The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-07-03
.HOLISWOOD
GAVE UP FIGHT
LONG STRUGGLE AGAINST AID
VERSE WINDS AND HEAVY SEAS
ENDS AT SAN PEDRO.


way in yesterday trailing her wings
like a crippled gull, and YEARLY drifted
to berth off the breakwater AS soon
as her hook caught and held some of
her crew dropped asleep, others did the
same as soon as they could get some
thing to eat.
The log of the Hollswood tells the
story of a voyage fraught with peril
and filled with discouragement a voy-
age in which wind and wave barnacles
and hunger continuously conspired
against ultimate arrival in any port
Not much sailing did the Holliswood in
all the 1000 nautical miles between
Newcastle and the North American
coast-she drifted or was blown so
foul with barnacles was the bark's bot
tom, says Captain Knight, that even
with favorable winds she dragged rath-
er than sailed
The Holiswood sailed from Newcas-
tie February 9th, with 100 tons of
coal, consigned to Hind, Rolph & Co
of this city. She carried crew of
fourteen officers and men, fortuitously
/ re-enforced by a stowaway-a Pennsyl-
vania boy, Dan Rooney who, says Cap
/ tain Knight, earned his welcome and
his passage by courageous behavior in
the handling of the storm beaten ship
/ The day after leaving Newcastle the
Holliswood ran into high seas and
heavy head winds and thenceforward
throughout the voyage one storm after
another was met and weathered. Tos-
sed like a cookie on the crest of giant
seas or buried under deckloads of foam
ing water, her sails burst by the gales
and whipped to ribbons, timbers strain
ed and decks leaking. burdened with
barnacles and working her pumps
steadily in stress and storm. the bark
worked her way in staggering zigzags
through the wide wastes of the Pacific.
On May 26th the Holliswood spoke the
bark Prussia bound from San Fran
cisco to the Sound. 1t was a fortunate
meeting. The Holliswood was entirely
without provisions, though all hands
had been for DAYS on reduced rations,
and water was alarmingly low The
master of the Prussia transferred to the
HollisWood what provisions and water
he could spare and proceeded on his
way. At the time the Hollswood was
west by north of San Francisco and la
boring heavily.
June 2nd the schooner Transit bound
.
was spoken $50 miles southwest of San
Francisco and again the Holliswood's
distress was relieved by the loan of
provisions and water.
The steamer Asuncion, which arrived
at Ventura early yesterday morning
brought the first tidngs of the overdue
bark since she was spoken by the Tran
sit June End. At o'clock Wednesday
go h.. igrh D..
wood, apparently drifting seven miles
southwest of Redondo. Captain Bird
gett of the Asuncon at once stood for
the disabled bark In answer to his
hail the reply from the hungry men
was:
Have you got any milk or anything
a baby can eat?"
AS cabin passengers the bark had the
Captains wife and infant daughter
both of whom suffered with the officers
and crew from lack ON provisions and
water. The child was i'll during the
voyage, but the mother kept her health
fairly well under the trying conditions
Captain Bridget offered to tow the
bark to port, but Captain Knight grit
tily declined. He had treated the Of
fer of the captain of the Prussia, near
ly month before in the same man
ner.
Il will stand by the ship as long as
she floats"
Better let me take the missus and
the baby then. They can take the train
from Ventura to San Francisco" TO
this the wife answered:
Il will stand by my husband, cap
tain, thank you" She also had said
the same a month before.
Captain Bridget supplied the bark
with fresh bread and with timed milk
for the baby passenger, and furnished
him with charts of the coast. Captain
Knight sent three kilograms by the
Asuncion, one to his mother in Hollis,
l.. l., one to the agents in this city ana
one to the bark's owner, stephen II,
| Mills, in New York,
Captain Knights tale of hardship suf-
fered and ceaseless buffeting with
waves il as follows:
I'VE left Newcastle February 22dr
with fourteen officers and men aboard.
l had as passengers my wife and eigh-
teen months-Old baby, the latter being
! sick a considerable part of the trip
which was one of the stormiest l have
I ever experienced on the high seas. We
had one deserter while lying in the
stream at Newcastle, but the loss was
much more than made good by the APP
pearance on our decks soon after We
left port of D. A. Rooney, Pennsyl-
vania boy, who had come aboard
stowaWay.
In dangers and trouble through
which we passed later he was one OF
the most efficient men l had, though
! lnD NJ
did his full duty. l have nothing bu
{ praise for each of the men under m!
command
I'VE had been out of port less thar
a week when we met with unusual!
high seas and strong head winds.
was one, storm after another. In on
of the first blows we lost our topsai
and part of the mainsail and made tn
remainder of the voyage under jur'
rig. The vessel was almost unman