The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-09
PERSIA IN FROM THE ORIENT


she will load full cargo of canned
fruit for Liverpool. BY the placing
on this route of high class, modern
speedy steamers, it is anticipated
that considerable developments will
take place in the trade between the
United Kingdom and the Pacific
Coast. The second sailing OF the
line will be taken by the steamer
Candidate, which will make calls at
Antwerp, Swansea and Glasgow, and
leave Liverpool about the middle of
May
Although Shipping Illustrated does
not mention it, the Crown of CASTLE
will call at Honolulu. F. L. Waldron
is the local agent.
Boston's Largest Marine Visitor.
The new Cunard liner Franconia.
which arrived at Boston on April 26,
with 1901 passengers, was the scene
of an important function on April 27,
her arrival being hailed as a promise
Of better days for the port of Boston
by the leading merchants and profess
sional men of the city, gathered at a
magnificent dinner given on board
by Charles Steward, agent for the
Cunard Line, says Shipping Illus
trated. The announcement that her
sister ship, the Laconia, would follow
next year and that the two new
steamships would place Boston far
ahead of many ports in passenger
service, was interpreted by the
speakers as an indication of the great
faith which the Cunard Company has
in the future development of Boston
as a transatlantic port. The COM
pany will spend about $7OOOO)O on
the two steamships, it is said An
equal sum for the development of the
waterfront by the city and the state
was urged by the speakers, Mayor
John F. Fitzgerald, Collector of the
Port Edwin U. Curtis, Vice President
Timothy e. Byrnes of the New Haven
road, and President George S. Smith
of the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
The dinner, which was intended as u .
welcome to the ship, her hospitable
commander, Captain C. A. Smith, her
officers and crew, was made the occa-
sion for launching a spirited boom
for the development of the water
front.
The Franconia is the largest craft
that has ever entered Boston, being
$4,000 tons displacement, 625 feet
ong, 70 feet beam and 1880 tons
gross. She was launched at Wall
send July 20, 1910, being the second
largest steamer launched in the
United Kingdom in 1910.
New Warships.
The Princess Royal, the largest
'ruiser-battleship ever built for the
British navy, has been launched at
Barrow. She has a displacement Of
1880 tons and turbines affording
O'7ON horsepower I1er contract
calls for a speed of twenty-eight.
knots an hour. She will carry eight
-3,5-inch guns, besides smaller weap4
ms.
On May q there will be launched
It Trieste the first Austrian Dread
bought, the Kaiser-Koenig Franz
Josef. She was laid down eighteen
months ago and it is hoped to put
Ter in commission at the beginning
VI 1912. She is of 2O,5OO tons dis
'lacement, and will have turbine en-
ines OF $4,000 indicated horsepower.
me main armament will consist OF
welve 12-inch guns.
Inc Turkish government has
laced an order for three 'gunboats
With the Forges ct CRantiers de la
lediterranee, to be built at Havre
Nineteen firms bid for this order.
The French battleship Diderot
ullt at st. Nazaire, showed a speed
+ lS.4O knots during her preliminary
"enty-four-hour trial at full speed.
William Beardmore & Co., Dalmuir.
ave launched the Conqueror, the
lper-Dreadnought battleship which
ley are building for the British gov
rnment The vessel is one of the
our contingent" Dreadnoughts
hich were placed in December, 1909.
le others being the Monarch at Els
iek' the Thunderer at BlackwalI,
nd the Dreadnought cruiser Prin-
ess Royal at Barrow. The keels Of
lie vessels were laid in April of last
ear, but the Conqueror was delayed
by the lockout of boil
makers. The Conqueror is of the
Orion" type, being 545 feet b. p. by
w feet beam, with a displacement
22,5OO tons at mean draught II