The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-09
WHAkF AND WAVE.
DIAMOND HEAD, Dec. So PM:
Weather, rainy; wind, light y. E.

The steamer Waialeale was low
cred from the Marine Railway yes
terday. She leaves this morning
for Hamakua ports under COM
mand of Captain Smythe.
The steamer Kaala will leave at
9 o'clock this morning for a circuit
of this island.
The steamer Kinau will arrive
tomorrow morning from windward
ports.
The barkentine Amelia will leave
the early part of next week in bal
last for Puget Sound.
The bark r. P. Rithet is still un-
loading coal near the P. M. S. S.
Co.'s wharf. She will load sugar
for San Francisco after she is
through discharging coal.
The little sloop Ekekela arrived
on Wednesday evening from Maui
with ten calves. She returns to
Maui in day or two.
The barkentine S. N. Castle may
be expected to arrive to-day from
San Francisco.
The bark Ceylon sailed yester-
day with a sugar cargo for San
Francisco.
SEATTLE, Nov. 22.-The Board of
Local Marine Inspectors last night
gave a decision holding Captain
John A. O'Brien guilty of negli-
gence in stranding the whaleback
steamer Charles w. Wetmore on
the night of September s, off Coos
Bay, and has revoked his license.
The decision says: at appears by the
courses and distances given by Captain
O'Brien, that the ship ought to have
been nearly forty miles off shore at mid
night, September 9Th, but half an hour
after midnight she grounded off Coos
Bay. The Captain claims that he found
her position by observation some eight
hours before she struck that his position
agreed with his position by dead reckon
ing, and the ship was set ashore by.
strong easterly current, together with a
he-ling error. By these causes he &C.
counts for the stranding of the vessel
1t is apparent that Captain O'Brien's
o servations were not correct. IL is evil
dent that if the courses given by the
compass were steered, they were not
made, and we have no doubt that close
observer and careful navigator would
have noticed the change in the water
and the character of the swell in time to
have changed the ships course and to
have taken her cut of danger. We think
there is no reasonable excuse for running
the steamer ashore on this coast in fair
weather, even though it be foggy. Had
the ship been carefully navigated she
would not in our opinion have stranded
southwest, parallel with the land for a
few hours, she would have cleared the
cape all right"
The four-masted bark Olympic
is said to be the only vessel of her
kind in existence. She was built
for the lumber trade round the
Horn. The peculiar features of
the Olympic are her queer rigging
and the clear space on the main
deck, $50 feet between the fore and
aft houses, capable of holding $780,
600 feet of lumber, and the ability
of the craft to sail without a pound
of ballast. When she sailed from
Bath, where she was built, the only
freight aboard was a kedge anchor
and nine tenders, and she carried
easily her 5000 feet of canvas.-Ex.
A new steam whaler of about 800
tons burthen is being built in San
Francisco by the owners of the
steamer Mary D. Hume, for the
late master of that vessel on her
great and successful voyage, Capt.
James A. Tilton. She will leave
San Francisco next Spring for the
Arctic ocean to winter off the
mouth Of the Mackenzie river.