The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-04

Following the results Of the gunnery
competition, the trophy was forwarded
TO the wisconsin by Secretary of the
Navy c. ]. Bonaparte, who said, ad-
dressing Captain Blake:
In transmitting this trophy the de-
partment extends its congratulations to
you and the personnel under your COM
mand. and commends the intelligent
and jealous training which has pro-
dueed the gratifying efficiency of the
division officers and their gun pointers
and gun crews that is Indicated by the
scores made"
i BASEBALL RECORD.
BY big lop-sided scores the Wiscon-
sin won every game they have played
fon the diamond this season. giving
them permanent possession of the
Badger cup. having won it for three
consecutive years.
Besides her baseball nine, the Badger
battleship boasts of a fast football
team and a racing crew hard to equal.
Some years ago, at a Japanese port,
these oarsmen made the crack crew of
the battleship Kentucky lie Down in a
race while their hackers among their
nlessn1ates pocketed SIS. 600 of Kentucky
money.
FORMER VISITS.
This visit of the Wisconsin is the
! fourth she has paid to Honolulu, first
entering the harbor here in December,
1901. returning home from Samoa She
next visited Hawaii in May, 1903 on her
way TO the Orient, returning here in
December of the same year with the
fleet under the command Of Admiral
Evans.
The battleship was launched from
the Bremerton yards in November 1898,
being commissioned in February 1901.
She has seen service only ia the Pa
cific. being for some time in 1903 the
flagship of Rear Admiral Cooper
During her commission the ship has
steamed distance of nearly IS, 600
miles. $4,000 of which has been made
since she left home for the Asfatic sta
= tion IN 1903.
, During the forty months the ship
has been in foreign waters she has
visited almost every point OF interest
on the Chinese coast, Japan and the
Philippines. Hawaii and Guam have
been visited and Wake Island seen
The beginning and end OF d great Wal
was witnessed While she was in the
Oriental waters and stirring events OF
historic interest were seen. She was
present at the great japanese naval
review after the war. when the prizes
were paraded and the fleet visited and
praised by the Mikado.
POWERFULLY ARMED.
Tie battleship Wisconsin has a dis
placement of 1866 tons and a speed Oh
IS knots. She is protected with armoI
varying in thickness from Is Ia inches
on the turrets TO four inches on the
decks. She has two arnored tnrrets
The armament consists of four 13-inct
guns. fourteen 6-inch, twelve 6-pound-
er. eight 1-poander, four Colts, two
field guns and four torpedo tubes. She
has two sets OF vertical triple-expans-
ion engines. two screw propeIIers and
eight Scotch boilers. Ten thousand
horsepower can be developed.
OFFICERS AND CREW
The roster of officers and rnen now
upon the Wisconsin is:
Captain Franklin j. Drake. u s. N.
commanding.
Commander Roger Welies
e s N Executive Officer.
! Lieutenant Zeuo E. Briggs, U. s. ".
Navigator
Lieutenant Henry N. Jensen. u. S. N.
Engineer
Ensign Thomas l. Ozburn. q. 6. N.
! Ensign William Ancrum u. S. n.
Ensign William j. Giles u. 6. NJ
Ensign Frederick Y. McNair. q. s. n.
Ensign Daniel T Client. U. 6. n.
s. \.
Paymaster William B. Rogers. o.
s. N
Captain James t. Bootes. U. s. NJ C.
First Lieutenant Nielsen P. vulte, o.