The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-09

The transport Sheridan is getting to
the Coast by degrees. Since grounding
on the reef at BARRIERS Point she has
! made three starts towards her destina-
ton and has got as far as the bell
buoy, calling at Pearl Harbor and Ho-
nolulu en- route. She leaves the bell
buoy for San Francisco Saturday.
The Sheridan and her escorts, the
transport Bufcrd and the Army tug
Slocum, left the harbor yesterday
morning, the Slocum dashed alongside
the Sheridan, which was also being
towed by the tug Intrepid. Outside the
channel the Intrepid was cast off and
the Slocum Unanswered the transport
to the vicinity of the bell buoy. where
she was anchored. 1t so happened that
there was no pilot aboard the Sheridan
or the Slocum and Captain Smith, of
the SIocum. being unacquainted with
the local waters, had the anchor
dropped in much deeper water than is
usually chosen for an anchorage. The
result was that when the Slocum and
the Buford had run their tow lines and
the signal to UP anchor was given for
the start to San Francisco, the anchor
windlass of the Sheridan proved I'M
equal to the task of raising the mud
hook from the Depths the gear wheel
being stripped of it's cogs. The anchor
was swinging free of the bottom and
the vessel began to drift back toward
the channel and in closer to the reef,
the anchor catching again as the shoal
water was reached.
The accident is such as to delay the
departure of the three Army vessels
until a new gear wheel can be made,
the order for which was rushed into the
foundry within an hour of the time the
windlass played out. 1t would of
course. have been possible to hoist the
anchor with tackle. but it was not
thought advisable for the Sheridan to
leave port in tow of the other vessels
with the windlass in that condition, as
the chain to which the lines from the /
Buford are to be made fast for the I
towing is to be controlled by the wind !
lass.
The delay until Saturday having been |
decided upon. the Buford and Slocum |
to the harbor, leaving the
Sheridan at anchor outside.
RAMMED THE FEARLESS !
When the transport Buford was re-
turning to the Naval wharf yesterday
afternoon from the abortive attempt to
get the transport Sheridan started for )
the Coast she nearly ran down the tug
Fearless as the latter was coming off
the marine railway. There were four
vessels ia the mix-up and the escape
was a narrow one. The Fearless was
backing off the way, the tug Intrepid
assisting and the two swung across the
channel just as the Buford steamed in
past the lighthouse. Then, to make
matters worse, the tug Slocum backed
out of the slip from the Navy wharf
and blocked the rest of the channel,
toward which the Buford was swinging
TO avoid the Fearless. The engines of
The transport were reversed to full
speed astern, this throwing the stern to
port and pointing her bows to take the
Fearless amidships. When the Buford
stopped coming she was less than six
feet from the side of the Fearless
CHIUSA MARU LIBELED.
The japanese steamer Chiusa Maru,
which has been discharging freight at
he Bishop slip since her rescue from
he reef outside the channel by the
nter-Island steamers Ke Au Hou and
<inau and the u s r. G. Manning,
S now in charge of a L. S. Deputy