The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-07-14
u SHIP WITH A
6URGE0N SKIPPER
tFrom sunday,s AdvertIser.l


a The hospital ship Relief, which has
been looked for with interest by the
many physicians of this city, arrived
here yesterday after fine trip from
San Francisco. She was the last of
the auxiliary fleet preceding the war
ships to come, having left San Fran
cisco on the first of this month.
The vessel is one of the finest of her
kind in the world and is the first YES
sci to be regularly commanded by a
surgeon. The Relief is the ship over
which SO much discussion was aroused
Just before the feet left Hampton
Roads, the cause of the discussion be-
ing the appointment by President
Roosevelt of Surgeon G. l.. Stokes to
command her and the resignation of
Admiral w. H. Brownson from the Blu
reau of Navigation as result.
All sorts of fun was made of the ap-
pointment and all kinds of predictions
Of disaster. Thus far the prophecies
have not worked out, and the Relief
has done noble work and is ready for
I more.
Surgeon G. L. Stokes has as his staff
Surgeon A. w. Dunbar, supervising
surgeon; Surgeon Raymond Spear,
Past Assistant Surgeon II. +. Strine,
Assistant Surgeon j. o. Downey, AS
sistant Surgeon G.. B. Tribe and AS
sistant Paymaster w. D. Sharp. F. L.
lie Caine is navigating officer and L.
V. w. Keen executive officer.
The Relief at the outbreak of the
Spanish War was the steamer John
Englis. She was purchased by Mis1
Helen Gould and at great expense
fitted as a hospital ship for the Army
when it came to presenting the vessel
4 to the authorities it was found that
this could not be done, so the chart
tably.inclined young lady had to sell
1.-THE floating hospital to the govern
(ment. One dollar was the price paid
! for her. From the Army the Relief
was turned over to the Navy on No
veyber 13, 1902, and by the Navy she
was entirely remodeled and reftted
SHE is now capable of handling two
hun ldred patients in her four wards and
herr appointments are as fine as those
of any hospital in the United States
Heir two upper decks are well arranged
fotf the care of the sick and injured
Or the hurricane deck is ward fol
tAAe treatment of infectious diseases
afhd SO arranged as to be isolated from
ythe rest of the ship.
a The Relief will await the arrival OF
H the fleet and then go to Maui to take
on any of the men of the vessels need
y ing medical attendance. She will then
4 take on those aboard the vessels here
and proceed to Auckland to await the
battleships. The following data re-
garding the vessel will be of interest:
Length over all, 314 fit. 0 3-S in;
length between perpendiculars, 200 TT
j 8 in; breadth, 46 it.; draft, Is TT. l Ia
in. light, 20 fit. loaded; displacement
t3400 tons, 1887 tons net; freeboard to
main deck, IL it.; hull, steel; rig
schooner; engines, single screw, triple
I expansion; speed, II knots; bunker ca
\ pacity, 707 tons coal at AZ cubic feet
$50; capacity of fresh water tanks
J 23,351 gals; ice plant, ammonia, ma
chine made by De La Vergne Refrig
Grating Machine Company, New York;
dynamos, two, 1877 amperes and Tic
volts each; ship built in 1896 at Ches
ter, Pa, by Delaware River Co.; former
name, John Englis; complement, Is of
ficers, $50 crew, 200 patients; water
tight bu1kheads at frames Nos. IL, 81
90 and 1877; ventilation, natural only;
cubic feet of air space-Ward No. l.
14,9s5, for go men; Ward No. 2, 1902
flor 40 men; Ward No. 3, 1881, for OF
linen; isolation ward, 40 men. Tons
! cargo in hold, 302; tons of stores ca,
O40 cubic feet), GIG.