The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-15
FIRST SHIP
To ENTER
Erskine NJ. Phelps here
From Manila.
BIG STEEL F0UR-M|ASTER
In Quarantine in the Stream-WilI
Take Sugar to San Francisco
Dimensions.

ship Erskine NJ. Phelps. She was the
first vessel to enter her papers in the ,
American custom house at this port. ;
One of the finest vesse.s afioat, she il.
and pretty sight she made at anchor
in the stream yesterday, flying Cd
Glory and the Hawaiian flag and all
the other flags she had aboard In honor
OF Admission Day.
She comes FROM Manila and was re-
ported early yesterday morning. She
entered the harbor in her best suit OF
clothes, as 1t were, wearing new coat
Of paint, her masts white and every
thing about her spick and span.
COnung from MAMMA, port injected
by the plague, the Phelps is flying a
quarantine flag at the main, and Ia her
self practically quarantined.
Sugar r.r rae Coast.
Coming here in ballast. the Phelps
will load sugar at Honolulu for San |
Francisco, although she was charter..I |
originally for New York. The big sky
scraper will stick to the San Francisco |
Honolulu trade.
Capt. Graham, master of the Phelps, !
Is naturally very proud of his splendid |
charge. The Erskine M. Phelps has won |
the admiration of all, including several
veteran sea captains, who have had a a
opportunity to view her immense hull
and lofty masts of steel. The ship S
dimensions are as follows:
| ships Dimensions.
| Length over all, $50 feet; measuring
| length, 3l2 feet; breadth, A feet 2
| incheS; depth, % feet inches. Her
gross tonnage is 5000 tons, and she has
a carrying capacity of 4,600 tons
weight The masts, far superior in
strength to those of other sailing YES
sels average about 200 feet in height
from keelson. They are 2 inches in
diameter at the deck and 26 inches at
the heel. The lower yards are "a feet
lower topsail, IS feet 6 inches, upper
topsail rs feet. topgallant IS feet, royal
SIS feet, and skysail yards 46 feet. The
lbowsprit, also of steel, is IS feet in
length. The ship has three decks and
four matches, two of the latter being
l2x16 feet and the remaining two Sx6
feet.
The forward deck house is 46x1S feet.
In the forward section is the forecastle.
the sa.Iors' home, with twenty hunks
Skylign,s above give good light and
venlHa..on. The rest Of the forward
house is devoted to the galley, donkey
engine room and ccal banker of seven
tons capacity.
! In ne midships house 26x1S feet, is
! the carpenters shop, extending across
the house. and six rooms for the petty
officers.
Com u odl rus Cabin
Aft is the commcdious cabin, the nome
of Captain Graham and n officers for
ty-eight feet long and tn rty-, light f, ct
wide, extending the entire wIot,l of the
snip: lhe pace is excelent.y GIFTED by
Skyhghts. In the forward CABIN IS the
dining saloon and aft the main saloon.
tastefully fin shed in white. The captain 5
apartment, officers staterooms. steward )
pantry, bath rooms and lavatories are
adjoining the saloons. A service of cut
glass and solid silver, presented by Err
oak sidebcard in the dining saloon
spiral stairway reads to a chart
house, fourteen by sixteen feet on the
, quarter deck. with numerous ports af-
ford.ng plenty of light and ventilation
Here are two hunks for passengers. Aft
of the chart house Is the wheel house
ten by fourteen feet. The various houses
r wood finish. The ship is su"Dlied with
all modern improvements, including
steam pumps and hose for washing decks
A steam winch, two portable cranes tc
weigh anchors and steam capstan are
o forwards and two hand capstans aft The
4 bulwarfs Of the ship are "stiffened" ev
2 cry four feet with round iron two ant
4 one-half inches in diameter Forward
Z are two imported lighthouses for tn,
z side lights.
3 Captain Graham.
Captain Robert ]. Granam of Philadel
. phia, commander of the Erskine NJ
a ship VIII lam T. Babcock. When boy
a of fifteen he began his successful seafar
10 ing life in the Bath ship idle l. lily, o
SS which Captain C. ]. Carter was ther
- mate.
" / revious to commanding the Babcocl
captain Graham was master of the Bait
Captain Graham is a young man VIII,
has confidence In the welfare of Ameri
can shipping.
D. Launched at Bath.
T. The Erskine M. Phelps was launched a
Bath. Name. July 18th, 1888, and is tn
{. frst American built steel snip.
Among those present at the launchin,
o and guests of Mr.. Sewall were: Hon. Err
skine NJ Phelps of Chicago, for whom tn
. ship was named; his friend Chief Inns
;" tice Fuller, d. B. Dearborn, the Ney
g York agent for the Sewa Is, and Georg
>" ). Dearborn.
e ted
Arthur Sewall then announced that thi
was the first of a fleet of twenty stee
!. ships that would be launched from hi
IT, yards ard thst he hoped to live to SO
very one of them.
The SewalIs.
Arthur SewalI, senior member of tn
o. firm of Arthur Sewall & Co.. entered iii
employ of his fathers firm, Clark & Sew
o. all when less than 20 years of age an
A. ship with his elder brother, Edward. ur
der the name of E. & A. Sewall, takin
:. the business of the old firm of VIM L
and Clark & Sewall.
n In January, 1855, the two brother
launched their first sh p, Holyhead. c
O. Zoo tons burden, a large ship in thos
days.
= The Largest Fleet.
" The fleet now composes the larges
Meet or sailing vessels in the world
, Eighths of the Erskine M. PheIp
which cost originally 100000 are owne
n, WV. F. Babcock Of San Francisco. Al
-hur Sewall of Bath, p S. Phelps of Oh
n ago, and Captain Graham. CAPTAIN Grf
nam is accompanied on this voyage b