The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-06-26


said that his price $4,000 handed to Brown bill
for that for signature and approval protested urging
that the value of the vessel before going
than $4,000 and that the compensation demanded "outra
and patcal Center who also present, inquired
Of Andrews whether reduction could be had the Homo
office or $500 Andrews reped that he could
that that the officers OF the company in Honolulu
might make the reduction they fit concluded by
saying $4,000 or no hawser Brown believing that his shin
his language lin extremis, I'm imminent dan
of loss and that other assistance available yielded
and signed the paper The between the captains
however, that that be paid only if the Lurlne
was taken from her position the reef and safely towed to
Honolulu harbor and that unless all of this DONE nothing
o be paid to the Iikelke for her services.
The Ilrlines sevennch hawser to her
stern and TO the keke After the latter had pulled for
few minutes and moved the Lurne feet
hawser parted second attempt then made the hawser
being this made the bow of the Lurne but
after onequarter of hours again parted The
Lkelike took her sx-nch had had ont to the
bow and both that and the the
Irine made fast the aers After another
brief attempt, it found impossible the Lurine,
the being low. The lines made by Lkeike
and held thus until the next high tide which Il
twelve o'clock the following night
At 10 o'clock in the morning. the Inrlne she lay
the coral bank drawing forward
five feet in the middle, and eight feet aft
From the the Lurne the reef until the lines from
her made fast the Lkeke and held the former
vessel thumped the rocky bottom heavily while the
lasted the of shaking the and rig
gng considerably and less after the weather moderated
The strain the lines from the Lkeke practically put
end the humping that the the Lunes
may received between
two and nine that morning The injury, found upon
examination of the vessel while the marine railway Homo
lulu follows:
The keel, which solid piece of wood and
fourteen inches thick split and chafed for distance of
sxtyour feet and in places away right up the
cardboard plank that entire keel necessary The
old keel had been fastened with and bolts
plentiful than in the ordinary vessel Where the keel
away all of the bolts completely bent. The
fournch cardboard plank very badly chaed and in
places broken arboard side five pnks the bottom
bruised and caed for distance of forty feet commencing
at the keel and counting towards the bige In places the
of
vessel The post started the upper rudder brace
broken, both pintes bent, and the wood lock gone
At about 80 p. of that Saturday the of the
Iline being together with the pilots of six
men, and fifteen from the Ikelike began take the
ballast 1.-TWO hundred tons of nd of the Lurne in order to
tighten her and facilitate the saving of the ship the work being
finished at about o'clock the evening
When the Lkelike arrived in the morning the wind had
changed nearly northeast and from that direction
tnued for the remainder of the day The following
night dark and rainy; about II o'clock the tide being
high SWELL again coming occasion
ally lifting Iurline from the bottom for moment the
Lkelike commenced third attempt to pull the Lurne Off
This attempt successfu about midnight the Lurlne
reached deep At daylight forty fifty of ballast
put back aboard the Irne and time before
of Sunday the keke began her to Honolulu via La
haina the former being reached in safety daylight
Monday morning, wentyfour hours later than the Lkehkes
schedule time.
Pilot English and his remained board the Lurlne
rendering all the possible from daylight Saturday
morning until the Lkeke left with her Sunday with
the exception of three hours just before daylight
Sunday during which they ashore for change of clothes
rendered necessary by their work in the rain
The kees routine of taking freight and
usual during this and without interruption
She left Honolulu her regular schedule time
No loss is shown have occurred her business by of
the delay caused by the salvage service and it therefore
be that there Her has been paid by
the belan eightysix and $1,000 dollars for the
vices rendered and the coal used cost about twenty-five
dollars.
In making the attempts above mentioned to pull off the Lur
line the Lkek whose engines of about five hundred and
ninety horse power ahead full speed the time
heavng her anchors in order much possible
the hawsers In taking hold each attempt, she lay in
about fifteen feet of drawing the time eleven and
onehaf feet the distance from her the Lurne about
three hundred four hundred feet and the reef the
harbor which she he Ikeke obliged to head in pull
ing about six hundred feet The precautions taken by Captain
Andrews accident station the mate at the
the