Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-07-24
PEARY RELIEF PARTY
STEAMSHIP WINDWARD
DEPARTS FOR The NORTH
Transfer 10 American Registry Occa-
sion for Pretty Ceremony Marie
Peary HOiStS the Flag--An
Historical Ship.

New York. July 13.-Tho Peary Arc
tic steamship Wlndward arrived at
Jersey City today and will go into COM
mission and depart for the north to-
morrow. The Wndward came down
| under her own steam in the early
morning from Newburg, N. Y, where
for the last two months she has been
receiving new equipment of boilers and
mCyhinery. making the run in very
creditable time and with a very salts
factory performance of the new engine.
The ceremony of transfer from the con-
tractor to the Peary Club was very
simple. The Stars and Stripes having
been hoisted for the first time at tho
peak, under the special act of Congress
| signed by the late President Mckinley.
allowing an American registry to the
Windward. little Marie peary, daugh-
ter of the explorer and the most north
ern born child in the world hoisted
to the foretruck the club pennant de-
/ signed by herself. and also displayed
! for the first time. The emblem is
! simple. yet effective and appropriate.
with two long. narrow red stripes, each
bordered on the inside by white; tri-
angular blue field bears the white
initials "P. A. c." the combination
introducing the national colors in
strong yet legble combination, which
can be read long distance.
The Windward since her arrival in
New York three months ago has been
completely changed, and will go north
as a full-powered, completely equipped
and thoroughly commodious ship for
Arctic work.
The new engine is "steeple COM
pound" all parts being made eXcep-
tionally strong for work in the ice.
with every modern improvement, and
is expected to give a speed of from
seven to eight knots, equal to that OF
the fastest of the Newfoundland seal
ing fleet and nearly three times that
possible with the discarded boiler and
engine. The Windward will coal at
Sydney. C. b., and proceed north
through the Straits of Belle Isle, touch
ing at Godhaven and possibly at Uper-
navik
During today the members OF thu
Peary Arctic Club and many guests
visited the Windward, inspecting with
much interest the quarters which Mrs.
Peary and Miss Peary will occupy In
their northern voyage, and much more,
the little cabin in which they spent
eight long months imprisoned in the
ice at Payer Harbor.
The forward decks of the Windward
were busy today, since stores for year
and additional supplies for the Jensen
station at Cumberland Sound were be-
ing stored, that the departure might
be effected at the earliest possible mo-
ment.
The Windward, a 320-ton bark, Is
easily the most interesting and his
toric of all the Arctic craft now afloat
Built at Sunderland, England, in 1865
il was for more than a quarter of d
century employed in the Dundee and
Peterhead whale fisheries. Purchased
in 1894 by Alfred c. Harmsworth, she
took the Jackson Harmsworth eXpedi'
ton to Franz Joseph Land, being i'm
prisoned in the ice near Cape Flora
for the winter.
The Windward, commanded by Cap
tain John Bartlett, sailed from New
York for the North July 3, 1898, parteC
company with her consort, the Hope
Captain Samuel w. Bartlett, for Etah
North Greenland, August II, and spen
the following winter fast in the Ice o
Altman Bay. breaking out early IL
August, 1899, and joining the Dian.
(the auxiliary ship at Etah, Angus
II, returning to Brigus, N. +. Elk
tensive repairs were made to the hui
and machinery early in the spring o
1900, and July 20, commanded by Cap
tain Samuel w. Bartlett, sailed from
Sydney, with Mrs. Peary on board, alsI
Marie Peary, for the north, and eXcep
a report from Godhaven, August 10
nothing further was heard from he
until the arrival of the Erik, thu
AUXILIARY ship OF 1901, at Etah, Angus
4. The Windward had spent the eigh
months from September to July fast II
the ice of Payer Harbor, near Cap
Sabine, and spent a month, as soon al
extricating herself, in successful wal
rus hunt in the Inglefeld Gulf, Re
turning at the end of the season prac
.tically under sail for three knots, will
favorable wind and tide, the utmos
THAT the engines could do, the Wind
iward wintered at Brigus, arriving il
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