The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-01
WILL RAISE
THE CORONA
CAPTAIN c.. Miner GOOdall
Says She Will Be Got
Off the Rocks.
After Being Patched Up She
Will Return Under Her
Own Steam.
The Klondike Club of Nantucket, r.
Has Purchased the Whaling
Bark Mermaid.

1t now seems fairly certain that the
Pacific Coast Steamship Company S
steamer Corona, which went ashore on
Lewis Island while on her way to
Dyea and Skaguay some time ago, will
be saved. She went bow on upon a
pointed rock and the passengers were
saved with much difficulty.
Captain c. Miner Goodall was sent
from here to see what could be done
with the vessel. He secured wrecking
appliances at Victoria, B. c., and he
now reports that with several divers
and with fair weather he will have the
vessel off and on her way to San Fran
cisco almost as soon as his communica-
ton could be received here. In his
letter to Goodall, Perkins & Co. he
states that the worst place was for
ward under the forehatches. When she
struck a hole was knocked in the
bottom and the keel was turned over
for about twenty feet. She overhung
from the foremost forward and most
of the repairing was done from the in
side
TT has been blowing and showing
ever since we came here, says Cap
tain Goodall 1T is slow work, but If
it moderates We shall have her afioat
in a week. / think it will be safe to
bring her to San Francisco by slow
stages"
II is Captain Goodall's intention to
bring the Corona to Port Townsend,
where her cargo will be discharged. The
coal now in the hold will be kept there
for ballast and then the steamer will
go to Victoria, B. c., in order to COM
plv with the customs regulations of
rod IN, Ryif
ish waters The Corona's deck houses
have all gone aft, but the upper deck
is good and as there is plenty of lum-
Der on board there will be no diff1culty
in closing up the Stairways and other
openings in order to make the Corona
perfectly seaworthy for her trip to San
Francisco On her arrival here she
will be locked by the Union Iron
Works and the work of repairing her
will be rushed. In a months time
she should be ready to go back on the
run between Seattle, Dyea and Ska
quay.
The demand for steamers and tugs
for the KIondike trade is not nearly
satisfied. The Redstack TowbOat Com
Dany has two boats on the Sound tow
ing sailing vessels from Seattle to Dyea
and they are getting two more ready
for the trade. The Wizard and Her.
cules have been laid up for nearly four
wears but they are now being put in
first-class order, and will be put in
commission in a few days. The Wizard
has had her boilers made almost as
good as new and she has had a new
smokestack and a new propeller put in
The Hercules is having her boilers and
engines thoroughly overhauled at the
Fulton Iron Works, and both tugs will
he ready for their trial trips the latter
part of this week.
The Klondike Club of Nantucket, r.
T. has purchased the whaling bark
Mermaid and are going to KotZebue
Sound in her. A party of fifteen Nan
tucket whalemen formed the club last
winter. intending to go to the Klon-
dixie. They changed their minds, how
ever. and Captain Wicks and II. and
7. Borden came out here to purchase
a vessel. The Mermaid will be brought
out of Oakland Creek to-day and will
be made ready for her trip to the Arc
tic next May.
The ship Sintram, with the river
steamers and barges for the North
American Trading and Transportation
Company aboard, will not get away
for Dutch Harbor before next Satur-
day or Sunday. The refrigerating
plants for use on the steamers have
not arrived from the East, hence the
delay. The steamers will also be fitted