The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-04
MARINE

ship, Herzogin Cecilie, arrived yester
day morning from Leith, Scotland, at
ter an excellent passage of. lot days
| She brings a general cargo of 4200 tons
consigned to H. Hackfeld & Co. and
has one passenger, Herr Grandhemme
of Frankfort, who will spend some
time in Honolulu. Mr.. Grandhomme !:
travelling for pleasure and is making
the circuit of the globe in sailing ships
The Herzogin Cecilie is one of the
regular training ships of the great
German company, carrying 81 cadets
five officers and sixteen men, the lat
ter including butcher, baker, three
cooks, and the other supernumerarfes
necessary for the comfort of the ships
company of embryo officers. In addi-
ton to these the vessel numbers among
her crew physician and an instruc-
tor for the cadets, making the total of
the ships company 70 men.
The training ship is especially well
fitted for her work. She is a roomy
vessel of 3242 tons gross register and
is fitted with watertight compartments
and double bottom, an unusual fea-
ture in a sailing ship. The cargo is
slowed in. the five compartments, be
tween compartments numbers and
being a special compartment, frame
wide, in which is stored the fresh wa
ter supply and which is also used as
a, pump room. This compartment is
connected with tunnel, running the
fun length of the ship, in which are all
the pipes and valves necessary to emp
ty the double bottom and bilges.
The furnishings of the vessel are
magnificent, resembling more those
of a liner than a ship. Between decks,
in addition to the regular living quar-
tiers Of the crew, is a school room
where the cadets are grounded in navi-
CATION and the use of the English lam
guage, a four cot hospital, beautifully
kept, bright and spotlessly clean, and
room for an ice-making plant. In
this room is also a soda water ma
chine, which turns out carbonated
drinks at q cost of less than one cent
for dozen bottles.
Forward is the donkey-engine room,
in which a boiler of unique design
has been installed. This boiler has the
water tubes perpendicular instead of,
as is usual, horizontal, and is stated
by the officers to be an exceptionally
useful design for getting up a speedy
head of steam. So far as is known
there are only three boilers of this
particular make in existence. In adj
dition to the ordinary steam winches
for the handling of cargo, the vessel
has also a steam anchor winch, cap
able of bringing home the anchor from
a depth of sixty fathoms in ten min
utes.
Aimdships is noticed a T-shaped
funnel, the ends of the arms extending
out to the side Of the ship. This Is
an innovation of former chief Of
fcer of the Herzogin Cecilie to carry
the smoke from the galley away with
out backing up any of the white
woodwork of the vessel, it being SO ar
ranged that the smoke is always pour
ing out of the leeward end OF the pipe.
In all respects the ship is worthy of
the crew she carries, her cadets being
recruited from among some of the best
families of Germany and from whom
the company will recruit its officers
to command its vessels in every. sea.
the North German Lloyd
has af1oat today a total of 600 cap
tains and offiercs.
The Herzogin Cecilie arrives here
with her crew in good health and in
excellent humor because they have
beaten the best voyage of any ship Of
heir company between this port and
Leith by six days. After clearing the
Channel the ship made Honolulu in
II days, experiencing good weather ex-
,ept when rounding the north of Scot
and and the Horn.
Captain Dietrich and Chief Officer
Walter expect the visit Of the German
raining ship to Honolulu will last for
'our or five weeks at least, during |
which time the cadets will be given a
good deal of shore liberty. Included |
lmong these are some who visited Ho- |
1olulu with ship Herzogin Sophie |
Charlotte last June.
SUGAR ON KAUAI.
The following amounts of sugar
AVAILABLE for shipment on Kauai are
eported by Purser Mcnamara Of the |
steamer w G. Hall: K S. NJ $500; /