Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-28
Seminole on Neutrality Duty"

is over on the Atlantic coast, April l.,
the cutter Seminole. now on the Charles
ton, s. c., station, will go to San Juan
to take up neutrality duty at that port
and on the Porto Rican coast, reliev-
ing the cutter Itasca. The Itasca will
70 to the repair depot at Arundel Cove
Md, for an overhauling preparatory to
taking the cadets from the Coast Guard
Academy at New London on the annual
training cruise, the itinerary for which
will be arranged shortly. The cruise
will btgin in the latter part of May.
Had the cutter Onondaga been equip
ped with wrecking pumps or steam
syphon the barge Shamokin could have
been kept af1oat, is the opinion of the
commanding officer of the cutter in the
report he makes on the work done to
save that vessel The barge, water
logged and in bad condition, was picked
up off the Virginia coast by the Onon-
daga. Men from the cutter were sent
aboard her to aid in keeping her pumps
going. For twenty-four hours she was
kept afioat and was brought into Hamp-
ton roads. She went to the bottom
about ten minutes after the arrival of
the wrecking tug alongside her, but be-
fore the tug could get her pumps to
work.
In addition to towing in the barge
the Onondaga spent several days in the
past week in search of the barge. Will
liam L. Donohue, adrift and water
logged OF the North Carolina coast.
While employed on this duty she was
which was badly damaged in col1i-
sion with the steamship Dorothy off
the Wimble shoals, and, picking her up,
conveyed her into Hampton roads.
Crew Saved by Passing Vessel.
Up on the Maine coast the small
three-masted lumber-laden schooner
members of her crew were taken off by
a passing weasel The ossipee has gone
after the Horatio and, if possible, will
tow her into a port where she can be
pumped out and saved. The cutter
Gresham has arrived at Boston with
the derelict schooner. Annie Lord in
tow, which was picked UP. dangerous
menace to navigation, of the Massa-
chusettS coast.
AS the cutter PamIico was cruising
on Albemarle sound. n. c., she found
the schooner William T. Parker with
signals Of distress in her rigging. Go
ing to the vessel, the commanding OFF,
Ger of the cutter was told by the mas
ter of the schooner that she had lost
anchor and cable. and he requested as
sistance in locating it. A boats crew
from the cutter spent several hours
dragging for the missing equipment.
hut failed to find 1t. The effort was
finally abandoned, and it was conclud-
ed the anchor and chain had sunk deep
in the soft mud of the sound.
The cutter Acushnet on Marthas Vine
yard sound is standing by the Mer-
chants ana Miners liner Juanita, which
l. ashore there. Several efforts have
been made - float the vessel, but so
far without success.
With a barge on which are hve men,
p.CHed 80 adrift in the north Atlantic,
=. q tod rondition. the cutter andre
scazEIH has arrived at Halifax.
I'll. United States naval barge which
vent ashore in the lower Potomac
'T;3isC ocund from this city in tow for
*eEtu.k with naval ammunition
aboard was successfully loated in the
past week by the cutter Apache. The
barge and its cargo were unchanged
oHcial Orders Issued.
Orders for the week are as follows:
First Lieut. c. w. Cairnes, ordered to
Marine Hospital. Stapleton. N Y, for
observation and treatment.
Second Lieut.. C. e. Anstett, detached
from the Androscoggin. to headquar-
tiers for duty.
:. Second Lieutenant of Engineers c. ].
urtiss, detached from the Tyree and
granted leave.
Second Lieutenant of Engineers H. F.
johnson, preparatory orders TO Tyree