The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-27

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Lahaina, for the reason that the bark
entine is the largest wooden vessel ever
built on the coast, having length Of
22O feet The members of the Oakland
/ City Council and other prominent resi-
| dents of the bay region were to witness
] the launching The Lahaina is to be
used in the island trade
Fleet OF Sugar Vessels.
| Seven vessels of the sugar fleet ar
rived at San Francisco on the 18th in
slant from Hawaii, most of them some
days overdue. The quickest passage
was made by the bark Diamond Head.
only thirteen days from Honolulu, and
the longest passage is credited to the
bark Alden Besse, which occupied
thirty three days in the trip. The 9TH
err vessels were the bark Santiago,
twenty-five days from Hilo; the bark
entine Archer, twenty-one days from
Honolulu; the ship Charmer. twenty
two days from Kahului; the bark Amy
Turner. seventeen days from Hilo, and
the bark Andrew WEIGH, twenty-six
days from Honolulu.
Vessels From Tahiti.
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| thirty-one days from Tahiti, and the
barkentine Tropic Bird, thirty-eight
| days from the same place, reached, San
Francisco on the 18th instant, with car
| goes of copra and South Sea products.
| Both had light winds and uneventful
passages.
Schooner Kona Launched.
The four-masted schooner Kona was
launched on the 18th instant at San
! Francisco in the presence of a crowd of
| invited guests. The Kona is owned by
Hind, Rolph & Co., and will be used in
the coast and island trade, She is a
| sister ship of the Mindoro, has length
of 1876 feet, breadth of 1876 feet and
| depth of IA feet Hind, Rslph & Co.
have at Boole & Sons yard, ready for
launching, the barkentine !, Lahaina,
said to be the largest wooden vessel
ever built on the coast, the dimensions
beings length, 22o feet; breadth. A.s
| feet; depth, II feet. At Bendixsen's
yard on Humboldt Bay, the same firm
has barkentine to be known as the
tKohala, building 1t will be duplicate
of the William Carson, lately con-
structed.
Large Barkentlne
At Tacoma the past week the con-
struction of large four masted bark
entine to be owned by Charles Nelson &
/ Co. of San Francisco was begun. The
! vessel will be specially adapted for the
lumber trade, and the builders have
contracted to launch it within eight
q fhe I. L.
/ Stream, is of the opinion that the yes
sci will be completed in two months
less time. The barkentine will be s40
feet long with beam of AZ feet and
depth of II feet. Captain Stream was
formerly master of the tug Samson and
superintendent the construction of the
vessel, in addition to the huge barges
/, Washtucua, Wahkiakum and Washou-
gal.
New Reef Reported.
Captain Peterson of the German
steamer Eva reports that while on a
voyage from Honolulu to Yokohama
he passed breakers in latitude 81 deg.
90 min. north, longitude 176 deg. min.
west. The captain states that he had
very good observations for position,
and that the weather was fine when he
passed one mile south Of the breakers
The locality given is thirty miles south
west of Krusenstern rock, the position
of which is marked doubtful on the
charts.
Repairs to the Rosecrans.
Bids for making repairs to the trans
port Rosecrans were opened at Seattle
on May Sth by Quartermaster Ruhlen.
The entire cold storage and electric
lighting plants are to be overhauled and
other improvements made to the vessel
entailing an expense of about $25 900.
When in trim again the Rosecrans will
sail for Alaska with supplies.
Scarcity Of Sailors.
Another scarcity of sailors, for both
deep-sea and coasting vessels prevails
at all ports along the Pacific Coast
That condition has existed at San
Francisco for some months, but is only
beginning to be felt on Puget Sound,
where ships are caused some delay in
sailing.