The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-03-04
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
SHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

Three vessels, all Of which are TO
take cargoes of lumber and timber.
were entered at the custom house yes
terday. The Mercator, a. steamer, will
be loaded for South American by the
German-American Lumber Co, the
steamer Rosebank by the Keyser- Null
don Co., and the bark Chacma by H.
Bars s. Co.
Bonnie Edmundsen is erecting one
OF the largest. boat houses ever built
IN Pensacola. 1t is In the slip just
behind the old pilots building and win
be 81 by 81 feet, two stories and with
berths for four vessels. Chas. Fl.
vflar IS erecting the building.
The steiner J. P. williams and
barge. operated by Rollo Bros. will
leave today for points UP the Black
water with q good miscellaneous cargo.
A part of the cargo OF the barge is a
car load OF the improved cups for tur-
pentine purposes.
The steamer Rosebank. which went
aground Thursday morning. was float
ed yesterday by the tug Britannia, but
not until a portion of the cargo had
been discharged. The vessel locked
on the west side of Commandments
wharf, where her cargo Of 1890 tons
Of manure salt from Hamburg will be
discharged
The New York Harbor Line Board
ras refused the request of the Roessler
e. Hasslacher Chemical Company Of
a. h. A..YI
line In that port by about 100 feet, as
it is OF the opinion that the space be-
tween the proposed line and the oppo-
site shore would not be sufficient for
piers Of the length required by the
presesas shipping, to say nothing of
the future.
The old French warship Richelieu
was reported this week by the steamer
Narragansett IS waterlogged and aban
doned, 100 miles west of Queenstown,
making her a derelict extremely dan
gerous to navigation. The Richeiieu
was recently sold to be broken up, and
broke away from tugs in the Bay of
Biscay in a gale of wind while being
towed to Holland.
The North German Lloyd Steamship
Company has sold to Turkey for con-
version into transports the steamers
Oldennurg and Darmstadt The price
paid was somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of 5000 marks. These steamers
were built originally for the Baltimore
Bremen service in 1890.
The Hamburg American liner Moltke
returned to New York this week from
a cruise to the West Indies and the
Panama canal on which she carried
$50 tourists, who were given among
other things view of the work of
raising the Maine in Havana harbor
and the privilege of crossing the 18TH
mus Of Panama by a special train.
The steamer Hamburg of the same line
sailed from New York on the Goth u
be gone 81 days and carrying nearly
500 tourists. Stops will be made at
Bermuda, st. Thomas. San Juan, and
Colon. This brings the tourists car
ried by this line this winter to the
American Mediterranean up to nearly
1000.
The outcome of the court of inquiry
which was appointed to investigate the
sinking of the minotor Puritan in
Hampton Roads last November after
an ordnance experiment is that Capt
Austin NJ. Knight. U. s. NJ, will be
court-martialed on charges that he Gid
not take proper precautions in regard
to that vessel.
The Atlantic Deeper Waterways
Commission has petitioned the legis-
lature OF New Jersey to appropriate
100000 for the purchase of right of
way for a ship canal to cross the
state. Surveys for this waterway have
been made ny the United States ARM
engineers. and the present plan calls
for its extension from New York Bay
to deep water in the Delaware near
Bordentown.
Arrived.
Mercator, Rus IS, Funck, 1918, Rio
Janeiro to FIR. Julius Schreyer.
Rosebank, Br IS, English, 1855, Ham
burg to The Keyser- Muldon Co.
Chacma, Nor blk. Ammundsen, 554,
Havana to Rosasco Bros.