The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-04-27
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
SHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

The schooner Laura L. Sprague took
out clearance papers yesterday for
Aquadella, P. R., carrying cargo of
382,475 feet of lumber.
The rough weather of yesterday held
all vessels in port, which would other
wise have put to sea. The high winds
made 1t decidedly uncomfortable for
the smaller craft that were out in the
open.
Several Of the river steamers and
schooners are due in port today. In
fact they should have arrived yester-
day, but were prevented from so doing
by the high winds.
Considerable timber which was in.
a boom on the east side of Muscogee
wharf was broken up and sent up on
the beach yesterday afternoon.
The new Red ID" Line steamer Me-
rida which arrived in New York re-
Gently is 1913 feet on deck, ISL feet be-
tween perpendiculars, 80 IL feet mold
ed beam, 13 feet inches depth, fitted
with Scotch boilers and compound en-
CINE. Built of wood by the Kelley
Spear Company of Bath, Me-, the pro-
polling machinery installed by the
Bath Iron Works Of Bath Maine. The
plans and specifications were prepared
by Cary Smith &, Ferris, of New York
city. The Merida is for freight anS
passenger service in the Caribbean
Sea.
The U. S. S. Mayf1ower is to have
new boilers installed, and to avoid
delay in getting her ready for service
as the presidents yacht during the
coming season, boilers Of the Mosher
type which were built for another ship
will be used.
The Bath Iron Works, of aBth Me,
will furnish the 1000 horsepower
four-cylinder triple expansion engine
for the new steel steam yacht Lydonia,
building at. Wilmington, Del, for Will
liam A. Lydon of Chicago.
The war department last week con-
tracted with the Skinner Shipbuilding
Company, Baltimore, for a steel tug to
Leach and to have the following di-
mansions: "a feet inches long, 20 1-2
feet beam, 10 feet deep nodded.
The freight steamers City of Para,
Pennsylvania, and Aztec of the Paci-
fic Mail Steamship Company are being
converted into oil burners at the Union
Iron Works, San Francisco, for the
reason that engineers of that COM
pany have estimated that the change
would save over 100000 annually. If
this experiment bears out the esti-
mates, the seven passenger steamships
of the line will also be altered to use
oil fuel.
The first keel plate of the battleship
Texas was laid in the yard of the
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry
Dock Company on Monday of last
week, on the same ways where the
battleship Delaware was built several
years ago.
For the week ending April Is the
bureau of navigation assigned official
numbers and signal letters to 2 sailing
vessels, gross tonnage, sos; % steam
and gasoline vessels, gross tonnage,
1859; s unrigged vessels, gross ton
mage, 500.
The navy department will open bids
for two floating cranes June 8. These
cranes are to be operated by cleo
tricity. and one is for the Boston navy
yard, and the other for the naval
station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Cleared.
Laura L. Sprague, Am sch. Borden,
564, for Aquadella, with 3S2,475 #
lumber.
VESSELS IN PORT.
Steamships.
Santanderino. Span. Gorrino. 2137. to
Pensacola Lumber Co.