The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-06-30
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
SHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

Charging yesterday and cleared for
Noble, where she viii load cargo.
The American schooner HaskiIl,
CaIptain Staples, entered yesterday and
HI oad cargo of lumber and timber.
Ihs British steamer GIenfruin com
pteIeu loading a cargo Of 100000 feet
Oh lumber yesterday for Buenos Ayres
and WIN sail today
a large force of men are employed
at CoInnandancia wharf in discharg-
ing tne cargo of the British steamer
Iamplcaa. which has a full cargo of
iiiahuie sat from Germany.
Ihe oIympio's Arrival.
Marine sournal: The gigantic Olym-
pic, which vessel arrived this week on
neT InaI e trip, is the answer of the
Whlte otar Line to the challenge of
the great cunard turbine steamships
when nave wrested and held the speed
record OF Ine north Atlantic against ali
Corners anu the German lines are pre-
parlng 10 20 step further in the same
alrecttoh ,.ItS Of bulk and length. 1t
Is not niue significant that as yet
match the speed Of the Iusftania and
the Mauretalnia, or to duplicate and
improve upon the turbine method of
PROPULSION winch are the distinguish
ing characters OF those vessels This
is a card which the Cunard's rivals
are content for the present to leave in
the possession of that company.
IL mas proved costly possession in
one sense, Dut the Prestige which ac-
ments of those mannheim shins has
more than balanced the acconnt Tha
other English and the German lines
have determined to trust 70 hi9ness
and unparalleled convenience ana cor,,-
fort to Offset the record Of these swift
ships, and the results Of their exneri-
ment will be watched with interest bv
a people whose achievements in everv-
thing but foreign going ships have
been and are the wonder Of all civil
lied foreign nations.
The Puritan to the Junk Pill.
Worthless, except as Junk, the old
monitor Puritan, which was N,nlx IN
Hampton Roads last November bv a
high explosive test and Subsequently,
raised, will be sold to the highest hid
der if the recommendation Of an ex
an1ining board is adopted. The board
found that the cost of repairing the
vessel, even to make her servIceahIe
be excessive, and recommended that
she be sold, a minimum valuation of
$4,000 being fixed. The Puritan built
about twenty years ago, was regarded
as one Of the most powerful coast de-
Tense vessels in the world. She cost
the government S3,395,465. The Puri.
cans only active service was aurins
the Spanish war, with the monitor flee
which operated in West Indiaa water
on4a III
Fuel OIL.
The rapid development of the use
oil as fuel in both railway and vess
propulsion in The last decade w,
started by the Snding of large Oh
bearing territory in Texas and Cal
fornia. 1t was in 1901 that the
wells of Beaumont, Texas, were di
covered and began to yield a grade
oil particularly adapted for fuel pu
poses. This oil has a base of a.
phaltum instead of paraffine, and ca.
ries considerable quantity of sulphu
Due to it's very low flash point, how
ever, in the crude state 1t reuuir
careful handling. The Kern River te
ritory of California yields a siuili
petroleum to the Texas product.
Shipping Sales.
The steel twin-screw passeng
steamer Frederick, owned by the Lol
don and South Western Railway Con
! pany, is reported sold to Turks. throuI
Messrs. H. E. Moss & Co., at about /;
| 600 pounds. She was built and engin,
| by Messrs. ]. & G. Thomson, Lit
Glasgow, in 1890, and had new boile
| fitted in 1904. Dimensions, 253 It.
| 35 #. by Is #. s in, 1888 tons gro.
carries 400 tons lightweight, has a
| 6of -0Ia
| second class passengers, and steams
| knots. Two sets of triple expansi,
engines, each "a in, 81 in, Sc in,
33-in. stroke.
| Messrs. James Moss & Co., Live
pool, are the purchasers of the Lond,
steamer Shahristan, recently report
sold. the price being $4,000 pounds.
The steel screw steamer Tregarthe
owned by Messrs. z. Hahn & Sons, s
Ives, has been sold to French buye
through Messrs. H. E. Moss & Co.,
about $500 pounds. She was blu
and engined by Messrs. J. Readhead
Son. South Shields, in 1904. Dime
sions, 2S9 IT. by 43 IT. by FL IT. 4
2171 tons gross, carries $500 to
lightweight on Is IT. in. draft; triI
expansion engines, % in, SO in, go
by 39-in. stroke.
The steel screw steamer Duke
Y Ork, owned by MesSrs. Robins
Brothers, Whitney, is reported sold
foreigners at about $4,000 pounds. s
was built by Messrs. J. Blumer & Q
Sunderland, in 1907. Dimensions, 3
IT. by AZ #. 8 in. by "a IT. in. 81
tons gross. carries about 800 to
lightweight on 20 #. 6 in. draft; triI
expanrion engines "a in, 80 in, SIS
by 42-in. stroke, by the North Easte
Marine Engineering Company, Ltd.
Dangers to Navigation.
June Is, latitude 24:21, longitu
S2:17. passed a raft about twenty f.
square, composed OF heavy timbt
bolted together. British steamst
| Balkani.
| June rs. latitude 45:04. longitu
50.45, passed a derelict sailing sh
French steamship La Lorraine.
June 8, latitude AZ, longitude "A:
passed a spar about thirty feet 10
: and three feet in diameter; cover
with barnacles. Dutch steamship Ri
dam.
June IA. latitude 1905. longitu
37:19, passed q spar standin uprig
and projecting about three feet out
. the water. and csovered with barnacl
German steamship Birkdnfels.
June IS. latitude 47:14, longitu
27:4S, passed a mast. German steal
r ship Amerika.
Arrived.
S. G.. Haskins, Am sch, Staples,
( Tuxpam to master.
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