The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-11-28

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Captain Eustace Rookie, command
ing, arrived in port at 9 o'clock
Wednesday morning, fifteen and a
half days from Esquimalt, B. c.,
which port she left on November
9Th. She experienced heavy gales
off Cape Flattery for two days, but
from there she had pleasant weather
to this port.
When she arrived off the harbor,
a salute of twenty-one guns was
given for the Hawaiian flag, fol-
lowed by thirteen guns for Rear
Admiral Twins flag. The flagship
responded to the salute with seven
guns for Captain Rookie. The shore
battery then replied with a national
salute of twenty-one guns.
The Champion is a third-class
cruiser. She was built at the
Chatham dock yard in 1878. Her
tonnage is 1880 tons, and her indi-
Gated horse power 1000, normal
draught. Her main battery con-
sists of twelve guns-eight sin.
and four Gin. five tons) breech-
loading rifles, besides a number of
smaller guns.
The Champion has been at
Honolulu three or four times be-
fore, her last call being in July of
1892. Captain Rookie and most of
the officers are therefore not
strangers in a strange land.
The warship will remain in port
about eleven days, and about De-
cember Sd she will proceed for
various islands in the Pacific, call
ing at Maiden, Penrhyn, Raratonga,
Tahiti, Pitcairn, Easter island,
Juan Fernandez, and then Co.
quimbo and Valparaiso. The
Champion will join the flagship
Royal Arthur on the Chile coast
about next March.
On the voyage from Esquimalt
the engines Of the Champion were
given a trial for twenty-four hours,
the result being very satisfactory.
In four hours, going at full speed,
she made 1875 miles, or 1914
knots an hour. A 10! knot rate
was maintained during the remain
ing twenty hours.
The other vessels of the same
class as The Champion are the Con-
quest, Constance, Cordelia, Cura-
Goa, Cleopatra, etc. The difference
between them is very slight.
The other vessels at Esquimalt
when the Champion departed for
Honolulu were the flagship Royal
Arthur and the cruisers Garnet,
Nymphe and Pheasant. The Royal
Arthur may be expected to come
to Honolulu early next January.
The officers and crew of the
Champion are as follows:
Captain-Eustace Rookie.
eutenants-Charles w. Fowler,
Rowland Nugent, Frederick x. G..
Gibbons, Henry d. G. Foord, VIM. F.
Benwell.
Lieutenant of Marines-John Mar
chant, absent on leave.
Chaplain and Naval Instructor
Rev. Thomas T. Griffiths, MA.
Staff Surgeon-Jas. G. Dow, NIB.
Staff Paymaster-B G. Scott.
Chief Engineer-James Armstrong.
Sub-Lieutenants-Frank G. Grover,
Frederic III. Walter.
Surgeon-Richard F. Bate.
Assist Paymaster-Trevor HAYES.
Walter J. Kent.
Assistant Engineer-Vernon A. ter
Veen.
Boatswain-Samuel J. E. Galley.
Carpenter-William Neale.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 81. Mitchell,
Osmand J. Prentis, George A. Rookie,
Rschard NJ. 7. Stephens, Robert M.
G. Knight, Humphrey II. Smith.
q officers and $50 men.
Michael Butler, an able seaman,
met with very serious accident
while the Champion was passing
Cape Flattery on November 18th.
There was heavy gale at the time
and the vessel was rolling about
thirty-f, Iegrees each way. Just
as Butler was relieving the look
out, a heavy locker broke from its
lashings and crushed him against
an anchor. Both his legs were
broken. The doctors amputated
one of them. Butler fingered until
Wednesday morning just as the
Champion was passing the bell
buoy, when he quietly passed
away. He was a native of Queens
town, Ireland, and about nineteen
years of age.
His funeral took place little
after 4 o'clock P. NJ. Wednesday.
AS the coffin was being lowered
from the cruiser Champion on to