The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-15
MARINE:

salt horse as a steady diet, the Amer
port yesterday afternoon. having put
in here for provisions and to land two
of her sailors, one of whom is down
with beriberi and the other suffering
with broken leg, the result of a re-
cent accident. The Babcock is from
Baltimore. bound for Astoria with coal,
having arrived this far via the Cape
o. Good Hope. She left Baltimore on
June 9, since which time she has only
been spoken once, that being on Aug
ust last, when the vessel was in the
South Atlantic near the island of Trim
idad.
The vessel is in distress, having en-
countered severe weather since round
ing the Cape. In one of the storms
through which she passed a sailor was
washed overheard and lost and one
other member of the crew died from
illness. In addition to these fatalities
the cargo of coal has shifted in the
continued pitching of the ship and the
vessel is altogether in bad shape.
One of the members of the crew is
Rose, son of well known Hilo fam
lily. 1t is probable that he will leave
the ship here as Captain Bailey Is in
need of five sailors to make up his crew
for the rest of the passage to the
Sound.
The Babcock was reported yesterday
morning, dropping anchor outside the
harbor shortly after L o'clock, Captain
Lorenzen from the pilot office meeting
the ship and bringing her to her an
chorage. The water outside was much
too rough at the time of the arrival
of the vessel for the quarantine offic-
ers to go out to her, the news of her
condition being brought in by the pi-
lot. In view of her distress permission
was given by the port physician for her
skipper Captain Bailey, to come
ashore, Young Bros launch being sent
out after him. The captain spent some
hours ashore making arrangements to
secure supplies and purchasing some
fresh meat and vegetables for the
crews supper.
s. S. SILDRA FROM THE SOUTH.
The Norwegian S. S. Sildra, seven
teen days out from Newcastle, arrived
last night, docking at the channel
wharf. She brings $500 tons OF coal
for this port, consigned to Hind, Rolph
& Co. The steamer had a good trip
with fair weather for most of the pas
sage, striking the bad seas only when
nearing the islands.
At the time of her arrival it was
raining heavily and Captain Macaulay,
the pilot, who went out to meet her,
plunged into a fog through which he
could make out neither the incoming
vessel nor the land behind him. For
tunately the pilot boat had been pointed
in The right direction and ran within
haiIing distance of the Sildra, 'other
WISE" remarked the pilot last night, |
1--WE would have been going south yet
looking for her.
The Sildra commanded by Captain |
Christensen, is making her first visit |
to this port. She is a vessel of 2097
tons. Her last trip, before coming to
Honolulu, was from Manila to New |
castle.
FEARS FOR THE BLACKHEATH.
Some anxiety is being felt along the |
waterfront concerning the British S. |
S. Blackheath, which is coming here for |
bunker coal from the Sound. Thc yes
sci is bound for Australian ports, but |
was unable to secure a coal supriy on |
the Sound. She was due to arrive here
on Tuesday last, according to adv1ces |
received by the hafbor master, and 1t
is known that she had only a supply |
of coal sufficient to make this port the
fear is that she has exhausted her fuel |
in bucking the heavy southern winds Of
the past few days and that she may De
by this time out of coal and in dis
tress.
= FOGS DELAY THE SIBERIA.
The Pacific Mail S. S. Siberia, which
arrived yesterday morning from the
Coast, was delayed twenty-five hours
in her passage owing to heavy fogs
encountered at each end of the trip.
She sailed from San Francisco on
time, leaving the slip on Friday after
noon at 1 o'clock. In the bay, however.
sne ran into the fog, being obliged to
lay to until o'clock on Saturday morn
ing. Throughout the whole trip down
the weather was nasty and on arriv-
ing yesterday morning off the Molokai
channel another dense fog was encoun-
tered, it being impossible to pick up the
land. From two o'clock until eight the
liner lay to-: the fog breaking suffi-
GENTLY after that for the officer on the
bridge to pick up Makapuu Point and
proceed in. Since the Manchuria and
the Mongolia affairs General Manager
Schwerin has given positive orders to
the captains of all the Pacific Mail
boats not to, attempt to approach the
land an1ess absolutely certain of the
position of the vessel. Acting under
these orders the S. S. Korea was held
outside for six hours on her last visit.
The Siberia is making a long stop
here, not being timed to sail until to-
day at noon, The reason for the de-
lay is that a full supply of coal must
be taken on here, the fuel famine on ;
the Coast preventing her securing her
supply at San Francisco.
AMIRAL HAMELIN SAILS TODAY.
The French S. S. Amiral Hamelin
will sail tonight for the Coast and
Puget Sound ports, continuing her
trip. Yesterday the
Bishop wharf was TANNED with the
freight being discharged from her, the
whole place being aromatic with soy,
about score of the tubs having been
smashed open in getting them piled upI
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