The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-03-12
NAVAL NOTES.
Interesting Information Regarding For
eign Fleets.

eign Fleets.
Rear-Admiral Heneage is expected at
san Francisco in II. B. NJ. :. Swiftsure
about the first week in April.
Commander Leary OF the Adams has
been placed on waiting orders and Lieu
tenant Hammond has been ordered from
the Adams 10 the Molrican.
Lieutenant r. Z. Carmody has been
detached from the Washington Navy
yard and ordered as executive officer Of
the Alert at Honolulu, Lieutenant John
Garvin returning home.
Rear Admiral George Z. Belknap, pro-
noted from Commodore, cOmmandant
at Mare Island, is now probably on his
way across the Pacific to take command
OF the u. ;. naval force on the Asiatic
station, succeeding the late Rear Ad-
miral Chandler.
Rear Admiral Gherardi will relieve
Rear Admiral Luce in the command of
the North Atlantic Squadron and Cap
tain F. NJ. Ramsey will take the place Of
Gherardi, in command of the New York
Navy Yard. Commander T. L. Chad
wick is gazetted to the command OF the
Yorktown.
H. 3. NJ. s Cormorant, Commander
Jasper Z. T. Nicolls, now at this port,
which has served her three years term OF
service on the Pacific station, is to be re-
ieved by the Acorn, Commander Viii
liam h. b, Atkinson, at present serving
on the Cape of Good Hope and West
Coast of Africa station.
j. II. y. Patrick, of College Point,
Long Island, has received contract TO
furnish the Unites States Navy three
cOntrollable automobile torpedoes of Pa
tricks patent, at total cost OF 500 600.
Each torpedo is to carry 400 pounds OF
dynamite and run a statute mile at
twenty knots an hour.
Lieutenants Walter Goodwin, Edward
d. Bostick and I. F. Parker, Ensign
William l.. Burdick, Surgeon H. Q.
Eckstein, Assistant Engineers William
Z. Darrah and Charles w. Dyson have
been detached from the Adams and
ordered to proceed home and await
orders. Paymaster A. d. BaChe to settle
accounts and be placed on waiting orders,
and Ensign G. Z. Sweeting ordered to
the Thetis.
II. B. NJ S. Icarus arrived in San
Francisco February 26th, twenty-nine
days from Panama, and after six days
stay was going to Esquimalt. The Icarus
is a vessel of 900 tons burden, and her
engines are of ,230 horsepower. She
carries a crew of I29 men. The officers
are: Commander, VIM. H. Annesley
Lieutenant, Duncan Macpherson; Navi-
eating Lieutenant, Godfrey NJ. Coinage;
Paymaster, Henry S. Bakersville; Sur
geOn, John f. Bate; Chief Engineer,
Samuel O.. Follett; Gunner, William J.
Talbot; Boatswain, James Powell.
Extracts from the reports of the com
mittee on the naval maneuyers in 1888
say that the main lesson is that Great
Britain is far from being as strong as
she should be on the seas. While they
believe the navy strong enough to en-
gage any single maritime power, they
ale of the opinion that no time should
be lost in placing it beyond comparison
of the combined naval forces of any two
countries. The Government will pro-
pose a defense loan of G100 600, 900, the
proceeds to be devoted to the cOnstruc-
ton of twenty men-Of-war, fifty cruisers,
and increasing the number OF torpedo
boats.
The official examination and the trials
of the cruiser Charleston were to be
made as soon as the contractors inform
the Mare Island commandment of the
readiness of the vessel. The board or
dered to make the examination and
trials is as follows: Commodore, George
f. Belknap; Commander, Henry Glass;
Chief Engineer, r. l.. Harris; Lieuten-
ant, Z. F. Qualtrough; to ascertain the
horse power-Chief Engineers r. L.
Harris, F. A. Wilson and w. S. Smith
Passed Assistants-F. j. Hoffman, A. B.
Bates, w. B. Dunning and E. I. War
burton; and Assistants-I. n. Hollis, q.
w. McElroy, j. NJ. Pickrell, G.. w. Dy-
son and w. F. Darrah.