Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-29
REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE.

On what is probably her last trip under
the revenue cutter service flag. the old
cutter Rush, which is to be retired from
the service. sailed from San Francisco
Monday last and is due to arrive AT Port
Townsend. Wash, today. She will be
turned over to the commanding officer
of the service there and will be placed
out of commission. Within the next
three or four weeks the old vessel will be
advertised for sale at public auction.
The Rush is wooden-hull vessel and
was built at Port Blakely Wash, in 1885.
for the Pacific coast service. The vessel
has been employed much of her time in
the Alaskan service. patrolling the seal
and sea otter rookeries, assisting vessels
in trouble in arctic ice and in other du
ties that fall to the lot of a revenue
cutter. Her place on the Pacific will be
taken by the new cutter Cnalga, now on
her way to Port Townsend from Hamp-
ton roads.
Assisting vessels in trouble on the
Maine coast has kept the cutter Wood
bury we'll employed. and she is the only
vessel in the service that had call for
assistance last week. in spite of the east
erly storm that has prevailed The Wood
schooner Sarah and Lucy, ashore in
West1uoddy bay. While no report of the
work done on the vessel has been re-
ceivei at the department here. 1t Is un-
derstood that the vessel was fioateh and
carried into port The Oliver AmeS, the
largest two-masted schooner afloat. a.so
called on the cutter for aid. She was
ashore in Lubec narrows. Me. and was
in danger of being badly damaged when
the Woodbury. reached her and pulled her
off l,o, lie foE g
port to be repaired and made ready for
service again.
The cutter Thetis, which has been do
ing duty as floating courtroom in Alas
kan waters in the past summer, has
completed that duty and has sailed from
| t'nalaska for Honolulu. her winter sta
! ton. She is due to arrive at Honolulu
about October !. Nnd will at once take
up her duties on her mid-Pacic island
station. The carrying of the United
States district judge and the court Off
Gals from point to point on the Alaskan
coast. where court is held and cases
criminal and civil disposed of. has been
the duty of the Thetis each summer for
three OF four years.
The cutter Bear, the first vessel to go
into the north Pacific each spring and
the last to leave it in the fall sailed
from Unalaska for Nome Tuesday last
on her regular patrol work. The Bear
will remain in Alaskan waters until the
latter part of October. and will see every
merchant vessel started for the south
before she leaves herself for the states.
When she starts south ice Will be max
ing on the coast Of Alaska and the long
| winter will have begun.
Reports received at the department
from Capt. Johnston, commanding the
derelict destroyer Seneca, state that the
! cutter is working on the destruction OF
| u wreck reported dangerous to naviga-
| ton OF Montauk Point. n. Y. The
wreck is a sunken one and the message
received from Capt. Johnston gives no
details as to the name or character of
| the vessel. 1t probably will be destroyed
! with guncotton mines if found near
! enough to the surface to do damage to
| even the deepest draft vessels.
The cutter Manning, doing duty on the
| coast OF California, has been tempo
rarily withdrawn from that service and
sent to Port Townsend. From there
| she will go to the navy yard at Bremen
, ton Wash. for repairs to her machin-
| cry that will require two or three weeks
| to complete. She will then return to San
| Francisco and resume service.
| The new cutter Cnalga is at last on
| her way to the Pacific after many weeks
! of delay caused mainly by the snarl in
Congress over the appropriation bills
| Everything was finally made ready. ano
at I o'clock Thursday afternoon last she
| bid farewell to the Chesapeake. and
long journey around the world. by way
of the Suez canal. Gibraltar will be he
first STOP Port Townsend is her destina
ton.
First Lieut.. F.. c. Billiard, executive
| officer of the cutter Thetis; Second Lieut.
G. f. Wilcox of the cutter Woodbury.
and Third Lieut.. Of Engineers c. Il. Sug