The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-02
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
SKIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES or INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

The power boat Viva, built by the
Dawson Boat Company. washington,
D. c., for Rear Commodore j. Stuart
RIackton, on a trial trip made on the
Potomac August IL developed q speed
Of fifty miles an hour. The motive
power was supplied by the Emerson
Engine Company OF Alexandria. Va,
and consists of four 100 horse power
six-cylinder engines Of four-port style
with valves in pistons and can be run
individually II desired. This craft Is
50 feet long and Of especially light
construction.
The Baltimore and Carolina Steam
ship Company of Baltimore has asked
bids for a steel steamer, 225 by 80 by
81 feet, intended for service between
Baltimore. Charleston and Georgetown.
This vessel is intended for freight only.
The T. s. Marvel Shipbuilding Com
pany of Newburg, N. Y, are building
q new steel ferryboat for the city Of
Boston, hull. machinery, and boilers
all complete: also a steel tug for the
Central Railroad Of New Jersey, the
engine for which will be furnished by
the John W. Sullivan Company and
the boiler by the Harlan & Holdings
worth GO. They are also rebuilding
the passenger and freight steamer
Homer Ramsdell.
For the week ended August IL. 1911.
the bureau Of navigation assigned OF.
ficial numbers and signal letters to 2
sailing vessels, gross tonnage 1883;
"a steam and gasoline vessels, gross
tonnage, 12349; unrigged vessels,
gross tonnage, 23l,
The Gillian bark Ricart de Soler,
loading at Tacoma recently, attracted
considerable attention because Of the
fgurehead on her bow representing
great white charger. These ornaments
are rapidly becoming obsolete as the
old sailing vessels that. carried them
disappear.
A Nine Hundred and Ten Foot Ship.
And still the rivalry to see which
company can produce the biggest
steamship goes merrily on. The Cum
ard line, determined to Guido the latest
leviathan, Inperator, of the Hamburg
American fleet, has modified the plans
for the Aquitania 50 that her length
will exceed by ten the 900 feet of the
German boat. 1t looks now as though
the limit had been reached in ocean
magnificence. for there Is no hotel that
surpasses the modern liner in equip
ment and cuisine. and the attainment
Of great speed means a loss Of money
which will initiate against attempts to
cross the water in less than fve days.
A Change of Entrance.
Marine Journal: Rear Admiral
Leutze's plan to change the main en-
trance into the Brooklyn navy yard to
Clinton avenue from Sands street does
not meet with the approval of the
saloon keepers at all In what Is known
as Sailors Row. Near what has been
the main entrance up to the present
are located seventeen saloons, to say
nothing of dozen or so more on ad
jaeent streets. There is powerful
political influence in Washington that
may be brought to bear in the In
terest OF these saloon keepers, but bet
ter reasons than that for their exist
ence will have to be presented to the
secretary of the navy to favor the re-
tention of the Sands street entrance.
II the Clinton street plan Is the most
practical.
In the meantime it has always APP
peared to the Marine Journal that
these saloons so near the entrance to
the navy yard were demoralizing to
the seamen Of the navy to say the
least.
Shipping Sales.
The steel screw steamer Redbarn.
owned by Messrs. H. & G. Grayson.
Ltd, Liverpool, which they purchased
resold to London firm at about IL 900
pounds. She waas built and engined
by Workman, Clark & Co., Ltd, Bel
fast, in 1895 Dimensions: 335 feet by
4S feet, inches, by 26 feet: S,2S2 tons
gross; triple expansion engines, 20
inches, 81 inches, S3 inches, by AZ
inch stroke.
The steel screw cargo and passen-
ger steamship Tasso, owned by T.
Wilson, Sons & Co., Ltd, Hull is re-
ported sold to foreign buyers at about
,000 pounds. She was built by Earle's
Company, Ltd. Hull, in 1880 and had
new boilers fitted IN 1889. Dimensions:
2To feet, by 80 feet by IA feet, s
inches; 1,467 tons gross; triple-ex-
pansion engines, 81 inches, 81 inches,
81 inches by 42-inch stroke, by Amos
& Smith
The steel screw steamship Boldewell,
owned by Tyzack & Brandfoot, Sund-
erland, has been sold TO foreign buy
ers at 6@put is, 600 pounds. She was
built by ]. l. Thompson & Sons, Ltd,
Sunderland, in 1888. Dimensions: $50
feet by AZ feet by rs feet. inches:
3,400 tons gross; triple expansion en-
gines, 23 Ia inches, SO inches. 81
inches by 42inch stroke. by the North
eastern Marine Engineering Company,
Ltd.
The steel screw steamship William
Broadley. owned by Stephens. Sutton
& Stephens, Newcastle, has been sold
to Greek bueyrs at about $4,000 pounds.
She was built by the Blyth Shipbuild
ing Co, Ltd. Blyth. in 1898. Dimen-
sions: 325 feet by Al feet by "a feet. 10
inches: $3.50 tons gross, $3.50 tons
lightweight. on 20 foot. 9 inches draft;
triple expansion engines, "a inches, 40
inches SIS inches. by 42-inch stroke. by
Blair & Co.. Ltd.
The South Sea Waves.
We all remember with what fire.
quency in the old narratives of expert
ences in the South Seas reference is
made to the heavy swells of the ocean.
which impressed the navigators with
the idea Of their remoteness from
land.
The great size of the sea waves in
high southern latitude has been ex-
planned by the fact that south Of the
Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn
there is neither windward nor lee
ward shore, and the prevailing wind
in all longitudes is westerly. Thus
when q west wind springs up it finds
a long westerly swell. the effect OF a
previous wind. still running. The