The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-08-01
CRUISER ST. LOUIS
ARRIVES HERE FOR
PERMANENT DUTY
(From Sunday Advertiser)


lETS HE United states cruiser St.
Louis arrived from Bremerton
navy.yard aud Seattle yester.
day morning and berthed at the navy
wharf. She will be here at least until
the middle Of the week and perhaps
longer before going to Pearl Harbor to
serve as flagship for Adml. c. J. Boush,
commandant of the fourteenth district,
as training ship for the Hawaiian naval
militia and as tender TO the X class
SUBMARINES. Bunker coal will be taken
here.
/ Lieut.. -Comdr. v. s. Houston is com.
mander Of the st. Louis.
The run from Cape Flattery was
made in a little more than seven DAYS
She departed from Seattle at three
O'Clock Friday afternoon, July 81, and
passed the Cape at four o'clock next
morning. She averaged about thirteen
sea miles an hour on the voyage. II
was her first long voyage in about two
years. Good weather was met but
there were strong trades the last two
days. She was slowed down to avoid
getting of port Friday night.
FIRST Big Ship For Station
Except for the cruiser Maryland, the
st. Louis is the first naval vessel of
any size to be here in the last eighteen
months. She is the first big vessel to
be stationed here. Officers of the st.
Louis, besides Lieutenant Comma nder
Houston, are: Lieut. r. l.. Slower, ex.
ecutiVe and navigating officer; Lieuts.
w. +. Gresham, H. w. Stiles and r.
s. Parr, Surgeon w. s. Hoen, Chief
Boatswain w. A. Macdonald, Chief
Gunner +. G. Wisker, Chief Machiuist
ID. Mullan, Carpenter R. J. Leahy and
Pay Clerk c. r. Fuller. Lieutenants
Gresham and Stiles are assigned TEN.
pOrarily to the cruiser and will return
to the States soon. Other officers to
give her seven in the wardroom are ex-
pected.
Not only has the st. Louis a short
complement of officers but her crew is
lacking even for reserve compile.
ment. She has only 217, whereas she
should have 26O, but men are expect
ted during the next few months to
bring her complement up to reserve.
Visitors will be welcomed today from
nine O'Clock in the morning until FIVE
o clock in the afternoon except be.
to one fifteen O'Clock.
OF. Louis is Th1rd GLASS
| The st. Louis is third-class crui-
ser, rated speed twenty one and one
half knots, normal displacement 300
TONS armed with fourteen six.inch
rifles and eighteen three-inch, 424 feet
long Mt the water line, 1927 feet over
all, sixty-six feet beam and twenty
three and one.fourth feet maximum
draft. No guns are mounted in tur-
rets, the fore and aft six-inch being
! on deck. She was launched in 1905
I and is a sister of the Milwaukee, and
Charleston. She has four tunnels
Heavies armOr is fOur,inch. The st.
Louis has been in reserve at Bremerton
Some of the officers have been on duty
off the West Coast of Mexico for some
time. They seemed glad to get away.
Lieut.. Bruce l.. Canaga, well known
here through his long stay as com
mander of the Alert, Is commander Of
the cruiser New Orleans, officers of the
st. Lonis said, now taking the naval
militins of Oregon and Washington to
| Alaskan waters.
Following are petty officers of the
st. Louis: c. J. Nielsen, chief boat
swain's mate; J. Warner, chief boat
swain 5 mate; C. Axelson, chief gun
ner's mate; L. T.. Hammond chief
qunrtermaster; G. Howard, chief quar-
termaster; A. r. Butts, chief electri-
clan; F. A. Bauer, chief carpenter s
mate; A. B. Provost, chief machinist =
mate; Q. Bergen, chief machinist 8
mate; c. Snyder, chief water tender;
ID. Mcdonald, chief water tender; l..
L. Ballard, chief yeoman; W. D. with
ers, chief yeoman; Q. C. Tucker, hos,
pital steward.