The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-31
FEARS FOR THE VINE AND THE
CHARMER.
The cyrus Wakefield and Falcon Also
Anxiously Waited fora. M Bakers
Long Trip.

SAN FRANCISCO, January pa
fleet Of Coasting vessels is overdue and
shipping men believe that many have
been lost When the recent storms
cleared up a good showing was made
for vessels plying between San Fran
cisco and the oregon and Sound ports.
Not one was there that had not been
accounted for. and the jubilation among
shipowners was general. In the re-
ioicing though, many lost sight of the
craft that had gone off the coast or
were bound for the west coast and the
islands. and as the days wear away and
nothing is heard of the overdue vessels,
the anxiety of shipowners becomes
more marked.
The schooner Vine is out los days
from Fort Bragg for Mollendo, and has
not been spoken or sighted since she
sailed. The general impression is that
the Vine has been lost. She was once
i'm the South Sea trade and was the YES
sci that brought she South Sea island
ers here for the Midwinter Fair. Then
she was chartered for a pleasure trip
on the Pacific. She was originally built
for a pleasure yacht for her present
owner, j. f. Burns, and was fitted up
like a floating palace
The Vine was built in 1890 at Taco
ma. Her dimensions are 1919 feet in
length, BIZ feet in breadth of beam and
LIS lect III uepJn OF nOlu.
The schooner Falcon is GA days out
from Salinas Cruz, bound for Port
Townsend, and small hope exists for
her reaching her destination. 1t was
thought that the dsmasted schooner
sighted by the steamer Eva off Gray s
HarbOr last week was the wreck of the
Falcon.
The American ship Charmer is out
45 days from Port Townsend for Kahu-
lt1f In Nr.li Inc n
is hard to account for such a long vo-
yage. The Charmer is known as a very
speedy traveller being a wooden clipper.
When old Captain Holmes walked her
bridge there were few vessels on the
ocean to which she could not show her
heels. The Charmer was owned by
John Rosenfeld's Sons for a long time,
and piled between here and New York.
The Rosenfelds sold her last year to
William Mighell of the California Ship
ping Company. She was built in 1881
at Bath, Me-, by William Rodgers, and
is 1886 tons gross and 1928 net. Her di-
mansions are 221.7 feet in length, 42.4
feet in breadth of beam and 1858 feet
deep.
That the English underwriters feel
alarmed over the long voyage of the
Charmer was made evident yesterday,
by the vessel being listed in the over
due fleet at 10 per cent reinsurance.
The American ship Cyrus Wakefield
is making long voyage from NanaimO
to Manila. She is out "a days and
nothing has been heard of her since she
saileu. She is one of the old time wood
en- clipper ships and was on the run be-
tween here and New York. She, too,
was owned by John Rosenfelds Sons,
but in the fall of last year was sold to
the government. She was thoroughly
overhauled and repaired when sent to
Nanaimo to take a cargo of coal for
the Philippines. Upon her arrival at
Manila she was to be converted into a
coal hulk. An average passage to Ma
Mia would be between Go and 70 days
When the bark Bertha was out from
Wei ai-Wei for Portland IS, so per
cent was paid to reinsure She is now
out 30 days and reinsurance on her is
So per cent. AS the underwriters hold
no risks on the Cyrus Wakefield, there
can be no reinsurance on her She was
built in 1882 at Thomaston, Me-,
and is 2119 tons gross and 1871 tons net
She is 247 feet in length, 43,7 feet beam
and 2S.6 feet deep.