo of fertilizer felt hat trimmings to
be manufactured into fertilizer is dis
charging her cargo at Central wharf
It is stated that the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company will contract for
two 5000 ton, 20knot turbine pas
senger steamers to run between Call
fornia and Puget Sound ports in the
near future. The new vessels will cost
in the neighborhood of $1,500,00O each
and will probably be built in San
Francisco yard.
The Alaska Steamship Company has
asked for bids for the construction of
-
TO cost about half a million dollars,
and to be used in the Copper river
trade. This company also recently
awarded the Moran Company at Seat
tie contract for new boilers and OIL
burning apparatus in its steamship
Victoria at a cost of $150,000. New
deck houses will be built and radical
anterior alterations made in this steamer
at the same yard.
Germany is making test on large
scale of oil engines for warships.
Three sets of motive machinery, each
containing three 1000 horse power CYL
fnders, are being manufactured. One
set of 5000 horsepower will be tested
on shore. If results are favorable the
three sets, aggregating $4,000 horse
power, will be mounted in triple
screw protected cruiser. The engines
az said to be of the Diesel reversible
type.
The steamer Kinkasan was launched
for the Japanese firm Mitusi & Com
pany at Middlesborough. England, last
month. This vessel is 80 IL feet long,
SO feet inches beam, and 29 feet IL
inches deep, and is built on the most
improved type of patent cantilever con-
struction with topside ballast tanks.
She is one of four vessels that will be
built to carry coal to Hong Kong,
SnanRI1d-, anu OH the IlNClS VI
a principal feature in their design
being that they are self-trimming with
absolutely clear holds and six enor-
nous hatchways. each SS by 30 feet.
For the week ended June "a, 1911,
the bureau of navigation assigned of
fetal plumbers and signal letters to 80
steamer and gasoline vessels. gross
tonnage, 1915; IL unrigged vessels,
gross tonnage, 2,846. No sailing YES
sells were documented.
The old United States warship Iro-
uuois, which has been used for some
time as hospital ship in Puget Sound
but which stranded on the beach In
storm there some time ago, has been
sold and will be broken UP for the
metal that is in her. This is one OF
the old wooden ships built before the
war of the rebellion and which gave
an excellent account of herself during
that strife.
The seni-annual report Of the Jap
aneses Steamship Company shows that
the gross earnings amounted to S6,924,-
$40 and the expenses to S4,S93,S3S.
After providing for reserve funds and
depreciation, the sum Of $S5S,716 was
paid in dividends. The company owns
SIS coastwise and foreign going steam