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MEN ARE ALLOWED LIBERTY AND ; DESTROYER ANCHORS FOR NIGHT IN ROADS.Th© converted yacht Niagara of the United States navy arrived late yesterday aftefnoon, and is now anchored in the roads preparatory to aft entrance into the harbor this fronting. She came for twofold purpose. To get Coal and to allow shore leave to men on hoard. ; Four hundred tons of coal will .be loaded during' the next two days, y * No trouble will be had In procuring bunker, according: to GO. Moore, terminal superintendent of the Galveston -.terminals, and representative of the fuel administration. The vessel will bo berthed at Pier 34 today.The Niagara has been doing patrol . duty In Mexican waters for the past several-months,-and is under, command of Captain Adams. She lias a complement of 195. men. and . a speed of thirteen -knots. She I* propelled by twin screws, and boasts of three masts. The displacement of the vessel is a.600 tons, and she is 246 feet long- and thirty-six f^et In extreme breadth. Draft is seventeen feet. The Niagara was constructed at Brooklyn In 189S.
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Galveston Daily News
Galveston, Texas, US
Thu, Jan 01, 1920
Page 10
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