The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-10-25
MEMORANDA.

Report OF u. 5. S. sARANAc, CAPTAIN De KRAFFT.-
Sailed from San Francisco Oct 9Th experienced light west|
eTiy winds with heavy swell from the same direction until The
IIIh in lat 32e So n, long 1S4e O5' w, when took Sc winds,
moderate At first with frequent squalls and rain, falling baeo-
meters and threatening weather, freshening on the 10th to a
hauling to The w and NV, with considerable cross swell from
the 5 and NV Tor a Ew hours Arrived in Honolulu At noon
on Sunday, Oct 18Th
Report OF BARK d. q. MURRAY, a. FULLER, MASTER
Left San Francisco at : a N Sunday, Sept 18th first three
days out made III miles, light battling airs and Gains. Got
the wind from NV on the 4th day and continued till 7uh day
then i've days Light battling airs and Gains to lat 259 81 n,
which continued Tin lat 2Ie as N, long I47e 81 W then a
Hawaii and Mani Oct 10th. At A N Oct Goth exchanged pa
Pers with Hawaiian bark Matte Maceay of Coco Head,
afternoon OF Tuesday, Oct 2lst.
REPoET OF BARK J.. w. SEAyER, !. REGNEY, MASTER
Left san Francisco At 4 p NJ Saturday, Sept 27th FIRST four
days OUT had light variable winds and Gains. Made eighty
NEXT ave days light airs and Gains, wind NE 10 Sc, then eight
days moderate and Light breezes NE 10 z and Sc remainder
81 passage light variable airs and Gains, wind mostly from sW-
~ The British ship Annie Fleming, loaded with wheat, sc
days from san Francisco, bound for Cork, arrived on Sunday
afternoon. Ia lat Ice 30 n, long 1929 g. W she experience
ed a heavy gale, which carried away her fore, main and mz-
rem topuasts, etc. She came into port on Monday, and i now
receiving new spars At Eumes' ~shipyard-
Letters have been received from the Hawaiian whaling
schooner Kamale, Capt Peterson, reporting her with 2l5 hbls
oiL Would go into Panama to ship oil and expected to he here
about the middle OF November
. WHALES Losr ~ HuDsox's BAY.-By the arrival Of the
schooner Abhie Bradford At New Bedford sept 9Th, news was
received Of the loss Of the barks AuseI Gibbs and Oray Tan,
Of that port, in Hudson's Bay in the fan Of last year Four
teen Of the crews died from exposure, and the survivors were
brought home in the schooner We copy from the StTgaEd
Of sept 18th
Bark Orray Taft, Capt Parker, on 18th sept, 1872, IN q
southeast gale, parted her chains and went ashore high and
dry on Marvel Island, lat Gle 81 y. long 91e 90 W. about
Il miles from the main land All Of her crew escaped % the
shore in safety. she had taken no whales
BrrK AnseI Gibbs, Capt McPherson, on 18th Oct, lS52 in 4
~ourheast gale. also parted chains and went ashore near the
OrrAy Tan, but the vessel went 20 pieces almost Immediately,
the crew escaping. but with only what they stood in She had
on board $50 barrels whale oil and 10000 pounds whaleboue-
Eighty barrels Of oil was afterwards picked up and stored ON
the island, and 3,5O0 pounds Of bone were saved anil shipped
hone IN schooner Abbie Bradford
the Orray Lait having been driven up on tEs beaeh IA
good and safe position the officers AMI crews of both vessels
lived IN her during the winter, but from lack Of proper food,
from idleness and exposure, the scurvy broke out among them,
and ten Of the crew Of the AnSel Gibbs ami four Of the Orray
Tar died before they were rescued by the Abhie Bradford on
the ID Of August CAST month"; The winter was excessively
cold for even thar inhospitabie climate, many Of the natives
dying from its effects some Of the provisions Of the Ansei
Gibbs were washed ashore, including camel fresh meats
Schr Urania, Capt KOhIer, al san Francisco 1lth sept. re-
had gone 20 the eastward. When the U arrived July 9th,
20 sAips lay n anchor, but they gt under way At noon. and
worked to the eastward
A Latter from Wright s. Boune, dated San Francisco 1lth,
the above schooner left the Arctic July 10Th, and reports
10 addition % the above that bark AnOhta, BauLiry. Of New
Bediozd, 6ad been stove by the ice. and was leaking 5000
strokes