The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-04-18
SHIPPING NOTES.

SHIPPING NOTES.
The Petrol arrived at San Diego yes
terday.
Clarence Macfarlane, who went to Hi
10 in his launch, arrived there safely on
Sunday.
The training ship Ranger will stop
here I'm May on her way to Manila
where she will be the Filipino training
ship.
The army transport Sherman arrived
at San Francisco Sunday and the
| Logan sailed from Manila for this port
via Nagasaki Saturday.
! The Claudine from Kahului brought
the following cargo: 1881 bags sugar,
S6 bags rice 166 bags paiai, So hogs, Fl
hides, 129 packages sundries.
The Oregonian was to have sailed
| from Kahului last night for Delaware
Breakwater The American will sail
from this port for Kaanapali Wednes-
day.
The Iroquois will go out to Midway
next week visiting all the other Is
lands Of the group on the way to see
i
of them. Captain Niblack will, do
some survey work at Midway in con-
nection with the proposed harbor i'm
provement.
The British steamer Indrapura,
which has been chartered by the Oc-
cidental and Oriental Steamship Com
pany to carry freight to the Orient
left San Francisco April with a full
load. 1t is difficult to get steamers
enough to carry American products to
the Orient.
The hull of the Peary Arctic Clut
steamship which was launched al
Bucksport, Me, on March "a, was
taken to Portland next day in tow OF
the tug Portland. The machinery
boilers, masts, fittings, etc, will b'
placed aboard her at Portland. The
hull was built under the personal su
pervision of Captain Dix, of the firm
of Mckay & Dix, of New York. TIL
vessel has been named Roosevelt"
The cruiser Buffalo has arrived IL
j. San Francisco from San Diego, wher
. she has been with Admiral Goodrich
!, squadron. She is to be thorough,
/. overhauled and her men have bee
;. transferred to the army transpor
4 Lawton which is to be used as al
auxiliary cruiser while the Buffalo
n being repaired. Most of the Buffalo
}, officers have been assigned to duty a
}. Mare Island.
, We have received through the cour
n tesy of Mr.. James II. Manor, Prin
1 cipal Surveyor for the United States
l a copy of Statistical Tables for 1906
published by Lloyd's Register of Ship
n ping. These tables show that the tota
addition of steam tonnage during tn
: year has been 1,OsO,14S tons gross; ant
of sailing tonnage, S4,255 tons gross
$ or in all, lila, 40S tons gross. Abou
!, "a per cent of the tonnage added I
g the Register consists of new vessels
: nearly all built in the United Kingdom
T. The largest items among the other ad
: ditions to the Register are those {
s, vessels transferred from foreign couf
r, tries and from British Colonies to Il
J. United Kingdom. These togeth
amount to 60,475 tons, or about "a p
cent of the total. The gross deductit
of steam tonnage from the Regist
NJ amounts to 50i, 22S tons; and, of sailil
|
.st tonnage, to 106422 tons; or, in all,
~. 6l0,650 tons About 3S per cent of I
I'd steam tonnage, and so per cent of t
L. sailing tonnage, included in these fl
N. ures, have been removed on account
loss, breaking up. dismantling, e
The tonnage transferred to foreigne
during 1904 amounts to 923,l75 toll
During 1904, Gil new vessels of 1,157,.
NJ tons, have been classed by Lloy'
Register. OF these vessels, 577 of
ril l42,2S7 tons are steamers, and 40
1887 tons are sailing vessels. Prs
tically all the tonnage classed has be
built of steel. Sailing tonnage, viii
formed % per cent of the total tC
mage classed in 1891. has fallen to abb
/. IS per cent of the total classed in Is
2b. These as well as other statistical lite
are clearly set forth in detail in
tables.