Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
Revenue Cutter Service

While the vessels of the revenue cutter
service doing winter cruising duty have
been constantly on the move. ready to
aid vessels in distress. the pacific char
acter of the winter So far has given
them comparatively few opportunities TO
perform the humanitarian duties pre-
scribed in the winter cruising orders sent
to the commanding officers OF the cutters
about the middle OF las November There
are always more or less calls upon the
cutter Acushnet. doing patrol duty on the
Vineyard and Nantucket sounds. Mass.
but last week. for the first time in sew
eral months, there were no vessels in
trouble in her cruising territory and She
had nothing to do. and this. too. in spite
of the fact that the north Atlantic coast
was visited by severe storm.
On the Gulf of Mexico the cutter Miami
patrolling in the vicinity of the Florida
keys. unlike her sister ships on northern
waters. has had plenty to do. Earlv in
the week. according to reports received
from the commanding officer OF tie
Miami, she destroyed the hulk of a large
vessel about no miles off the Florida
coast. While the name Of the vessel :
not given it is thought to he the British
bark Malwa. which was abandoned
Christmas day. and for which the Miami
searched for several days. The crew of
the Malwa We're taken off by a passing
steamship and We're transferred from II
to the -.iami. which landed them at
Key West.
The MAN. is now searching for three
derelicts reported menacing the safety OF
vessels bound to and from Galveston and
the mouth of the Mississippi river. The
derelict hulk of the British barN Glenaf-
ton was sighted early in the week by
vessel going to Gufport. Miss. and was
reported on her arrival there. 1t has been
sighted and reported twice since then by
other vessels. Later in the week the
steamship FL Mundo. one of the southern
Pacific liners. sent n radio message stat
ing she had passed the drifting hulk OF a
steamship named Guatemala. bottom M
about 40 miles southeast of the mouth
of the Mississippi
The position given is about 100 miles
from the position of the first named dere-
lict. The Guatemala is a French vesse'
of nearly 4NA tons. and there is con-
siderable speculation as to the fate or her
crew. So far as known no report has
been made of their having been rescued
The third derelict is the hulk of small
schooner of about 2o9 tons. which was
passed by the army transport Schofield
about 100 miles from Cape San Bias.
A Nessei aoes hot naNe 49,, ~ y. - -, ~ =
10 pc III afst ess II oi'i '. .i,.t tn,
four-masted schooner Augusta w Sno~
had twisted her rudder head on her way
up GU -. - ~, 80 b.,' il, y
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pau mas ~ -, ~, ,.i,tta, oron-
daga from Norfolk went to her aid. She
found the vessel out in the Atlantic nine
ty-five miles from Cape Henry. but she
was ~" Gu ~ "" 20 .',,.,s..J
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coaStlng schooner NiaiSp!In n. NeiN': =
whiie on her way from fott l%IhPa =,
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on the North taioiIla toaSt. nc. NdP"
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the cuttel iatiiNiNi'" ""' " -.
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idst rtudS' - 80, 80, -
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poriiand. NE, ,ne utter hi i
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IN the battery on hls Si.lp, mo tns 10y
tom ui the -tiile i'9'i o4l tSilhet 'hldl'ciila
IN oluef 10 htahe iei SliIh- II Mds' uIe
report SAYS iiiPos't'i - "9t ihilo9 ~
destroy the NeSsei anu Tue Hl't'loa us'''
was the one lilat pFuthlSeu success ire
Nessel went TO u't lotion oi tht' o'ed'l
and Hes with nearly my teet OIL wafer
over her: SEoiuN before IN" seneca
reached hef. me Vessel II rePoiitu !"
bottom OF the ocean ana tile oth@r to"ti-
ing 10 leet up III ti'e ar w men IN
seneca started operations on her she NdS
lying bottom.up-
10 receive general oNerhallhnS Inc
Island navy yard TO ne locked January
H. When repairs I" the vessel are COM
pleted, she VIII 60 To the southern eau,
ioi ma 'oast w Co "P - " 49, -.
will remain on that service unfii next
spring. when she VIII start on her ahnua!
Trip 10 Aiashdh waters anu tlle aie1'-
Repairs to the cutter Apache have been
completed at Arundle Cove. Md. and SIZE
has resumed cruising duties on the ches-