The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-10-18
WOULD NOT LEAVE SHIP.

shipping circles, and master of the
British bark Wanderer, a vessel that
has for many years participated in
the grain trade of this district with
the United Kingdom Captain Dun
ming went down with his vessel after
she had been rammed by a German
tramp steamer, as the bark lay at an
Choir in the stream at Falmouth.
The information az nand describes
the death of Captain Dunning as most
tragic. His wife and family of young
daughters were aboard the ship when
the collision occurred. These and
members of the crew he hurried
ashore, remaining behind in spite or
earnest efforts to get him to leave.
The Wanderer was a big iron YES
sci of 1900 tons register. She was
owned by Potter e Sons, of Liverpool,
and when sunk was empty. The YES
sells last trip to the Pacific was for
loading grain at Tacoma.
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are only expressing the sentiment of
all when we say that we hope to prove
that we will be worthy to retain the
spontaneous good will of the people of
Honolulu for many a day.
On the morning of September 10, the
ships were unmoored from the docks
and put to sea, the last stretch of the
trip round the world, covering a cruise
of over 10000 nautical miles. Many
friends and acquaintance of the Off
GERS and men thrOnged the docks waY-
ing nandkerchiefs, sun-shades and hats
The sergeant on duty at the gangway
had his work cut out directing the
many messengers carrying choice bou-
quets and leis to officers and men from
their friends on shore. The Hawaiian
band under the able baton Of Cap
tain Berger was early in evidence rem
/ dering it's characteristic sweet native
melodies and hulas and as each vessel
hauled out in succession, Aud Lang
Syne," Home, Sweet Home" Yankee
Doodle" and aloha oe' floated on
the balmy breeze, while from the quar-
ter-deck of each ship rose reciprocating
strains from the bands on board
We thought the people of Honolulu
most profuse in their welcome to the
squadron, but present indications tend
to show that these big-hearted west
eners on the Pacific Slope will even ex-
coed the cordially extended by the
warm-hearted Hawaiians. Reception
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officers and men will be entertained at
various functions, the dates of which
are already fixed. OF one thing war
ship men need not be afraid while on
the Pacific Coast. Their uniforms will
not be penalized in any public resort,
nor will they be the contrary, they are
invariably welcome guests everywhere
and the wealthiest men on the golden
slope will surrender an hour of their
valuable time any day to have a chat
with gun-pointer a wireless operator
or a turret-captain.
Soon after leaving Honolulu, the
wireless station kept agitating the at
mosphere with it's ethereal waves at
regular intervals and on the second
night out September 20, the coast sta
tiOns of the Pacific Slope could be
heard communicating with one another
our distance then being about livJ
miles from San Francisco. We first
established communication with North
Head, state of Washington, distance
of about 140O miles and later on with
Table Bluff, California, 1900 miles. Had
the stations been listening specially for
us, doubtless we would have been in
communication with the United States
earlier
We were soon in full touch with the
coast and a flood of news began to pour
, in which was duly posted on the Bull
letin Board In fact it was just like
reading the morning paper. On the
afternoon of the 25th, we sighted the
Korea bound for Honolulu and the
Orient. The four ships had imam over.
board" drill. and most interesting
spectacle was the life boats crews Of
the four vessels in their race to cap.
ture the phosphorescent life preservers
We dropped two life buoys and bott
our crews being scattered over the shiI
at the time the signal was hoisted, oul
boats were trifie slow in getting away
but they quickly made up for that, and
with a few dozen vigorous strokes
hauled round the buoys, got them or
the run, pulled back to the ship and
had their boats secured before any OF
the other three ships, This demon
strates the degree of excellence attain
ed by both our life-boats' crews. Colo
RADIO reported End, Maryland 3rd and
Pennsylvania 4th.
The sea all the way from Honolulu
to San Francisco was smooth as glass
and extensive fleet manoeuVers were
carried on daily during the trip
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