The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-18
TALES OF STRESS
FROM HIGH SEAS.
An Oil Steamer Comes
Into Port Out
of Coal.

| NVitk scarce enough coal to bring her
INTO the harbor of Honolulu, the An
| glo-AnIerican Oil Company tank
| vest erday in distress. The steamship
was On her way from San Francisco
| to Japan and had already crossed the
! lS0th Meridian, when il was discover
ed that the vessel had not enough
, coal TO reach the Japanese port
A consulta Ion was held, charts con-
suited. and it was decided that it
would be best To put into Honolulu for
supply of fuel. The maps aboard
the Appaia ch9e showed only three or
four minute pin dots as the location
of the Sandwich Islands, and not
a man aboard lad ever visited the is
lands
The Appalachee is a queer-iooking
craft, and strongly resembles the
steamers Tampico and Meteor, which
used to run here from Puget Sound.
She has 100000 gallons of refined OIL
aboard. Her engines and smokestack
are set in the stern. She is low in the
for rough seas to board the vessel
until at times she barely held up har
hea J. From a spick and span boat
when she left San Francisco she ar
turning back the vessel haG the SAME
sort of hard luck, with bad weather.
and until Wednesday there was no let
up. That delayed the vessel, and her |
coal supply went fast enough anyway. |
When off the harbor the engineer re-
ported that there was probably twen- |
ty-five tons of coal left, including the
sweepings from every corner.
twenty-five tons,'' exclaimed the
captain, well, 1 hardly believe there
is quite as much as that.
What would we have done il our
supply had run out? Well, most likely
We would have begun chopping up wood
inside of the boat. Then these deck
planxs would make good fire, and we
would have mixed petroleum with the
ashes and shoveled that into the
furnaces. The boats? I hardly thins
hey would have gone into the fur
naces.'
Captain Simpson is a typical British
sailing master, bluff and good-na tured,
out he looks as if this trip had given
1im considerable worry. Not only did
he coal run out, but the steamer was
n need of fresh water, and a supply
vas taken in on arrival at the Bishop
wharf
The captains wife is aboard and is
lot we'll The captain wishes to have
Ter sent back to San Francisco. bur
IS she is a passenger on a British
hip, and British ships can not carry |
assengers between American ports,
he matter of getting around the law
5 puzzling. Some arrangement will
robably be effected whereby Mrs.
simpson can come ashore. while her
husband takes his vessel on to Japan.
Captain Simpson had very vague
1eas concerning Honolulu and its abil- f
ty to supply his wants. He evidently /
from lack of Information on the sub {
ect-had the idea that Honolulu was 6
sort of a little South Sea island +
ort, with a few white people and
1WeF necessities Oh the European anu
merican brand. d
Il wasn't sure that I could get over t
tons of coal by coming here" added n
le captaiE. He was greatly surprised a
learn that be could get 900 tons, P
hich is about the amount he will re- Il
lire to get 70 Japan, or any nuantity q
2 might REQUIRE. He may leave here
)out Tuesday. n
The Apnala chez was built at New "
Isele-on-Tyne. She carries a Chinese s
ew Il