The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-06-15
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
SHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

1AESu 1IOLl DeI1He ySSISEudys bringing
a fell cargo of mahogany logs. The
vessel arrived late in the afternoon
and locked on the east side of Cen
trail wharf, whre the work of discharg-
ing the cargo will commence this
morning.
Five steamers entered yesterday,
two being consigned to the Keyser-
Muldon Co., two to the Gulf Transit
| Co., and one to the export Lumber
Company. Three of the steamers, COM
and timber today. Several others are
due today and tomorrow.
The fishing schooner Kwasfnd arriv-
ed yesterday from the fishing grounds
with catch of 1000 pounds of snap
pers.
The army steamer General Pick
ering, which has been undergoing re-
pairs to her hull in Mobile, arrived in
| port yesterday to have repairs made to
her machinery, which will be done by
the Gulf Machine Works. The vessel
is stationed at Tampa.
ShipbuiIdirs, Etc.
Two submarines for which the Chi
liam government recently contracted
with the Electric Boat Company, and
about 100000, it isNstated are to be
built at the Moran shipyard at Seat
tie, Wash, and will be sent to Chile
under their own power to demonstrate
their seaworthiness and radius of &C
ton. 1t Is also stated that Chile is
planning the construction of a f1otilla
of from thirty to forty submarines to
follow these two vessels.
The steamship Imperator, building
by the Vulcan Machinery Company, at
Settin, Germany, for the Hamburg,
American Line, will be the first mer-
chant vessel to be equipped with
gyroscope compass although several
vessels in the German navy have been
SO fitted. The Imperator will have
between seventy and eighty thousand
1. Fl. 2.
The United States Steel Corporation
it is stated has purchased the Risdon
Iron Works plant at San Francisco,
for $4,000, 000 and will convert it into
a dockyard when present contracts are
filed, which will take about years
time.
The Hamburg American Line has
contracted with Harlan & Wolff, Bel
fast, ireland, for a 50,000-ton S90-foot
steamship, which will be a sister to
the Imperator, building at Settin, Ger
many, and to be ready for services In
the spring of 1913. This makes the
fifth extraordinary sized steamer now
building for the North Atlantic pas
senger and freight traffic. the others
being for the White Star and the Gu
nard Line.
The Mathis Yatch Building Com
pany of Camden, n. J., is constructing
twin-screw wooden houseboat, II
feet long, 1876 feet beam, and of 80
inches draft, for a member of the New
York Yacht Club.
The navy department has contract
ed with the Electric Boat Company
for four submarines, two to be built on
the Atlantic and two to be built on the
Pacific. The former are to cost $780,
600 each, and will be built in the yard
of the Fore River Shipbuilding Com
pany, Quincy, Mass. The later are to
cost s601, 900 each, and will probably
be built in the Moran shipyard at
Seattle by the Union Iron Works, San
Francisco.
The steamship Yucatan. formerly a
Ward liner, wrecked in February 1910,
in Icy Strait while bound for Juneau.
Alaska is being repaired by Hall Bro
theirs at Eagle Harbor, Alaska, at a
cost of about $4,000 and she will be
converted into modern freighter and
placed on the route between Seattle,
Nome and far northern ports. She is
scheduled to make her first trip to
Seattle about the 25th of this month
Midshipmen On Cruise.
Marine Journal:
The battleships, Iowa. Indiana, and
Massachusetts left Annapolis the first
of this week for Queenstown carrying
the rnidshipmen from the naval acad-
envy on their annual summer cruise.
While abroad, Kiel, Bergen, and Gil
bralter will be visited, and the return
voyage will be from the later place on
August s. In order to give the mid
shipmen as much practical experience
as possible in actually working mod
ern warships during the ocean voy-
ages they will be required to all the
hard work generally done by the sail
ors-
From New Orleans to South America
President Porch of the Progressive
Union Of New Orleans announces that
plans are about to be completed for
the inauguration of a line of steam
ships from that port to South Ameri-
ca, and Oriental Steamship Line The
promoters Of the enterprise now have
three first class passengers and re-
frigerator ships, and very satisfactory