The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-12-24
Advised Wearing Ship.

Advised Wearing Ship.
We Immediately pulled for the other
ship, which / hailed, being next on
turn, and asked if they wished pilot.
/ obtained no answer to my request.
However, 1 hailed the ship and shout
ed as loud as ! could to keep the ship
off shore, ms he was too close in to the
reef, and to reduce sail as soon as
possible. These remarks were over
heard by pilot Dorenzen. In getting
close up alongside, we could see no per-
son on deck to give this alarm. How.
ever, we hooked on to the ship with
hook line which we always carry in
the pilot boat. shortly afterwards, two
men appeared looking over the rail
and passed over Jacobs ladder, and
| hailed the men and told them to make
the ladder fast as soon as possible.
| However, ] did not wait until the lad
| der was properly secured, but climbed
over the rail of the ship as soon as l
possibly could, and Immediately, / went
upon the poop deck to see the captain.
Nv remarks to the captain, as near as
/ can remember, were something like
this: "Captain, am pilot from the
| port of Honolulu / would advise You
to wear the ship, and stand off shore
until we can get some sail off the YES
sci, and then bring her to an anchor
He did not seem to favor my advice,
but told me that the sails could be
quickly taken Off the ship without hav
ing to wear. Then / asked him if his
anchors were all clear. He replied that
they were all clear for letting go. l
then asked him if he had a lead-line
| handy He said, ayes, the lead line
is all right, and we are taking sound
ings regularly" "Well," said, elf
you do not wish to wear your ship and
stand off shore, we will do the best
| we can to anchor you without wearing.
My advice is to Immediately shorten
sail as much as possible, as we have
very little time to spare until we are
off Honolulu harbor."
Anchor Was damned.
Immediately after getting to an I'M
derstanding about how we were to an
Choir the ship, we started in to reduce
sail as quick as possible. The chief Of
ficer was stationed forward with his
watch. The second officer was station
ed aft with his watch. The captain
and myself stood together upon the
poop, issuing our orders as to the man
ner in which sail should be taken in.
AT this time l ordered the helmsman
to keep the ship off until / should give
him the order to steady her. Ny rea-
son for doing so was to kill as much
time as possible before we arrived at
the anchorage. We succeeded in taking
all the sail off the mizzen, main top
/ gallant sail off the main, fore top.
ballant sail off the fore, main topmast
stay sail and inner jib. AT this time
the ship slackened her speed consider
ably, but we were little too far off
shore to procure definite soundings
Having the ship in this condition,
proceeded to back the main topsail and
prepared for rounding-to, which we
partly accomplished | ordered the
helm "harda-lee.'' The ship immedi
ately started to go to the wind and
we found by the lead nine fathoms OF
water. / hailed the forecastle ant
sung out to the chief officer to "let &c
his starboard anchor ! received ne
reply. i Immediately hailed the fore
castle again and asked him to let &c
the starboard anchor and received ne
reply. We were at this time heading
in toward the reef. The delay in let
ting go the anchor / could not under
stand, being informed by the captain
tat his anchors were all clear. / con
tinued hailing the forecastle to let q
their anchor, and that if he did moi
do so Immediately the ship would b.
: ashore. After a great many requests
to the chief officer to let go the star
board anchor, he told me that he coul,
not let it go, that it was jammed, bu
he would try and let go the port one
and | Immediately answered him, $50
God s sake, let go the port one" whicl
he did, and we paid out ON the por
anchor forty-fve fathoms of chair
cable. AT this time the starbOard an
chor was all clear, and he reported thu
same to me. j Immediately requisite,
that he should let go the starboard an
chor and pay out chain. In the meal
time, the ship had considerable head
way, and she kept this headway head
ing for the reef, until we had seventy
five fathoms of chain cable paid out OIL
the starboard anchor, when, at tina
time, the ship stopped her headwa.
and we were then riding to both an
chors. | Immediately asked the secon,
officer to bring the lead line aft to tn
taffrail, which he did. / then ask ed hin
to bring lantern, so that we could as
certain the amount of water under tn
ships stern. / found by the lead lin
that we had four fathoms and hal
occasionally, and the least water wa
four and quarter fathoms. l toll
the captain that we were dangerousl
close TO the reef and if the wind cam
in from the south that she would ce
tainly touch the bottom, but il I'll
wind continued as it was or if it can
offshore, that there was small chanC
of our staying afloat until we receive
assistance. ! said; "Captain, we wi
clew up all our sails and make the
fast If the weather and wind wi
favor MS, think, we will lay all rigl
until daylight / also said; "W
had better pick up our port anchor, /
it is doing more harm than good" an
at this time we felt her touch the bo
tom, which she continued 10 do occ
sionally without apparent damage, bl
while she would feel the bottom v
would heave in about five fathoms
chain ON our starboard anchor, and v