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

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

Held up by a British patrol cruiser
taken TO KirkwaH, Scotland. detained
three and half days there while her
cargo was searched for contraband
goods, none OF which were found; and
delayed a week more in the Panama
Canal by slides at Cucaracha Reach,
are a 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 and is to-
day taking 500 tons of bunker coal at
Pier from the lnter-ISland
Painted battIeship gray, with her
Eame 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
an submarines en- route to Panama.
hcweYe.
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 $500 tons of general cargo,
all manufactured in Sweden, and in
oil lfrNe al,
cloth, machinery, iron and steel, con-
dtnsed milk and many other articles.
The distance ia SueZ from Gotten
burg to Yokohama Is 1900 miles:
via Panama, $4,000.
Stopped ey Patrol Cruiser
I'VE left Gottenburg July 29," said
Captain Renstrom, and two days out
were stopped by British patrol cruls-
or, taken To Kirkwall and detained
three and half days until the author
tiles were satisfied our cargo contain
ed no contraband. When we came 10
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 a New Zealand steamer drawing
20 feet hold UP in Gamboa Reach
waiting for dredges to clear out the
Cuearacha debis two feet deeper. She
had entered the canal the day before
the New Sweden. There were about
10 steamers at Balboa waiting to pass
when the Swedish steamer steamed
from Balboa for Honolulu At both
Balboa and Colon 80 vessels were tied
up by the slide.
Steamer Is Traded
Captain Renstrom said the New
Sweden has been traded by her own
ers. the Swedish-American-M Mexican
line, to the Swedish East Asiatic line,
III 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 II ~. 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. X. K. tramp steamer Dairen
Maru, which lay today at Pier Z al
most rubbing sides with the New Swe,
den, is former East Asiatic line boat, |
then named the Siam, Captain Rem |
strom rema I'D.