The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-10-30
MAACHUR|A At
SAN FRANCISCO

The Pacific Mail liner Manchuria,
which for twenty-seven days was
grinding on a Hawaiian reef and which
arrived Thursday evening from Homo
tempt to travel overland, says the Call
of last Saturday. She floats on even
keel. Fresh and shining paint has COW
cred what scratches and scars she sus-
tanned above the water line in her
struggle to climb the coral reef and
later to win her way back into the ele-
ment for which her builders intended
her. Her decks were spotless yester-
day as those of smart yacht. Cabins,
saloons and steerage quarters were i'm
maculate, and even the engines, to the
lay eye, presented their wonted appear
ance.
If she was leaking there was no evil
dence of pumping, and If nothing had
been known of the liners experience at
Honolulu 1t would have taken some
thing more discerning than the eye of
a landsman to have detected anything
the matter with the Manchuria as she
swung to her anchor yesterday morn
ing off the Preside.
When she hove up her anchor and
started for the upper. bay, however,
the unrythmic song of her engines told
something of the discord wrought
among her machinery while the great
hull lay in the grip of the reef. Her
engines did not work in harmony and
the jar of the discord told even to the
Impractical ear that somewhere. away
down In her vitals, the great steamship
had been badly hurt. II she had been
man and had been taken to an emer-
gency hospital the surgeon In charge
would have put her to bed and dag
nosed the case as possible internal in
Juries.''
From the report OF the diver who
examined the liners bottom as she lay
on the reef, there are no holes In the
hull, but 60 per cent. OF her bottom
plates are bent and dinged. Many Of
the supports inside the double bottom :
are known to be bent and the engines
will require much overhauling.
Captain Pillsbury returned on the
Manchuria. Captain Metcalf came
home on the Ventura. Until the vessel
has been drydocked it will be impossi-
BILE to estimate the full extent of the
damage, but the bill for repairs will
be heavy, and 1t will be not less than /
four months before the liner is In COM
mission again.
Captain Saunders, master of the
liner would not discuss the mistake
that led to her stranding and appeared I
to be more concerned about the loss
and Inconvenience to the company than |
worried about his own fate, which now
lies between the Government inspectors
and r. p. Schwerin.
Chief Officer Pilsbury. brother of
Captain Pillsbury who was injured by
the breaking of wire hawser as the
liner was being anchored at Honolulu
has recovered and was attending to
his duties yesterday as executive
officer.
The battleship Wisconsin which es-
eorted the Manchuria from Honolulu,
Is now in quarantine Two signal men
from the warship We're on board the
during the voyage from Ho-
nolulu and messages were exchanged
daily between the two vessels. The
voyage home was uneventful. Strong I
winds We're encountered
as the vessels neared this coast, but
caused no Inconvenience, as the vessels
had followed the sailing ship course at
Captain Pillsbury's suggestion and
when the Northwestern came It was
fair wind for the crippled liner.