The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-12
NOTES.

The contractors have notified the
Navy Department that the battIeship
/ Illinois will be ready for her official
| trials about June r. These trials Will
1 take place over the deep-water course
/ lying between Cape Porpoise and Cape
Ann and comprise four hours. run
at full speed, and such turning ana
maneuvering tests as the board of in
/ spection and survey see fit to carry
i out Capt. G. A. Converse, u. S. NJ,
who has been detailed for the COM
mand of this fine ship, will accompany
the board during the trials
| The torpedo-boat Shubrick, OF which
the trials have been concluded, will be
/ taken to the Norfolk navy yard next
/ week for formal delivery TO the United
] States, and will be at once placed In
/ commission for the summer maneuvers
on the northern coast.
| Mrs Stocker, wife of Naval Con-
structor Robert Stocker, U. S. N, per-
formed the christening for the new
i Morgan liner FL Dia, launched from
the Newport New5 Company's yards on
May 49, Constructor Stocker is at
| tached to these works as the represen-
tative of the government and lnspec-
i tor of hulls. The Ell Dia is one of the
four large cargo carriers now under
construction at the yards of the New
port News Company, the others being
Z respectively Ell Vale, Ell Libre, and Ell
Siglo.
Admiral Remey on his flagship, the
| Brooklyn, is now under way for
Auckland, n. H., where he has been
/ invited to show the hospitable people
i of that island the latest type of eff
4 ,,,1
Stripes.
The work on the Iowa having been
i completed at the Mort Orchard naval
| station, that ship has returned to San
Francisco and will resume duty with
| the Pacific fleet. 1t is not improbable
that the Iowa may be detailed for tenn
porary service at Honolulu during the
next few months, the political situa-
! ton at that point requiring considera-
/ BILE home influence" to maintain quiet
ness and good behavior. The harbor or
Honolulu has been improved so that
our largest ships find easy entrance at
all stages of the tide.-Army and Navy
1 journal.
A series of experiments are being
carried out by the Italian navy at
Spezzia with a new submarine vessel
called the Delfino. AT the end of the
| present month further experiments, of
which the present are in some degree
/ a rehearsal viii be conducted in the
presence of the King Of Italy, who is
to visit the port on the occasion of the
launching of the new battleship Regina
4 Margherita The vessel is cigar shaped
and of steel. Its length is about Is
feet, and it's diameter 8 feet When
wholly immersed it's displacement is
q about 107 TONS The motive power is
an electric battery of 800 accumulators.
1t is propelled by a screw, while above
are two smaller screws, by which the
vessel is Immersed or raised. Its arm
ament consists of two torpedo tubes In
the bow The provision of air is suffi-
Gent for a crew of twelve men for a
, period of seven to eight hours. The
total cost of the Delfipo is set down al
$50, 000s
The Lutfne, 32-gun frigate in the
British navy, sailed from Yarmouth
Roads for Hamburg on October 8, 1893
carrying large amount of treasure
but, striking a Sandbank during gale
was lost between the islands of Vile
land and Terchelling, lying off one OF
the entrances to the Zuyder Zee. Salv-
ing work has been carried on from
time to time at the Lutine for nearly
a century, and out of the treasure orig
inally shipped, calculated to have
amounted at least to S. 1876, 335, as much
as $504, 120 has actually been recovered
Five different salvage operations In al
! have been carried out with varying
success, but resulting in that very re-
spectacle total to which it is hoped t
add, as the result of the findings oil
another expedition now being organic
. ed. The wreck. the after part of which
is broken up, is lying on the clay al
a depth of fifty feet below mean sea
level, and at the present time depth
of thirty-five feet of sand has to be
, cleared away in order to uncover the
clay.
An interesting experiment to test the
difference between the contract speed
, and the sea-going speed of torpedo
boat destroyer has just been carried
out at Portsmouth, says a contempora-
ry; but unfortunately the trial took
place at the request of Palmers Ship
building Company, the contractors, for
their private information, and not on
! behalf of the Admiralty. The informa-
ton obtained is thus confidential, and
is the exclusive property of the build
ers of the Kangaroo.
The Pangrano, the second of three
torpedo boats gbeing built for the Dutch
government. by Messrs Yarrow & Co.
!, of Poplar, ran her official trial on
Tuesday, April 80 in the presence OF
!, the Dutch authorities, Mr.. Loder chief
constructor of the Dutch navy; Cap
!, tain Wentholt. chief of the torpedo de-
partment, = Mr.. koninS, enS1neer-in IN
chief, and Mr.. Jonkees. inspector gen.
eral. The trial consisted of a three
! hours full-speed run at the mouth OF
the Thames. The mean speed obtained
with load of thirty tons, was 25. IS
knots
The parliamentary return of the
! fleets of the world which brings the
record down to January Is, 1901 shows
that, as compared with the last return
up to October Is, 1899, the principal
foreign powers have been completing
3 battleships more rapidly than Great
8 Britain, and that Germany is making
8 more rapid progress in this direction
than the United States. Japan, too, ha:
3 been pushing ahead very fast. The re
turn shows that all the powers with
8 the possible exception of Russia ant
Italy, are now replacing their protect
! ed and unprotected cruisers by armor
5 ed cruisers. The building of coast-de
9 Tense vessels is going out of fashion
3 and no more appear than We're alread.
3 in hand fifteen months ago. Nor d.
Z the powers seem inclined to construc
3 | special vessels, and there is an abso