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Show DERELICTS OF THE OCEAN. Abandoned Vec6l Are, a Conttant Menace to Shipping. liven If our merchant marine Is languishing lan-guishing wo still seem nblo to lend tho world in derelicts. The great proportion pro-portion of them ate American vessels abandoned in American water.'. Few aro reported west of tbo sixtieth do-grco do-grco of longitude or south of tha Dahamas, tho Caribbean sea being very free from them. Tbo reports to tho hydrogtaphlc ofijco last month allowed no fewer than seven of theso menaces nfloat off tbo coast. There was one oil the Now England coaBt, two off the coast of tho Carollnas, one each off the Virginia and Florida coasts, and ono still farther out at sea. Lumber laden derelicts aro tho most troublesome. It takeH them n long tlmo to sink. Ono such reported In tho early COs drifted over 7,000 miles In 850 days. Sho was flighted 38 times during that period, nhowlog that eho wru frequently puttiug hcrsolf In tho wny of cbartod. ocean travel. |