Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-05-07
s. S. HOLSAIIA IS
Put INTO DRYDOCk
Inspectors Go to Hdo to / ook
Over Alters Preparatory
to Making Repairs

AT O'Clock this morning the ex.
German merchant steamer Holsatia,
third largest Of the refugee merchant
men In the Territory, wen on the Inter
lsiand dry dock 10 have, her hull
cleaned, preparatory to being .towed 10
the mainland for repairs. ! 4
Inspectors az Fiilo Today Il
James A Kennedy. representing the
United States shipping board; capts.
Joseph ] Meany and Thomas J.
FeeneY. the local United States in
epectofs Of halls and boilers, are in
Hilo today making a survey Of the o.
J ID. AhIers. largest Of the big four
sex-German boats They will order
work on the big merchantmen begun
10 put her IN shape TO be towed to the
coast by Matson steamer. They are
expected to return tomorrow morning.
Tugs Tow Big Freiohter i 80
Towed from her berth at the rail-
road wharf where she has been since
she sought refuge here in 1914 at the
beginning of the European war, the
Holsatia was warped into the dock
this morning by the Matson tug In
trepid and Young Brathers' tug Ma.
kaala. = Fe-
Water Ballast Pumped Out = !.
All day Saturday and Sunday work
continued on the H0lsatia. Saturday
a gasoline engine was put aboard and
set to work pumping out somI 5000
tons OF water ballast in the freigffter's
tanks. This morning $50 tons re.
manned In the forepeak tank. AS IL
was pumped out OF the hull rose some
four or five feet, before the ~drydock
Pumps were started. With the ballast
she drew 10 or 10 feet where her draft
empty should have been only IS feet.
Many 6arnacies; Little Moss
As the Helsatiass hull rose out OF
the water IN dryd0ck Il was seen to be
thiekIy encfnsted with barHacles, but
little green moss was present The
lack OF moss is believed to- be due to
the fact that she lay at the eva basin
where the flow Of fresh water from
Nuuanu stream mixes with and dilutes
the salt water. Men are working to-
day on both sides Of the hull, scraping
off the marine growth
Donkey Boilers Put Aboard Is
Two donkey boilers secured from
the InterIsland were put aboard the
Holsatia Sunday morning and bolted
to her deck One has steam up this
morning, working the pumps TO empty
her ballast tanks. The boilers viii
supply steam to work her steering
gear and pumps on the voyage to the
coast Her three main boilers were.
found burned out. The least damaged
OF the trio was so badly burned that
when fresh water was turned IN III
leaked like a sieve.
Rsrts Found Missing
The Holsatla's main engines are, in
apparently fair condition, Judging
from the outside. but her auxiliary en-.
gines. for running the dynamo, operat-
ing the pumps and turning over the
main engines, were found out OF com.
mission The dynamo is entirely
smashed. commutat0f and wires being
wrecked Parts OF her steam steering
gear are missing and are being re
placed BY the Inter.1sland. The Homo
lulu Iron Works Is replacing two parts
missing from the hand steering gear.
The big ffelshter is an English built
boat. having been constructed by
Rowan OF Elliott street, Glasgow. ].
Alex Lyle, drydocl superintendent or
the rIsland. is in charge OF work.
On the Holsatia while she is con the.
shelf.