The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-24
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
SHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

The steamer Tarpon, Capt. Barrow.
sailed last night on her regular sched-
ule for points down the coast She
carried out large cargo and a number
of passengers.
The steamer Teresa, which put into
port Monday to complete cargo. clear
ed yesterday with $4,000 feet of sawn
timber and $4,000 feet OF lumber for
Venice.
The fishing schooner Wallace A. Nc
Donald arrived from the fishing banks
yesterday with a catch Of 5000 pounds
of snappers.
The steamer Rollo came down yes
terday from Blackwater river points
with cargo Of naval stores, and af-
ter loading return cargo left last
night.
The river steamers Fritz, Eugene and
j. P. Williams left early yesterday
morning for their regular return trip
runs.
The launch Swan arrived from
Choctawhatchee bay points yesterday
morning with good cargo and several
passengers.
The British steamer Ailsaward,
bound from Vera Cruz, for Tampa, put
into port yesterday and took on 200
tons of bunker coal.
Beginning with Monday of next
week the Clyde Steamship Co. will in
augurate a daily, except Sunday, pas
senger service between Jacksonville
and New York. The Mohawk. Apache
and Arapahoe will. leave Jacksonville
on Wednesdays and Saturdays as
heretofore. while the Comanche, Huron,
Iroquois and Algonquin Will sail from
Jacksonville Mondays and Thursdays,
calling at Brunswick where connec-
tions are made for New York on Tues
days and Fridays. The terminal Of
this line at Jacksonville has recently
been greatly improved to handle it's
growing traffic.
A cautionary signal, consisting of a
stan surmounted by a black canvas
drum with a red flag displayed imme-
diately beneath it, has been adopted
for the use of all types of craft en-
ployed on photographic work by Unit
ed States River and Harbor District
No. in the Hudson, East and Harlem
rivers, Long Island Sound, and ada
cent waters. These signals are in
three sizes and are to be displayed
only by vessels actually engaged upon
work that makes 1t necessary for all
passing craft to slow down and also to
give the signalling boat as wide a
berth as racticable. When the char
acter of the work is such as to neces-
state the use Of anchors. the positions
of the later will be indicated by cork
mooring buoys.
The Oceans Bottom.
The ocean has been sounded in near
ly all directions with modern appli-
ances, and these soundings show that
the floor Of the ocean consists Of vast
undulating plains, lying at an average
dept hof about two and a half miles
depth of the surface Of the waves. In
some places huge ridges and cones
rise from these submerged plains to
within a few hundred fathoms of the
sea surface, or they may rise above the
surface as volcanic islands and coral
atolls. The greatest depth hitherto
recorded is in the Challenger Cor Nero)
Deep in the North Pacific-5,269
fathoms. II Mount Everest were
placed in this deep, $500 feet of wa
ter would roll over the peak of this,
the highest mountain in. the world.
The greatest depth in the Atlantic is
in the Mares Deep, between the West
Indies and Bermuda-4,662 fathoms.
The greatest depth in the Indian Ocean
is 3,S2S fathoms, in the Wharton Deep, |
between Christmas Island and the
coast of Java. We now know fifty six |
OF these deeps where the depth ex-
ceeds three geographical miles, ten
areas where the depth exceeds four
miles, and four places where it ex-
ceeds five miles.
Arrived.
Ailsawald, Br SIS, Curtis, 1881, Tam |
pa.
Cleared.
Ailswald, Br SIS, Curtis, 1881, for |
Tampa, with 200 tons bunker coal.
Teresa, Aust IS, Ivanich, 1881, for |
Venice, with 331 900 # sawn timber, |
AZ, 900 S # lumber.
VESSELS IN PORT.
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