The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-16
PACIFIC COAST
SHIPPING NEWS


The following resume of interesting |
maritime happenings on the Pacific |
Coast is taken from the latest issue
of the Coast Seamens Journal:
The Japanese sealing schooner Maza
Maru, seized in Yakutat Bay for vio- |
lation of the sealing laws, was lowed |
Unto Juneau, Alaska, on May II by
the revenue cutter Richard Rush.
The United States revenue cutter
Manning sailed from Seattle. Wash, |
on May 20 to take UP her duties in
the patrol fleet in Boring Sea. She
will make her headquarters at I'm
alaska.
C, B. Smith, better known as
Shanghai Smith, a saloonkeeper
notorious all over the seafaring world
as a crimp, committed suicide at Seat
tie, Wash, on May IS, by swallowing
cyanid of potassium.
A crew started to work on May 10
to save 225.000 feet of lumber from the
hull of the schooner Sybil Marston,
wrecked at Surf, Cal, two months
ago. The machinery, which has been
dismantled, will be sent to San Fran
cisco
John D. Smith was recorded at the
San Francisco Customhouse on May %
as the master of the steamer Colonel
E. L. Drake vice George Bunting. The
gasoline steamer Lizzie S. Sorenson
| was enrolled with l. II. Bennett as
master.
c.ttAe 1r,1..
| er Hilonian, en- route from Honolulu,
| 7. H, to San Francisco was received
at the former port on May IS. stating
| that a seaman. whose mamie was not
| given, fell overheard and was
| drowned
A Russian newspaper publishes
| dispatch from Toxic, saying that ia
pan has determined to send warship
| to the Bering Sea on account of the
| repeated seizures there of Japanese
vessels by American and Russian
| ships.
| The following changes of masters
| were recorded at San Francisco Gus
| tomhouse on May IS: Steamer Milton.
| A c. Parker vice NJ. r. J. Downey;
steamer Elsie, Charles Olson, vice C.
A. Nelson; steamer Monterey, H. C.
Anderson, vice Charles Anderson.
Captain Wagner of the German ship
! Elisa Lihn, at Victoria, B. c., on May
q, 81 days from Antofagasta, Chile,
reports that number of his crew be-
came intoxicated at sea and endeav-
ored to take charge of. the ship. One
man fell into the hold and was killed.
i As in many seasons past, the steam
er Corwin is again the first vessel to
| reach Nome this year. The steamer
! arrived on May %. after run of ten
days from Seward The Corwin has
| held the record for reaching Nome
| with the opening up of the ice for
many years.
The fire tug David Scannell was
| launched at the Risdon Iron Works,
San Francisco. on May %. This is
one of the new boats authorized by
the Supervisors to be used in con-
nection with the auxiliary fire sys-
tenn. The Dennis Sullivan, another
tug of the same type, is also nearing
| completion.
A telegram from London received at
t San Francisco on May 20 conveys the
information that the British ship Alice
A Leigh had put back to Falmouth
with sundry losses and damages. The
Alice A. Leigh was bound for Santa
Rosalia from Hamburg and met heavy
weather when off Falmouth.
The Columbia River salmon packers
held a meeting at Astoria, Or, on
May and fixed the selling prices for
Columbia River canned salmon at the
same rates as prevailed last season.
The prices are as follows per dozen;
Tails s165. fats S1.75, halves $1.05.
ovals $3.50. nominals $3.50, half
pound ovals $50. Key cans ) cents
per dozen extra.
Owing to her long passage from
Terneuse to Vancouver, B. c., which
occupied 245 days. the charter of the
: British bark Hawthornbank TO load
J lumber at the Hasting mills, British
a Columbia. for Iquique has been can
ceIed. The Hawthornbank arrived a.
Victoria. B. C.. May / with a cargo oil
creosote. The Chilean bark Alta ha:
been fixed to take the place of the
t. British bark.
Captain P. c. Rasmussen. of tbs
bark Star of Scotland. mas reported
> to the Branch Photographic Office
at San Francisco that Oh April "a
: 1909, in latitude north So deg. 10 min,
longitude west I27 deg. 50 min, -
miles south 20 deg. west true from
u South Farallone. he sighted a derelic
bottom up, about 100 feet long. Bot
= tom was painted dark brown and 4,
= barnacles We're visible.
The contract for repairing tn
United States Army transport Bufor'
e was awarded at san Francisco Of
e May Is to the Moore & Scott Irol
: Works for s12.sS3. and the vessel vii
t be taken to the Moore & Scott ship
5 ward. Oakland Creek, where work vii
: be commenced at once. Bids received
from competing firms We're: Cniol
e Iron Works, S13.737; United Engineer
n ing Works, s16,26o; Risdon Irol
4 Works, s25.409.