The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-04

U. S. S. PHILADELPHIA. A:
forth through that wild sea the crew
stood to their posts and with numbed
hands worked the icy ropes and sails
| till their oil suits were stiff with ice
! The struggle was kept up for an en-
| tire day. Slowly the boat. crept to
windward, making or losing at each
tack, till at last, just as night was
| falling, they cleared the point by a
few yards, and We're safe in the open
sea-
This ability to make to windward
will stand the Carrie and Annie in
good stead during her trips through
the lagoons and channels of the Mar
shall, Gilbert and Caroline Islands.
Captain Foster knows the good quail
ties of these Gloucester boats, having
had experience with them in his early
life. He does not minimize the dan
gers of the voyage he is about TO
make. Where the Star was wont TO
go with auxiliary steam power he will
have to go without it, and depend up
on skill and sails, and the good quail
ties of his boat, to make his way safe
~ through tortuous channels against
tides and head winds.
We have heard him question the
wisdom of attempting Ebon Channel,
which is narrow and long and straight
to windward. Captain Garland has
written on the chart over against this
channel, Don't attempt it except on
slack tide" and Captain Bray has
added land don't forget it.
The captain is under orders to make
Kusaie first and land DR.. and Mrs.
Rife and children and all supplies des-
tined for the missionaries on that ISL
and. From Kusaie the voyage viii
continue to Ponape, and thence TO
Ruk
Returning to Kusaie, the Annie
| makes the tour of the Marshall ISL
ands. Seventy days are expected to
complete this tour, after which comes
a tour of sixty days In the Gilbert
group. Somewhere during these tours,
or between them, must come a visit to
Mr.. de la Porte on Pleasant Island.
Then, after completing the tours Of the
Marshall and Gilbert Islands, will
come the work to be done for the Po-
nape mission, and finally the tour
through the Mortlock Islands and the
Ruk lagoon. Unless there are later
orders to the contrary, from Ruk the
Carrie will sail direct to San Fran
cisco, where she will be sold and be
replaced by the Morning Star No. s.,
which is now contemplated to be a
boat of 200 tons.
Worlds Naval News.
The Navy Department has decided to
put Niclausse boilers in the Pennsyl-
yania and Colorado, armored cruisers
recently contracted for.
The British cruisers Medea and Me
dusa are to be fitted with water-t tube
boilers, the first named to have boilers
of the Durr type, the other to receive
Yarrow boilers.
The Nembo, one of four thirty knot
destroyers building at Naples, has just
been launched. The vessel is of $50
tons displacement, with eighty tons
COAL 5000 horsepower, and will have
a battery of one 12-pounder and five
6-popnders.
The British battleship Bulwark has
made its thirty hours coal consump-
ton trial under four-fifths power with
these results: Horsepower II, 755;
steam in boilers, PSI pounds; revolu-
lions, 101; speed, 1913 knots; coal con-
sumption, is pounds per unit of
horsepower.
Three officers of Russian volunteer
fleet steamer, who were recently ar
rested while in the act of drawing a
map of Nagasaki harbor, have been
sentenced to six months severe i'm
priscnment by japanese court. AS
the three officers left the country
while the case was pending, the sem
| tence is imperative unless they should
venture to return to Japan.
The cost of the new royal yacht Vic
toria. and Albert is likely to exceed
double the original estimate, which
was S1,76S,1S5. A second revised esti-
| mate, made one year ago, raised the
| UNI to S2,560,170, and various additional
| improvements recommended by the
| civilian expert to make the yacht sea-
worthy have been in progress since
| the revised estimate was made.
| Russia has ordered the CONSTRUCTION
| of four high-speed cruisers of the
Bogatyr type, an Improvement on the
Variag. They will be built at Rus
sian yards, namely, at Windan, Liban,
| Nikalieff and Sebastopol. Their tom
| mage displacement is $3.50 tons, with
10000 horsepower and twenty-three
| knots speed. The plans and many of
the patterns have been furnished from
| the German yard at which the Boga-
| tyr was built.
| The Iwate, Japanese armored cruiser
OF 9,606 tons, arrived at Yokosuko on
May II, from England. She Is the last
of six armored cruisers built in Europe
during the past six years for the navy
| of Japan. The ship was built by the
Armstrong firm at Elswick, her keel
was laid July 10. 1898. launched March
%. 1900, and completed March Is last.
The period Of construction COPS days.,
while not a record breaker In ship
/ building. is much better than that OF
the New York and Brooklyn of the
i United States navy, which took 1,496
| and 2,1S1 days. respectively, between
1 HAVING IF nj IN ey,fx a.,