The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-29
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS


NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.
The steamer Fenay Bridge cleared
for Buenos Ayres yesterday with a
cargo of 100000 superficial feet of
lumber.
The bridge Caucus, which is engaged
in dredging at st. Andrews bay, ar
rived in port yesterday afternoon.
The dredge towed up barge, on which
will be loaded a supply Of coal
The river steamer Geneva, which is
now running between Apala chicola
and points in Georgia on the Choctaw-
hatchee river, arrived in port yester-
day and will load a full cargo of mer-
chandlse and feedstuff for Apalachi-
cola.
yesterday afternoon with a cargo OF
naval stores from Freepcrt and way
landings. She is loading for the re-
turn trip.
The river steamer Rollo loaded cargo
y
points up the Blackwater.
The Savannah Line steamer City of
Montgomery, Capt. Fred Smith, clipped
six hours off the record time between
Savannah and New York last week,
making the trip up in "a hours, the
schedule time being 60. It was doubt
less a qualification to Capt. Smith and
the chief engineer of this able ship to
succeed in accomplishing this feat at
this especial time, as President Markum
and Vice President and General Man
ager w. H. Peasants were two OF the
200 passengers on board the City of
Montgomery on this occasion.
The Merritt & Chapman Derrick and
Wrecking Company has been author
lied by the commissioner of naviga-
ton to change the name of it's barke
lakewood to Collegian.
The leases to the ferry termianl at
the foot of oath street, North river,
New York, having expired, the dock
department has decided to devote these
premises to open wharfage and as an
excursion terminal during the sum-
mer.
The yawl Pandora, which came into
New York last month from Australia
and in which Capt George Blythe and
AIdpdhlS dT6 dLICIlpI1Hs d.
the-world voyage, sailed for England
the 18th accompanied for the first day
of the trip by the sloop yacht Daunt-
less and the schooner Sunshine.
The steamer Kershaw of the Mer-
| chants and Miners Line, which was
ashore on Shovelful Shoals Nan
tucket Sound, last week, was found to
be unchanged when placed in dry
dock at Baltimore, and after having
her hull cleaned and painted returned
to her route between Boston and Nor
folk.
During the recent, hot spell that ex-
tended throughout the North Atlantic
states, and during which the Their
mometer marked frequently 100 de-
grees and upward, it is reported by
ship captains arriving from Bermuda
that the highest temperature recorded
in those islands did not exceed 80 de-
grees.
The steam yacht American, built in
1898 for the late Commodore Archibald
Watt and recently purchased by the
Haytien government, left New York
July 9 for Port au Prince with a cargo
of ammunition, rifles, and several
small cannon. She was refitted to serve
as war vessel for Hayti by the Tiet
| jen & Lang Dry Dock Company, Ho-
y
| length over all 254 feet, beam 81 feet,
draft IA feet, and she has a speed of
| Is knots.
Frank A. Furst, of Baltimore, award
| ed a contract last week to the Amer
| lean Locomotive Works Of the latter
| port for two engines to be used in
dredging work in connection with the
construction of the Cape Cod canal
and which are to cost upward of $780,
900. These when completed will be the
largest engines used in dredging work
on the Atlantic coast and are to be
ready for delivery next February.
Dangers to Navigation.
July II, latitude $3.50, longitude
53:37, passed a log about 20 feet long
and l foot in diameter covered with
machine growth.-British steamer Bea-
con Light.
July 3, latitude ABB, longitude 3S: %
passed a piece of wreckage about IS
feet long and 10 feet WIDE floating low
| in the water.-Steamer st. Paul.
July IA. latitude 1916, longitude
37:43, passed a canbuoy covered with
marine growth.-British steamer Bea
con Light.
| 1926, passed a piece of wreckage
about 20 feet square, apparently part
of a vessels bottom.-Dutch steamer
| Gorfedijk.
July 8, latitude 4s:43, longitude 49,
| passed a spar about 80 feet long and
| 21-2 feet in diameter covered with
marine growth.-British steamer Phil
adelphia.
Cleared.
! Fenay Bridge, Br SIS, Chrisholm, $780,
! for Buenos Ayres with 100000 #
pitch pine lumber.