The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-16
RosamondReports
Dismasted
Bark.
The China's Fast Time.
Shipbuilding for
March.

! IA ed hull, is in mid-Pacif1c dis
A masted. Her identity is unknown
The vessel is a four-masted one, and
bearing northeast with only a small
piece of canvas spread on the stump of
her foremost, and it was thought she
was making for one of the Pacific Coast
ports.
| Word of the dismasted vessel was
received at San Francisco by the
schooner Rosamond, which reached
that port on the 7th instant from Ho
nolulu. Captain Ward Of the schooner
and her crew say 1t was in broad day
light, on March 29th, when the disabled
vessel was first sighted, in latitude S5
north and longitude 155 west, or about
II 800 miles west of San Francisco. She
was then about ten miles off, but the
schooner, standing in, soon had her
abeam but about two miles away.
I'VE set Signals said Captain Ward,
asking her if she needed any help, but
obtained no answer. There was fair
breeze at the time, and it was not long
before the unknown and crippled vessel
was merely a speck astern. AS no an
lswer was made to our signals did not
think it would be right for me to in
terfere in the strangers business, and I
kept on my course.
From what we could see the ship,
though badly crippled, was in con-
dition to take care of herself, though
sailing would be slow and tedious. Only
q stump of her foremost stood. A part
Iof her main topmaSt showed above the
masthead, and the miZzenmast as far
as the crosstrees, was standing. Her
| jibboom was gone, and her spanker
mast looked as thouph it was weak and
of little use. There was one yard on
the fore and mizzen masts and two
yards on the mainmast, but there was
only one piece of canvas spread on the
whole ship. 1t looked like a topgallant
SAIL and it was bellied out from the
yard on the foremost"
| Shipping men criticise Captain Ward
severely for not having made an effort,
beyond setting a few signal flags, to
| learn at least the name of the crippled
ship. There is faint hope that the
vessel may be the German ship Bertha,
which, several weeks ago, was posted as
missing. The Bertha left Wei Wei for
Portland 166 days ago. She has been
out more than three times the number
of days for an ordinary voyage, and the
hope that she is still afloat Is very
small.
There are a number Of vessels now on
the Pacific bound to Asiatic and Ameri-
can ports, and any one Of them might
be the cripple seen by the Rosamond's
crew.
Dismasted Bark identified
The four-masted bark sighted by the
schooner Rosamond is still causing I'M
derwriters to worry. Every vessel now
due on the Coast has been canvassed,
and the concensus of opinion is that
the disabled boat will probably turn
out to be the German four masted bark
| Willy Rickmers, now out forty-five
| days from Kobe, Japan, for Portland.
| She Is in ballast and painted black,
and so fills the bill as far as it goes.
1t will be remembered that the Brit
| ish bark Willscott was dismasted also
while on her way from Japan to Port
| land, and put in to San Francisco I'M
! der a jury rig.
The China's Fast Run
| Good weather and a smooth sea al
| lowed the steamer China TO reach San
Francisco day ahead of time, the
| liner arriving soon after noon on the
! Sth instant, twenty-six days from
| Hongkong, sixteen days from Yoke
hama, and five days, sixteen hours and
| forty minutes from Honolulu. In adj
dition to 106 passengers. thirty-one of
whom were from China and Japan, the
| steamer had 2,501 tons of freight and
$3.50, 900 in treasure. She left Honolulu
on April I'd. On March 29th the China
4 hn no lA11c ND
from Newcastle, n. S. W., for San
| Francisco, which wished to be report
| ed. This was in latitude % degrees rs
minutes north longitude 176 degrees 40
minutes west. On April Sd, at mid
night, the China met the steamer So
noma, and at S:25 the next morning
the Gaelic was met both bound from
San Francisco, and showing that the
Sonoma had gained considerably on the
Gaelic.
sailor named Carey, whose mind
became affected some time ago while
on one of the warships on the Asiatic
| station, returned to the Coast In the
| China, in the care of several marines,
| who had instructions to deliver him
at Mare Island. After the China dock
ed Carey decided to look out for him
self, and suddenly struck one of the
marines named Moody terrific blow
on the right eye, Immediately after
ward running down the gangplank. The
demented man was overtaken and
| placed in charge of a policeman, and
was afterwards taken to Mare Island.
Wreck Still Undiscovered.
At the expense of SIPS, Captain John
Ross chartered the redstack tug Sea
King, on the 9Th instant, for the pur-
pose Of definitely locating the wreck
of the Rio de Janeiro, but the work
was again fruitless. At o'clock in the
afternoon the tug returned, and the in
formation was given out that the moor
| ing over the supposed wreck had again
drifted, making it inadvisable to send
down Diver Roach, who had been en-
| gagged at additional expense. Captain
/ Ross will take more soundings over
| the spot
| Arrived From Honolulu.
| Eight days were occupied by the
steamer Zealandia in the trip from Ho-
nolulu to San Francisco AS soon as
the vessel can be prepared for the
| trip the Zealandia will sail for Port
| Los Angeles to take On board another
party of Porto Rican laborers for the