Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-26

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PATROL CRUISER
New Sweden's Captain Tells
of Voyage; is Going 5000 :
Miles Longer Route

Held up by a British patrol cruiser,
taken to Kirkwall. Scotland, detained
three and half days there while her
cargo was searched for contraband
&c eds, meme of which were found: and
delayed a week more in the Panama
Canal by slides at Cucaracha Reach,
are few of the adventurous incl
dents which have to date enlivened
the voyage Of the fine big Swedish
steamer New Sweden. which arrived
this morning from Balboa aud is to-
DAY taking 500 tons Of bunkeF coal at
Pier 6 from the Inter-Island. -
Painted a battleship gray, with her
rame and nationality designated by
black letters three feet high on her
sides, and with the Swedish national
cclors painted forward and aft in per
perdicular stripes, the New Sweden
is taking no chances on her national
ity being mistaken. She did not see
am submarines en- route to Panama,
however.
Voyage 5000 Miles Longer
Captain J. NJ. Renstrom said the
big freighter, three years old, left Got
tenburg, Sweden, July q, and is com
ing this way, some 5000 miles longer,
to reach Yokohama, Kobe, Moji. Shan:
ghai and Hongkong, to avoid going
through the Suez Canal which war
conditions have rendered troublesome
to merchant vessels. The steamer is
carrying 5000 tons of general cargo,
all manufactured in Sweden, and in
Guiding general merchandise, paper,
cloth, machinery, iron and steel, con-
dtnsed milk and many other articles
The distance ia Suez from Gotten.
burg to yokohama is 1000 miles;
via Panama, $4,000.
Stopped Patrol Cruiser
I'VE left Gottenburg July 90" said
Captain Renstrom, land two days out
were stopped by British patrol cruis-
or, taken to Kirkwall and detained
three and a half days until the author
tiles were satisfied our cargo contain
ed no contraband When we came to
Panama we were held up seven days
by rock slides in Cucaracha Reach
The rock had first to be blasted and
then dredged."
Many Vessels At Canal
The New Sweden, with her draft
OF q feet. passed the Cucaracha slide,
with New Zealand steamer drawing
80 feet hold up in Gamboa Reach
waiting for dredges. to clear out the
Cucaracha debris two feet deeper She
had entered the canal the day before
the New Sweden. There were about
10 steamers at Balboa waiting to pass
wien the Swedish steamer steamed
from Balboa for Honolulu. At both
Balboa and Colon 80 vessels were tied
up by the slide -.
Steamer Is Traded 49,. ....... -
Captain Renstrom said the New
Sweden has been traded by her own
ers, the Swedish American Mexican
line, to the Swedish East Asiatic line,
IN exchange for the steamer Canton.
When the New Sweden ends her pres
ent voyage and returns home her
name will be changed to the Formosa,
and she will be put on the Canton's
present run from Gottenburg and
Christiania to Philadelphia, Newport
News and ports on the east coast of
Mexico. -
Steaming time of the New Sweden
from Balboa was II days and 20 hours.
She made IL IL knots from the canal
to this port, and will steam at dusk
this evening for Yokohama, which she
expects to make in IA days, .~.
The T. K. K. tramp steamer Dairen
Maru, which lay today at Pier al.
most rubbing sides with the New Swe,
den, is former East Asiatic line boat,
then named the Siam, Captain Rem
strom. rema% sd.