The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-17
SCHOONER OLGA
A TOTAL Loss

Piled up on the reefs of Kahoolawe
Island, south of the island of Maui and
in the line of steamship travel from
Lahaina to Mahukona, are the remains
of the American schooner Olga which
sailed from Honolulu May II for Ma
hukona TO load sugar for San Fran
cisco.
The captain, his wife and five of the
crew were rescued by the Inter Island
steamer Mauna Loa and conveyed to
Kailua. The mate and two sailors left
the wrecked vessel in a small boat and
arrived at Honolulu yesterday after
noon.
The first information received of the
loss of the vessel came in a wireless
message to President Kennedy of the
Inter-Island Company, as follows:
Lahaina, May Is.
To Inter-Island Steamship Company,
Honolulu.
Tuesday, 1925 a. m. Schooner Olga
total wreck on windward side Kahoo-
lave. Mate and two sailors on way
to Honolulu in boat. Captain, wife
and five sailors still aboard. Mauna
Loa will land them at Maizena, tonight.
Later in the morning the following
dispatch was received:
To Inter-Island, Honolulu.
Captain and crew of schooner Olga
landed at Kailua. Schooner total loss.
MAUNA LOA.
The Olga arrived here from San
Francisco April 81 with load of lum-
Der. After discharging cargo she took
in ballast and departed for Mahukona
hr,iI of
Eureka, Cal. in 1899 She had a gross
444. She was 164 feet in length. So feet
beam and 12.2 feet depth of hold. The
vessel was we'll known at the island
ports.
Mate Martin Christopherson and his
two companions. Felix Lopez and
Thomas Williams, arrived here a little
after 1 o'clock yesterday. The mate
states that after leaving Honolulu the
Olga stood to leeward and finally on
Saturday night stood into the channel
between Maui and Kahoolawe. The
vessel was tackled up to make the chan
mel and all of Sunday she drifted in a
calm between the islands. On Monday
morning the Olga began to edge up to-
ward the beach. Two anchors as we'll
as a kedge anchor We're put out but
the vessel came close in before the an
chors would hold as the water was very
deep there. The vessel was within 100
yards of the beach when bottom was
found in 100 fathoms. A strong swell
was running and finally all the anchor
chains parted, leaving the schooner
helpless The Olga was swept UP on
the rocks, striking between and 4
a. m. on Monday. The rudder was
broken off and fioated I'D in a few
minutes. Half an hour after striking
the boat was half full of water. The
small boats We're damned and for
sometime none could be launched. 1t
was decided finally that somebody
should go to Honolulu for help and the
mate took one sailor in a small boat.
The instant the boat was lowered a
gale sprung up. At 4 a. IN. on Tuesday
the boat got away from the Inflated
vessel. 1t landed at I4ahaina at D. m.
There the mate saw the captain of the
Mauna Loa who said he would take
the crew off the vessel. The mate then
continued his trip to Honolulu. There
We're left on the Olga Captain Ingaard,
his wife, the cook and three sailors.
The mate says the vessel is a total
loss. The bottom is clean out
Captain Ingaard is a new master on
the Olga, former Captain Waldeck hav-
ing retired sometime ago.