The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-03-03
WORKING ON THE
TRANSPORT WARREN

! Work in the repairing of the broken
propeller blade of the transport Warren
now lying disabled at the naval wharf,
| commenced early yesterday morning. On
Saturday divers went down and reported
a blade broken off, leaving an eighteen
inch stump. II was decided that the only
practical way to fix the damage was to
tip the ship. and by so doing bring her
propeller shaft sufficiently out of the
water 70 allow of the new blade being
bolted on.
With this end in view part of the cargo
in the aft part of the ship was transfer
red forward and all day long a number
of stevedores and soldiers were at work
dumping pig iron brought fror; the Ho-
nolulu Iron Works into the forward part
of the transport. At night the stern of
the Warren stood two feet higher out of
the water than in the morning.
The work of loading down the trans
ports bow will be continued this
morning, and will so on until 800 tons
of iron have been taken aboard. The
depth of water where she is lying is 30
feet at high tide, and when the Warren
arrived she drew - feet. This. of course,
allows a drop of eight feet in the trans
ports bow, and corresponding rise of
her stern of about three feet for every
foot of the bow sunk
1t is as yet a matter of doubt whether
this ratio which prevailed yesterday will
commune as the DOW goes luTtIeT uO~n
Opinion on this matter seems to be pref
ty evenly divided. Man old waterfront
ers shake their heads ominously when
they discuss the scheme of tipping the
transport. for they claim that the vessel
is liable to sustain such strain amid
ships as TO render her practically use
less.
The air was fun of suggestions for
the ending of the Warren's pilikia yes
terday. Some persons held that the only
way out OF the difficulty was to build a
cofferdam around her. Others wanted
her stern hauled out of the water by the
marine railway, a course of action which
was successfully followed with regard to
the disabled Nipsic which fell a victim
to the great Samoan hurricane twelve
years ago, and was afterwards brought
here.
One man insisted that the best and
quickest way to tilt the transport would
be to fill her forward bulkheads with wa
ter. On one point, however, all the the
orists agreed; it being that had there
been dry dock here the transport would
have been on her way to Manila by this
time.
y new blade for the propeller is lying
On the wharf. 1t is an emergency one,
carried by the vessel, and is not nearly
so costly an affair as was the bronze
blade which broke off short. and which
weighed a ton and cost $500
The Warren'S troops are still under |
'anvas on the parade ground in front of
he drillshed. while the officers are oc- |
'upying the shed itself. The men march !
I'd to the transport to mess three times
yesterday.
Whether the Warren lost her propeller /
'lade before or after arriving here seems /
o be moot question. The chief officer
i the transport said yesterday that the /
cc:dent occurred between here and San
francisco, but other officers of the shin
ecIared that the blade broke off about |
CLOCK on Saturday morning, or two /
ours AFTER the Warren sailed from here