The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-26
WISCONSIN
WILL COME
TO WHARF
Great BattIeship
To Be Placed on
View.
LARGEST VESSEL
TO ENTER HARBOR
Stay Here Is Indefinite as Admiral
Casey Wishes to Have His
Ship Inspected.

~ OR the first time in the history of
- Honolulu a first class battleship.
4 one fit to fight anything afloat.
viii come into this harbor next week.
Upon the arrival OF the battleship Wis
consin on Monday next the great fight
harbor and docked at the naval wharf.
The decision to come inside the har-
Dor with his peerless vessel was reach
ed by Admiral Casey while here on his
way to Tutuila. That he did not at
that time order the ship to enter was
due primarily to the fact that his husi-
ness in the south was of such a ma
ture that he did not want to run the
risk of a storm springing up which
might compel the ship to await Its sub
sidence before trying to leave the har
Dor. He said then that he would take
his time upon the return trip and would
enter at any event, as he is not com
PEELED to leave at any stated time. This
determination was communicated to
Capt Merry, before the sailing of the
Solace.
While the real reason for the COM
ing of the battleship is to take In coal,
at the same time there is a desire on
the part of the officers to show their
ship at close range to the people of this
city. The Wisconsin will be the first
ship Of her class to enter this harbor,
and never before has a vessel OF the
tonnage of this one, 1900, ever tried
the channel Once the ship has been
I.ro in, Nd hay RnfS
there viii be arranged series of open
days when the vessel may be viewed
by everyone who comes.
There is also every reason TO believe
that the ship will be the scene OF some
brilliant social gatherings, as the young
men of the ship have been for the past
month out from port and will welcome
the presence of their vessel In a port
which has the reputation for hospital
ity which has made Honolulu known
to every officer of the navy
Mrs. Casey, with her daughter. is
here awaiting the arrival of the flag
ship. She has been the recipient OF
many social attentions and the fiag
officers who have just returned from
the south have every moment OF their
time taken up until their sailing.
The Wisconsin classes as a seagoing
coast-line battleship. She is S6S feet in
length, 72 feet 2lk inches beam and q
feet inches mean draft. The displace-
ment is II .525 tons and the net tonnage
5,14G4. The ship is equipped with twin
screws and triple expansion engines,
built TO show an indicated horsepower
of 10000 Upon this showing the speed
was 10 be IS knots, but this was beaten
by from 10 to 121z per cent upon sea trials
other than official
There are two 13-inch barbette turrets
and two military masts. The main bat
terry consists of four 13-inch guns in tur-
rets and II 6-inch rapid fire guns mount
ed in broadsde batteries. In the sec
ondary battery are sixteen 6-pounder
rapid fires, four 1-pounder rapid fire
guns, four Colts and two 3-inch field
pieces. There are four long Whitehead
torpedo tubes In addition.
OF the armor the sides is sixteen and
one-haif inches and the bottom nine and
one-half inches. the water line being
thirteen and three-fourths inches, there
being about 1850 cubic feet Of corn pith
obturating matter The keel OF the ves-
sci was laid February 9Th, 1887, and the
vessel was completed last year.
The vessels complement includes forty
officers and $50 men.
The following are the officers of the
Wisconsin:
Rear Admiral silas Casey, Command
er in Chief; Benjamin Tappan, Lieuten-
ant Commander, Flag Lieutenant; Henry
Norman johnson, Ensign, AID to Com
mander in Chief, Staff.
George c. Reiter Captain, command
ing; r. II. Doyle, Lieutenant Command
or, Executive officer; II. T. Mayo. Lieu
tenant Commander, Navigator; G. w
McEIroy, Lieutenant Commander, Chief
Engineer; ]. Clyde Sullivan. Paymaster;
w r. DuBose, Surgeon; r. K. Smith
Passed Assistant Surgeon; II. A Wiley.
Lieutenant; 2. williams, Lieutenant; T
J. Sem, Lieutenant; c. T. Vogelgesang,
Lieutenant; ]. r. Y. Blakely. Lieutenant;
L. c. Palmer Lieutenant; J. NJ Salladay.
First Lieutenant, u S. Marine Corps Ma