The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-10-07
WHAT SAILOR MEN TALK OF
STEAMER CLAUDGNE FINALLY
GETS AWAY.
Has Gay Party on Board-Thc Iva
Arrives From Hawaii-Dredge Re
sumes Work-Gossip.

The Mauna will sail on her usual
route tomorrow morning.
The bark Il. =. Rithet is discharging
general merchandise at Brewers
wharf.
The 1rmgard could only take por-
ton of the sugar brought by the Maui
ma Loa. The remainder is being pill
ed on the Inter Island wharf, to await
the Rithet.
The British bark Lebu is still in
port. not having completed taking in
ballast. Another of her men was put
under arrest this morning for refus-
ing to turn to.
The Lehua came off the marine rail
way yesterday afternoon, in fine trim,
and is preparing to go to sea tomor-
row. She will call at Olowalu,. Kukai-
au and Ookala for sugar.
The Claudine sailed at noon, at the
hour set yesterday. She took enough
coal and stores for the round trip,
and seven passengers, who, however
signed the ships articles in order to
get their berths.
The Irmgard and Alden Besse got
away for the Coast soon after noon,
the former with a full cargo of sugar
and the latter with half IA cargo of
sugar and rice. There may be race
in it, but the Besse ought to have a
decided advantage, as she is in light
trim and carries more canvas than
the barkentine.
| The dredger again tackled the hard
ledge in the new King, street wharf
cI, iS q
ing up the hardest kind of rock with
ease. She is supplied with steel cut
ters that seem to do the trick success
fully. In the meantime a new steel
drill has been set to work on the In
ner ledge, where blasting operations
are in progress. Something will have
| to go now.
The Hawaiian steamship Aztec sail
ed from San Francisco for the Orient
on the 18th ulst., with the most valu-
able cargo that ever left that port.
The entire cargo was valued at
$3.50, 400. The principal items were
cotton domestics, compressed cotton,
nails, hardware and groceries. The
previous most valuable cargo was by
the steamer Evandale, in 1895, valued
at $317,940.
The little steamer Iva, owned by
Kinds Brothers, arrived this morning
from Honoipu, and tied up at Alien
d. Robertson's wharf. Captain Doug
las brought her down. 1t is under
stood that the Iva is offered for sale
by her owners. The new boat Upolu
recently at this port, can take care of
all the business about Hawaii. so that
the Iva is no longer of any use. She
is stout bit of a craft, but too small
for trade.
The Ancona, now discharging coal
at San Francisco, has attracted much
attention from seafaring men on ac-
count of her peculiar construction,
which combines the salient features
of the ordinary sailing vessel with
those of the more modern whaleback.
The motive power of most ebacks
is steam, but the Ancona tracks over
the ocean propelled by the immense
stretch of canvas which she spreads
on four lofty masts. She is steel
ship, with hull like that of the or
binary whaleback. Instead of being
bluff in the bows, she has the sharp
stem of the deep water sailing vessel
She was built in 1893 at Glasgow, in
Scotland, by Russell & Co., the ia
nous Clyde ship builders. The deck
is very high in the center and her
greatest breadth of beam is at the wa.
ter line. The dimensions of the An
coma are: Length over all, 300 feet
beam, As feet S inches; depth, % feet
8 inches. She has "A carrying capac.
ity of 4,150 tons besides her ballast
which is water carried in two tanks
each containing 700 tons. Her com,
mander, Captain l.. f. Robbins. pro.
nounces her one of the best seaboats
he has ever taken charge of, and says
that owing to the peculiar formation
of her decks, she ships but little wa.
ter. Where another vessel would
make exceedingly heavy weather OF
it. she sails along, carrying bone in
her teeth and with everything snug
and dry.
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