The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-09-07
Vessel FROM
GUAM STRIKES.
THREE WAsPS
nj N|OOR|NGS
Engines Fail Auxiliary Steamer
Going To Anchor At Naval
Wharf and She Plows Through
F-class, Gripping Them All
LITTLE CRAFT TANNED
TOGETHER BY IMPACT

They Are Spread Out Like Fan
And So Badly Shufiled That
They Must Go To the Drydock
For Extensive Exterior Repairs
lW/HILE entering the harbor
w yesterday afternoon, the
United States supply ship Supply,
from Guam, struck the three F.
class submarines, berthed at the
end of Pier 6. Her engines failed,
said Lieut.. Robert Henderson,
commander.
All submarines will have to 60
in drydock before they can be
used. The accident put the whole
submarine hotilla out of commits
sion. The other ship, the F-4,
has been in drydock only a week
today after five months beneath
the sea.
1--WE have made only a prelimi-
nary examination, so far" said
Lieut.. Kirby B. Crittenden, COM
mander Of the first submarine div
ision, land we will send divers
down tomorrow to look the boats
over more fully. 1t is apparent,
from the examination we made,
that the diving gear and steering
gear of all the submarines are out
of commission, and they will have
to go on the drydock. That will
be here, of course. There are
facilities for the work.
No Person Is Injured
"In addition to the damage to
the gear, there is a cut in the su-
lpcrstructure over the after part of
the F-2, almost to the shell plat
ing. There is no leak from this,
but there is a leak in the after
fuel tank of the FL, made when
the boats were tangled up togeth-
err"
No one was injured, as the men
were on the Alert, moored near
by, or at quarters.
Had the Supply struck the sub
marines twenty or twenty-five
feet forward, they would have
been damaged far more seriously,
perhaps crushed or cut badly. The
Roadway of the Supply was not
great, however. She tried to stop
by dropping both anchors; they
failed to hold her. The accident
occurred at four twenty FIVE
o'clock yesterday afternoon. The
Supply, station ship at Guam, is
on her way to San Francisco and
, Bremerton, where she will re-.
ceive repairs, principally 10 her
engines, which are bad.
Engines Fail To Respond
The Supply was to dock at the
navy wharf, in the slip usually
occupied by the Navajo. She WAS
moving toward Pier 6, under her
Roadway, the engines being shut
off, and she tried to back to throw
her head around so as to enter the
slip properly. The engines did
not respond, Captain Henderson
said. H.. 'r..'' -. =
Moving toward the sterns Of
the three submarines, lying side
by side at the end of Pier E, on
the government side, the only step
possible to avert the danger to
the frail submarines was attempt.
ed. The starboard anchor was
dropped while about 100 feet from
the F-2, followed by the port an
Choir, but, as narrated, they did
/ not hold, and the bow of the Supply
crashed into the Fig.
1t passed through the light super.
structure, making hole apparently
about two feet deep, down toward the
tail shaft. This forced the Fig toward
the naval barge, which lay between
! the submarines and the dock-a for
innate circumstance for the barge
acted as spring, and relieved the
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