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

| Lighthouse District.
| A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.
! After a long run of bad luck, the
Abbie Palmer, which was scheduled to
sail for the Sound yesterday, had an
other accident about noon which will
| possibly longer. According to her late
mate, who left her here, it was to save
a three-doIlar pilot charge for chang
/ ing her moorings which will cost the
ship good many. dollars and several
days time.
The Abbie Palmer was to leave about
eleven and the tug Fearless had a
line on her and was pulling her around,
but she got under sternway and, be-
fore she could be stopped, she, had
struck Wilder's wharf a glancing stroke
which threw her rudder hard down SO
quickly that her tiller on deck, part
of her steering gear, snapped right off
and the Honolulu Iron Works will have
TO cast a new one for her. Whether or
not her stern was damaged had not
been ascertained yesterday. She may
have to so on the marine railway be-
fore she finally gets away.
It will be remembered that she was
formerly the British ship Blamire 1t
was while still under that name and
lister as an American ship that she
had a Serious accident in San Fran
cisco harbor. She was lying there in
ballast with a part of her crew, in
Guiding one of the officers, to the num-
Der OF seven, working in the hold. A
squall arose and took her broadside on,
resulting in a capsize, all the men in
the hold being drowned. She was
raised and repaired and finally bought
locally and placed under the stars and
stripes, at considerable expense.
While in the Puget Sound trade she
fell foul of the Empress boat and stove
in some of her bow plates and sustain
ed other damage In the same locality
a few years later she was dismasted
and picked up by a tramp steamer, the
owners of which claimed 100000, which,
it is understood, is not yet settled.
During a passage from Cape Town,
South Africa, to Newcastle, N. S. w,
she fell foul OF the elements with the
result that her steering gear was dis
abled and she lost all her sails.
on another occasion she started from
Sydney for Newcastle, n. S. w, dis
lance of sixty miles, and took thirty
DAYS in the passage, said to be a truly
marvellous performance. Her last
stunt was from New York to the Colo
MES.
The master. Captain Johnson, was
taken i'll just as she was due to leave.
owing to which Chief Mate Leonard
had to take charge He naVigated the
Palmer successfully to Melbourne,
Victoria and was there met by Capt.
Johnson, who had recovered from his
illness and came to Melbourne, where
he resumed command.
On the passage from Melbourne to
sydney the Palmer was nearly ashore
in Cooper Bay (near sydney and but
for the assistance of two tugs, one of
which collided with the Palmer's rud-
der and disabled the gear. she would
have gone ashore. It is said to have
cost about $4,000 to fix her up. She
went to Newcastle and loaded coal for
this port. and, as stated above, after
discharging her cargo attempted to
leave Sunday with the result noted.
The Palmer parted two or three
heavy wire hawsers, smashed her
steering gear, collided with a wharf,
and eventually under Assistant Har-
norma ster Trip, was moored to the
reef. Il remains to be seen what her
next stunt viii be. She certainly has
a. record which would be hard to beat
unless she succeeds in eclipsing her
own.