The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-13
BADLY BATTERED
THET|S COMES
Home
Revenue Cutter Reaches PORT
After Twenty Days Spent
Fighting Gales.
lib BOOM CARRIED AWAY
Skipper Cochran Tells Of His
= Fierce Battle With Thun-
derous Seas.
lib BOOM CARRIED AWAY
(From Mondays Advertiser

Twenty days from Puget Sound, dur
for hours at stretch facing gales
which took her wireless away, I'M
stepped the jib.boom and snapped off
the fore top-gallant mast, the revenue
cutter Thetis in command of Captain
G. s. Cochran, arrived at five o clock
yesterday afternoon after an absence
of eight months. If there was ever a
crowd of officers who were glad to see
any port and to get back " home" that
- crowd was on board the Thetis upon
her arrival here. During the eight
months the cutter has been absent from
Hawaiian waters she has Travelled 49,
900 miles and at her regular rate of six
or seven knots an hour that takes some
time.
The Thetis left Honolulu June 90,
and in her cruising it was not until
September % that any hard luck struck
her. At that time entering Bering Sea
she was struck by gale which carried
away her iib-boom and yards and left
her in nearly the same predicament as
that in which she arrived here yester
day. The cutter came back to the
northwest and was put in shape there,
but on the way down here she was
smashed up again and now is in need of
more repairs.
Blow High, Blow Low.
81 never saw such weather as we met
ON this trip said Captain Cochran
-vnoforAau ftTf Oaln aft
another, first from the southeast and
then from the southwest. We hove to
time after time when we could make
no Roadway, and it was on January 81
that we experienced the worst of the
f.: wind
''rEariy in the day our wireless was
carried away and then later the jib-
boom came unstepped carrying the fore
top-gallant mast with it, before the
: gear could be cut away. Green water
was coming on board all the time and
the men forward would come up as the
ship lifted herself from under the seas
and blow like diver coming to the sur
face after being under water.
Two Men Hurt.
"But two men were hurt during this
worst of the blow, the hood of the
BOBBY hatch came loose and washed
down on the carpenter, r. Hardinsen,
and Lieutenant F. G. Brillard. The
carpenter had three ribs broken and
Lieutenant Brillard had one foot
smashed badly. Otherwise we came
through without q scratch
In the wardroom and shippers cabin
there We're happy people yesterday.
"I tell you Honolulu looks good and
every man here is glad to be back
were the words of Doctor Gillespie,
seconded by Lieutenant Robinson. 81
went away on temporary duty with
the cutter for three months and / have
been away for eight, and being one man
short has crippled the marine hospital
service here to some EXTENT he con
tinued.
1t was on June 90 that the Thetis
sailed from Honolulu and in her entire
trip from Honolulu to the Sound and
then Unalaska, 3400 miles, she burned
less coal than in the trip from the
Sound down here on the trip which haf
just ended.
TIE cutter picked up the judge ant
attaches of the court at Valdez July
10 and started north calling at Unal
aska, Naknek, Dillingham;, Neushigak
Kings Cove, Unga and Kodiak where
large number of cases were tried
At one time there were thirty prisoners
and crazy persons on board. The IN
sane were for the most part persons
who had been taken north by the can
merry people and whose condition wal
not known until they had arrived IL
Alaska.
Goes to Juneau.
The court left Valdez July 10 ane
arrived back there on September l
having the most pleasant cruise imag
Unable. From Valdez the cutter SAILED
north to Juneau September 6, arriving
ON the tenth of the month. Here they
got orders to go in Boring Sea, sailing
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