Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-09

| by the Turkish government as trans
ports in the naval service. Both yes
sells were intended when launched fol
1.-THE Dutch Royal Mail service TO the
East Indies. In their day. the com
Ianion steamers made several fast
runs, which are stIl recalled by sea
faring men, one of the notable per
formances being spin by the Erna
to Santa Cruz in establishing a re
cord that stood for long time among
vessels of its displacement.
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Ships Officers May Have to
Telegraph.
The Titanic disaster has focused
the public mind upon nothing more
wildly than upon the wireless equip.
ment OF vessels, its incalculahle
value, and the necessity for having
this department of all vessels ade.
quately stated. But for the wireless
IL 81 clear that not a single person
on board the giant liner would have
been saved, and the fate of the liner,
passengers and crew, WOULD have
been left forever shrouded in mys.
terry.
The old salts who have their mas
ier's papers are continually giving
thanks that they got them in the old
Gays, for every year marks an addi-
ton of requirements, and now it
seems, from San Francisco reports,
that a knowledge of the workings of
wireless apparatus is to be added to
the tests. The difficulty of the Pa
cidc Mail Company's steamer China
in San Francisco, when the operator
was incapacitated by nervous prostra-
ton and the big steamer had to bor-
row man from an oil tanker, seems
TO have inspired the proposed regula-
ton. The following report from the
Examiner of April indicates the
feeling concerning the matter Of
coast shipping circles:
AS a result of the wireless equip
ment of the Pacific Mail liner ,China
being rendered useless by fitness of
the operator while the vessel was
steaming between San Francisco and
Honolulu a few weeks ago, it is prob,
able that the requirements of the GER
tificates of certain ships officers will
be greatly changed in the future. 1t
is rumored among shipping men that
an effort will be made to induce Con.
gress to provide that the certificate Of
a mate or master shall include the
ability to operate the wireless plant
of a vessel
1T has been pointed out that IN the
case of the srippling of the Matson
steamer Enterprise the only thing
that brought the vessel safely back
to port so speedily was the presence
on board of a good operator. This
was also the case with the steamer
M. +. Plant and other vessels that
have met with accident while out at
sea during the last year. 1t is said
that if the operator had been inca
FACILITATED from doing duty at the time
of any of these accidents there would
nave been no means of communities
ton for assistance, and instead Of
the &C. @. d." bringing prompt as
sistance, nothing would have been
heard from the crippled vessels for
some time.
InterisIand SaiIings This Day.
The Kona and Kau liner Kilaaea
with a fair list of cabin and leck
passengers departed for windward
Hawaii ports at noon today. This
vessel was literally supplied with
cargo for ports of call on Maui and
the Big Island.
The steamer Iwalani, with general
cargo and explosives, but. no passen-,
gers was dispatched at the noon roltr
for Kawaihae, Mahukona, and Kipa-
hulu. The Iwalani was given a later
mail arriving from the mainland.
At five o'clock this evening the
Noeau for windward ports and The
Kinau for regular Kauai ports viii
get away. The Noeau carries freight
and mails only while large list of
Fourth of July visitors will return
home in the Kinau.
The little Mikahala with passengers
and general cargo is scheduled to de-
part for Maui, Molokai and Lanai
ports at five o'clock this evening.
Empress Of China Sold.
The steamer Empress of China,
which, until July 26th last, when she
went ashore on Shirahama reef whenI
nearing Yokohama, ran across the Pa
cific for the Canadian Pacific Rail-
road Company from 1891 without
trip, is to be scrapped for
the metal and other material, having
been bought from the underwriters
by copper and junk dealer of Yo-
kohama for $65,500. A number of bid
ders sought to purchase the steamer,
both foreign firms and Jap
anese ship owners, the highest price
offered by the ship owners being $780,
600 II was estimated that betweenI
$4,000 and 100000 would be re-.
quired to prepare the vessel for sea.
Chronicle.
Guernsey Ready for Sea.
The Norwegian freighter Guernsey,
which has been discharged of a full
of Australian coal, will pro-
coed TO sea tomorrow morning. ac-