Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-30
Have Time to Assist Shipping,
Although Enforcing Men,
traIity Laws.
CADETS on A CRUISE
TO DO ACTUAL WORK
Ships Are Being Put in Repair for
Winters Work Along the
North Coast.

Though the vessels of the revenue cut
ter service are actively employed in en-
forcing the neutrality laws. they have
had time to assist number of vessels
in distress. The commanding officers
last week sent to the Treasury Depart
ment ten reports Of aid given.
The vessels assisted were mainly small
launches, though the cutter Acushnet, on
the Woods Hole, Mass, station, assisted
two vessels that had gone ashore, and
the Pamlico, on the North Carolina
sounds, was called to the aid Of a
stranded tugboat.
Out on the Pacific coast, at the upper
end of Washington, the Yalnacraw found
four launches in danger. from disabled
machinery. All were helped into port.
The big tug Columbia went ashore in
Pamlico sound and the cutter, after
some little trouble, worked her into deep
water where the tug was able to take
care of herself
The Acushnet had two calls to aid YES
sells ashore on Nantucket shoals, and she
pulled the stranded schooners off the
shoals and towed them into safe har-
Dor.
Cadets on Cruise.
Under the command of Capt. Frederick
c. Billiard. superintendent Of the reve-
nue. cutter academy at New London,
Conn, the practice cutter Itasca is taking
the classes of cadets from the academy
on cruise in New England waters. The
young men recently assigned to the
school are aboard the cutter and are re-
ceiving preliminary training in the du-
ties of their chosen profession.
The Itasca left New London about two
weeks ago. After cruise at sea she
visited Boston and again went to sea for
a short cruise before arriving at Port
land, Me, where she now is. From
Portland she will go to Provincetown,
Mass, and Tompkinsville, N. Y, and
will arrive back at New London Sep
TENDER IA, after which studies will be
taken up ashore for the fall and VIM
ter.
Bids for the construction of two new
cutters, recently authorized by Congress,
will be opened Tuesday. 1t is stated that
all leading shipbuildins firms will bid.
Work is to be pushed on the new YES
sells, and it is expected that they will be
ready to be turned over in the coming
summer. The new ships are to be models
Of their class, efficient and up-to-date.
Cutters Under Repair.
To be put in thorough order for rescue
work in the ice on the Maine coast in the
coming winter, the cutter Androscoggin
is at Curtis bay, Nd. She will be taken
to Baltimore shipyard and her hull
stripped of the metal covering. The ves-
sci will then be salked. painted and re-
metaled, and she will then be taken
back to the depot, where her machinery
and woodwork will receive thorough re-
pairs.
In the winter season the Androscog-
gin is kept busy breaking vessels out Of
ice in Maine harbors. and she Is often
sent on cruises in search Of derelicts or
to bring into port abandoned vessels.
The fitting of the cutter Seminole with
a new boiler is rapidly approaching COM
pletion at Arundel Cove.
A telegram from the Acushnet an
nounces the rescue of the bark Am
dresshirk from the shoals near Sankaty
Head, Mass. and Of her being towed
into Vineyard Haven.
Capt Godfrey L. Garden, on special
duty, and Third Lieut.. George Mclean,
from the cutter Androscoggin, at Bal
timore. registered at the department
last week.
The only orders issued in the last
week transferred junior lieutenants
from the Winona at Mobile, to the
Window, at Galveston.
Chief Engineer c. A. AfcAllister, who
contracted case of whooping cough
from his child. is slowly recovering.