The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-01-03
HARbOR AND
MARINE NEWS
CHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

The British steamer Irshman en-
tered yesterday consigned to the Gulf
Transit Co. and was locked for load
Ing cotton. She is the largest mer-
chant vessel ever to enter this port
and is attracting much attention.
Seven vessels, six foreign and one
American, entered port yesterday and
Sunday and were boarded by customs
inspectors. Owing to it being a le-
gal holiday they did not enter at the
custom house.
The Russian steamer Hrose from
Gulfport is filling her bunkers with
coal at Muscogee wharf.
The river steamers Edna G. and Eu-
gene arrived yesterday and discharg-
ed cargoes of naval stores.
Panama Canal Dimensions.
Besides it's length of fifty miles,
some of the general dimensions Of the
Panama Canal will be as follows:
Minimum depth at mean tide, Al feet;
minimum bottom width, 900 feet: a
sea level canal surface of about seven
miles at the Atlantic end and about
eight and one-haf miles at the Pacific
end. The remaining portion being
high level canal containing a double
set of three locks at each end. Each
lock will have lift of about thirty
feet, disable length Of 1000 feet and
a width of 10 feet. Intermediate
gates will be supplied for ships of Or
binary size using the locks, which will
mean an economy in the amount of
water required for lockage by from
80 to 40 per cent. Five miles of the
canal are completed at the Pacific end
from the docks to deep water. The ex-
treme range of tides between the two
ends being twenty-three feet, there
will be occasions on which the depth
Of water from the Pacific to the low
est lock at Miraf1ores may fall as low
as 33 IL feet for an hour or two of
the day; the available depth for the
greater part of the day will, however,
always be over forty feet.
The Sun and Moon and Tides.
The regular periodic rise and fall,
waters tributary to them Is due to the
law of gravity the attractive force of
ShCSO S"o uOoSOAIly
bodies decrease with the square OF
nearer the surface of the earth is at
surface less strongly than the CEN
ter.
The waters of the ocean are free to
yield to this tendency, and hence tend
to be heaped up into four tidal wavs,
Inn cnJor uyfth fh0 ly,r.
ar greatly in predominance. The So
lar tides are noticeable chiefly as re-
enforcing or diminishing the lunar
tides.
With the revolution of the earth on
pal alterations of high and low tide
every twenty-four hours in every part
Of the ocean.
LIoyd's Quarterly Returns.
Lloyd's returns of vessels totally
lost, condemned, etc, during the quar-
ter ending June 30 contains tables
showing the number, net and gross
tonnage and nationality of both steam
and sailing vessels totally lost, con-
demned, etc. also the number and tom
mage in each country, the total mum.
Der of steam vessels being fifty-eight
of a net tonnage of 1886 and gross
tonnage 93,7S6. The number of sail
ing vessels is thirty-nine with a tom
mage Of 22,504. The voyage, cargo, cir
and place besides other de-
tails are given in separate tables.
The German steamship Jupiter sail
ed from this port Saturday night and
the steamship Morgan Sunday after
noon.
The smack Clara Harwood, Of the
Saunders fleet, for whose safety ankle
ty was felt, reached here safe and
sound during the early hours Of Sun
day morning, after having been away
% days. She brought to port a catch
of 10000 pounds Of red snappers and
5000 pounds of groupers.
Arrived.
Irishman, BIZ SIS, Evans, 6l5s, Car
diff to Gulf Transit Co.
Wavelet, Br IS, Sanderscn. 1918,
to George X. Howe &
Co.
Heros. Rus SIS, sandman, 1857, Gulf
port to Cary & Co.
San Pedro, Ital blk, Font, 1861, Ha-
yana to ]. Garrija.
Raglan Castle, Ital blk. Schiaf1no,
9S5. Genoa to Rosasco Bros
Frederick A. Duggan, Am sch,
Coombs, 9s1, Cay Francis to A. A.
Brown & Co.