Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-09
MERRY PARTY GATHER AT
1" WILHELMINA FESTIVE BOARD

i from the Pacific Coast run Is months
ago, after many rumors as to what
service they would be placed in. II
was said that they had been bought
by the Turkish government as trans
I ports in the naval service. Both yes
sells were intended when launched fol-
| the Dutch Royal Mail service to the
East Indies. In their day, the com
panion steamers made several fast
runs, which are STD recalled by sea
faring men, one of the notable per-
formances being a 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
i Telegraph.
The Titanic disaster has focused
the public mind upon nothing more
biyidly than upon the wireless equip
ment of vessels, its incalculable
value, and the necessity for having
this department of all vessels ade-
quately stated. But for the wireless
H. 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
ter's papers are continually giving
thanks that they got them in the old
days, for every year marks an addi-
ton of requirements. and now it
seems, from San Francisco reports,
that knowledge of the workings of
! wireless apparatus is to be added to
the tests. The difficulty of the Pa
cific 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 a man grom an oil tanker, seems
to have inspired the proposed regula-
ton. The following report from the
Examiner of April 2 indicates the
feeling concerning the matter of
coast shipping circles:
As result of the wireless equip
ment of the Pacific Mail liner China
being rendered useless by illness 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. It
is rumored among shipping men that
an effort will be made to induce Con
gress to provide that the certificate of
mate or master shall include the
ability Co operate the wireless plant
of vessel.
1t has been pointed out that in the
case of the Stripping of the Matson
steamer Enterprise the only thing
! that brought the vessel safely back
to port so speedily was the presence
on board of good operator. This
was also the case with the steamer
IN. F.. 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
pacitated from doing duty at the time
of any of these accidents there would
have been no means of communica-
ton for assistance, and instead of
the &C. Q. D." bringing prompt as
sistance, nothing would have been
heard from The crippled vessels for
some time.
lnterisiand Sailings This Day.
The Kona and Kau liner Kilauea
with fair list of cabin and deck
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 hour
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 a 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.
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Empress of China Sold.
The steamer Empress of China,
which, until July 10th last, when she
went ashore on Shirahama reef when
nearing Yokohama, ran across the Pa
cific for the Canadian Pacific Rail-
road Company from 1891 without
missing a trip, is to be scrapped for
the metal and other material, having
been bought from the underwriters
by a copper and junk dealer of Yo-
kohama for Sos 800 A number of bid
ders- sought to purchase the steamer,
including both foreign firms and Jap
anese ship owners, the highest price
offered by the ship owners being &c.,
000 1t was estimated that betweenj
S150.0O0 and 100000 would be re-
quired to prepare the vessel for sea.
Chronicle.
Guernsey Ready for Sea.