Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-11
Revenue Cutter Service

| For the first time in number of years
not a report was received at the division
of the service. Treasury Department. re-
garding assistance given vessels in dis
| tress by cutters in the past week, nor
do the records Of the service show that
| there were any calls for aid from YES
sells in trouble.
The only cutter that has had any work
to do is the Yamacraw, on the ey West
station. and she has been sent to locate
and destroy distractions TO navigation
reported in the vicinity of the Dry Tor
tugas One obstruction. reported by the
! steamship Camguey, consisted of the hull
| OF a small sailing vessel drifting with
decks awash. and the other. reported by
! the steamship City of Everett. consisted
of hulk with new timber floating ABOUT
/ It, 1t may be that both reports may re-
!; fer 10 the same dereiict. though sighted
| BIZ different vessels. the location or
| both is comparatively the same
| Though no report had been received
!; from Capt. Crisp. commanding the new
cutter Cnalga which sailed several DAYS
ago from Port Townsend for Ber-
ing sea. via Kodiak Alaska. 1t is thought
that she has arrived at that port Tne
ITnalga goes to Boring sea to become one
of the feet that will patrol the sea! and
sea otter rookeries to prevent Illegal
sealing in the coming summer she
will at the end of the cruising season
take permanent station at Junea ana III
future will be the Alaska station sh y.
After having spent several months at
the Mare Island. Cal, navy yard, where
her boiler and engines were overhauled
and where she was put in ,horouSh Or
! der for service. the cutter Manning Is
bout ready to start for the north Pa
cific to take up her summer duties as a
part OF the Boring sea patrol fleet. The
vessel will leave San francisco Withn
the next week and on arriving IN Alas
kan waters will at once start upon pa
troll duty with the other vessels of the
fleet which are now on their way north
Repairs to the hull and machinery of
the cutter Thetis have been authorized and
viii be started at once in order to get
the vessel i'm condition for service as soon
az possible in order that she may go TO
Alaska to take the United States district
court for that territory on its regular
summer rounds.
Bound from Baltimore to her station
at Detroit on Lake Erie. the cutter
Morrill,. under command of Capt George
c. Carmine, has started on her long Tip
The Morrill, has recently been acticaiiy
rebuilt at the repair depot at Arundel
| cove and is in condition TO number
of Years Of effective service on the great
lakes. About two weeks VII lee required
I by the Morrill, TO reach her destination.
as after long trip up the coast 70 the
mouth of the st. Lawrence. she i:as to go
the whole length OF that waterway and
down Lake ontario. dTOuIiu .NldSdId airs
and through Lake Erie to her station.
The cutie Winona. on the Mobile sta
ton has gone to Fort Morgan, La, to
give her crew ta-Sot practice On the
range there. SeIe,at da.s will be spent
at the targets and on other drills. and
the cutter will then return to her sta
ton ready to take up any work she may
be called upon to perform.
To take aboa d fuel and stores, the cut
ter Miami. which about MAJ ! was re-
Iieved on the ice patrol along the lines
of transatlantic travel BY the cutter Sen
eca, has been at Halifax for several DAYS.
Within the next day or two she wi leave
Halifax to relieve the Seneca. which will
go to Halifax for her new supply Of fuel
and stores.
Recommendations for the promotion Of
officers i'm the ievenue cutter service to
the next highest grade have recently been
sent to the Senate for confirmation as
follows: Second Lieut.. J. \. AIger. Third
Lieut. w. X. SCANNED First Lieut.. of
Engineers Cha. les F. Nash. Second Lieut.
of Engineers {. c. Mcmillan. Second
Lieut. of Engineers w. l.. Maxwell and
Third Lieut.. of Engineers G. 4. Sugden.
Third Lieut.. Scanned. who will shortly
become second lieutenant, is Wash
ington boy and Lieut.. of Engineers
Charles F.. Nash. who becomes q cap
tain. is an AleXandrian.
Engineer-in-ch Charles A. Meal
lister has accepted an invitation to de-
liver an address before Webb's Academy
and Home for Shipbuilders at Fordham
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