Show ABOUT SHIPS AND SAILORS The transport Cook left Malta yesterday terday for Manila Marietta which arrived The gunboat Julcta at San runboat Porto Rico yesterday will Join tho North Atlantic squadron nt I Culebra Island The British bark Mersey Cn 11 Olsen from ROI rio October llth for Falmouth was wrecked upon the Goodwin sands upn stood b her until Inst night Lifeboats stoo by unll she began to break up and then took oft the crow Copt S Tomloka superintending engineer engi-neer of the Toyo Klscn Kalsha has arrived ar-rived at San Francisco from Yokohama II on his way to Europe to arrange for the construction of two new steamships for his company Instead of sailing for tho United States tho day after Christmas na planned tho Danish manofwar Valkyrlen remains I at anchor In the harbor of St Thomas I D W J under orders from the Government Govern-ment at Copenhagen lImo Cunard line steamer Elruria from New York December 21st which arrived off Quecnstown at 655 oclock yesterday morning wits unable to communicate com-municate with tho shore owing to unfavorable unfa-vorable weather and proceeded to London Lon-don donA summary of Germanys naval activity during tho year 1901 throws that four battleships bat-tleships wero launched and that one armored cruiser one gunboat several large torpedoboat destroyers and four coastdefense vessels have been remodeled remod-eled Other vessels havo also been rc mcdolcd |