The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-18
''NEVADAN"
is L-|BElED.
Claim for Salvage
Is Made in
Court.
STEAMER RELEASED
UPON GIVING BOND
Captain OLSON Claims $4,000 for
Rescuing Freightsr From
Grave Peril"

The Hawaiian American steamship
tNevadan" was libeHed yesterday aft
ernoon by ]. D. Spreckels & Co. on be-
half of the tug Fearless" in the sum
of $1,000 alleged to be salvage due for
the work of the tug in getting the big
freighter off the "A1iowera" reef on De-
cember 9Th
The vessel was placed in the hands
of Daniel. the Federal court bailiff, as
caretaker, but was released within an
hour, upon the filing of bond in the
sum of $4,000.
The libel filed yesterday by Holmes
& Stanley and Hatch & Silliman first
sets out the fact of ownership of the
"Nevadan'' and the Fearless with the
further fact that VIM. OLSON was mas
ter of the latter, and Captain Weldon
of the former. 1t is then alleged that
the Fearless" with a master and crew
of ten men was lying at the port of
Honolulu, fitted in every respect for
towing at sea- and that the tug was of
the value of $4,000. On the evening of
December 9Th, it is alleged, in the sec
ond parag raph, the ''Nevadan" left Ho-
nolulu for Kahului without a pilot, and
while proceeding down the channel
went upon the reef. The tug was sum-
moned and found the freighter upon
what is popularity known as the MILO
vera reef in position of great peril,
1.-The said steamship being aground on
the reef at the bow and therefrom for
a distance of forty-five feet towards
the stern, that said steamship 'Neva-
dan was then and there in great peril
of being driven broadside upon the said
reef and of becoming d total loss, the
position where said steamship was
stranded being one of great peril both
to said steamship and to any assisting
vessel in consequence of the shoals and
rocks there Astounding, and the mar
rowness of the channel at that point
rendering it impossible for any assisting
vessel to engage in towing operations
without mourning great danger"
1t is further related that the tug was
brought close under the port quarter
of the Nevadan had a hawser passed
aboard, the tug then straining upon the
hawser for an hour and upward. until
the steamship was pulled off the reef
and f1oated into deep water and head
ed for the channel 1t is alleged also
that the master of the steamship re-
fused to let go the hawser and that he
flowed the said tug for some distance
down the channel stern first to the
great danger of said tug as master OF
said tug could exercise no control over
the said tug"
1t is further set out that shortly after
the tug made fast the wind freshened
and veered to the southwark and there
was every indication of bad weather;
that the steamship attempted to free
herself under her own motive power,
and had it not been for the tug she
would have drifted broadside upon the
reef and become a total loss. 1t is set
out also that an agreement was made
by which the tug should receive $4,000
if the steamer was pulled off, but that
this sum has not been paid.
Libellant says further that the steam
ship is a vessel of 5000 tons and worth
S275, 900 and carried sugar and general
merchandise to the value of $125,OOO and
that just salvage would be $4,000.
Judge Estee upon this showing order
tu dIi dtldcliIiteHt " ISSUE anu oit 80
| Marshal\Hendry to take possession OF
the vessel, she being about to leave for
San Francisco. The order was made
returnable December 26th.
| A short time afterwards Kinney, Bal
lou and McClanahan filed a claim on
behalf of the American Hawaiian
Steamship Co. in which it was set out
that the corporation was the owner of
| the vessel. and asking that she be re-
| leased This motion was presented to
Judge Estee who fixed bond at $4,000
which was speedily furnished with H.
A. Isenberg and H. Schultze as sureties.
The vessel was Immediately released
| from the custody of the marshal.