The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-10-12
WHAT SAILOR MEN TALK Of
BELGIC'S NEW RECORD FOR YES
SELLS OF HER CLASS.
Splendid Run From Norktown-W. g..
Irwin in Collision at San Francisco
Shipping Gossip.

The Belgic sails at p. IN for San
! Francisco.
The Lyman ID. Foster has hauled
| down to the coal dock to finish dis
charging her cargo there.
The Kinau could not take all the
| freight offered this morning. She
sailed late on account of the mails.
The S. S. Coptic is booked for an
extra trip from Yokohama to San
Francisco, calling at this port about
the GOTH
The Yorktown was coaling in Ioko-
hama harbor when the Belgic sailed.
presumably preparing for her voyage
to this port.
The Naniwa was seen in Yokohama
harbor on the Bird by Captain Kinder.
prior to the departure from that port
of the Belgic. She arrived at Yoko-
suka on the Goth. % days from this
| port, on the second.
When the Australia sailed from San
/ Francisco the Martha Davis was book
/ ed to sail for this port on the 9th, and
| the Johnson for Hilo on the 9th.
| The other Island traders up and load
ing were the Aloha, Andrew Welch
| and w. G. Irwin.
| 1t is understood that Wilson d
| Whitehouse. the contractors, have
purchased the little steamer Iva
from r. Kinds, and will run her as a
supply boat between this port and
their road building camp. The con-
sderation has not been learned
! \ Sewall d Co. of Bath, Me-, will
! build a new steel sailing ship of about
! 5000 tons gross, at their Bath ship
| building yards. The vessel will be on
the lines of the Dirigo that was built
few years ago by Sewall d Co. The
Dirigo is considered the finest steel
American ship atloat.
The Australia was alongside the
| Oceanic dock before 1880 o'clock this
morning, after a pleasant run of i
days II hours from San Francisco. She
brought 81 passengers, 80 bags of
mail and 1890 tons of general mer-
chandse. On October Sth the bark
entine Tam O'Shanter. bound to the
Columbia river, and on the 9th. at $3.50
a. IN. spoke the L. S. S. Philadelphia.
with all well on board.
The name of the brig Percy Ed
wards, that called at this port a few
months ago, while searching for the
manless isles with hundred members
of the brotherhood of the South Seas
on board, has been changed to Janet.
/ The brotherhood has disbanded and
their vessel was sold at Noumea to a
syndicate interested in the slave trade
of the islands of the Polyneslan
group. She will be used as a "blaclt-
! birder" running from Naumea to the
| New Hebrides.
| The o. d o. S. S. Belgic. Captain
Kinder arrived this morning after
record breaking trip for vessels of her
class, having travelled the distance in
days 22 hours minutes giving an
average speed for the entire run of
14.2 knots. Captain Kinder is Justly
proud of his vessels performance. She
was delayed at Yokohama on account
of washout on the railroad between
there and Tokyo. The best previous
passage made by the Belgic was 10
days hours minutes. and no vessel
of her class has ever made it under
10 days. The respective days runs OF
the Belgic were IS. 343. 347. 327. 341,
1856, $3.50, 344, $50 and 272. BY getting
in this morning the Belgic can get
| away from here on schedule time. She
brought several hundred tons of ORR
entail freight, and over 300 Oriental
passengers.
The brig w. q. Irwin was in COLI
sion with the Pacific Mail Company
steam tender Isabel, in San Francis
co, on the 2nd inst, and was consid-
erably damaged. The brig sailed in
to the harbor and was proceeding up
the bay for the refinery wharf,
under a full spread of canvass. just
as she got abreast of the Pacific Mail
wharf the Isabel steamed out from
the west side of the dock and cut
wide circle around the end of the pier.
She was heading down the way and
was well out in the stream, when her
crew was startled by the appearance
of the brig only a few feet ahead of
the boat, coming for them with all
her sails drawing. The steamers
engines were backed, but before her
Roadway was stopped the two vessels
crashed together. The light upper
work of the steamer was damaged to
considerable extent and the head
gear of the brig was torn away. The
stem of the steamer caught against
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away and dragged the anchor of the
vessel from the deck, dropping it ov-
erboard. The Irwin was going at
good speed before a fair wind, but the
moment the anchor reached the bot
tom she was brought to a sudden
standstill. Her spars creaked under
the strain Her rigging will have
TO be overhauled before she goes to
sea again. The Isabel afterwards
lowed the vessel to the wharf at the
sugar refinery.