Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-01
CUTTERS READY J.
FQRl0NG. WINTER CRUISE
Patrol Of Atlantic Coast Begins De.
cember I and Continues
tolApril 4.
TO KEEP CONSTANTLY AT SEA
Acuslnet.Assists British Schooner on
Shoal and Also u Disabled Vessel.
McCulioch at Scene of Wreck OF
HanaIei.

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WASHINGTON. November ao.-win-
Ter cruising by vessels OF the Revenue
Gutter Service begins at 1901 a. NJ.
tuesday next. Until midnight Of
march 81. 1916, the revenue cutters on
the Atlantic Coast stations, from East
port, Me-. to Savannah. Ga. will keep
at sea constantly on, lookout for ships
in distress
For the past week or ten days rev.
enue cutters have been taking aboard
extra stores. heavy towing hawsers and
cruising gear. They are now all ready
10 start service.
Oftentimes the revenue cutters have
little to do. for weeks at "a time. Then
comes a spell Of. bad weather. Calls
for aid come SO thick and fast that II
may be difficult to decide which call
to answor first.
Each season shows increased ef-
iiciency on the part OF the revenue cut
tors. Few vessels call In vain for aid.
The revenue cutters arc almost certain
10 reach them In time to save and tow
them into afc harbor.
Acushnet Pulis Schooner Free.
Calls for aid have been few in the
past week The Acushnet. on duty on
the Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket
Sounds, has had however. two as
sists" to her credit.
Tho British schooner ST. Maurice
from a Nova Scotian port to New
York, ran ashore on the AIassa chusetts
coast near Chatham. The Acushnet
noated her without much difficulty and
towed her Into the Vineyard for harbor.
The schooner Samuel Dillaway, an
American vessel. was found of Pol
lock RIP with windias broken. and
was also assisted by the Acuahnet. She
was taken into port at New Bedford by
big seagoing tug.
While the cutter woodbury. was laid
mp for repairs came call from the
threc-masted schooner Fannie and Fay,
ashore on Little Fishing Rock. in the
mouth OF the Kennebunk River. Me-,
asking for prompt help. The revenue
cutter could not be made ready for
service for several hours. With per-
mission OF the owners the tug Con-
cord was manned by the crew OF the
cutter. and haste made to the strand
ed schooner She was found in a dan
gerous position, but was fioated, prac-
ticnlly unframed.
The revenue cutter Morrill, went to
the aid of the freight steamer Rocket
ashore at Pcresque Island. near Erie.
Pa. The vessel was found high and
dry on sand beach. Only digging
her of could save her. The Tuscarora
found the steamship Lehigh a hope
less wreck on a reef at the entrance
to Poverty Harbor. Mich. These two
vessels were lost In great storm on
the lakes in the past week.
Though responding promptly to the
trouble call. the cutter Mohawk, on
the New York station, was unable to
aid the schooner George ID. Jenkins,
found ashore on tho south side OF
Long Island near Shinnecock The
schooner was out OF the reach OF the
cutter. which returned TO her station.
Tho Jenkins went ashore in one OF
the gales that swept the Atlantic
carly last week.
wreck or The rnnniei.
Bringing the dead and the survi-
rors OF :he wreck of the steamer HIM
alei TO San Francisco has been the
duty performed by the cutter McCul-
loch in the past week. ~ telegram
received from her commanding officer
tells OF the arrival OF the cutter Mt
San Francisco with thirteen survivors
and fifteen dead. The wreck was one
OF the worst that has occurred on the
j'acific Coast for many years.
Responding to notification from n
steamship of the presence OF wreckage
Key West, the cutter Miami made a
search. The wreckaRc, n mass OF tim
bcrs seemingly a portion OF the hull OF
vessel. was located. Two torpedoes
ploded and did the work OF efrectiyely
breaking up the. mass.
The other torpedo failed to explode
and was recovered and taken aboard
the cutter faulty detonator was
ploding. 1t will be, made ready for
service when n mine Is next wanted
tofblow up derelict
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we're visitors TO and rcgistered at the
department In tho past Week