The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-22

his starboard anchor" I received no
reply. 1 Immediately hailed the fore
castle again and asked him to let go
the starboard anchor and received no
reply. We were at this time heading
in toward the reef. The delay in let
ting 90 the anchor I could not under
stand. being informed by the captain
tat his anchors were all clear. l con
tinued haiIing the foTecaStle to let 90
their anchor. and that if he did not
do so Immediately the ship would be
ashore. After great many requests
10 the chief officer to let go the star
board anchor, he told me that he could
not let it go, that it was jammed, but
he would try and let go the port one,
and | Immediately answered him, . For
God s sake, let go the port one, which
he did, and We paid out on the port
anchor fOrty-fve fathOms of chain
cable. at this time the starboard an
Choir was all clear, and he reported the
same to me. / Immediately requested
that he should let go the starboard an
Choir and pay out chain. In the mean
time. the ship had considerable head
way, and she kept this Roadway, head
five fathoms Of chain cable paid out en-
the starboard anchor, when, at that
time, the ship stopped her Roadway
and we were then riding to both an
chors. / Immediately asked the second
officer to bring the lead line aft to the
taffrail, which he did. then asked him
to bring a lantern, so that we could as
certain the amount of water under the
ships stern. | found by the lead line
that we had four fathOms and a half
occasionally, and the least water was
four and a quarter fathoms. [ told
the captain that we were dangerously
close to the reef and if the wind came
in from the south that she would GER
tainly touch the bottom, but if the
wind continued as it was or if it came
that there was a small chance
of our staying afoat until we received
/ said: Captain, we will
clew up all our sails and make them
fast. If the weather and wind will
favor us, think, we will lay all right
until daylight / also said: ave
had better pick up our port anchor, as
it is doing more harm than good,'' and
at this time we felt her touch the bot |
without apparent damage, but
while she would feel the bottom we
would heave in about five fathoms of !
chain on our starboard anchor, and we |
continued doing so during the night |
Woke Up ALI Hands.
At2 am. or thereabouts, a land breeze !
sprung up, which gave me great en-
and / woke up all hands, |
the chief officer, my intention |
being to make sail and heave up our |
starboard anchor and try, if possible, |
to make for the open sea. Upon the !
crew getting on deck, gave my inten-
tons to the chief officer, the captain |
At this time, being tired out, was below |
having Il rest. We set the six topsails |
and swung the fore topsail back to |
help head the ship offshore. I told the |
chief officer to inform me about the |
condition of the chain cable attached |
TO her starboard anchor. After the top |
sails were set and caught the breeze, [ |
ordered the second officer to stand by |
his lead line and inform me of the ac-
tons of the ship by his lead whether |
she was moving. [ also stationed a |
man at the wheel to steer the ship; the |!
balance of the crew at the windlass !
ready to heave way when so ordered |
While the ship was in this condition,
she seemed to gather Roadway and al
tered her bearings about four points
of the compass, Ships head in that
position was southeast by steering COM
pass. We continued heaving as she
Stacked up her chain and gathered
Roadway until we came to the anchor,
which we hove up, and the ship con-
tinued her Roadway very slowly.
Blue Lights Unseen.
This puff of wind or land breeze
which we were having seemed to die
out. The lead which the second officer
was handling indicated that the ships
speed was getting less, until she ac-
tually stopped her Roadway by the lead.
He informed me almost immediately of
any alienation in the movement of the
vessel by the lead. About this time,
he told me that the ship had stopped
going ahead. | asked him to let me
know Immediately when the ship gath
cred sternway, which he did. At this
instant, Immediately ordered the star
board anchor let go again and paid out
twenty-five fathoms of chain. Our at
tempt to get the ship off with the
aid of the land breeze proved a failure
and we were left in about the same
position that we were before. During
this time we had burned quite a num-
Der of blue lights to attract the people
on shore so that we could procure some
assistance. However, our blue lights
were not seen from the shore. It was
then approaching daylight, and we felt
that assistance would very shortly
come, and early in the morning, about
o'clock, the tug Intrepid came and
gave us a hawser over the stern of the
ship. Young brothers gasoline launch
Hukihuki also came and we gave them