The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-18

A week ago last Saturday the first
class battleship Idaho was launched at
Camp shipyards, Philadelphia. at
1920. The vessel was christened by
Miss Louise May Gooding, the 13-year-
old daughter of Governor Frank R.
| Gooding of Idaho. Idaho was repre-
sented by a distinguished party of citi-
zens including the Governor and staff
and the congressional delegation She
is sister ship to the Mississippi,
launched Sept. 80
When finished she will be a CON
spicuous illustration of the important
factor electricity has become in the OPP
| Grating of a modern warship. Except
for windlass and steering gear, prac-
tically all her other auxiliary machin-
cry will be run by electricity and her
two military masts will be fitted with
apparatus for wireless telegraphy.
The keelplates of the Idaho We're laid
in May of last year. Her specifications
are:
Length on waterline, 375 feet;
length over all, 382 feet; extreme beam,
| II feet; trial displacement on a draft
of PAS, $4,000 tons.
The contract provides for a speed of
| seventeen knots.
Motive power will be furnished by
| twin screws, triple expansion engines of
a collective indicated horsepower of 10,
900, steam being supplied to the cyIin-
| ders by eight water boilers set in four
water-tight compartments.
! The main battery of the Idaho will
consist Of four 12-inch breech-loading
rifles mounted in two turrets; eight s.
| inch breech-loading rifles, mounted in
four turrets; eight Finch breech-load-
ing rifles, placed behind easement ar
NOR, and two 12-inch submerged tor
pedo tubes.
| Secondary battery-Twelve 3-inch g.
Founders, two 1-pounder automaties;
two 1-pounder rapid-fre guns; two g.
inch field pieces; two machine and six
automatic guns.
The main belt, side armored, will be
a strip nine feet three inches in width
running the entire length, nine inches
| in thickness amidships, gradually taper
| ing to a thickness of four inches fore
and aft. The upper and lower case
! mate armor amidships over the main
| belt will be seven inches in thickness,
while the bulkhead terminals in the i'm
| mediate vicinity of the 12-inch turret
barbettes will have an armor of the
same thickness. The mechanism of the
| 12-inch turrets will be protected with
armof ranging from ten to ~ inches
| in thickness, the armor for the turrets
| themselves graduating from u to
inches. The armor for the S-inch tur-
rets will range from 612 to inches,
and that for the barbettes from 6 to
inches
Ample quarters will be provided for
the crew of $50 officers and men with
special attention to sanitation.
NOTICES TO MARINERS.
The following affects the List of
Lights, Buoys and Day-marks, Pacific
Coast, 1905:
Washington, Juan de Fuca Strait,
page 76.-Point Wilson Buoy No. 6, a
red, frst-class nun, reported missing
November %, will be replaced as soon
as practicable. By order of the Light
House Board. L. C. HEILNER,
Commander, e. s. n. Lighthouse
| LIS pttIOI.
Office of Inspector 18th Lighthouse
| District. Portland, Oregon, 4 December,
| 1905
Office e. S. Lighthouse Inspector,
Twelfth District, San Francisco,
| Cal, December s, 1905.
Blunts Reef Light-Vessel, California.
| (List of Lights and rog-Signals, Pa
! No SS and
| List of Lights, Buoys and Daymarks,
Pacific Coast, 1905, page 32.)
| Moored in 166 feet of water, about
l rs miles SW Is S from Blunts Reef,
off the sea coast of California, and Az
miles WSW, southerly, from Cape Men
docino Light House.
| Notice is hereby given that this yes
sci which recently parted her moorlngs
and steamed into the harbOr, was re-
placed on her station December 6.
Humboldt Bay, California. (List of
Lights, Buoys and Daymarks, Pacific
Coast, 1905, page 33.)
Notice is hereby given that North
Jetty Outer End Buoy No. /, black
| frst-class spar, off the outer end of
| the north iettv, entrance TO Humboldt
Bay, California, heretofore reported
adrift, was replaced December Z.
| BY order of the LightH Board.
H. T. MAYO,
Commander, Z. S. n. Inspector, 18th
| Lighthouse District.
| KAUAI SHIPPING.
| The w. G. Hall arrived at 1907 a. m.
yesterday, having left Nawiliwili at
5:1S D. m. Saturday. She brings 70
| bags taro, SO bags rice, 10 cases kero-
sene oil and So packages of sundries.
| Purser Mcnamara reports the fol-
| lowing sugar list; K. S. NJ, 5000; dia-
| nond W, 500; NJ A. x, $500: G. &
| r.. 465 and K. s. Co, 450.
The Kauai was at EleeIe discharging,
| the Edward May had arrived at Ma
kaweli on Friday and was discharging
| general cargo. The Whitney has dis
charged 1850 tons of coRl at Makawei.
Weather on Kauai. fine. Medium trades
and choppy seas on inward trip