The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-06-21

"'The finest sailing ship in the
world" came into port yesterday after
noon, and she flew the Belgian flag, the
first time in the history of Honolulu
that the flag has been flown in the har.
Dor. The Belgian training ship Lave
mir arrived from Newcastle with
cargo of $500 tons of coal, after trip
of sixty,fve days from the Australian
port. The ship was beautiful sight
as she rounded Diamond Head under a
full spread of canvas, white vision of
grace and beauty. The vessel, masts,
yards and all, is painted white. She
was towed into the harbor by the tug
Intrepid and was moored alongside
Railway wharf No. 2.
The arrival of L'Avenir was the oc-
casion of many congratulations to her
commander, Captain Zander, and his
officers, for both commander and Off
GERS were formerly with the North Ger
man Lloyd training ship Herzogin So
phie Charlotte, which made three visits
to this port. The visits of the Char
lotte were always occasions of great joy
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| Captain Zander was greeted with warm
alohas. Among the first aboard Lave
mir as she entered the harbor was
Acting Belgian Consul H. Focke, the
consul r. Lange, being absent on the
mainland at present. Accompanying
him were Georg Rodiek, the Swedish
consul, and F. Klebahn, not a consul
just now, but possibly in tho near flu
ture, at present the manager of the
shipping department of Hackfeld & Co.
In the cabin of L'Avenir, one of
the most pretentious to be found on a
sailing vessel, the health of King Albert
was drunk in Belgium IS best champagne
product, and then more healths to Cap
tain Zander and others.
Has Palatial Furnishings.
L'Avenir is a handsome vessel of
2lOO tons gross, and has n length of
300 feet over all, with 4S feet beam,
and when loaded is 2315 feet draft.
Her decks are fitted with the finest
gear, including winches, and her brasses
CLEAN under constant polishing. The
| long afterdeck overtops the quarters OF
the officers, petty officers and cadets
There are dining cabins for each mess
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a mess of their own. something unusual
in sailing vessels. The cabins are fitted
in birsdeye maple, and it is difficult
to realize that one is not aboard
palatial liner, instead of a vessel pro
PEELED only by sail power.
L'Avenir is four-masted bark
built at Bremerhaven, Germany, il
1908, by the Rickmers, owners of th'
ship Renee Rickmers which lies on thu
opposite side of the slip. This is he
second voyage, the first one having beer
TO South America, South Africa ant
Australia. On this trip she was delaye'
at Newcastle four and a half month
on account of the coal strike, awaiting
cargo Her long voyage from New
castle to Bonolulu-sixty-five days
was due largely TO inability to get int
part of the ocean where winds pre-
vailed.
OF Finest Design.
L'Avenir was designed as a II
suit of the experience which the Be
gian government had with her frs
training ship, the Comte de Smet
, Mayer. This experience, together wit
the information given to the Riekmel
by the owpers of the German trainin
ships Herzogin Sophie Charlotte an
a Herzogin Cecile, proved of inestimabl
/. value and resulted in the present shil
+. which is regarded not only as the fine,
I but the strongest ship in the worl'
a The ship exeels in her safety appl
Q anees, as she is fitted with double bo
{ toms all over. She has four separai
Q watertight compartments and has
=, capacity of l4O0 tons Of water ballas
She Is lighted solely by eleetrieit.