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ATLANTIC COAST GOSSIP. Office of the Marine Review, Room 1005, No. 90 West St., New York City. The French Admiral Aube, which sailed from New York in search of the Fabre Line steamship Neustria, cruiser arived. at Gibraltar on Jan. 14, after vainly seeking for the missing vessel since Dec. 19 between Bermuda and Madeira. The Neustria sailed from New York for Marseilles on Oct. 27, and was due at .the latter place about a week and a half later. The French gov- the cruiser Admiral Aube to search for the missing ship. The Neustria is a freight steamer car- rying no passengers, and had a crew of 38 men. ernment directed The barge Navahoe, now bound to Philadelphia, will load the largest cargo of petroleum ever shipped from _ that port on any type of vessel. She will take out 10,000 tons of refined petroleum in bulk, destined for London. When this large cargo is aboard the Navahoe the barge will draw 26 ft. She will be towed to her destination by the steamer Iroquois. ' The .German steamship Vitalia, from Hamburg for Philadelphia, arrived at New York on Thursday to replenish her - bunkers. The Vitalia had éncountered heavy weather during the entire passage and had been compelled to burn 250 bales of corkwood to enable her to make New York. harbor. steamship Caledonian, from Manchester, arrived at Boston, on Jan. 12, and reported having passed the derelict schooner Isabelle Alice on Jan. . 7, in latitude 46.52, longitude 46.13. The derelict has already been reported and is supposed to be a French fishing craft. When last sighted her masts were still standing, though at a dangerous angle, her bowsprit and all deck fittings being gone. She is a dangerous obstruction to navigators. The British The Royal Mail steamship Trent, be- fore reported ashore on the Colombian coast, remains in a dangerous position, and it is feared wilt be a total loss. The entire cargo has been jettisoned. A bill requiring that life-preservers be carried on motor boats has been intro- duced by Senator Frye, of Maine, this action being prompted by the number of lives lost on motor boats during last season. The bill provides that there shall be at least one for each person on board; that all life-preservers shall be so stowed that their position may be | known, and that they shall be readily ac- TAE Marine REVIEW cessible to those for whom they are in- tended. For any violation of the act the owner shall be liable to a penalty of $10 for each such life-preserver lacking or improperly stowed. The schooner Swallow of~St. John's, : N. F., foundered off the Long Island shore on the night of Jan. 16, all hands being lost. The schooner. was bound from St.John, N. B.,. for New York with a cargo of frozen herring and a deckload of lumber, and is believed to have had a crew of seven men. She was owned by John Dawson, of St. John's, and was built 30 years ago at Mose's riv- ef. There is an unusual number of large coasting vessels tied up at Portland, Me., and at other harbors along the coast due to the inactivity in the coal-carrying trade. At Portland about 20 of the schooners engaged in this trade are ly- ing at anchor or tied up at the wharves, including the new /six-master Edward B. Winslow, which has made but one coal trip since she was launched, and the six-masters Alice M. Lawrence and Ruth E. Merrill. Similar conditions prevail at Boston, where several large schoon- ers are anchored waiting to be chartered. During the severe storm which swept Long Iskand Sound on Sunday, D. E. Sanford, of Walton, N. S., captain of the barge Ontario, dropped dead of apoplexy on boatd his vessel while pro- ceeding through the Sound. Anxiety for the safety of the vessel is supposed to have brought on the fatal stroke. The Ontario was part of the Gypsum King's tow, which was bound for New York. The German steamship Prinz Fried- rich Wilhelm arrived at New York last week. with fully twice as much mail as she otherwise would have brought, this vessel being the first to sail from Ger- many for the United States since the re- duced rate of postage went into effect between that country and this. She car- ried 1,075 sacks of mail, this being a record breaker for this season. The Southern Pacific Line steamship Proteus left New York for Philadelphia last week, to undergo an overhauling and repairs at the ship yard of William Cramp &_ Sons. The discovery of a yellow streak in the Gulf stream was recently reported by Capt. Pederson, of the British steam- ship Karen, which arrived at New York from Porto Cabello. stream the vessel passed through a streak of yellow water three miles wide, « " When crossing the 19 and extending beyond the horizon north- east and southwest. The appearance of the water was like that of a muddy river, The fleet of lightships and lighthouse tenders which left Tompkinsville about four months ago for the Pacific arrived at San Diego, Cal., on Monday. A voy- age of 13,000 miles has been made by the little vessels without mishap, and the performance is highly creditable to the officers and crews manning the ves- sels and to their builders. The fleet will proceed to San Francisco, there to be dis- tributed to their various posts assigned to. the vessels: The New. York Ship a Co. was the builder. The three ne cehaauree Pendleton Satisfaction, from Brunswick for Perth Amboy, N. J., lumber-laden, stranded on Sunday night near Little Island life sav- ing station, 18 miles south of Cape Hen- ry. Owing to the high seas and stormy weather the life-savers have been unable to put out in lifeboats to the assistance of the crew. The schooner is lying 300 yards from the shore and is in an ap- parently easy position. The wrecking steamer I. J. Merritt has left aes to see what can be done. cet vm The largest cargo' of coffee ever shipped to New York is being brought -- to this port on the steamship Afghan Prince, of the Prince Line. The Afghan 'Prince left Santos on Jan. 7 with 96,000 bags, and calling at Rio Janeiro loaded 30,000 bags, making a total of 126,000 bags. The liner carries over 10,000 tons, and is one of the finest ships in the Prince Line service. In addition to the large cargo of coffee she has hides, rub- ber, cocoa, etc., in her holds. The British steamship Teesbridge, which ran ashore at Whale's Head, N. C., has been docked at Newport News and found to have escaped damage. She sailed on Tuesday for Sabine Pass, to load sulphur for Marseilles. The new service of the Bermuda-Atlan- tic Steamship Co. between New York and Bermuda was inaugurated last week with the sailing of the 19-knot | steamship Prince George. The line proposes to in-. crease its .service further by sailings from Philadelphia and Baltimore. The New York & Albany Transpor- tation Co., operating the steamers Sara- toga and Frank Jones, has been put into the hands of a receiver upon the appli- cation of George P. Hudson, of Nor- folk, Va., owner of the majority of the stock.