The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-31
The Son of His Father.

TACOMA, Jan. 1S.-Very seldom is a
British merchantmen seen under the
command of an American. Such is the
case of the fourmasted British steel
bark Puritan, which arrived in yester-
day. The Puritan is in command of
Capt. F. w. Amesbury, genuine
state of Maine Yankee and a son of
Capt. Dad" Amesbury, the well known
master of the American ship S. D.
Carleton, which is now engaged in the
Tacoma Honolulu coal-carrying trade.
Few mariners are better known along
this coast than Captain Amesbury of
the Carleton and to shipping men,
young and old, even those years his
senior, he is known as Dad
Captain Amesbury, of the British
bark Puritan, has not seen his father
for seven years on the 18th of last Feb
ruary. The last time they met was in
the middle of the night. Dad was
four days out from London to New
York, and his son was 100 days out
from Australia for London. The two
ships were together briefly, and Dad
sent his mate in a small boat aboard
his sons ship with a supply of fresh
meat, of which commodity young Cap
tain AmeSbury was short at that time
Captain Amesbury, of the Puritan.
made his first voyage when but two
years old, when his father took him to
sea. and he boasts that he has not
spent six continuous months ashore
since that day. Captain Amesbury had
hoped that he would meet his father
at Tacoma this voyage, and would have
but for the fact that gales delayed the
S. d. Carleton on her last voyage from
here, and she was many days getting
to the Islands. The Puritan is under
charter to Balfour, Guthrie & Co., and
will carry a cargo of wheat to Queens
town. She will be loaded and to sea
long before Dad" arrives back, and
there is small chance that father and
son will meet.
Another member of the Amesbury
family is the master of the American
ship Roanoke which some weeks ago
put into Honolulu in distress. This
Captain Amesbury is a brother of Cap
tain Dad and an uncle to Captain
of the Puritan. Dad" had
to meet his brother of the
Roanoke at the Islands, but the pro-
tracted voyage of the Carleton prevent
ed this, so that the old man, who has
been forty-four years at sea, without
a vacation in all that time, is cheated
out of seeing his son and his brother
by mere contrary winds and gales.
Captain Amesbury, of the Puritan,
has frequently met his uncle at sea
luring the past few years, but has new
ar met his father since that night sew
an years ago, and is much disappointed
that he is not to see him here. His
fathers popularity in Tacoma, where
be has scores of hearty friends, assur-
ed Captain Amesbury of a warm well
come here, however, and one of the first
questions asked of him by most of
those who We're introduced TO him was:
Are you a son of Dad Amesbury?'' |
The bark Puritan comes TO Tacoma |
N ballast from Shanghai after a forty
two-day voyage, in which frequent |
gales were encountered. The worst of |
the lot was experienced on Christmas |
night when the Puritan was at the |
LSOth meridian. The wind blew re- |
-olving gale accompanied by a confus- |
I'D sea The Puritan lost two lower |
-opsails and a foresail, and split other !