Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-30
EDUCATIONAL.
Revenue Cutter Service

Monday night next at midnight the
winter cruising service. which began No
vember 1 last. will cease and the vessels
that have been employed in the work will
lay up for repairs and take things easier
for time. This does not mean that the
cutters will not be ready to respond to
calls for aid. but that they will not be
constantly on the move looking after
vessels in trouble. After the stormy sea-
son in Mach heavy gales are infrequent
on the Atlantic until the coming Of fall,
and the services of the cutters are in no
great demand. The cruising season just
closing has been SO devoid of heavy
storms that it is thought the number of
vessels assisted and the value of marine
property saved will fall below any re-
cent year. as calls for aid were fewer.
The closing week OF the cruising sea-
son has given the cutters more work to
do than any. previous week in the season.
The cutter Miami was called to the
stranded schooner Pendleton Sisters,
ashore on Loggerhead key. Dry Tortu-
gas, but found that little could be done
TO aid the vessel, which will probably be
total wreck. A dispatch from the COM
handing officer of the Miami states that
later in the week she picked up the
abandoned undertaken schooner Ven
thought to be endeavoring to tow the
vessel into port.
Out in Puget sound, Wash. the cutter
Snohomish has been doing rescue work.
having saved the barge Nashon, No. =,
from the shoals in the mouth of the Ell
VIVA river. The barge chad broken loose
from its tow and had gone on the beack
and was in danger of destruction in the
heavy surf The cutter worked on the
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afloat and, taking it to Port Angeles.
So that she may give all possible aid
to the Boston-owned barge Antioch,
which stranded near Squam Beach, n. j..
the cutter Seneca is standing by her. and
if it is possible the vessel will be hoated
and taken into safe harbor. 1t is said.
however, the chances are rather against
the saving of the vessel.
credit of having foated the British
steamship Strathdale from bar in the
mouth of Cape Fear river. where the ship
stranded early in the week. No details of
the rescue were contained in the brief
dispatch from Capt. Garden, command
ing the Seminole, to the department, in
which he announced the floating of the
steamship.
Though the patrolling district of the
cutter Apache, Capt. Carmine, is on the
land-surrounded waters of Chesapeake
bay and its tributaries, the number of
vessels assisted by that cutter in the
cruising season will in. all probability be
found to exceed that in any other dis
trict.
to the aid of the steamer A. J. Mcintosh,
which had gone ashore in the Tired Avon
river. at oxford, Md. A few hours were
required to work the vessel into water
to resume her trip unassisted by the cut
ter. The Apache visited this city in the
early part OF last week and after remain
ing two days here sailed for a cruise on
the bay.
miles-from the Chesapeake by way OF
the Suez canal to Port Townshepd,
Wasn-the new cutter Unalga arrived al
that port Sunday morning last. Only a
brief telegram from Capt Crisp, com
manding the cutter, was received an
nouncing her safe arrival and that all
aboard were well. Early in May the
Unalga will sail for Alaskan waters
where she is to be permanently sta
toned.
In preparation for the annual patrol OF
Bering sea by vessels of the revenue cut
ter service to protect the seal ISLANDS
from the depredations of poachers and
Tor Olnef work the secretary VI tHS
Treasury has assigned Senior Capt. w.
E Reynolds to the command Of the Ber-
ing sea fleet and Captain Of Engineers
Willis Pedrick is, assigned to duty as
fleet engineer. Those officers were in
charge Of the ships in the Arctic and
Alaskan waters last season.
Orders have been issued as follows:
Second Lieut. c. II. Jones, detached
Algonquin April II, to duty as super
visor of anchorag es. Chicago. Ill.
Second Lieutenant OF Engineers +. T.
Ragger detached Yamacraw April !, tc
Mackinac.
A general revenue .cutter service court
is convened to meet on board Mohawk
April for trial of Capt. F. S. Van Bos.
kerck. Third Lieut.. C.. f. Kniskern and
Third Lieut.. J. F. Farley. jr Detail fol
the court, Senior Capt. Edward Emory,
president; Capt. B. L. Reed. member
Capt s. NJ. Landray. member; Second
Lieut. j. p. Gray. recorder. First Lieut.
p. W. Lauriat. is designated as official
prosecutor.
Third Lieut. C. F. Kniskern. ordered to
temporary duty on Mohawk.
Second Lieut.. J. P. Gray, relieved from
further instruction in radio manipula-
ton at the navy yard, Brooklyn, n. Y.
to resume duty at the school Of instruc-
ton
Third Lieutenant of Engineers NJ. W.
Torbert. relieved from, further instruc-
ton in radio manipulation at the navy
yard, Brooklyn, n. Y, ordered to Seneca.
Senior Capt. w. E. Reynolds, assigned
to duty as commanding officer Boring
Captain of Engineers w Pedriclk, as
signed to duty as fleet engineer, Boring
sea fleet
Capt. J. L. Sill, to relieve Senior Capt.
w. E. Reynolds as commanding officer,
southern division, p. c.