Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20
Revenue Cutter Service

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That the vessels of the revenue cutter
service are of much value to shipping is
shown by the report Of Capt. George c.
Carmine, commanding the cutter Apache.
on the Chesapeake, of the work done by
the vessel in the winter cruising season
which ended April 1. Though the winter
was a mild one and severe storms were
infrequent, the cutter was called upon
to aid fifteen vessels in trouble from va
rous causes, and to whom the assistance
of the cutter was timely to save them
from being lost or seriously damaged.
The value of the vessels assisted was
$780, 100 and their cargoes were valued
at $4,000.
OF the 121 days in the cruising season
the report shows that the Apache was
under way JOB Of them, so that she was
practically cruising every day through
out the fcu. months Of the cruising sea-
son, except Sundays. During that time
she cruised 5,673 miles, boarded and in
spected $50 vessels and reported two for
violation OF navigation laws.
In spite of the fact that the time when
the vessels of the service are supposed
to be having ar easy time Of it is now
at hand, they are having more calls made
upon them now than during the winter
months. The cutter Yamacraw, doing
duty on the south Atlantic and gulf
coasts, after floating a Standard Oil
Company tug and barge from a reef in
the Dry Tortugas and taking them into
port at Jacksonville, was called upon
to go to the aid of the schooner Alice
HOlbrOOk, an old trader to this city,
which had stranded on the wreck of a
sunken schooner near Hillsboro, Fla.
and as soon as she is through with the
Hollbook she is under orders to search
for two derelictS recently reported by
vessels as being within her cruising dis
trict
On the New England coast the cutter
Acushnet, First Lieut. w. A. Wiley COM
handing, has had but little opportunity
to take things easy. Early in last week
she received a call to go to the aid of
the tWo-masted schooner Kolon. in trou-
BILE on Half Moon shoal, Nantucket sound
On her way to that vessel a three-masted
schooner was seen in distress a short
distance away. Finding that the case Of
the kolon was not urgent. the cutter
steamed to the aid of the other schooner,
which was found to be the Mary E. OIys
of Bath, Me, which had lost her masts
by the parting of the rigging She was
taken in tow and the kolon was picked
up also, and both vessels were taken into
safe harbor at Woods Hole, Mass,
where repairs could be made
Though gun cotton mines were used in
an endeavor to destroy the wreck of the
schooner Bartholdi by the cutter Semi
mole, Lieut. Leon Covell of this city, com
handing, the endeavoT was not the sue
cess the officers of the cutter would have
wished. Lieut. Covell in his report states
that while the cutter had the wreck in
tow endeavoring to get it into port it
turned bottom up. A heavy gale was
blowing and 1t was impossible to place
mines on the wreck to insure its destruc-
ton. The experiment was tried of float
ing mine to the hulk, and while the
floating part was successful. the explos-
ion only tore a hole in the hulk and did
not sink it.
While these operations were in prog
ress a S. O. S. call was received by the
cutter radio apparatus from the Frying
Pan lightship. which had gone adrift
from her station on the North Carolina
coast When the cutter reached the
lightship it was in tow of an army tug
and her assistance was not required.
Lieut.. Covell states in his report that
the hulk OF the Bartholdi is in such con-
dition that it will soon break up
During the past week the cutter Andro-
scoggin, on the Maine coast, floated
schooner named the Goodman from a
dangerous position on the rocks and car
ried her into safe harbor.
Under orders from the department the
cutter Onondaga. Capt. De Otte, on the
Norfolk station, is cruising off the Vir-
ginia coast in search of the schooner
by her crew several days ago, but which
is still afioat If found Capt. De Otte
Will endeavor to tow the vessel into
Hampton roads.
After having spent several months at
the Arundel Cove. Nd. depot undergoing
general repairs, the cutter Gresham sailed
yesterday for her station on the Massa-
chusetts coast. with headquarters at Bos-
ton. and on arriving there will take up
her duties
The cutter Morrell, which has also been
at Arundel Cove under repairs for sew
eral months, will be placed in commission
today, and about May will sail under
the command of Capt George Z. Carmine
for her station on Lake Erie, at Detroit.
She will arrive at Detroit about the cen
Ing of navigation and will at once elNer
upon her duties.
The cutter Tahoma will sail today for
Alaskan waters preparatory to duty
with the Bering sea patrol fleet The
other vessels of the fleet will leave Pa
cific coast ports about May l, and will
arrive In Alaska about May 10.
The cutter Thetis. which has been do
ing duty at Honolulu. arrived at San
Francisco Friday She will be made
ready for service as a floating court and
will this summer carry L. S. District
Judge Goodman and his court on it's
ce-dispensing mission to out of the
way portions of the Alaskan coast a s We'll
as to the larger cities.
Orders to officers of the service, for
the week. are as follows:
Second Lieut.. of Engineers \. F. Pat
Third Lieut.. f. j. L. Sitka. detached
Androscoggin, to Tuscarora.
First Lieut.. E. Blake. jr., detached from
duty as purchasing officer, San Francisco,
Cal. on May l. to Yamacraw.
First Lieut.. of Engineers w. +. Mac
coun. granted ninety days leave. be-
ginning May 81. with permission to 60
beyond the seas.