The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-02-14
DOES
MUCH DAMAGE
sMASHEs THE PACIFIC MAIL
WHARF WHILE TRYING
TO DOCK.
BROKE DOLPHIN AND RAN INTO
TUG ROVER.
Heav- southerly Wind Caused Naval
Vessel 70 Get Beyond Captain Win
slows Control this Morning.

The naval ship solace, Captain Her
bert WinslOw. arrived this morning
from Guam and Manila en- route to San
Francisco. The entrance Of the vessel
into the harbOr was attended by quite
q sensational performance in which
she put her mark on the Pacific Mail
dock I'm way that viii necessitate con-
siderable repairs being made at that
part of the Water Front.
The SOlace had more pilikia trying to
dock in Naval slip No. !, than she has
probably experienced during all Of her
voyage since she was last i'm this port,
and an of the trouble today was due
entirely to the refusal of her command
err Captain Winslow to have a tug as
sist him i'm docking his vessel in the
heavy wind which has been blowing all
morning
owing to the acquaintance of Captain
Winslow with this harbor the SOlace
does not take a pilot. This morning
about 10:30 o'clock the SOlaCe entered
the channel She was met by the tug
Fearless before she got past the light
house Captain BrokOw Of the tug ask
ed II the services of his vessel were
not required to hold the larger vessel
against the wind when she was being
docked Captain Winslow declined to
hire the tug however so BrOkOw went
away. When the. SolaCe turned the
mauka side of the lighthouse, she pre-
sented her port side to the wind which
had full sweep. The wind caught
hold Of the vessel and metaphorically
picked her up and threw her against the
four piled dolphin which is Waikiki
from the Naval wharves and some dis
tance out in the harbor from the
shore. Plump against this dolphin went
the Solace. The dolphin was serving
as a mooring place for the lines of the
tug Rover, and the Pioneer, Hackfeld
and Company's new steel scoW. The
| force of the wind was such as to put
such a strain on the dolphin that one
/ of the piles broke and the apparatus
| looked for a while as if it would col
/ lapse.
Winslow was on the bridge and he
ordered the vessel to go ahead. The
! boat started up but she could make no
| headway with the wind full against her
port side and the result was that she
bore down onto the Waikiki part of
| the Pacific Mail dock.
Back your boat, Captain was yell
ed from the crowd of people on the
/ docks Back her for Gods sake or
you will smash the wharf"
The boat went ahead and at the
| same time was carried in shore by the
wind until she showed her nose hard
into the Pacific Mail wharf, at almost
the identical spot that the ship Ben
jamin f. Packard struck some months
u
ing as the heavy Solace crunched the
timbers and boards Of the Mail dock
Then WinslOw began To- back his YES
sell She was backed past the two nava
docks and finally it was seen that she
was heading straight for the little tue
Rover which was lying moored to the
broken dolphin.
Look out over there, you fellows
was yelled to the men on the Rover
shes going to strike you.
There was a wild scurrying about tC
cast loose the lines and get the tug ou
of the way of the SOlaCe but It was too
late and the stern Of the big naval yes
sci bumped against the tug. People OF
: the wharves feared that the tug would
z be bowled over hut the force Of the
collision was not so great however al
to do any such damage to the smalle
vessel After hitting the Rover the So
. lace went ahead again and rubbed
7 against the end Of naval wharf No
z from where she scraped across the ma
2 val slip and lay alongside Pacific Mai
] wharf absolutely helpless. She remain
l ed there for some time as WinslOw de
. clared, so people on the wharf assert
e that ue could not dock her without tn
Y assistance of the Fearless
f A messenger was hurriedly dispatch
ed for Captain BrokOw. The latter res
pOnded with the Fearless and got a lin
onto the SOace's bow and pulled he
nose up into the wind. The SOlace wa
then able to drop back stern first int
the Naval slip, without further trouble
No damage was done to the Solace s
far as is now known.