The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-05-17

east.
There are three full-rigged ships
now in port.
The sugar by the schooners Ka
Moi, Kulamanu and Moiwahine
will all go into the ship Columbia.
The ship Columbia is receiving
sugar at the Kinau wharf. Up to
5 o'clock last evening, she had al
ready in her hold nearly eight
thousand bags of sugar.
The ship Kenmore has been
moved out into the stream.
The ship J. C. Potter and bark
Poseidon are still unloading their
coal at the Fort street pier.
The tern Carrier Dove, Captain
C. W. Brandt, arrived on Monday,
May 10th, about fifty-four days
from Newcastle, N. S. W., with
1912 tons of coal for the I. I. S. Co.
She is moored in the stream for the
present, as almost all the available
berths are taken.
The little steamer Waimanalo
stranded for seven hours at Kama
loo, Molokai, on her last trip. She
remained fast from 2 o'clock to
9 o'clock on Tuesday morning. The
injury to her bottom is not known
yet.
The barkentine S. N. Castle is
discharging at Brewers wharf, and
the Forest Queen near the 0. S. S.
Co.'s wharf.
After many trials with Natal
coal, the British Naval Department
has finally selected Durham, Africa,
as coaling station.
A new battleship called the Mas
sena, is to be constructed for the
French navy. 1t will have dis
placement Of II 700 tons and H.
600 indicated horse power.
The four-masted fore-and-aft
schooner rig, which is the popular
type of the coasting sailing craft of
the United States, never found
much favor in the old country.
Four or five years ago an iron YES
sci of ! 600 tons register, built for
Liverpool owners-the Tacova-
was rugged in this way, but she
put back a few days after sailing,
and was fitted with yards on her
foremost before resuming her
voyage. 1t is now stated that two
more ships of this rig are about to
be built-one a similar vessel to
the Tacova, and the other a steel
ship of 1900 tons register, large
beam, very shallow draught, and
fitted with both bow and stern ports
for the Pacific lumber trade. Both
ships are for Liverpool owners, and
it is claimed that this fore-and-aft
rig is very handy at sea, and can
be worked with a minimum crew.
Australian paper.
A bill is to be introduced in the
U. S. Congress, requiring the local
inspectors to examine every sailing
vessel, of whatever nature, at least
once year. Another clause re-
quires the inspectors to examine
every officer, sailor and cabin boy
for color blindness, every man to
be examined once a year, and
every sailor before he goes on a
deep sea voyage. Another clause
requires all steamers to carry du-
plicate parts Of all her machinery.
Some concessions are made to
coasting vessels under the last
clause, but the items necessary,
even under the concession, would
foot up enormously, and the force
of local inspectors would have to be
quadrupled.
The Sydney Herald of April 4th
says: " About as large and as
powerful ship as can be seen in
any port in the world is the four
master Palgrave. The ship ar
rived early on Saturday from
London, and has under matches
7,491 tons of merchandise, valued
at 975,400. The ship is built O.
iron, square rugged on all foul
masts, is very lofty, and strikes one
as a vast vessel all round. One o
, her remarkable qualities is tina
she shifts ports without requiring
a pound of ballast, so that it il
) pretty certain she is wonderful!
fiat on the floor, and hence he
enormous cargo capacity. She /
: in command of Captain j. Role
! Palgrave was launched in 1884 b,
!, Hamilton and Co. at Port Glasgow
When launched she was the larges
tonnaged iron sailer afoat, an
even now there are few ships (pel
haps two or three at most) afoa
!, could receive in transhipment fro1
t her vast holds the cargo she has, q
: she lies to-day off Mossman's Bay.