The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-31
ARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
EHfPPINo TRANSACTIONS AND
koTEs OF INTEREST ALONG
fHE BAY FRONT.

The steamer Tarpon, Capt. Barrow,
sailed last night with a heavy cargo
for points down the coast. She also
had q number Of passengers.
The schooner Kwasind, of the Saun-
ders feet, entered yesterday from the
snapper banks with a catch Of 10000
pounds Of snappers
The barge Thomas Clooney is load
ing cargo of brick at Commandments
street wharf for Miliviile.
The steamer Manteo arrived yester-
day with a good cargo, which was
discharged at Palafox street wharf.
The launch Swan arrived from
Ohoctawhatchee bay points yesterday
AFTERNOON with q good cargo of naval
stores and "a number Of passengers.
The American Shipbuilding Com
pany launched the steamer Quincy M.
Shaw, 624 feet long, and four 7o-foot
steel fishing tugs from its yard at
L.orain, Ohio, on May IL. The steamer
Is FOR M. A. Hanna & Co. of Cleveland,
an dthe tugs for the Booth Fisheries
Company.
The Maryland Steel Company laid
the keels last week Of the two self
propeiling oil barges, 1856 by as by IL
feet, which 1t is to build for the Unit
ed States navy. Each will have a
cargo capacity of 153,400 gallons.
These barges will be used, to serve the
feet at Hampton Roads with fuel oil.
A mammoth crane has recently been
erected at Govan on the river Clyde
for the Fairfield shipyard. This crane
Il Of the hammer head type, and the
jib-head stands $50 feet above high
water level, extending 169 Ia feet OUT
ward from the center, and can be
utilized within every point of a circle
$40 feet in diameter, 1t can life zoo
tons from 80 feet below wharf level to
14y feet above, and can handle the
heaviest material necessary in the con-
tuction Of war vessels.
The White Star liner Titanic, sister
20 the Olympic, will be launched from
the Harfand q Woiff yard. Belfast,
Ireland, soon, and VIII be much fur
Their completed upon the day of the
launching than was the Olympic when
she went overheard.
The Chilean government has con-
tracted with an English shipyard for
two torpedo-boat destroyers, and with
an American shipyard for two subn1a-
rines OF the type built by the Electric
Boat Company. 1t Is also stated that
orders for two battleships of $4,000
tons each, TO be named Libertad and
Constitution, respectively, are shortly
TO be placed with British yards.
The rapid development Of the inter
nal combustion oil engine during the
past year gives rise to the prediction
that it will supplant the turbine and
reciprocating types within the next de-
R-m4A ii
menting with oil engines for battle
ships, has had prepared plans for a
large vessel to be propelled by this
Hpe of machinery, while the Ham
~ American line has already under
ruction an S,000-ton freight
inner to be motor driven, and the
Danish Steamship Company is having
a freight and passenger vessel built
on the Clyde to be similarly equipped.
being built at Middesborough-on on Tyne
for a Norwegian syndicate, and the
Tailoya :. built at Wallsend for Cana
dan owners has already made sue
cessfult trialS-Exchannge.
For the week ended May 10, 1911,
the bureau of navigation assigned Of
fetal numbers and signal letters to 1
sailing vessels gross tonnage, 16; 80
steam and gasoline vessels, gross ton
mage, s,TsS; unrigged vessels, gross
tonnage, 1925.
Sandy Hook Pilot Boats Now Have
Wireless.
Marine Journal: The New York
and New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots
Association has sent a circular to all
vessel owners and agents in and about
this port announcing the equipment of
its pilot steamers New York and New
Jersey with wireless, biography, and
that these able vessels will be found
on their respective stations in all con-
dftions Of weather ready to render as
sistance to any type of craft requiring
such, and to perform their regular du-