The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-04-20
BIG CRUISER
AMPHITRlTE
IS IN PORT
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big guns there are hearts of oak aboard
the Amphitrite. too.
Not for many, many years has there
been 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 jaclies leave to hit the beach
from there. but she win come inside to-
day. it is said. and may go to the
Naval wharf at some period during her
stay to coal. That. at least. is the plan
at the present moment Naval men, Of
course. change their plans-and do not
consult landsmen about it either.
The Amphitrite was sighted OF the
port. coming from the west at about
seven o'clock yesterday morning. She
came up fast, so fast that the first
rumors that went about town, that the
Doric was coming in two days ahead of
her time. were soon dispelled when the
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
month ago, that British cruiser was
to be sent from the Asiatic fleet to
meet here a 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 displacement
of II 900 tons. her indicated horse power
is $4,000 and she is capable of making a
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
MI nj
trip, so her officers report.
The ship is under the command of
Captain Charles windnam, C. v. o.,
and he has the following staff under
him: Commander It. c. Smyth, First
Lieutenant R. H. Parker. Gunnery I
Lieutenant P. T. H. Beamish, Torpedo
Lieutenant ]. B. StevenEon, Lieutenant
E. Newman. Lieutenant H. S. Thomp-
son, Lieutenant c. Howard, Lieutenant
L. w Jones, Lieutenant ]. Bailey, En-
gineer Commander H. Rushbrook, Staff
c. S. Ingles, Staff Surgeon
H. Meaden, Engineer Lieutenant V. de
Paris, Engineer Lieutenant E. Davies,
Surgeon S. Lumley, ub~Lieutenant R.
davenport OuD-1iEulCiAdAL -
Paley. Engineer Sub-Lieutenant F. G.
aoddy, Engineer Lieutenant A. r.
Rice. Assistant Paymaster r. A. F.
Hughes, Engineer Sub-Lieutenant r.
Preston. AIidshipmen D. W. Farmer, w. ]
3. Mackenzie. ]. c. wahab, T. P. Far
luharson. r. B. Bodily. c. E. V. Craw-
ord, A. G. Twigg, S. H. Simpson, E. P. lie
sabbett, P. H. Irwin. J. r. Fletcher. {
:. E. Hockey. a. L. Fletcher and Clark {
deredith. Boatswain T. oliver. Gunner t
;. C. Chowen, Carpenter Newberry +
soatswain C. Hooking. /
The Amphitrite carries an armament t
f sixteen six-inch rifles. fourteen c
and three three t
ounders That is not much, for so t
lrge a ship, but the British idea of a s
ruiser is of commerce destroyer h
ather than fighting ship, and the
;ritish carry out their ideas always +
18th certain literalness.
AS soon as the ship had her hook
own she sent a boat ashore. of course,
report to the British consul, and
iere began to be hutter in social cir
es, naturally, even though it was Sun q
ay. 1t has been some months since a
lere was a British war ship here, and b
long, long time since there was SO ~
g one, with so many officers aboard.
he coming of naval officers means
ood times. and the coming of British re
avail officers means specially good Ira
mes for the people who do the society as
lsiness. n
MANY COME ASHORE. :,
Blood is thicker than water-a great
al thicker Perhaps Captain Wind
IN thought as much. himself. when he -
apped on the boat landing from his DC