The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-21

great loss OF ire WHICH occurred III
1854 was also that of vessel which
disappeared without leaving a trace
This was the City of Glasgow, which
sailed with $50 souls on board The
Pacific of the Collins line, left Liver
pool on June 20, 1866, and with her
living freight of 24O was never more
heard Of In the year 1859 an Anchor
liner, the Tempest, mysteriously dis.
appeared with $50 souls. The City
of Boston of the Inman line, with
l177 persons, was never heard of after
! leaving port on January 2S, 1870. A
board stating that she was sinking
was found in Cornwall on February
III, 1870. The Allan liner Huronian
left Glasgow in February, 1902, for
St. Johns, and disappeared. The
British gunboat Condor was lost in
| the Pacific in 1901. Besides these,
the names of many lesser-known yes
sells swell the long list of tragic dis
appearances.
The White Star cattle-steamer, Mar
onic, with a crew of 60 hands and II
cattlemen, was lost in February or
March, 1898, while on a voyage from
Liverpool to New York She was a
month overdue before very much anx-
iety was felt, as it was known that
heavy weather had been experienced
in the Atlantic and it was thought
that she might have broken down and
was making for the Azores. A boat
with the name Naronic on 1t was sub
sequently found half full OF water and
abandoned. In this case the vessel
was a new one, launched in May Of
the previous year. She was built
with bulkheads and all modern inn
provements, was 400 feet long, and
had engines of 5000 horsepower. Yet
she disappeared, perhaps 1900 miles
from New York that being the loca
! ton of the abandoned boat.
In 1887 the Umbria was flooded by
= two great waves. In 1894 the Nor
mania was struck by solid wall Of
water reaching as high as the bridge
smashing the cabin on the promenade
deck, and carrying away the music
room and the officers quarters The
height of tidal waves ranges from
/ 40 to s 0feet The Cunarder Etruria
} was struck by a tidal wave on october
10, 1903, when a Canadian gentleman
was killed and several injured. The
7 captains port bridge and stanchions
were carried away. Though such
waves would not greatly endanger the
huge modern liners, they might have
, swamped their predecessors by break.
| ing through the decks or rushing
r down hatchways and skylights. Many
| vessels have been lost by being poop
q ed by vast storm waves, which are
not so high as are many tidal waves.
Damage to machinery may be sufti-
cient to explain the loss of a vessel
> by causing her to sink at one. The
City of Paris of the Inman line, had
a big smash in one of her engine
rooms on March 25 1890 She was
coming home in fine weather and
when she was near the Irish Coast
, the starboard engines broke down in
consequence of the fracture of the
starboard propeller-shaft, and the sea
filed the engine room. Then the
massive fragments of the wrecked
engine hammering against the bulk.
head smashed that, and allowed the
water to flow into the port engine
room, completely filling that also. In
about ten minutes both engine rooms
were filled with water, adding 5000
tons to the vessels weight. Yet she
To still floated securely and the outer skin
was not damaged in the least. The
watertight compartments kept the
City Of Paris afioat for three days
until he came to tow her into Queens
town. In the case OF the P. and o
- steamer Delhi, which stranded on De
cember %, 1891. off Cape Spartel, on
the Morocco cast, all the passen
gers were rescued, including the Duke
of Fife and the Princess Royal and
her daughters.