The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-13
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
SHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

The smack Chicopee of the Warren
| fleet, arrived in port yesterday with a
| ception of the Two Boys with a small
| catch there were no arrivals of the
! Saunders fleet.
The river steamer Rollo sailed yes
terday for points up the Choctaw-
hatchee with miscellapeous cargo.
Several of the river steamers which
sailed during the first part of the
week are due back in port today with
! cargoes of naval stores.
Two or three of the foreign vessels
| loading cargOes of lumber and timber
will finish loading by tomorrow and
clear for various ports.
The big new White Star liner Olym-
| pic, which arrived in New York last
week, has a complete equipment of
Welin davits of the double quadrant
type, which are capable of taking care
of two boats each, so that there will be
no hitch in launching this great ships
boats in case of necessity.
The Fore River Ship and Engine
Building Company, Quincy, Mass, has
launched the battleship Rivadavia for
the Argentine republic. This vessel is
the largest of her type yet built in this
country, being of $1,000 tons. She will
have a speed Of % - knots and her
main armament will consist of twelve
l2-inch guns.
The only bid received for the police
and fire boat to be named John E.
Reyburn, and which is to be con-
structed for the city of Philadelphia,
came from the Pussy & Jones Com
pany. who offered to build this vessel
for s3S,5OO.
The new steamer Moosehead, built
by the Bath Iron Works for the Maine
Central Railroad Company, and de-
signed particularly for tn passenger
service between Mount Desert Ferry
and Bar Harbor, has the following gen
eral dimensions: Length over all, 1874
feet II inches; beam over guards, &c
feet inches: depth nodded, IA
feet, and displacement on trial, 664
tons. This vessel was built under the
rules of the record of American and
foreign shipping and in which she is
CLOSED Al for twenty years.
The steamer J. L. Luckenbach. in
| command of Capt. A. B. Conner, left
Seattle for Nome and St. Michaels June
4 with $500 tons of cargo including
provisions lumber, and a large con-
signment of live stock, the latter
making her seem like a sort Of modern
Noah's Ark. Capt. Conner expected to
arrive at Nome about the 10th of this
month if ice conditions permitted. The
Luckenbach's cargo is by far the
heaviest that has ever cleared for those
far northern ports in a single ship.
Walter Wellman, who attempted
PASSAGE of the North Atlantic last Au-
gust in the dirigible America, it is
! stated will make a similar attempt in
October of this year in a new airship,
26S feet long, having a capacity for
100000 cubic feet of gas and to be
equipped with two los horsepower
motors. The difficulty with the pres
ent day dirigible IS not to keep it sus-
pended in air, but to prevent it from
ascending too high, due to the expan-
sion of the gas by the rays of the sun.
Mr.. Wellman seems to think he has
solved this problem.
Naval Constructor Robert Stocker
assumed command of the hull division
of the navy yard in Brooklyn the first
of this week succeeding Constructor
w. J. Baxter, recently transferred to
the Boston navy yard
Shipping in Australia.
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recorded in the shipping of Australian
during 1910. and especially so at Port
Adelaide and Port Prize, the number of
arrivals at the former being 1,004 with
an aggregate net tonnage Of 3,021, 521
tons, an increase of 373.1S9 tons over
tie previous year. The annual total
trade of Port Adelaide is now valued
at nearly S50,o000 900. The total ton
mage of vessels inward and outward
bound from Port Pirie in 1910 amount
ed to 1.121,665 net tons, while the ex-
ports were valued at about $25,000.00O
The Federal Steam Navigation Com
pany. Ltd. is building three new Ia
000-ton steamers with accommodations
for 300 first class and about 200 sec
ond-c class passengers each for the
growing coastal trade Of Australia
Amateur Sailors and Accidents.
Marine Journal: The season of the
year when many amateurs venture out
in launches, sailing craft, and row
boats is here and a word of caution as
usual is in order. 1t is true that per
haps rs per cent of those who enjoy
an outing of this kind on the water are
unable to swim, a condition which
should not exist, but unfortunately
does. Water, like fire, is a good serv-
ant, but a bad master; and the worst
of it is that many lives that are lost
by drowning could be saved If ordinary
precautions had been taken. So often.
too, women and children are sacrificed
in this way through the recklessness Of
some one person who tries to do
stunts" or show off in some way or
other rather than by his presence in
surfing the safety of those in his
| charge. Boating in whatever kind Of
craft is a healthful pleasure, and
should be made safe by the exercise Of
common sense in its enjoyment.
The New Steamship Stephano.
The Red Cross Line Steamship Ste
piano, which is to run between New
York, Halifax and st. Johns, leaving
on her first trip this week, was open
for inspection on the 18th of June to
a large number of merchants and news
paper men who were entertained at
| luncheon. This steamer is 326 feet
! long. IS beam, and Is feet in depth.
This vessel has q speed of Is knots an