The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-06-20
THINK THEY SAW
THE FANNIE KERR
SOME OF OFFICERS OF CHINA
SIGHTED UNKNOWN
VESSEL.
SAYS SHE MUST BE THE LOST
BARK.
Captain Thompson of Niihau Also
Sighted Same Vessel and Is Believed
BY Him To BE Fort George.

The China sigh ed the lost Fannie
Kerr this morning and passed her be-
cause she did not know what she was"
This was the startling news that
called out from the rail of the China as
she came up to the Channel wharf this
afternoon from the Orient. Every Jody
on the wharf was in Iever Oh eXCIto-
ment at once over the rvCelpt "a
surprising information and there was
an eager rush to get aboard anL lea o..
some of the details OF the discovery ol
the Fannie Kerr.
"Oh, it was shame exclaimed one
of the three officers who sighted the
boat. Here we We're within three hun
dred yards of her and passed by her,
not knowing what she was and W, just
threw that salvage away It's enOuSh
to make a man sick.
The third officer and another quarter
master Were in the same humOr, FOR
they felt very much like men would ma
| turally feel who had been within an ace
of picking up some ten of thousands ol
dollars, yet missed the pickup by "a
scratch.
w nat kind of a boat did you see p
| was asked
1T was four masted steel vessel.
| She was loaded deep, evidently with
! coal. She was standing on the star
! board tack. beating into the wind and
] Sne ndl nearly All lltI 0tllA set Ai'l
hull was painted black with whte
streak aruunt it. l am certain she Was
| the Fannie Kerr"
The four masted vessel corresponded
| in general appearance and description
! to the lost Fannie Kerr and as soon as
! the officers of the China had been inter
! viewed on the subject, many people
! We're inclined to credit the report that
| the unknown vessel was the Fannie
| l\err
But there were certain circumstances
| which even the three officers of the
China observed, that went to discrcdit
the belief. In the first place there was
no smoke or steam rising from the yes
sci She appeared Ia be on an even
keel and was deep loaded, none OF
which cor g.IiOns the Eannle Ken
would .ardly have had as the fire u
her cargo of coal would have tItn,l
Ightened her stern, or else the entire
vessel. had the fire eXtenued 10 tnv iO.'
ward part of the cargo The Vesse
sighted this morning was nearly unde
full sail with apparently some OF IN,
upper topsdils gone. The Fannie kerI
was left with only her three topsail.
and jigger tupmast staysaIl set. la,
location Of the unknown vessel was ais'
against the probability of her being th'
abandoned British vessel. Sne wa
seen in the Kauai channel and viii
the winds that have prevailed since tn
Kerr was abandoned, the British boa
could scarcely have dritted down Il
that part of the Pacific. The officers o
the CHINA say they passed the boat a
o'clock this morning and at that tim
they could not see anybody aboard ne
nor did they see any lights displayed.
/ The strongest evidence however ina
, the unnOwn boat is not the Fannie ner
is furnished by Captain W. Thompsu
, of the steamer Niihau which arrive
, this morning from Anahola, Kauai. a
Ii o'clock last night he sighted fou
masted vessel, deeply ladened unde
Iu.e and nu1Hen JOpgallanL and mar
upper tOpsals. She had her lights dis
! played IN proper style. Her hull wa
painted black and there was whit
streak half round over the counter
= Captain Thompson was of the opinio
that she was the ship Fort George.
2 Evidently the two steamships slBhte
5 the same craft although her identit
| has not yet been settled. The Chin
= left Yokohama June 10. Among he
+ passengers is Mrs. Jane l.. STANFORD
= The China will sail at noon tomorro'
- for San Francisco.