The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-10-06
CALABRIA
MAKES PORT

ing, having left that port on septem-
Der rs.
Aboard was Prince Ferdinando of
Savoy, cousin of the King of Italy,
who is making a tour of the world, the
Calabria having been put into special
commission for the cruise
A fine but uneventful trip from San
Francisco was experienced
The prince, who is 81 years of age.
was created a lieutenant in the Italian
navy last January. He graduated
from the Royal Academy at Leghorn
and is a cousin of the Duke of Abruzzi,
who has won much fame as an ex-
plorer.
Aboard the Calabria the prince is a
sailor in all practical senses of the
word, standing his watch like his fell
low officers.
The Calabria has been in commits
sion since February last, leaving Ven
ice on the 4th of that month.
She went to South America. around
through the Straits of Magellan and up
to San Francisco. From Honolulu She
goes to Suva. New Zealand, Tasmania,
Australia, Borneo. Celebes, Philippines
and Japan, which will be reached
March 1. From Japan the vessel will
visit China, Siam, India and arrive
home a year from November.
The vessel was built in 1890. She is
rated as a fifth-class cruiser and was
built for long cruises. Her maximum
coal capacity is 600 tons. Her maxi
mum speed is Is knots and economical
speed 10 knots The vessel can steam
thirty days without recoaling. Her
best performance in this respect was
between Callao and Tahiti, when she
steamed 25 days without stopping or
renewing her coal. The vessel is of
5000 tons register and has 1000 horse
power engines. She has twin screws.
She has four 6-inch guns, six 5-inch
guns. eight 1-2-inch guns, four / 1-2-
inch guns, 3 Maxim machine guns and
1 field piece. There are two torpedo
tubes. Her complement consists of 262
men.
The officers of the craft are Captain
Mareno di Moriondo; Second Com
mander Giorgi de Pons; Lieutenants
Martha, Alessio, Della Penne. Giordano
Pearl; Midshipmen Prince Ferdinando
of Savoy cousin of King of italy,, Ba-
rome, Finocchiaro, Falangola, Vital;
Engineers Facet, Gregg; Doctor Fra
TIM; Paymaster De Kaleteo.
The big man-of-war will commence
morrow.
at 10 a. m. Wednesday.
The Calabria will be open to the
public every afternoon from 4:30
o'clock.
AS soon as the battleship came to an
anchorage in the stream, the officers
were visited by w. Lantz, representing
F. A. Schaefer.
During the morning Captain MORT
ondo called on Captain Lyon, the COM
mander of the naval station, who in
the course Of the morning returned the
CALL.
Tomorrow the officers of the Calabria
will go to Pearl Harbor with Captain
iNiblack.
Entertainments by residents of the
city to the officers and crew are being
planned.
The guns which roared out a salute
as she came into the harbor yester-
day are not the first ones the Calabria
has heard. At the time of the Boxer
trouble the vessel was in the Far East
and landed a number of marines at
Pao-ting-fu, where considerable fight
ing was done and many Italians were
killed.
The Calabria has a complete wire
less equipment aboard and commune
Gated with the local station when ten
miles off shore.
WHO EEDnJNANnn IS
The Examiner says of Prince Ferdi-
nando and the officers of the Calabria:
THE Prince is a charming fellow and
one who is most agreeable to meet.
He is a modest sprig of royalty and
favors his German mother in appear
ance rather than his Italian father,
the Duke of Genoa, who is brother of
former Queen Margherita. He has
fair skin. light hair and a very blond
mustache, which he wears bristling,
like the Kaiser. He speaks English
with a decided accent
"Those who had the honor of meeting
the distinguished visitor were most en-
thusiastic over him, his tactful re-
marks and pretty compliments gaining
him many admirers.
Hes in his early twenties, and has
not. as yet, had any court experience,
nor has he done much travelling. He
is to devote two years to worlds
sightseeing expedition, and will then
spend another year at the naval acad-
envy at Leghorn, where he will begin
to climb the ladder, with the head of
the navy as his goal. His father now
occupies that much-coveted post-that
of Admiral of the Italian navy. In
conversation with the Prince he said
that he had aften been taken for King
Victor Emmanuel because of his great
resemblance to him. He was not in
the least backward about talking or
relating his varied experiences.
Officers from the Calabria at the
Sbarboro repast, besides the genial and
courteous Prince, were Count Marenco
di Moriondo, commander of the Ca
labria: DIR. Filippo Fratini, Chief En-
gineer Luigi Gregg, Midshipmen En-
manuel Finocchiaro and Luigi Vital
and Paymaster Filippo de Galateo. The
Court is handsome fellow, six feet
in height, and has a strong, serious
face and polished manner.
He has wonderful tact and Is the
pronounced type of the man of the
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