The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-06-14
WHARF AND WAVE.
The Fasaua'S Officers and Brief
Description of the Vessel.
DIAMOND HEAD, June Is 50 PM.
Weather, hazy wind, light north.

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Fasana's officers is reprinted:
Although twenty years old, the
corvette is in good condition. Two
years ago Archduke Leopold made
a voyage from Austria to China
and Japan in the Fasana. The
vessel is very comfortably fitted up
in the officers quarters. Her ar
mament is not very heavy, there
being only four six-inch breech-
loading Krupp guns and two forty
seven milimeter Hotchkiss rapid
firing guns. The vessel also has
two search lights of 5000 candle
power.
The Fasana was built at Trieste
in 1870. She ranks as an unpro-
tected wooden corvette, although
above the water-line there is
great deal of iron work. Her ton
mage is 1910, with engines at 100
horsepower, capable of driving the
vessel u! knots an hour. She is
ship-rigged, and uses only steam
during Gains and heavy weather.
The dimensions are Length, 223
feet beam, 1874 feet, and depth of
hold 1871 feet.
There are thirty-nine officers on
the Fasana and crew of $50 men.
The officers are: Lieutenant
Joseph Nemling, commander
Lieutenant Karl Heinrich, artil-
lery; Lieutenant Dominick T.
Wetzler Won Plankenstern, naval
instructor Lieutenant Paul Fled
Ter, navigating officer; Lieutenant
Colen Won Siegersfeld Ensigns,
Baron Gottfried F. Meyern-Hohen-
berg, Baron T. F. Hauser, Anton
Pawlick ; Midshipmen, G. Colo
redo-Mannsfeld, Carl K. Won Pol
ger, NJ. Grabmayer Won Anger
helm, Alfred Hanger, Emil Muller,
Victor LEM, Carl Masjon, A. Stu
par, l.. Boguslawski Won Sigezza,
F. r. Won Theirry, Leopold Huber
Won Schiebenhein, Conrad Pet
zuk,, R. Adam, Victor Hermann,
NJ Burstyn, Joseph Leva, William
Won Hohenstern, G. Linysens-
Doeuraedt and frederick Hehurei-
chen Won Brumfeld surgeon, DR..
F. Pillwag; assistant surgeon, DR..
G. Procopovici; chief engineer,
Carl Zerbes assistant engineer, S.
Hinterberger; paymaster, Joseph
Storch.
The steamers Hawaii and XII
lauea Hou will leave for Hamakua
tomorrow.
The iron banks Sumatra and
Andrew WEIGH are at the o. r. &
l.. Cos. wharf
The five-master Louis has been
moved out into the stream to wait
for sugar.
The British bark Velocity will
sail tomorrow for Hongkong with
about seventy Chinese steerage
passengers.
The bark Andrew WEIGH will
leave tomorrow for San Francisco.
1t is a mistake to suppose that
whales feed only on minute ami
mails; as many as 1000 herrings
and cod have been found inside a
whale.
The sea is infinitely more pro-
ductive than the land. 1t is esti-
mated that an acre of good fishing
will yield more food in a week
than an acre of the best land will
yield in a year.
The docks of London cover over
800 acres.
Mr.. Sims, one of the inventors
of the Sims-Edison torpedo, has
prepared drawings of a life-boat
made on the same principle as the
now famous torpedo. The pro-
peller is to be placed in the stern
of the boat, which is to be provided
with three or four miles of cable
and an electric search light. The
current for propelling the vessel
can be generated at shore sta
ton several miles from the starting
point of the life-boat.-[E Elk.
1t is expected that the two new
Cunard line steamers building al
Govan, Scotland, with triple expan.
sion engines of at least so per cent
more indicated horsepower thar
the Teutonic and Majestic, will at
tain a speed of % to 224 knots al
hour, which will mean a minimum
passage of about 5 days 4 hour
across the Atlantic. In 1878 the
Britannia, to make the passage il
Z days II hours, indicated 510t
horsepower, and consumed 1O'
tons of coal day. Either of thes
new boats, in making the sam
passage in days 4 hours, will in
dictate $4,000 horsepower, and vii
, consume 40 tons of coal a day
1t will be seen that to gain q day
on the passage it is necessary
multiply the horsepower by fiv
and the daily consumption of Goa
by four, Notwithstanding that a
r least % per cent. more efficiency
3 gained from the fuel by the adol
) ton of triple engines.-[Ex.
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