Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-28
VESSELS IN DISTRESS
;
: AIDED BY us CUTTERS
Many Opportunities Offered to YES
80 sells Of Coast Guard
Service.

number of opportunities presented
thenlselvs in the past week for the YES
sells of the coast guard service to be OF
aid TO vessels in trouble and in each in
Stance the request for aid met with
prompt response from the cutters and the
vessels were taken into port where it was
possible to do so.
For nearly week the cutter Onon-
: daga. from Norfolk station, stood b.
the steamship Santa Marta, which with
disabled rudder. lay helpless out in the
Atlantic. about 400 miles off the coast.
With the wrecking tug Rescue towing
: the vessel and the Onondaga acting as
: RI oder and steering her she was in
: .he latter part of the week taken into
! New York, where she will discharge
: her cargo and repair. The Onondaga
yesterday returned to her station at
: Norfolk and TO cruising services
: Speeds Or to Aid.
: Responding to call for aid from the
steamship Florence Rice, which is in
trouble 125 miles southeast of Nam
tucket south shoal, the cutter Andro-
scoggin. from the Portland. Me-. sta
ton, speeded off. The trouble is not
: known. but If it is possible the Andro-
scoggin will bring the ship into the
nearest port, where she can repair and
make ready to continue her interrupted
voyage.
Down in the Gulf of Mexico the schoon-
er Lottie S. Hawkins of Pensacola. Fla.
is reported in trouble on one of the
Florida keys. A telegram from the COM
manding officer of the cutter Miami, sta
toned at Key West, says that the cutter
is going to the aid of the vessel, and
while nothing further has been heard
from the Miami, it is thought she has
succeeded in floating the vessel, and is
now making her way into port with her
The Hawkins is small two-masted
schooner employed in the trade between
gulf ports.
Taken to Honolulu.
From Honolulu comes a report of as
sistance rendered by the cutter Thetis
to the four-masted schooner Defender,
ashore on the Island of Keomuku. The
vessel was stranded. and several efforts
were made at different times to get her
af1oat. 1t was finally accomplished, and
the vessel was taken to Honolulu
As the Androscoggin was near Boston
light, in Massachusetts bay. a small
power boat was observed drifting at the
mercy of wind and tide. Aid was sent
her from the cutter and ii was found
down and the two men aboard it were
in danger of being carried out to sea
At their request the boat was lowed to
pilot boat nearby and there left TO
make repairs.
Early in the coming month the cutter
Manning Will leave the Pacific coast
for southeastern Alaska, to enforce
the fishing regulations and to prevent
fishing Illegally by foreign fishing
craft. The Manning will remain in the
north Pacific until next fall.
orders have been sent the cutter
Thet1s that Will place her out of COM
mission. to have thorough repairs made
70 her boiler and machinery that will
require until March Is to complete The
work will be done at Honolulu.
New Coast Guard Station.
A contract has been placed with
New York firm for the erection of
coast guard station, with necessary
outbuildings. at Point of Woods, on the
south side of Long Island, not far from
Fire Island. n. Y. This is the first
station ordered built since the CONSOLE
datfon Of the life-saving service with
the revenue cutter service into the
coast guard. but contracts for the cree
ton Of others at exposed places will
be made shortly.
orders for the week are as follows:
Third Lieut. z. G. Rose, detached from
the Window. to headquarters for tenn
porary duty.
Third Lieut. L. Y. Keilhorn, detached
the Pamlico, to the Seminole.
Second Lieut.. J. +. McGourty, pre-
paratory orders to the Miami.
Third Lieut.. f. H. Smith, detached
from the Seminole, to the Acushnet
Charles Helmet appointed gunner.
Boatswain A. NJ. Tolzke, detached
from the Itasca, to New York for duty
as acting masters mate.