Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-14
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WATERFRONT NOTES
Another Steamer Pays Toll to
FOrmOSan WATERS,


Another steamer, the o. S. K. Nan
yetsu Maru II, was caught in the ty,
phoon of the 18th instant in Formo-
san waters, the two previous victims
being the British steamer Dacre Cas-
tie, which was wrecked off Keelupg,
and the N. Y. K. chartered steamer
Bushu Maru, which ran aground at
Takao. The Nanyetsu ran aground off
Taikanroku, at the southern end of
the island, at p. m. on the 10th. She
sustained serious damage to her hull,
and shows a considerable list to the
starboard stern, about half the hull
being flooded. The vessel had a mar
row escape from being capsized. Her
deck fittings were badly damaged and
two life-boats smashed, while the
starboard anchor chain parted. The
passengers and crew were all landed.
According to report of the COM
mander of the Japanese destroyer Shi-
ranui, which was sent to the scene of
the accident, there Is little hope of
salving the vessel. The Nanyetsu
Maru II Qate Potokino) is of 2,128
tons gross, and was built at Dunbar
ton in 1890.
Lumber Rates Go Soaring.
The half dozen windjammers eth
er loading at Puget Sound ports or
enroute to Honolulu with lumber, are
said will net the owners a far larger
revenue upon the investment owing
to The rapid and constant increase in
tonnage rates.
The contrast in the existing lumber
rates and those paid a year ago are
by the charter of the well
known barkentine Alta, at Melbourne,
which has been fixed by shippers in
Sydney for lumber from British Co
lumbia to Australia. The Alta was
chartered to load for Sydney at 60
a year ago she made the
same voyage for 80 shillings and nine
pence. The British steamer Ikalis Is
now on her way to Caspar to load
lumber for Australia. She will fin
ish her cargo on the Columbia. The
Ikhala, of the same line. has arrived
in the Sound and is said not to be
under charter at present, her fixture
to Moore & Company having expired.
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Flies Japanese Flag.
Again the we'll known British steam
CT BannOckburn has changed hands,
and this time she changes her register
orce and for all to the Japanese flag,
becoming one of the many vessels OPP
Grating for the Nippon Yusen Kaisha.
That company recently Dur hased a
1900 ton freighter. which was being
rHild at the Russell Shipbuilding Yards
r England A year ago the Bannock |
burn was acquired by the Jetsam Ship |
,ing Company for 100000, and was at |
hat time renamed the Hill Craig. Now |
she is old to the Nippon Yusen Kai |
;ha for $4,000, a price indicating how
badly large capacity freighters are |
leeded IN the Orient.
Royal Mail 70 Send Representative.
Royal Mail Steam Jacket company. |
who is now in London comforting with /
he directors Of the company regard |
ng the establishing of a service tOl
he North Pacific in preparation fof
he opening Of the Panama canal, is !
expected TO return to the coast in
December 10 make arrangements for
oerthing the company's steamers al
Vancouver and Victoria. Mr.. Nash
spent several months Investigating
conditions at Puget Sound and Brit
sh Columbia ports, and was favor
ably impressed with the prospects for
establishing a heavy trade with the
United Kingdom via the canal to this