The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1903-10-07
THE FRENCH PROTECTED CRUISER pRoTET.

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honors concluded, the vessel was made
tidy and the sailors had their first
meal on smooth water.
The acting French Consul, Mr.. AL
bert Raas. went aboard ship yesterday
Honolulu.
A formal reception will probably be
given aboard the warship the latter
part of the week, and naturally the
officers will be entertained ashore.
None of them have before visited Ho
nolulu save Captain Adigard, who was
here many years ago as an ensign.
The Protet IS a second class cruiser
of 4110 tons register, has 5000 horse
power, and has a complement of 3S1
men. She is capable of making
twenty-one knots. She carries five
6-inch, ten 4-inch and IA small calibre
guns. The Protet's complete list of
officers is as follows:
Adigard, Capitaine de Vaisseau, Chef
de Division, Commandant le Protet.
Prat, Capitaine de frigate, Command
ant en- Second.
Daveluy, Lieutenant de Vaisseau,
Adjutant de Division.
Tadie,. Lieutenant de Vaisseau.
Moysan, Lieutenant de Vaisseau.
Frot, Lieutenant de Vaisseau.
Thouroude, Ensigne de Vaisseau.
Vinsot, Enseigne de Vaisseau.
Vivien, Aspirant de 1ere classe.
Vincent, Aspirant de 1ere classe.
Sable, Aspirant de 1ere classe
LIE Porhic, Aspirant de 1ere cla,sse.
Sabatier, Aspirant de 1ere classe.
Petit. Aspirant de 1ere classe.
Thevenot, Mecanicien Principal de
1ere classe, Mecanicien de Division.
Duboux, Mecanicien Principal de
Fence classe.
Vallon, Mecanicien Principal de Fence
classe.
Brunei, Mecanicien Principal de Fence
classe
Ducorps, Commissaire de 1ere classe,
Commissaire de Division.
Michel, Medecin de 1ere classe, Med
ecin de Division.
Honolulu people are so well acquaint-
ed with the French man-of-war Protet
| that many of them imagine that the
| such is not the case. She is young
ship, although she has already done
| considerable knocking about. Her
| wanderings around the Pacific have
given the enemies of La Belle France,
| if there be any in Pacific waters, an
| idea Of the ferocious sort of fighting
machines that the country owning Ia
| hiti and other Pacific islands has in
| commission and ready to do battle if
occasion requires it.
| The Protet was launched on July 5th,
| 1885, from the Bordeaux ship yards
| She is capable of making a speed of
| twenty-one knots an hour. The
| Frenchman measures his ships by the
yard, so he will tell you that the Pro-
tet is 1o5 yards long, not just ordinary
Yankee yards, but Partisan yards
| which are a triae longer than ours,
| The vessel is registered as 1920 tons
I and has a crew of about four hun
! dred men. Her fighting irons consist
| Of five 6-inch and ten 4-inch guns, ten
| 6-pounders, and four 3-pounders.
The Protet was placed in commission
| and started on her Pacific cruise just
| a year after she was launched In
rapid succession she entered the har-
| bors Of Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo
| Buenos Ayres, Port Deseado, Valpar-
| also. Juan Fernandez, Coquimbo, Iqui-
| que, Callao Guayaquil, Panama, San
jose, Guatemala, San Diego, and San
| Francisco. From San Francisco she
| sailed t9 Honolulu, arriving here in
June, 1900. The vessel sailed from
| Honolulu to the French possessions in
the South Pacific where she. speedily
| became a favorite.
| The vessel arrived in Honolulu again
in January of last year and owing to
| the trouble in Panama sailed for that
place in February. Commander Bar
maud was then in command of the
Protet. On the night of March IA,
1902, he saved Panama from being bonn
barded. Flushed with their victory
over the Lautaro and other Colombian
government vessels, the rebel gunboat
Padilla and her two small consorts
| prepared to lombard and take Pana-
ma. On the night of the intended
attack the rebel vessels steamed
towards Panama but were met and
discovered by the formidable little
Frenchman and compelled to turn tail.
No bombardment followed and the Pro-
tet and her commander received great
praise from the Panama people.
The Protet has visited various ports
Of the Pacific since that time.
CATARRH IS ALWAYS THE RE-
SUIT of a neglected cold. Chamber-