The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-21
BIG CRUISER
AMPH|TR|TE
:. IS IN PORT
fromYOkohamato
Meet British
Fleet.
CFrom Mondays Daily.)

| four tunnels and two fighting tops thu
British first class cruiser Amphitrit
came steaming down upon the island o
oahu early yesterday morning, ittl
less than twelve days from Yokohama
carrying a complement of seven hun
dred men and an armament that is re
markedly light for q vessel of her size
But they do things that way, in tn;
British navy. Those same light guns
| light guns, that Is speaking compare
! tive to the American ships, say-art
capable of most dire execution in time
OF war. 1t is the men behind the gun!
that count and though they have
mighty good men behind the American
big guns there are hearts of oak aboard
I the Amphitrite. too.
| Not for many, many years has there
been a first class British cruiser in the
harbor of Honolulu. In fact, the Am
phitrite was not in the harbor yester-
day, either, for she dropped her hooks
down outside the reef, and gave a lot
of her jackies leave to hit the beach
from there, but she will come inside to-
day, it is said, and may go to the
Naval wharf at some period during her
at the present moment. Naval men, of
course, change their plans-and do not
consult landsmen about it either.
The Amphitrite was sighted off the
port, coming from the west, at about
seven o'clock yesterday morning. She
came up fast, 50 fast that the first
rumors that went about town, that the
Doric was coming in two days ahead of
l., ,,.I, In
black mass doomed more and more
darkly out of the west and it was seen
that the strange ship was a warship
and that she was vomiting smoke out
of four tunnels at once.
The Advertiser announced, more than
a month ago, that a British cruiser was
to be sent from the Asiatic fleet to
meet here cruiser coming down from
Esquimalt with a couple of torpedo
boat destroyers, and act as convoy for
the lesser vessels to Hongkong. The
men along the front remembered the
announcement made, and the mystery
of the ships appearance was solved.
MADE A GOOD RUN.
The Amphitrite is one of the new
British cruisers of the first class, built
by the Wicker. Maxim Co. at their yard
on Thames. She was commissioned on
March 81, 1902. She has a displacement
of II 900 tons. her indicated horse power
is $4,000 and she is capable of making
speed of twenty-five knots under forced
draught. She must be fast, for she
made the run from Yokohama, as has
been said, in a little under twelve days,
having left the Japanese port on the
eth inst, and steamed right through to
Honolulu with more or less head wind
all the way although the sea was not
rough. In fact. she had pleasant
trip, so her officers report.
The ship is under the command of
Captain Charles Windham, C. V. o.,
and he has the following staff under
him: Commander T. C. Smyth, First
Lieutenant r. H. Parker. Gunnery
Lieutenant p. r. II. Beamish, Torpedo
Lieutenant ]. b. Stevenson, Lieutenant
L. Newman, Lieutenant II. S. Thomp-
son, Lieutenant C. Howard, Lieutenant
l.. w. Jones, Lieutenant j. Bailey, En-
gineer Commander II. Rushbrook, Staff
Paymaster C. S. Ingles, Staff Surgeon
II. Meaden, Engineer Lieutenant V. de
Paris, Engineer Lieutenant l.. Davies,
Surgeon S. Lumley, Lieutenant r.
Paley, Engineer Lieutenant F. C.
Hoddy, Engineer Sub Lieutenant a. r.
Rice. Assistant Paymaster r. a. +.
Hughes, Engineer Lieutenant r.
Preston, Midshipmen u. W. Farmer, w.
T. Mackenzie, j. c. Wahab, Y. Il. Far
luharson. r. b. Bodily. c. r.. V. Craw-
ford, A. G. Twigg, S. II. Simpson, f. p.
Gabbett. F.. II. Irwin, ]. r. Fletcher,
Il N1.N,. ~. - lpt IL
Boatswain II. Oliver, Gunner
T. C, Chowen, Carpenter Newberry,
Boatswain c. Hooking. ...
The Amphitrite carries an armament
If sixteen siX-inch rifles, fourteen
twelve-p FOUNDERS and three three
Founders. That is not much, for so
large a ship. but the British idea of n
cruiser is of commerce destroyer
rather than fighting ship, and the
British carry out their ideas always
with certain literalness.
AS soon as the ship had her hook !
down she sent a boat ashore, of course,
TO report to the British consul, and
there began to be flutter in social cir
,les, naturally. even though 1t was Sun
lay. 1t has been some months since |
there was n British war ship here, and !
long, long time since there was so /
big one, with so many officers aboard. |
The coming of naval officers means
good times, and the coming of British |
naval officers means specially good
times for the people who do the society |
business.
MANY COME ASHORE.
Blood is thicker than water-a great |
ieal thicker. Perhaps Captain Wind |
ham thought as much, himself, when he
stepped on the boat landing from his
trim little launch. after the arrival of |
The ship had been reported to the Con-
sui OF His Britannia Majests's govern
nent, and found the Custom House off, |
ser on watch ready and willing 10 pass
anything and everything that the CONF
nander OF the cruiser might see Mt to
bring ashore with him-even his Chi
nese body servant.