The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-05-07


bow and sides. The landlubber shows
none of the sailor IS contempt for field
ice, for sometimes the foes are about
the size of an ordinary New York
brownstone house.
There were times when the fog set.
tied down so close about the vessel that
those on her deck could not see a ships
length ahead and what they saw of the
dull gray drift was not comforting.
The temperature was very low, and
upon the near APPROACH of the ice wind
blew from it which was as cold and
cutting as a winter g gale. 1t was only
after hours of slow steaming that clear
water showed ahead and the Lapland
let out few knots
Another Experience.
Close to the Lapland, and creeping
through the fog, was the Hamburg
American liner President Lincoln, which
got to her 'Hoboken pier in the morn
ing after being fogbound outside the
Hook. Friday she entered large field
of ice dotted in all directions by tow.
ering bergs.
Imagine ship crawling over the
ice by some mysterious power of loco.
motion" said Captain Magin, "and
one would have some visual idea of
our experience. We were to all appear
ance in the midst of polar landscape,
so close was the ice packed in. From
every side there was the same view, n
white eXpanse with the bergs showing
in the distance like snow-covered build.
ings-churches of many spires-a white
landscape rather than the Atlantic
Ocean,
For nearly two days speed was
reduced and there were times when the
vessel had to leave her course in order
to follow some channel through the
drifting mass. Fortunately the weather
was clear.
Had to Reverse.
Several times the President Lincoln
had to be reversed to avoid coming too
close to dangerous looking ice. The
center of the field, Captain Magin said,
was in latitude 41:55 north and longi-
tude SOFA west.
Captain Polack of the North German
Lloyd liner George Washington, in port
recently from Bremen, said that ice
conditions off the banks were un-
usually bad. The vessel entered the ice
fields Friday afternoon, sighting two
towering bergs and two others some.
what smaller. The log records the
acres of drift in latitude 42:13, longi.
tude 1919. The liner ran at reduced
speed, and did not get very near any
of the bergs.
The steamer st. Laurent, from Bor-
deaux, reported the same ice field. but
steamed further south, and cleared it
with less trouble.
The Holland-American liner Rotter-
dam, from Rotterdam, reports ono
ice Captain Stenger said that April
10 g black fog shut in everything.
! smelled ice and started south to keep
clear''
Captain Wood of the steamship Etc.
MAN, which arrived from Antwerp, re.
ported that April 10, in latitude 40
north, longitude 80 west, the ship
passed about twenty icebergs and
field of ice los miles in length. That
night the Etonian saw the schooner
Dorothy Baird of st. Johns drifting
in the pack with all sails lowered ap.
parently waiting until daylight before
taking any chances with the icebergs.
Like experiences were the lot of the
california, Captain Blaikie, which came
in from Glasgow yesterday, the ship
travelling through much ice in the same
general position, but not touching any
of the bergs.
A suggestion of the reason for the
Titanic g collision in comparatively
clear weather is contained in report
of the French liner Touraine, which
reached Havre Monday night from
New York She went eastward over
the THAMES course. Her commander
reports that she encountered huge
field of ice with the tops of the bergs
only showing slightly above tho water.
The Touraine slowed down and emerg-
ed from the field of ice after an hour.
Next morning she passed other icebergs.
The Touraine was in wireless communi.
cation with the Titanic on the after.
noon of April l2.