The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-18
IN THE WILD
NORTHWESTERN
The American Bark Hollis
wood Arrives From
Honolulu.
LOST MOST OF HER SAILS
She Is Navigated Safely Into
Pert by the Captains
Daughter.
A WHOLE FAMILY OF SAILORS.
Mrs. Knight Prefers a Cape Horn
Storm TO a ca ifornia Coast
Breeze.
A WHOLE FAMILY OF SAILORS

The American bark Holliswood, Captain
knight, arrived Saturday, twenty-three
| days from Honolulu, after a rough expe-
rience. She had light but favorable winds
until almost within sight of this coast,
when she got taste, and strong one,
oil the gales that have been hunming
over this side of the Pacific.
Last Wednesday morning the bark got
into the coast storm belt and began to get
heavy blow from the north-north west
Captain knight was steering east north
east for San Francisco consequently with
the wind about four points on his port
bow he was pretty close-hauled. He had
to carry all the sail his sticks could bear
to make all the northing possible. All the
light canvas was taken in and the ship was
under lower courses, topsails, jib and fore
stavsail. That afternoon the malnsail
flew into ribbons and soon after every rag
OF it ripped clear out of the bolt ropes.
Early that evening the foresaii went and
later on the lower foretopsail and miz-
| zen staysail followed 1t away into the
| dark to leeward.
The vessel was almost without sail and
| the crew tried to bend a new foresail.
They got the big new piece of canvas up
on deck, but the sea was running so high
and the water coming over the weather
| bow in such volume that the men were
| driven from their task. All night the
stanch bark labored with what sail she
had in the greatest peril.
The captains wife and daughter were on
| board; also Mrs. Harriet Castle-C Coleman,
Miss Carrie Castle, Miss Kate Gilbert,
Miss Leila Craig and John H. Curtis, pas
sengers from Honolulu.
The cabin skylights, though protected
! in, hyt I,
boarding seas, and the six ladies passed
that awful night wading through the
| wafer IN their staterooms below.
AL next day the storm continued, with
the wind yeering to the northwest. The
seas smashed the forward rail- small
boat on the house and the wind destroyed
what light canvas it could get hold Of
| Sails snugly furled were blown clear out
OF their gaske It's as Clearly as if cut away
| with knife.
| Notwithstanding the gale and high seas,
! the good bark stood up TO her work, and
| Friday evening the Farallons were sighted
dead ahead. Captain knight ran in under
the island and waited for daylight. Next
morning he steered for the Golden Gate
and, refusing pilot or tug. sailed into
| port with his chart spread out in the
| Wheelhouse.
This Is my first visit to San Francisco"
said Captain KING yesterday, "but |
don't think | shall ever forget my ex-
perience off this port for in all my sea
| life never met with such blow and with
such high seas. With my entire family
and four lady passengers aboard as well
as my crew and ship, YOU may well
| imagine how anxious l was. storm On
| the California coast Is something for
navigators to respect.
| 81 see that one OF the papers has quoted
me as speaking lightly in Honolulu lust
before l sailed OF the speed and work of
the island packets. This yarn is utterly
| without foundation. l am too old a sailor
not to know that sailing vessel is at the
mercy OF the wind, and will make lust
such passage as the breeze will let her.
Mrs. knight has made thirteen trips
around the Horn and four around the
| Cape OF Good Hope and now thinks she
| has had enough of the sea.
after the gale of the last few DAYS l
feel that would prefer the stormy Horn
with all its dismal horrors. l don't be-
lleve l Will ever get this saloon and the
! staterooms dried out" said She looking
| hopelessly around the apartment, where
| the sunshine, streaming in through the
windows, was trying its best TO make the
| place look cheerful again.
! G. b. knight, the captains son. is the
| first officer of the bark, and Mrs Ida
| Robinson, the shippers daughter, is the
navigator. She is well educated, and being
a widow without family of her own, pre-.
fers to go to sea with her parents and
| brother.
She has been in the Holliswood for four
years and has sailed her in every ocean on
the globe, working the bark through many
| a wild voyage. So well did she set the
course through the gale of last week that
when she made the California coast the
vessel was right abreast of the harbor
mouth. Before the four lady passengers,
| overjoyed at their escape from the gale,
left the Holliswood they presented the
| fair navigator with a neat bronze medal,
containing a small mariners compass with
| the inscription, ITO the lady who brought
the ship into port
The Holliswood has a cargo of sugar
consigned to j. d. Spreckels & Bros. In a
fw days she will haul alongside of the
refinery and discharge. Mrs. Castle Cole
| man and her party will travel through the
State before returning to their nome in
| Honolulu