The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-10
TRAINING SHIP ADAMS ON HER
LAST CRUISE ARRIVES IN PORT
On Way to Her Future
Home in South
Seas.

On her last cruise, en- route to the
South Seas to spend the remainder OF
her days, and possibly at some day IN
the indefinite future to lay her bones
on the shores of Tutuila. American
samoa. the United states training ship
Adams arrived in port yesterday fore
noon from San Francisco, whence she
sailed on April %.
The well-known wooden training
ship, one of the last of the old type Of
vessels In Uncle Sans Navy, never
fails to excite the interest Of landlnD-
bers and soon after her arrival the
vessel was visited by many people.
The Adams wooden sides, tall masts
upon which the sails had been closely
fnrled and her guns projecting from
the tween deck port holes. are REM
iniscent of the palmy and VIC
torious days of the old navy when Far
ragut. Porter. McDonough. Hull and
John Paul Jones were naval names to
conjure with.
The vessel passed in through the
channel and moored alongside naval
dock no. opposite the army trans
port Thomas. In short time coal
began to arrive on the dock and the
spick and span vessel was shortly
transformed into a dirty. coal-dust
streaked vessel. One hundred and for
ty tons of coal are being loaded in in
bulk and thirty tons IN bags.
At first it was proposed that the
Adams remain in port about ten days,
but later it was decided to sail next
Monday. The vessel is to proceed to
Page Page, Samoa, to relieve the q. S.
gunboat Wheeling. The crews will be
transferred and the Wheeling win be
brought back by the Adanls' crew. The
wheeling is to go out of commission
at Mare Island
The change Of vessels at the Samoan
station is due to the fact that the
officers and crew there find the steel
vessel somewhat too warm for a COM
Portable residence under the tropic
skies. The old Adams, being a wooden
vessel, will be much cooler and a more
desirable beat in many ways for a
permanent station ship. The prob
abilities are that the Adams may never
return to the Pacific Coast, but will
remain in Samoan waters until her
usefulness is over, the fate of the old
side-wheel gunboat Monocacy in Chi
nese waters.
A very peculiar coincidence with the
Adams lies in the fact that her pres
ent Commander. c. IF. Fox, took his
first cruise on the vessel as a mid
shipmite The Adams had just gone
into commission when Commander Fox
graduated from the Naval Academy.
and he was assigned to the Adams for
his first cruise. More than thirty years
afterwards he has been assigned to
command the vessel on what is believed
to be her last cruise.
The officers of the Adams are: Com
mander c. e. Fox. commanding; Lieut.
r. e. Coontz, executive officer; Lieut..
6. L. p. Stone, Lieut.. w. H. Stanley:
P. A Surgeon. E G. Parker; Assistant
Paymaster r. Spear; Midshipman I. c..
Johnson, Lieut.. j. s. Graham.
The crew numbers IFS men, OF whom
fifty are landsmen taking their first
cruise.
The training ship Adams is one OF
the old type of wooden vessels of the
navy. having been commissioned in
1873. She was built especially for the
navy and is wooden vessel, bark
rugged, auxiliary steam power. For
many years she has been on the Pa
cific Coast as a training ship. Her
armament consists of main battery
of six four-inch guns, two six-pound-
ers and two one-pounders.
The vessel came to Honolulu under
sail and steam power, following the
track of sailing vessels The voyage
was uneveftful
The average reader does not know
just what a training vessel is as a
factor in the development of the naval
power of the United States Primarily.
the duties of the officers are to in
struct the newly enlisted men and boys
in the rudiments OF navigation, gum
merry and general seamanship. True
to the old traditions the apprentices
and landsmen are instructed in the in
tricacies of rigging. spars and all that
pertains to vessels having only sail