The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-31
OFF AGAIN, ON
AGAIN, GONE
AGAIN, FLANAGAN

Immediately after the British ship
Celtic Chief, which recently achieved
notoriety by trying to come ashore over
the windward reef, was released under
heavy bond and given permission to 60
about her business on the high seas,
she again found herself entangled in
the meshes of libel filed by water
transportation company which, as usual,
claims to have done most of the i'm
portant work of saving the vessel from
leaving her bones to bleach on the coral
strand.
The Celtic Chief was ibeled to an
aggregate Of $4,000 by the Inter-1s-
land Steam Navigation Company and
the Miller Salvage Company, each of
| which claimed in it's libel to have, SOLE
| ly by its own efforts, except for some
assistance rendered by the other and
some very slight assistance rendered
| by the German cruiser Arcona, rescued
| the British ship from a perilous posi-
| ton. These libels tied the ship up so
she could not move. She was even
more securely held by the libels than
she was by the coral reef.
| But this matter was fixed up yester-
day morning by the fling of two bonds.
/ The Inter island libel was temporarily
satisfied by bond for $4,000, and
| that of the Miller company by bond
for $4,000.
| When these were filed, the ship was
free to go. But it was only a short
time until the Matson Navigation Com
pany rushed in and plastered her with
libel for $4,000 on account of the
services the tug Intrepid might have
rendered the distressed vessel if the
tug had only been given chance.
The libel recites that when the Celtic
Chief went ashore, the Intrepid hasten
i ed out and passed hawser aboard
upon which she strained from 7:l5 in
the morning until 1920 in the after
noon At the last named hour the
hawser was cut aboard the Celtic Chief
The Intrepid hiked back to the wharf
and got a wire hawser and went bach
and offered to pass it aboard. But
according to the libel, the master OF
the ship refused to take it. Notwith
standing this rundown, the captain OF
the Intrepid announced that he would
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ever his vessel should be needed. She
wasn't needed, but just the same the
Intrepid stood by until the Celtic Chief
had been dragged off the reef and tow
ed into deep water.
And for this possible aid which SHE
might have rendered, the Intrepid, by
her owners, claims $4,000 salvage
They say that at the time the wire
hawser was refused by the master Of
; the Celtic Chief, there was fair pros
pect of the successful salving of the
ship by the Intrepid, 'tand that saiC
tug Intrepid could and would have per
formed greater and more efficient ser
vice than was afterwards rendered By
the German cruiser Areona, the yes
sci which is generally credited will
: having pulled the Celtic Chief off tn
rocks. The libel does concede tina
some very slight assistance was rem
: dered by the German Cruiser Arcona. ,
The new libel against the ship, how
! ever, will not hold her here, for yester
day afternoon new bond was filed
in the sum Of $4,000, and the Celti
Chief was once more released. She i
, now free to proceed on her way, unles
japanese sampan or a shore boa
iibels / again.