The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1906-11-04
MARINE

The japanese tramp steamship Chiu
sa Maru had strenuous experience II
making this port yesterday, going a
ground on the reef at the Waikiki en-
trance Of the channel and remained
there for some hours. Although she
, was on the reef for her full length
! requiring the combined efforts of the
L. S. r. c. Manning and the Inter
sland steamers Ke Au Hou and Kinau
to pull her back into deep water, the
Chiusa Maru is practically uninjured
The steamship arrived off port early
yesterday morning, being first seen by
| those on watch at the pilot house and
Customs House a few minutes before
o'clock At that time she was ap-
preaching the channel entrance and
proceeded, without stopping, past the
| outer buoys marking the Waikiki side
| of the channel and up on to the reef.
| The report that she had stopped out
! side for a pilot is incorrect. No no.
tice of her arrival had been given from
| Diamond Head and the pilot boat had
| left the pilot house only a few min
| utes before she struck.
| Captain Macaulay boarded the YES
| sci as soon as possible, returning i'm
| mediately to notify the tug boats, the
naval station and the agents. The
tug Fearless was the first vessel to
come alongside Captain OLSON ask
ing for $4,000 to put line aboard.
This was refused and the Fearless re-
turned to her dock. The ke Au Hou
skipper and that of the Kinau told
Captain Mizuno, of the Chiusa, that
payment for their services could be
settled between the owners, and with
this understanding their lines We're
taken on. The Manning, whose COM
mander Captain Joynes, has had a
great amount of this work during the
past few months and who came aboard
to consult with Captain Macaulay and
the Japanese captain, also passed g.
line aboard being given the hardest
position, that on the port quarter, to-
ward the nearest deep water The ke
Au Hou was astern and the Kinau to
starboard. Captain Macaulay also ad
vised the laying out of an anchor off
the starboard quarter, which was done,
the launch Brothers being summoned
for this work. TO the Manning haWser
was attached eight separate lengths of
flexible steel wire, these being made
fast to different parts of the stranded
steamer.
There was no confusion at any time
during the work of making fast any
of these lines. The ship was resting
easily, rolling but slightly in the swells.
Forward she had been lifted two feet
out of the water, from Is feet to less
than IA feet in her draught, while the
lead showed only Is feet astern, her
draught being 21. Her bow seemed to
be free at times.
Pulling commenced about 1890 D. m.
and the intention was to maintain the
strain from all points for an hour,
when, if the efforts prove unavailing,
the vessel would be ightened of her
freight and another pull made at high
tide in the afternoon.
In tfc meanwhile the passengers and
tire personal baggage had been taken
off in launches and scows, Captain
Reilly, with the Pioneer, and Will
Young commodoring the Young Bros
fleet of launches, taking the immi- !
grants ashore and landing them at the
immigration sheds.
AT the end of thirty minutes of pull |,
ing the steamer showed some signs !
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was resolved to pull for another half
hour, after twenty minutes of which !
the big vessel began to move and |
then slid rapidly into deep water.
She was at once headed in for the
harbor, the lines being cast off as soon
as possible. She is docked at the
Bishop slip and so far the investiga-
tion into her condition shows no injury
TO her hIllI tn have hoar, sniff M
is a single bottom vessel and any
leaks would have speedily been found
had there been any.
Captain Mizuno, who was on the
bridge of the Chiusa Maru when she
grounded. says that he had not been
Informed of the changes in the buoys
marking the channel since his last
visit to this port some four years ago
and he had mistaken the No. buoy
with the light stick for the old spar
buoy which it certainly resembles.
The outer buoy was taken by him as
the bell buoy and according to his
he was perfectly safe in tax
ing his vessel where he did He at
tacbcd no blame to anyone but him.
self for the accident.
The japanese steamer will remain in
port for few days only, returning di-
rect /, Ynko kohama where she will take
on another freight cargo and more
el1isrants for this port.
COPTIC TO ARRIVE TUESDAY.
Last Tuesday the liner Coptic under
command of Captain Andrew Dixon,
sailed for Honolulu and the principal
ports of Japan and China. A full COM
plement of passengers were aboard the
Coptic
With the exception of Captain Dixon,
the Coptic carries new deck officers
on this voyage. C. II. Bate of the
White Star line, who returned as chief
officer of the Coptic is to leave next
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