The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-11-12
LEADS NAVY
COAL FLEET

Spick and span and saucy, on her
maiden voyage and the first of the
great fleet of vessels to bring coal for
the United States Navy here from the
Atlantic coast, the British S. s. strath-
garry, Captain stanhope, 81 days from
Norfolk, arrived yesterday morning
and locked at Naval wharf No. g.
Leading the coal carrying squadrons,
steam and sail, which are to convey
from ocean to ocean sufficient fuel for
the Atlantic fleet of American war
vessels which will fill their bunkers at
San Francisco and Honolulu. the
Strathgarry brings 522s tons of Poca-
hontas. for transporting which "a dis
lance of nearly $4,000 miles her COM
pany. the Strath line, receives nearly
$4,000. or s6.65 per ton. She had a mas
ty run down the Atlantic but made
up for it in weather and time when
the Pacific was reached.
1t was out of summer into winter
and back into summer again; summer
in the Atlantic, winter in the Straits
and thereabouts and summer again
once up in the Pacific.
In the Straits of Magellan the
Strathgarry passed between snow-cov-
cred mountains and glaciers, splen-
did spectacle.
Except for a slight temporary DIFF
ficulty with her virgin engines she had
no accident and while this small
trouble was being repaired the Chi
nese crew. of whom there are twenty
six. amused themselves catching
sharks, inducing several monsters to
connect with large hooks at the ends
of stout lines wherein hunks of pork
had been placed. The Chinese "scofr-
ed the lot, as the white officers ex-
press 1t, eating every bit of flesh and
preserving the tails and fins. the lat
ter being considered a special delicacy.
Whales were seen in large squads,
spouting, as it seemed, in salutatIon.
No icebergs were sighted. Not a SAIL
ing ship was picked up throughout the
VI wage after leaving st. Lucia in the
w, st Indies where the Britisher called
to eplenish her bunker coal. Nothing
was seen of the long overdue American
ship Arthur Sewall, nor was anything
heard of her at Puenta Arenas. From
st. Lucia the voyage numbAed fifty
nine days.
The Strathgarry was launched in
July last, having been built at Glas-
gov by William Hamilton, and from
Glasgow she went direct to Norfolk,
Virginia, having been chartered to
carry coal for the American Navy be-
fore she was launched. Her present,
cargo is her maiden load and she had
no trouble with the fuel freight, a
thorough system of ventilation being
provided, and the danger from fire
minimized. Running the Atlantic
down, the steamship, as Kipling puts
1T. had to find herself and this was
particularly true of the engines. It
was in seventeen south that she lay-to
for minor repairs. She crossed the
equator in the-Atlantic on September
20 and was in the Straits on October
II and II, crossing the line in the Pa
cific on November 2. She burned
about 1900 tons of English coal on the
trip, or about twenty-five tons a day.
Captain Stanhope was formerly mas
ter of the British S. s. knight of the
Carter. running between ports of the
British Isles and India. His present
charge. a vessel of 2s4O tons, is the
4f1Nt,
two new vessels ordered under one
contract by the Strath line.
The Strathgarry will be about ten
LAYS discharging. Her next port of
AL is at present unknown. She may
BE ordered to Australia for coal for
Honolulu