The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-07-20

The s. S. Clavering of the China
Mutual Navigation Company line went
aground near the mouth of the harbor
last night about II o'clock. The ves
sci had just arrived from the Orient
and was evidently trying either to
enter the harbor or else the man on
the bridge mistook the lights and ran
the vessel too far inside the usual an
chorage grounds In any event, she
went aground with considerable force
and at noon today nearly two thirds of
her were resting on the hard coral reef
and the indications We're that she
would have considerable difficulty in
getting off.
The Clavering had been expected for
some days from Hong Kong via Japa-
nese ports and when a strange steamer
coming from the westward was re-
ported at 8 o'clock last night, the
watchman at the pilot house naturally
surmised that it was the Clavering.
Shortly before II o'clock the Clavering
vas piled on the reef. She went
aground about 300 yards Waikiki of the
spar buoy and abrest of the sea wall
at Kakaako Point. The vessel was
headed bow on when she struck.
The instant that she was fast, the
captain of the vessel hoisted the sig
nals of distress and began blowing the
steamers syren to attract the attention
of the pilots and others ashore. Cap
tain Lorenzen went to the assistance
of the vessel and after ascertaining
the position o fthe steamer hurried
back to the pilot house to notify the
agents and others regarding the YES
sci. Shortly after the steamer got
aground the steamer Lehua came along
with the members of the Board of
Health aboard, Captain Napala stood
by the Clavering and offered to as
sist him but the master of the Claver-
ing did not care to make terms for
salvage but requested that w. G. Irwin
and Company the agents of his COM
pany be notified.
Early this morning the tug Charles
Counselman went to the assistance of
the Clavering and put a line to the
steamships stern and began to work
trying to get her off the reef. The
water tanks Of the Claveging we're
pumped out in order to try and tighten
her but none of these attempts pro-
dUced any result. The vessel was
stuck hard and fast and did not bulge
according to reports brought from the
scene of the trouble. The vessel is on
the reef in quite a peculiar way. Prob
ably two thirds of her length is
aground. She landed bow on but she
swung around until she got broadside
on the reef. Just abreast the smoke
stack there is deep water between the
vessel and the reef, which would in
diCate that from that point clear astern
she was free. About % feet of water
was between her and the reef. Her
stern was reported free from touching,
but other reports were that her stern
was rubbing the reef.
1t was reported that the vessel was
drawing 21 feet forward at the time
that she went on the reef, but that this
morning after her water tanks had
been pumped out in an attempt to
tighten her, she was drawing II feet
forward. Allowing for a difference of
three feet in the fall of the tide, this
would mediate that she had run eight
feet high on the reef. This report was
not credited however by those who had
visited the vessel and they asserted
that she had not run so high on the
reef. AS a matter of fact, it was inn
possible to have run the vessel up so
high as the water line this morning
would indicate.
In the opinion of some of those who
had gone to the vessel, she was not in
any great danger so far as the actual
condition OF being ashore was con-
cerned. Her condition was not so