New-York tribune., 1921-06-25
Maritime Miscellany

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| NEW YORK. June 24--Tanker oelrnira,
tow of the American tanker Franklin,
Houston for this port. The Delmira was
taken In tow at Key West by the Frank :
lin, having been tied up at that port since
February II last, whore she was towed
after having been on FIRE.
Str Martha Washington, which was tied
for several weeks and which had a fire
aboard previous to her sailing from that
port 1gqs sa p |, ( arrived nT ed mere te-day
~ fathoms of chain recently lost by the
Dutch steamer stad Utrecht when entering
| the Hook of Holland have been recovered
DURHAM, June Str Sunpath arrived
here yesterday frem Bombay and docked.
She grounded off Port Natal and sustained
damage TO bottom. Several hundred feet
of calking will have to be made good
ana great many rivets replaced around
BOSTON June 2s-wrecking tug Susie
d lies on the mud fats at East Boston full
OF water and badly damaged. While
moored alongside lighter Viola she was
crushed between barge Falmouth and tho
/ Viola; both port and starboard sides we're
stove in and she filled and sank. The Fall
mouth. IL is stated, grounded at low water
and fell over on the tug Owners walt
ing decision of underwriters before ar
ranging necessary repairs.
VENICE, June 6-7Str Tirreno, in port
here, took fire and sustained considera BILE
damage before the blaze was extlngushed.
There was no cargo on board at the time.
but some deck, middle deck and side plates
were indented.
LONDON, June 1o--Str Vile de- /Belfort
which arrived here yesterday from Bay
onne, while being moored, collided with
Portuguese steamer Mindello damaging
the Mindello on starboard side amidship
BOSTON, June 2S-Str West Jaffrey
Buenos Ayres for Boston. will call It Port
steamer Zaca to New York.
WASHINGTON, June "a system Of
radio signals to direct ships in fog will
be tried out in New York harbor Monday
by the Bureau Of Lighthouses, 1t was an
nounced to-day by Commissioner Putnam.
For the first time in navigation, Mr.. Put
system of radio direction signals will af-
| ford a practical means by which the nav
isator can take reasonably accurate bear
ings on fixed beacons which are not visible.
NORFOLK, June 23-Str Agawann, which
was damaged by fire here, has been libeled
for s15O.oo0 by harbor tugs for their as
sistance in extinquishing flames.
LONDON June 23-Str Canastota, sgd
ney, S w, for New York, Is five days
overdue at Wellington, z.
MOBILE, June 23--Str Conotton, while
proceeding from this port on June % for
| Tampa and New York, collided with the
British steamer Whiteson, which is an
cosfqiderably. The Conotton proceeded on
voyage,
| SAN FRANCISCO, June 24.--Orders have
been issued for the Shipping Board 500"
Mail to Calcutta, to turn at Singapore,
emitting Colombo and Calcutta, in order
tnat the vessel may return for her scheo-
uled sailing from this port August Ia.
Sabotage, discovered at Manila, resulting
in the arrest of William punleyy, assistant
engineer. told in cables from Manila to-
day, will not seriously delay the liner,
Pacific Mail officials said. They asserted
the damage was slight.
Twenty eight members of party from
Brooklyn Newspaper will sail for Homo
lulu on the Pacific Mail liner Ecuador to-
morrow. They had originally planned TO
| canal on the Buckeye State, which was
| forced to turn back because of fire.
! The first shipment of German potash to
| charged from the Danish motorship Trans
vaal. The consignment consists of 500
| tons.
! Several representatives, ship operators
| and ship builders of the Pacific Coast have
left or are leaving for Washington to con-
| fer with A. D. Lasker, chairman OF the
| An airplane oircling overhead and drop
| ping floral wreaths on the deck of the new
| Japanese Taiyo Maru. formerly the Ger
| man liner Cap Finisterre, when she ar
rives here tomorrow from the Orient.
| The Pacific Mail announced that the de-
parture of the new liner Empire state
| from Baltimore, scheduled, for tomorrow,
had been postponed for few days while
repairs being made to the condenser.
| Officials said the Hawkeye State positively
would leave Baltimore tomorrow.
PORTLAND, Ore. June e4-The Dutch
str Ball, of the Java-Pacifc Line, sailed
with lumber for Japan and China and
thence 20 Dutch East indies. The Port of
Portland Commission will distribute to all
world ports new charts of the Columbia
River
Captain Yasuo Naito. of the. Japanese
vessel Port Said Maru. fined $1,000 in
Federal Court to-day for allowing six Jap
| anese stowaways to land from his ship.
Absorption by the railroad and steamship
lines of wharfage charges at the municipal
wi ha AT a
ence to be called next week by the Public
Dock Commission.
str Yosemite. which has beea fdle for six
months, is being overhauled for a trip to
Europe with grain loadad on the Columbia
River under operation of Thorndyke &
Trenholme.
VANCOUVER. June 24-The wireless sta
tion at On Triangle Island Is being dis
mantled and a station at Bull Harbor.
on the mainland, has been placed In COM
mission.
ship Taisu Maru was seized yesterday
under a charge Of engaging in the coast
wise passenger trade. in violation of the
coastwise law: Six japanese passengers
BALTIMORE June 24.-with 2,715.s5s
feet of pine lumber from the forests OF
Birmingham City. Captain Arnt, arrived to-
day from Everett, Washington.
Having transferred the cargo. from the
Line, which became disabled after sailing
June II for San Francisco and returned to
port the Hhwkeye State will sail in her
place tomorrow. There Will be eighty
first class passengers on the Hawkeye
State and fifty Chinese sailors being
returned to China by the United States
Shipping Board, which used them to man
a steamer built in China and delivered at
Philadelphia
w. E.. Woodall & Co., to-day laun ched
from their dock the sidewheel steamer b.
s. Ford. after having inclosed the iron hull
In wood, to add strength and buoyancy to
the craft Since the adoption OF encasing
iron vessels in wood Woodail 81 Co have
applied the idea to the United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer Bache
and the sidewheel steamers Helen, Tan
gier and Pilot Boy, Of the Chesapeake
feet which prolonged their life without
the cost OF renewing metal hulls.