The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-09-01


vision-Ship and Cargo Valued At
100000.
THE big British freight steamship
~ Twickenham, which went ashore
at 11:45 Thursday hight of last week
on the west coast of San Juan island,
within few rods of Daniel Edwards
house, was extricated from her peri
lous position at high tide Monday eve
ming and taken to the naval dry dock
at Esquimalt, near Victoria, for re-
pairs. Aided by her own engines,
running full speed astern, she was
pulled off the rocks by the tug Taco
ma, of the Puget Sound Tugboat Co.,
and the British salvage steamer Sal
vor. About 500 tons of her cargo had
previously been removed and approx
imately as much more had dissolved
in No. l hold, under which she struck
and which quickly filed with water.
The salvage operations were con-
Quoted by the British Columbia Sal
wage Company, of Victoria, which
owns the steamers Salvor and Maude.
The company receives subsidy of
$4,000 year from the Dominion
government, in consideration of which
it is required to aid vessels wrecked
in British waters. When informed of
the wreck by telephone from here and
requested to send assistance, Mr..
Hardy, the Victoria agent of Dod-
we'll & Co., agents for Watts, Watts
& Co., of London, owners of the
Twickenham ane other big freigh+ers,
replied that it could not be done with
out first obtaining permission from
Washington. Mr.. Hardy was soon
informed, however, by the deputy
collector of customs here, that such
permission was not necessary, on ac-
count of special treaty regulation,
and on being told that he might send
assistance direct from Victoria to the
wreck he dispatched the steamer
Maude, Friday afternoon. The Salvor,
thoroughly equipped with wrecking
appliances and powerful pumps, ar
rived at daylight Saturday with the
hulk of an old vessel, the Isabel, used
as tow barge. The Maude, in the
meantime, had taken of seventy tons
of cargo The law requires that IN
such instances the transfer of cargo
shall be under customs supervision
and that tugs and lighters carrying
it shall enter and clear in the usual
manner. For that reason Deputy
Collector Culver remained at the
wreck day and night. A big British
naval lighter was brought over from
Esquimalt, Saturday, and was loaded
Sunday and the tug Tacoma arrived
Sunday from Seattle with the hulk of
the big steel ship Baroda, 1858 tons,
now used as tow barge. 1t was
found unnecessary to use her, how
ever, and she cleared for Ladysmith.
The Twickenham is steel vessel
built at Sunderland, England, in 1888
9, and first called the Cebriana. She
is 800 feet in length, 1856 feet beam
and 2O.4 feet depth of hold. Her
gross tonnage is 2,538 and net ton
mage 1913. She is rated 100 A l, !"
in Lloyd's register. She cost $780,
600 and carried a cargo OF nearly g.
600 tons of crude sugar, valued at
$55 q ton. She was AZ days out from
Samarang, Java, and was enroute to
Vancouver. When she struck she
was in charge of Pilot Reardon, Of
Vancouver. Capt. Parker and his
first officer were on the bridge with
him. She was steaming slowly and
it is supposed that she was carried
out Of her course by a very strong IT,
dal current. The shore line was hid
den by smoke.
The steamer Salvor, now belonging
to the British Columbia Salvage Com
pany, has quite history. She IS 2
vessel of 800 gross and SCI net tons,
IS of iron construction and was built
ia England in 1869 and for more than
thirty years was known as the Dan
ube. She was the first British yes