The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-23
THE LASSIE
IS RESCUED
Mongrel Wonder Tub Discover
ed Beyond kalihi Harbor
After Vanishment.

She who was lost has been found.
The samketch Salvation Lassie, which
disappeared from her mornings on
Sunday last and was variously report
ed as on the reef Eva of the channel.
and en- route to the Orient, trailing a
; thirty-ponnd anchor and carrying sea-
water up to her air-tight compart-
ments. was on Wednesday discovered
by a Hawaiian fisherman or the reef
to the west of Kalihi harbor. He and
others manned canoes and went out
TO what they thought might prove to
be a boatload of shipwreck survivors.
The Lassie presented a mysterious
appearance loafng along for the outer
reef, lifted laziIy by the great waves
and riding like heavily laden ice
wagon.
She carried no spars nor sign of
human freight, though it was thought
! by the Hawaiian search expedition that
a distressed crew might be below.
When the Lassie was secured and
worked over the reef to the beach
empty of humanity, the next thought
of her rescuers was that she had been
abandoned by some fishermen. Never
had they seen such a craft, a cross
between a Gloucester fishing dory and
a japanese sampan, with perhaps a
touch of smack and dab of ancient
viking galley. Her high and pointed
nose and her broad beam and box
stern were more than they could figure.
and it was not until the Hawaiian who
first discovered her came to Honolulu
and made inquiries that he learned
for she carried no name-that she was
the Salvation Lassie, owned and for
merry operated by a select coterie of
Hterati and recently hauled up on
Sorenson & Lyle's beach for inspection
as to the condition of her timbers.
She was found to be worm eaten
and her owners considered that her
days as a pleasure craft and a SPORT
ing proposition were over and she was
abandoned, but there was some delay
in the project of getting her away from
the shipyard and finding a. place for
her to go to pieces in.
While last resting site was being
chosen by the committee on wrecking,
some unknown person cut her adrift
and on a swelling tide she lifted her
nose from the sand and coral and
deliberately headed for the channel, a
feat it had often been difficult to make
her accomplish under sail.
After an apparently unexciting vow
age of three days she made the reef
on the Eva side of Kalihi harbor and
now, by the law of salvage she is the
property Of the Hawaiian who effected
her rescue
The Lassie has had an eventfuI
career. She was built seven years ago
by that ancient mariner, Captain ]. r.
James, who decorated the waterfront
with his presence for over five wears
he lived aboard her the greater part
OF that time, the captain-host enter
tanning lavishly with coffee and sea-
bread in the Lassie's capacious cabin.
When James was called to the Coast
10 get married for the eighth time In
ms seventy years of adventure, the
BOAT was sold for $50 to some literary
sentlefnen who one day took her out
ior trial in the harbor and bumped
INTO everything then in the stream or
at the wharves
with her Enasts the main-yard-arrn of
German ship in the stream and one
of the ships sailors got out on the
yard to clear the mess: he chung to the
Lassie's mast to accomplish the task
ana Just then the wind took the Las
sic clear and the sailor was shang-
haled in broad daylight, under his
captains eyes, nor was he able to re-
turn 10 his ship for several hours
after running into the cableship- Re
storef, foulIng the tug Intrepids stern
hnes, splintering her bowsprit on the
IRON null OF British tramp, carrying
away her jibstay on the old lighthouse
foundations, tearing away the rail OF
houseooat, running aground in quar-
antlne limits and getting ordered off
by the quarantine officials, being tow
ed OF by shore boats and again going
aground on the sand island near the
channel mouth, she, toward sunset.
got into the channel and was only saw
ed from the breakers on the Waikiki
side by sending a distress message
ashore by a. passing pleasure craft for
one OF Young Brothers launches to go
10 the rescue. It was dark when she
was at last locked.
One time James took her out on a
AhoIHIHS 1or deep-Sea nSh1ngs
with party of fourteen aboard. An
was made to enter that night,
but a dispute arose as to which were
the harbor lights and she stopped out
size TIL morning, after humping a reef,
ana MADE landing with her fish
smel1ings high to heaven
For months she lay on the mud at
the end of the Inter-Island slip and
was one day finally pulled off by a
gasoline launch which herself went
aground three times in the attempt to
float her
NOW the fast and furious pleasure
craft will probably receive a new bot
tom and become a deep-sea fishing
craft.