The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-08-06
MENACE 70 NAVIGATION
WRECK OF THE WILLIAM CARSON
LOST.
Collector Stackable Says 1t is a Serious
Source of Danger and Wants
Search Instituted.

The wreck of the William Carson has
broken loose from her moorings on the
beach Waikiki of the channel and it
is feared that she is floating about the
ocean, a great menace to navigation in
these waters. The fact that she has
gone was discovered by Collector Cen
eral Stackable, who went yesterday to
look at the vessel the Wilder Steam
ship company having requested permis-
sion to remove it's mOorings from the
wreck The collector went to make an
examination before giving permission,
as it was his intention, if the wreck
was not firmly grounded. to have it
blown up before the moorings were
taken away. on arriving at the place
where the wreck had been the collector
found that it had gone.
There is nothing to be seen of the
Carson but her bowsprit," said the
collector, land / consider the floating
wreck a source of grave danger. We
cruised all around the place where the
Carson was moored. In the clear water
the chains, some coal that had dropped
and the moorings were plainly visible.
The water is so clear that the bottom
can be seen at great depths, and we
searched till we were thoroughly salts
fled that the vessel is nowhere near
where she was. She has broken loose
from the moorings in some way, and is
probably afloat.
THE matter is a very serious one and
l shall try to have a careful search
made outside the harbor Any vessel
that runs into the wreck will surely go
to the bottom and it might be any of
our passenger steamers that are COM
ing and going every day. The heavy
hull is just below the surface and cam
not be seen except from close to it."
1t is thought that the wreck would
drift out to sea some distance, and
would then be likely to be carried back
towards the mouth of the channel by
, the ocean current. The general course
of drifting is towards the reef where
lie the remains of the Edward O'Brien,
and If the William Carson takes this
course she may be the cause of seri-
Gus accident. Even if she does not, she
might be struck by a vessel in the open
sea.
| When the William Carson was towed
here on her beam ends by the tug Eleu
there was talk of the dangers of allow
| ing her to float at the mercy of ocean
| currents, and it was understood that
she would be either beached or blown
up Efforts We're made to save her
however and the Wilder Steamship
/ company made her fast. The company
gave her up and auctioned her off, the
purchaser being a hui which in turr
abandoned her after getting few
! hundred tons of coal out of her at 6
cost fully equal to the value of the coal
| Work has abandoned on her over tive
months ago, and at some time since
then she broke her moOrings and drift
! ed away.
The tug Iroquois will be asked to "C
and make a search for the lost hull
or if this is not in line with her duties
Collector Stackabe will try to have thu
steamship companies take hold of the
matter and put up money for search
The wreck is just such derelict as Il
believed to have been responsible fo
the loss of many of the ships that haV
left ports and never been heard o
again, as a collision in md-ocean will
such a derelct would leave little hop
for almost any ship.