The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-22

Chilli to Philadelphia 49,. 10000 80
Chill to Baltimore ........1 1000 80
Around Cape ....--....... 2,ooo IL
Across Indian Ocean 49,. $500 20
Equator TO Cape Hatteras.. 5000 Is
Best hour S run ......... Il knots
Best days run ............ 80 knots
Best week s run 6 days. 1873 knots
The last six paragraphs of the above
were incidents during the record runs
mentioned in the first seven. 1t should
be a matter of national pride, but 1t
is almost unknown to the public that
this champion of the seas sails under
the Stars and Stripes.
On her first voyage from Bath, Maine,
| to Baltimore, with 900 tons of ballast
| in her, and drawing 10 feet inches OF
water, she was only two and one-haf
days from Bath to the mouth of the
Chesapeake bay. Off Cape Henry she
met a northwest gale that drove her
| 600 miles out to sea. Running free,
| she made fourteen knots by the patent
! log and twelve knots close hauled with
the yards braced sharp. With the
| small amount of ballast she had in she
listed but eight degrees in heavy gale,
| at the same time carrying topgallant
sails.
| She holds the record from New York
to Java at the eastern edge or the
| Indian Ocean, having sailed to Java
Head in eighty days. On this voyage
she went from the meridian of Green
witch to the head IN tWenty-s1x days
| averaging $50 miles each day, totai
| of $500 knots, a speed that would carry
| the ship from New York to the En-
| glish Channel in thirteen days.
| A single voyage across the Atlantic
in thirty-five days is considered fast
! passage During the run from New
York to Java Head the smallest day 8
run was 200 miles and the best day
| run $40 miles.
And from Java to TalVa1, chile, III
! ballast. she sailed 1850 miles across
the Indian and South Atlantic oceans
in fifty-eight days, an average Of 2Os
miles daily. Then she sailed from
| Chile south around Cape Horn, up the
| South and North Atlantic oceans 10
Philadelphia, distance of 1900 miles.
in n1nety-HNe days, lhc AcSoio 80
| tween the ports.
The best days run on the voyage
from Manila to Ombay Pass WAS go
miles. an average of Il HIP knots an
hour for twenty-four hours. This is
above the average of ordinary steam
ship time.
The Phelps is a four masted ship md
the first steel sailing vessel ever bull:
| IN, no JTnitaI States of StaaI made In
this country. The only foreign-made
articles aboard the Phelps are two Of
Lord Kelvin s compasses and deep
sea sounding machine She was built
in Bath, Me, in 1898, by Arthur
Sewall and Company. Mr.. Sewall was
the vice presidential candidate with
VIM. j. Bryan, in 1896.
Here are the dimensions: Length
over all, $50 feet; width, As feet;
depth of hold, 20 feet; net register,
27l5 tons; keel to trucks, 200 feet;
diamete. of masts, 30 inches; lower
wards. "a feet; lower topsail yards, 50
- feet; upper topsail yard IS feet;
topgallant yards, 65 feet; royal yards
So feet; skysail yards, 46 feet; bow
spirit. 6s feet.
| In addition to an allsteel hull The
| ship has steel poop, a steel house amid
| ships, steel fOfecaSIle anu Steei hdStS
and yards and bowsprit, there being
only three pieces of wood in her-the
three topgallant masts. In the CABIN
Captain and Mrs. Graham have SIT
tingroom, diningroom, bedroom, bath
room, four extra staterooms, apothe
cary shop and two storage rooms.
In the house amidships is a steam
engine for hosting sails or anchors
making it necessary to carry only TWEEN
tv men in the crew, whereas IN former
days a ship of her size would carry moi
less than forty men. She has bridge
over the Lighthouses from stem t.
stern.
! An interesting person aboard Is Mis-:
| ! GLADYS Graham. the 10-vear-old daugh
ter of the Captain, who has been go
ing to sea since she was mont h'
old. She has rounded Cape Horn tour
teen times and the Cape of Good HOPE
twice. and sailed a distance equal Il
twice around the world.
! Dividend No. ia of Eva Plantatioi
| co is due and payable to stockholder
| on Monday, December 81.