The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-07
Transport Sheridan Is
Tied Up Beside the
Manchuria.

With the water barge on one side
and the old scow MeIancthon on the
other as crutches. the disabled trans
port Sheridan li,nped into port yester-
day morning. Since August 81 she had
lain stranded within sight of the city,
first on a coral reef at BARRIERS Point,
and then on the sand beach opposite
the Eva mill, near the entrance to
Pearl Harbor
She was pulled off her last resting
place at high tide yesterday morning.
a few minutes before five o'clock.
Everything had been in readiness for
the pull, five anchors were laid, upon
which the force of the steam winches
could be exerted, and lines had been
run to the B,iford. Manning and IVA
lani, and everyone at the scene of op-
erations had been keyed up to- work
his hardest and get done with the
long and tiresome work he had been
at for the past month.
But, as was the case when the Sher-
idan slid off the reef last Monday
morning, the big vessel surprised every
one by the ease with which she was
moved when everything was ready. 1t
was known that she was not very firmly
aground, for the Tightening up of the
mooring chains the day before had
slowed her around in her bed, but it
was thought that at least some hard
pulling would have to be done But at
ha ir.Stf ficrotanir,rr Of 10
ing hawsers she slid back into deep
water, leaning heavily on first one and
then the other of the lighters lashed
beside her
She was taken in tow as soon as pos
sible by the u. S. S. Iroquois and tow
ed into the harbor. She was docked
at II o'clock at the Hackfeld wharf
and long breath of relief was drawn
by each one of the members of her
crew, from Captain Peabody down to
the coal passers, when the lines were
passed ashore and made fast.
The Sheridan certainly bears the
marks of the fray. 1t was matter of
comment, when the Manchuria and the
Mongolia entered the harbor, that they
showed few traces of the tremendous
experiences they had passed through,
but an altogether different state of af-
fairs exists on the transport. AS she
lies at the dock she bears little re-
semblance to the usually spick and span
arpearance of the Sheridan Honoluiaps
are accustomed to. Her decks are lit
tered with cables and chains, crowded
with grimy and rusted boilers and
black from the coal piled up around
them and the SCOT from the smoke
stacks of the boilers. Her sides are
Eegrimed and battered and a steady
stream of water pours out through the
port scuppers, pumped up from the
leaking hold. She has heavy list to
port.
The vessel is not leaking at all badly
and it is expected that the temporary
repairs necessary to allow her to reach
a drydock can be easily done here. Just
what the repairs will be have not yet
been decided upon. The leakage will
probably be stopped by putting in a
temporary bottom in the damaged COM
partments, keeping Out the inflow OF
water by cementing, although the leak
is not so serious that the pumps can
not handle the water The damage to
the engines is confined principally to
the main steam pipe, which broke i'm
edlately after the transport struck
the reef. This can be repaired here.