The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-11-23

The British cruiser Champion
Captain Eustace Rookie, command
ing, arrived in port at 9 o'clock
yesterday morning, fifteen and q
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 $3.50 tons, and her indi-
Gated horse power 2O00, normal
draught. Her main battery con-
sists of twelve guns-eight BIN.
and four Gin. Give tons) breech-
loading rifles, besides 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 1915 miles, or 12.44
knots an hour. A 103 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.
Observation-Disclosures w. Fowler,
Rowland Nugent, Frederick K. G.
Henry d. G.. Foord, VIM. F.
Benwell.
Lieutenant of Marines-John Mar
chant, absent on leave.
Chaplain and Naval Instructor
Rev. Thomas L. Griffiths, MA.
Staff Surgeon-Jas. G.. Dow, NIB.
Staff Paymaster-B G. Scott.
Chief Engineer-James Armstrong.
Sub Lieutenants-Frank G.. Grover,
Frederic II. Walter.
Surgeon-Richard f. Bate.
Assist Paymaster-TrevorH ayles.
Engineer-Walter J. Kent.
Assistant Engineer-Vernon a. ter
Veen.
Boatswain-Samuel J. f. Galley.
Carpenter-WilliamN eale.
observation-disclosures II. Mitchell,
J. Prentis, George A. Rookie,
Rschard NJ. Il. Stephens, Robert NJ.
G. Knight, Humphrey II. Smith.
% officers and $50 men.
Michael Butler, an able seaman,
met with a very serious accident
while the Champion was passing
Cape Flattery on November 9TH.
There was a heavy gale at the time
and the vessel was rolling about
thirty-five degrees each way. Just |
as Butler was relieving the look
out, a heavy locker broke from its
ashings and crushed him against |
IN anchor. Both his legs were
broken. The doctors amputated |
one of them. Butler fingered until |
yesterday morning just as the
Champion was passing the bell |
buoy, when he quietly passed |
away. He was a native of Queens
own, Ireland, and about nineteen |
years of age.
His funeral took place little
after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
As the coffin was being lowered |
rom the cruiser Champion on to
he steam launch, the flags of the |
.wo U. s. warships, the Miowera,
Is also the Champions, were
placed at half-mast. The cof- !
in was brought ashore in a
steam launch, towing four barges
the men who were to |
attend the funeral. On reaching
he boat landing, the coffin, covered |
With the British ensign, was placed |
IN a gun carriage drawn by about |