The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-11-02
VESSEL WRECKED.
CREW BROUGHT HERE.
Churchill Lost On French Friuate
Shoals - Men Rescued At
ter Thrilling Experience

Battered by heavy seas for more
than twelve hours, the American four.
mast schooner Churchill is a total
wreck on French Frigate Shoals. Her
crew and two young sons Of the cap
tain were rescued by the power sam.
pan Makiawa and brought to HOnolu-
lu where they arrived yesterday morn.
ing. IT,
Those rescued from the wrecked
schooner arc;
Capt. Charles Cranzow; Chief OFF,
Ger Henry Anderson; second 0fficer
Fred Wilson; Carpenter John Wessiek I;
Seamen A. Anderson, william Miller,
Daniel PinzoiH, Pedro Romos, Sterling
Jones, Hufo Munich; Carl Granzow,
seven, and LOTUS Granzow, fifteen,
sons of the captain.
The Churchill, Capt. Charles Gran.
COW, was sighted in distress by fish.
ermen aboard the sampan Makiawa
last Friday morning. The captain and
four of the crew were aboard the yes.
sci when the little craft arrived, the
ships boat with seven others, includ-
ing the captain s two sons aged seven
and fifteen, having put OF for French
Frigate Rock late the night before.
Surrounded by Sharks So. n-..
When the sampan arrived Captain
0ranzow and the remaining four mem.
bers of the crew were endeavo ring to
construct raft with which they ex-
pected to leave the sinking ship. Their
time was short and they realized that
L tho fninhf IN min ana Ia,
| rocks any minute. And to add to the
gravity Of the situation, hundreds OF
sharks were seen to be swarming
around the doomed ship, apparently
aware of the nearness Of q human
meal. Ha...5E
| A small boat was sent to the sink
ing ship and four trips were required
through the raging sea. to carry the
captain and the four members of the
| erew with a few valuables 10 the sam
pan, in which were the members of
a fishing party which p, left Honolulu
a few days before. In the party were:
Harold w. Rice, Lieutenant +. Il.
Ferriz, U. s. n, formerly captain of
the Kestrel; Arthur Rice, H. l.. Tuck
err and the captain and crew of tine
sampan, as follows: William Feuer-
peil, crew captain; johnny Vasconcel.
los, chief engineer; Manuel Depont,
second engineer; Levi Faunfata, q
Samoan seaman. IA. Il ~
Search for Boat .f1f.sf .
\ After all were settled as comfortably
as possible, the Makiawa set out in
search of the small boat which had put
loff late the night before. Captain
Granzow said he had instructed Chief
Mate Anderson to take his two sons
land four soamen, with a plentiful snip
lply of provisions, and make for French
Frigate Rock, which he told them was
byisible in the moonlight tjt er~l;'l
! At two-forty in the afternoon of DC.
tober 20 Manuel Dep0nt saw the small
ships boat tossing about in the heavy
Iswells with seven persons aboard The
occupants stated they had attempted to
land on q rock during the night, and
finding il impossible to do 50, they
rstarted westward in search Of what
they took to be land. The rock was
tlost sight of during squat and they
were carried with the wind. They had
drifted about ten miles and had been
ltrying to row back to the island
Iagainst a heavy wind but they were
unequal to the elements and nearly
exhausted when picked up. NJ
The Makiawa was carried ninety
tmiles south OF her course on the home
ward voyage. Upon reaching Homo
lulu the rescued seamen were taken "a
the immigration station. So. -. .
I The Churchill was twenty seven days
out from the Friendly Islands when
she struck the reef Of the famous