New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-30
Maritime Miscellany

PORTLAND, Ore, July 2s-Strauss &
GO have chartered the British str Woron
to load wheat here for Europe 1t was an
nounced to-day. She Is expected about
September IS.
With general cargo from North China
ports the str Bearport arrived to day.
In ballast from TOXIC to load wheat for
Europe, the Japanese str Victoria Maru
arrived to-day.
Board str Golden State. here to-day after
second transit Pacific voyage. broke two
far East steaming ACCOMPLISHMENTS to
Manila. 1,142 miles, in two days 1e hours
80 minutes, at an average speed of III
knots, and Hong Kong to Shanghai, S0T
miles, In one day twenty hours fiftytwo
minutes. at an average speed OF IS knots
Army transport Great Northern, proba
bly, the fastest steamer on the Pacific,
will be turned over TO the navy for oper
alton between Atlantic and Pacific coasts
here for several months.
Str Liberty Land from Norfolk June
Fl. for San Francisco laden with navy
coal, will put into San Pedro tomorrow
for repairs to engines.
Shipping Board str Empire state, OPP
Grated by. the Pacific Mail, and the China
tomorrow. John Hays Hammond will be
passenger on the Umpire State, and
Jacob Gould schurman. Minister to China,
on the Marking The American Society
of Marine Engineers Club was organized
hero last night by former members of the
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
SEATTLE, July 2s-shipping Board str
West Jessup, formerly operated to the
Orient by struthers & Dixon. has been
fitted with new stern frame and will be
laid to.
The Port Commission announced yes
terday that 1t proposes to fight the new
tariff being issued by the North Pacific
Coast Freight Bureau, on the ground that
the rates are discriminatory against the
public docks here. 1t Is charged that the
tariff permits the railroads to absorb more
az hoy
others. And tho commission proposes to
protest to the Interstate Commerce Com
mission and the State Board OF Public
Works.
TACOMA, July 2s-Motor ship culburra
has been libeled for s1,o15 by Chief En-
in this amount are due him.
SAN PEDRO, July 29--Prnce Axel of
Denmark, captain in the Danish Navy. ar
rived here to-day in command OF the
Danish motor ship Asia
cliffe has booked passage on the str Ma
Irura (Brl, to sail next week for Australia,
at Honolulu
BALTIMORE, July 29-saillng to-mor-
row for San Francisco by way of Havana
Matson Navigation Companys new str
buckeye State will take out fifty first
class passengers.
Dawn. from Antwerp, reported that on
July rs he saw from Cape Charles Light
house. bearing II degrees west and dis
tant six miles, spar standing upright
in ten fathoms of water. apparently at
tached to a submerged body. After run
ming about one mile the ship passed close
to large buoy with cage work on the
top which had record in his sailing
directions
Manuel Ferrara. Portuguese seaman.
was stowaway on the str. Eastern Dawn
from Antwerp
Within a week four steel Shipping
Board strs have left for Norfolk, Va, to-
be laid up in the James River channel,
the Lake Galata and Lake Elmwood leav
ing here to-day.
There were thirty steel strs of the Ship
ping Board fleet at anchor In the river
or tied UP at the wharvss here to-day This
feet represents s3,375 net tons, with ac-
mmodation. when loaded, for fully 20o.-
600 tons deadweight cargo.
The oil tank str San Leonardo will slide
from the Ways Of the Globe sh!pbuildlas
morrow to take its place in the fleet Of
vessels which carry oil from Mexico to
all parts OF the world for the Mexican
Eagle on Company. Ltd This company
has chartered all OF the vessels of the
Eagle OIL Transport Company, Ltd, the
English concern for which the vessel was