Evening star., 1915-09-13
COAST GUARD CUTTERS
IN SEARCH Of WRECKS
Tallapoosa Picks Up Two Aban.
doned Schooners in Gulf
of Mexico.
Cadets Now on Cruise to Have Leave
of Absence-Oficial
Orders.

ofi her way from the CheSd peake to
her station at Mobile the new coast
guard cutter Tallapoosa has the credit
of having picked up two abandoned
schooners in the Gulf of Mexico. and OF
taking them into port to be turned
over to their owners. The recent storm
in the gulf has given both the Miami
and the Tallapoosa plenty to do in
hunting for wrecks. several of which
have been reported by passing vessels.
Responding to a request for aid from
the master of the fishing schooner
Margaret Haskell, disa bled on Stone
Horse shoal in Nantucket sound. tho
cutter Gresham went from Boston to
the aid Of the vessel. Locating her in
I he position indicated, 1t was ascer-
tanned that she had stranded in Stone
Horse and had broken her rudder, to-
tally disabling her. At the request of
the master of the Haskell the vessel
WAS towed into Gloucester, Mass, where
repairs can be made. Another vessel
in trouble on Nantucket shoals in the
past week was the schooner Carolina
Gray. The cutter Acushnet found her
Waterlogged and towad her into Vine
yard sound, where repairs will be made.
Cadets to Have Leave of Absence.
On the arrival of the practice cutter
1tasca at New London, in the latter
part of this month, the cadets aboard
her, both of the new and old classes.
will be given leave of absence until
October II. The academic year at the
Coast Guard Academy at New London
begins October Is. The Itasca with
the classes aboard was at Portland.
Me-. in the patter part of last week
and left there yesterday for Tompkins-
Vile. N. Y. The cadets will visit New
York and will make a trip up the
Hudson as far as West Point
From several weeks of service as 4
floating court. during which she car
ried the United States district judge
for the Alaska district and the court
officials on a cruise to the coast settle
ments in Alaska to hold court and dis
pense justice, the cutter McCulloch is
back at Sausalito, Cal, and will take
up cruising duty on the coast of Cali
fornia. She also will assist in repre-
senting the coast guard at San Fran
cisco uuring the closing days of the
Panama Pacific exposition.
Bound for UnalaSka, the cutter Bear
which has just returned from a visit
to the frozen regions in the Arctic, in
the vicinity of Point Barrow. left Nome
September 3. On her way she will visit
Kings and st. Lawrence Islands on the
will remain in Alaskan waters until
the coming of ice-making time and
navigation closes. After all commercial
vessels are started south she will leave
the far north for her winter station at
San Francisco.
September the President signed the
commissions of First Lieut.. Charles
Satterlee to be a captain and Second
tenant and the promotion of these
officers will date from that day Capt.
Satterlee has been assigned to the COM
mand of the cutter Androscoggin, now
Masters Mate A. NJ. Topzke has passed
his examination for promotion to the
grade of masters mate and ne mas re-
ceived his warrant. He is now on duty
aboard the cutter Guthrie, DONG boaro.
ing duty at Baltimore.
ofacial Orders. -
Orders for the week are as follows:
First Lieut.. w. ]. Wheeler. to dutyAs
assistant inspector at Patchogue. N. Z.
Capt. c. Satterlee, commissioned.
First Lieut.. A. II. Scally, commis-
stoned.
First Lieut.. E. S. Addison. preparatory
orders to Itasca.
First Lieut.. c. c. Alexander, prepara-
tory orders to Apache.
First Lieutenant of Engineers w. e.
Maccoun, preparatory orders to Guthrie.
First Lieutenant of Engineers A. e.
Norman, preparatory orders to Mohawk
First Lieutenant of Engineers j. 3.
Turner, preparatory orders to Acushnet-
First Lieut. H. G. Fisher, to the Onon-
daga.
First Lieut.. ]. A. Alger. from McCul-
loch to Pamlico, forty-fve days leave
en- route.
First Lieut.. H. w. Pope, to command
Snohomish, September Is.
First Lieut.. l.. C. Covel, from Snoho-
mish to Unalga, on relief.
First Lieut.. F. l.. Austin, preparatory
orders to Arcata.
First Lieut.. H. E. Ridout, preparatory
orders to Manning.
Capt. c. Satterlee, TO command. An
droscoggin, on relief
First Lieut.. K. Blake, jr., to command
Acushnet.
Second Lieut.. J. l.. Ahern, to Miami.