New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-09
Maritime Miscellany

Maritime Miscellany
NEW YORK, July s-shipping Board str
left Horta on June 80. was taken in tow
on July by str City Of Eureka, Balti-
trouble and is proceedns t TO Glbraltar II"
Shipping Board str Yapalaga, Norfolk
for Queenstown, with cargo of coal, ar
rived at Ponta Delgada July with engine
trouble. Will require six days to make
neeessary repairs.
tive, of Provincetown. was sunk to-day by
collision in the harbor with the Nantaskct
Line excursion str Old Colony. Captain
picked up by the vessel. William Silva.
a brother Of the captain, suffered rib
1 1ra no others were injured The &C
The Old Colony, bound from the city for
South Shore beaches, unchanged and
continued on her run.
Shipping Board str Chattanooga, Liver
pool for Charleston. and previously report
ed having boilers disabled at sea, was ne
Cape Race, in tow of the Shipping Board
str Mercer Victory. Hamburg and South
LONDON. July s-The American str
Western Comet. from Baltimore for. st
Nazaire, France, with a cargo of coal, is
dispatch from Nantes to-day. The vessel
is on a rocky bottom in a critical position,
the dispatch adds
July Norwegian bark Charles Racine,
Port Natal for Cape Chatte and previously
reported as having lost mast and boats,
has arrived at Lourenco Marques in tow.
TRURO. Mass, July S-The United Fruit
Companys str Mayari went ashore in
fog off Highland Light to-day. She strand
ed just before low tide and sent word
ashore by wireless that she expected to
float when the water rose. The Mayari
bound from Banes Cuba, for Boston
with sugar The attention of the Highland
Light Coast Guards was attracted to the
steamers plight by ,whistling and Captain
william Page and his crew went out to her
in their surfboat. A few minutes later
the fog lifted momentarily and the ship
could be made out family from shore. She
appeared to be resting easily on a sand
bar The was calm and there ap-
peared to be little immediate danger. The
Mayari struck near the spot where the
British ship Jason was lost in 1893 with
all hands. The Mayari foated on the rising
tide later. She was apparently unchanged
and continued her voyage 20 Boston with
out assistance.
CHATHAM, Mass, July S-A collision
between the lighthouse tender Azalea and
unnamed schooner in which the
Azalea disabled, was announced in
wireless message which the tender sent
ashore to-day The collision occurred off
Pollics Rip Lightship, probably due to the
heavy fog that hung over the coast. AL
though reporting herself entirely dis
abled. the Azalea said she was not leak
ing. She was in need of immediate as
sistance, however. The extent OF damage
to the schooner was not stated.
CEERBOURG, July THE Uruguayan
str oran, in port at Hamburg. which be-
longed to Manuel Allende, of Montevideo.
and which was seized under a writ issued
in favor CT the Guaranty Trust Company
of New York and other companies which
have claims against the owner for sums
aggregating 100000 francs, has been sold
Estrela del Sol de Madrid, is the pur
chaser.
WASHINGTON. July s--The Shipping
Boards str Mopang, which sank in Bourgas
Harbor in the Black Sea when it struck
a mine July 5, may not be salvaged ac-
cording to u cabled report received to-day
vessel partly submerged, an explosion
occurred between the holds, blowing fuel
oil and cargo out of the Matches and
covering the crew with oil. There were
no casualties, hover. The vessel filled
pidly and sank bow first in five minutes.
Instructions We're asked by the ships COM
salvage the vessel whose boilers and ma
ehinery are belived to be intact The
vessel was loaded with CAT tons of gen
eral cargo, which is Beloved to be total
loss. The ships papers recovered
by diver. The American Vice Consul
at Sofia has made arrangements to send
home.
SAN FRANCISCO, July s--Reduction
from 81 to ST a ton in the rate or wheat
and -four from the Pacific Coast to the
Orient has been ordered by the San Fran
cisco and Columbia River Westbound con-
ferences in order to meet competition from
Japanese tramp vessels. Members OF the
San Francisco Conference are preparing to
take action to meet reduction from SIG
to S13 in the rate on steel from the At
lantic seaboard to the Orient, via the
Panama Canal Insofar as the present
rate is Only s5.sS not including overland
transit. the Eastern reduction has caused
CONSERVATION here.
Water in the fuel oil was given as the
cause of the disabling OF the steamer Ad-
miral Nicholson, which was towed back
to port yesterday after attempting her
first sailing to Santa Barbara since the
strike began.
Conferences are being held between rep
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the Pacific Coast shipowners' Association
looking to settlement of the strike in so
fifty steam sohooners engaged in the
coastal lumber trade, now tied up here en-
inasse.
ninety five days from the solomon Islands
and not reported.
Shipping Board steamer West Lewark,
launching, has been assigned to Williams
Dimond & Co for operation to Europe.
The Japanese Tenyo Maru, delayed IN IN
San Francisco direct, emitting Honolulu.
SEATTLE, July s--Army transport sher-
maa en- route from SAN Francisco TO Ma
Mia will take out 1900 members OF the
59th Infantry, now stationed at Camp
Lewis, for service u the Phtllppsnes
Investigation OF the collision of the Ship
ping Board steamer Silver State and
schooner Elizabeth Ruth in the Straits of
Florida on June s, showed no grounds for
preferrring charges against the officers OF
the Silver State, Steamboat Inspection an
noupced yesterday. 1t was testified that
the Elizabeth Ruth WIS running without
lights.
Extensive alterations and repairs on the
Shipping Board steamer Wenatchee Will
be recommended Is the result OF the trial
run on Puget Sound yesterday, in which
the liner showed many faults
VANCOUVER. b C, July s-Shipping
Board steamer Clcmence c Morse Ia load
ing 5000. 600 shingles for Atlantic ports.
Steamer e ID Kingsley. arrived yesterday
from san Francisco encountered gale in
which headway Of only ten miles was made
during fartN-eight hnurs.