The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-08

from scows.
The immense cargo consists of abol
100000 pounds The cargo is valued
lars. The great vessel is loaded to Il
waiian will probably take on general m
| ing from these Islands with sugar ar
is picture of the large freighter
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/ ,343 tons. from Newcastle on May 29th.
is at Navy wharf No. 2, ready to sail for
the Sound in ballast.
Schooner Laura Pike, Captain l.. John
son, 139 tons, returned from sea leaking,
is on the drydock being repaired.
! Bark Gerard C. Tobey, Captain A. W.
Cove, 1889 tons, from San Francisco on
J May 9th, is at Brewers wharf loading
sugar for San Francisco. '
| Schooner III. ID. Bendixsen, Captain M
Olsen, $40 tons. from Newcastle on May
9th. is at Sorenson's wharf discharging
!, 1013 tons of coal.
| Barkentine S..agit, Captain w. Robin
son, 443 tons, from Port Gamble on May
26th, is at Aliens wharf discharging half
million feet of lumber.
Schooner Robert Levers, Captain K.
Underwood, 66s tons, from Port Gamble
on May 18th, is at Aliens wharf unload
ing 100000 feet of lumber.
Bark Marion Chilcott, Captain III. F.
,, Weldon. ISL tons, from Newcastle on
May 25th is at the railway wharf load
ing sugar for San Francisco.
Bark Nuuanu, Captain w. L.. Josselyn.
9l2 tons, from New York on May 4th.
Is at the Irmgard wharf loading sugar
for New York.
Ship Paramita, Captaie Charles Backus,
. 1,444 tons, from Newcastle on May 24th,
is in the stream with 2013 tons of coal.
Ship Charles F.. Moody, Captain P. G.
Rasmussen, 1875 tons, from Tacoma on
May 22d, is at the railway wharf dis
/ charging $40 tons of coal.
Ship Abner Coburn, Captain r. Muir
Gibson 1879 tons, from Newcastle on
May 18th, is at the Fort street wharf,
discharging 3,011 tons Of coal
Various Naval Items.
| The Sirene a French submarine boat
| of. the Narval type, but not quite 50
| large, was launched at Cherbourg on
May L. She is III feet long, IL feet
beam, and loo tons displacement, and
she draws feet of water when afioat.
/ Her speed is calculated at II knots.
with triple-expansion vertical engine
of 217-horsepower The Sirene, which
when finished will cost about 100000,
has four torpedo launching gears. At
Havre on the same day the seagoing
torpedo boat Mistral, which belongs to
the Sirocco type, was launched. She
; is LAT feet inches long Is feet 6 inches
in beam, and has engines of 1900 indi-
Gated horsepower Her nominal speed
is so knots.
The German battleship Kaiser Fried
erich III had narrow escape from de-
struction by fire while returning from
Danzig to Kiel after the summer evo-
,lutionary cruise. The heavy petroleum
used for auxiliary stocking was stored
in the bilge, and the water which in
yaded the ship fioated it into the stoke
holds. The water-tight doors were
closed, and all attention was devoted
. to extinguishing the fires and flooding
the magazines, which were in danger
The fire was of a very serious nature;
the engines and boilers were damaged
and the propellers were injured. The
, Emperor has conferred decorations up
on Captain Thiele and several officers,
engineers and stokers, who at the risk
of their lives flooded the magazines.
When waterproof sheetings had been
lowered over the holes, 1000 tons of
water We're pumped out or the ship.
The vessel touched the ground to the
south of the island of Bornholm, where
some uncharted rocks were discovered
as the result of a survey.
A new lotion 13-inch gun was placed
in the turret of the tt. S. S. Kearsarge
at the navy yard, New York on May
20, to replace the damaged one remov-
ed few days previous. The work was
accomplished according to the plans of
Naval Constructor Caps. The old
gun was pushed out with hydraulic
jacks. The new gun was pulled In by
means of a steel cable, which was run
through it's bore and cleated at the
muzzle. 1t took about four hours to
pull the gun in. The work of boiling
I,
will be completed about June l.
A meeting was held In Boston on
May "a, to make arrangements for
fair some time next October, to raise
funds for rebuilding the old frigate
Constitution, "Old Ironsides.' This
meeting was under the auspices of the
Massachusetts State Society, United
States Daughters of 1872
Seventy-two recruits for the navy
enlisted in Omaha, Neb, left that city
on May IL for San Francisco. to be
assigned to the training ship Pensaco-
la. The naval recruiting station for
Omaha opened May last, in charge
of DR.. Crandall and Lieutenant BIam-
er, U. s. N. For two days. on account
of bad weather, few applicants pre-
sented themselves for enlistment. Since
then, however, the officers and their
clerks did a rushing business, and on
May IL, when the offices opened, there
were fully seventy-five young men In
line, with more coming every minute.
OF the young men who enlisted at
Omaha, the youngest was fourteen, and
the Oldest thirty-four years of age. The
average was about seventeen years
Inc work of dredging channel OPP
posite the Port Royal naval station
has been awarded, and the completion
or this much-needed Improvement will
now progress with something like the
vigor required by the department. In
view of the transfer of this naval sta
ton to Charleston, S. c., it is not
deemed advisable to carry out the
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