The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-24
MARINE


through the Straits of Magellan, with
out a stop or slow down is the credit
able performance of the British 5. 5.
Crown of Galicia which arrived here
yesterday morning shortly after eight
O'Clock. She brings a cargo of 300
tons of coal for the Navy, being dock
ed at the Navy wharf. She will re-
main in port for probably eight TO ten
days discharging, when she clears for
Auckland, New Zealand, to load for
London. Her record from Newport
News to Honolulu is fifty three days,
a most creditable performance and one
which Captain A. 5. Halliday is not
little proud Of.
The Crown of Galicia is making her
first voyage in Pacific waters and this
trip is the first experience of Captain
Halliday, in the big ocean, although he
has been in command of vessels in the
West Indies trade for the past fifteen
years. The vessel is a new one, hav-
ing been commissioned only a year
ago, and is a particularly fine craft.
In her rigging she presents a sight
most peculiar to those along the Ho-
nolulu waterfront, being fitted with
twin masts fore and aft. A reference
to the "starboard foremost" would
have raised a smile anywhere along
the waterfront before yesterday, but
now such an expression will mean
something.
The line to which the Crown of Cali
cha belongs is the West Indies Direct
Line, all the several steamers of that
company's fleet being in the West In
dies trade until the demand for bot
toms to transport navy coal and the
prices being offered tempted the COM
pany into taking two coal charters, one
for Honolulu and one for Mare Island.
Captain Halliday, who is a decidedly
pleasant person to meet, brought with
him a letter from the Secretary of
Commerce and Labor to Port Collec-
tor Brown, instructing the collector to
put no distractions in the way of the
British vessel in the discharging of
her cargo, such as were interposed
against the captain of the first British
steamer which arrived with navy coal
at San Francisco. AS a result of the
instructions so given the foreign YES
sci has been accorded almost the same
privileges as are given vessels in the
coastwise trade under the flag.
| Almost the first person met by Cap
| tain Halliday after his vessel was
locked was Walter Shields, of I. II.
Davies & Co, with whom he had gone
to school in Glasgow when the two
were boys of thirteen. Since that time
they have not met, but each knew
the other yesterday and the friendship
of their childhood days has been re-
| newed.
When the British steamer was sight
| hn
at Diamond Head, he reported the
cabIeship Restorer, the mistake not
! having been discovered until the YES
sci was off the harbor.
With the exception of few days
| off the Horn the vessel had good
weather throughout the trip, everyone
being well on board.
IRMGARD FELT NoTHERLY SET.
Captain Christensen, of the barken-
| tine Irmgard which arrived from San
Francisco yesterday after a smart pas
sage of thirteen and half days, re-
ports having experienced strong
| northerly set on the trip, which grew
| stronger as the islands were neared.
| In his opinion this current, which first
came into public notice at the time OF
the wreck of the S. S. Manchuria,
| should be studied by photographers
and noted in the charts of this portion
of the Pacific. On the day before
reaching Honolulu this current was so
| pronounced as to carry the Irmgard
| from eight to ten miles out of her
| course.
| During the first ten days of the run
| Captain Christensen reports having
experienced very favorable weather,
| but during the last three days nasty
conditions were met with, a heavy
cross-sea rolling the barkent1ne until
the skipper thought it would roll the
sticks out of her. On Friday after
noon. when near to the islands the
weather became so dirty that 1T was
| deemed prudent to wait until daylight
Yesterday before coming in any closer
and the vessel was accordingly hove
to during the night.
Five passengers made the trip down
on the Irmgard, which is most COM
| Portable sailer and with good accom-
modations for limited number Oh
trippers. Among those arriving was
In. H Wallin, who will be a teacher
in the Mills Institute. The others, Mrs.
H. Deas, Miss NJ. Deas, Miss sRuth
Mills and Miss Hazel Mills, are tour
its who will spend some weeks IN the
city. o-m
The Pacific mailer Mongolia, which
is taking the scheduled run of the
Pacific, arrived off port at daylight
| Yesterday, docking at the Hackfeld
wharf at seven o'clock. She brought
a large number of passengers for TINS
port. including a host of well-knoWn
neople. the number in the cabins Tor
Honolulu being one hundred and one.
The big liner took the fun seven days
+o steam here from the Coast, having
sailed from San Francisco on the SIX
teenth. at the same time as the Aia-
media. which swung into port on Fri
dav at noon and the sight OF when
IN the harbor. lying snug at her berth
was somewhat of a surprise to those
on the bigger vessel. They had sup
nosad that she was somewhere back
along their wake
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