The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-01-22
MOTQRSHP 0REGBH
IN TROUBLE SENDS
|. OUT CALL. FOR HELP
Two Stsamshipss En- Route To
San francisco Rush 10 Rescue
and Danger Is Now Past
.LURLINE, is TOWING I'll
VESSEL TO HONOLULU
Craft Is On Her First Deep Sea
Voyage; Met Heavy Gales; Ex-
tent Of Damage Unknown

Wallowiug helplessly IN the trough
Of the sea, both engines stalled and
partitions Of her deck load going by the
board with every smash of the waves,
he motor ship Oregon, IL days out Of
San Francisco for Honolulu on her
maiden voyage, sent out distress signals
in the midst Of the storm in the early
iours yesterday morning, 80 miles
from Koko Head. p
The President, of the Pacific Steam
hip Co., and the Matson boat Lurline,
10Th Of which left Honolulu Saturday
we're rushed TO the rescue, the Presi-
lent being the first to reach the dis
ressed ship and sending in the first
lefinite news at two p. m. yesterday
o relieve the anxiety that followed the
receipt Of the distress signals at the
'ocal radio station.
Not In Danger
"No danger was the message that
anne from, the President upon her ar
ival alongside the motor ship. Two
,ours later the Lurline, which had not
ret reached the scene, sent out word
hat ii would tow the disabled motor
ship into Honolulu.
Word was still lacking last night as
TO the exact extent Of the Oregon dam
lges, but messages received intimate
hat the loss of most Of its deckload is
he worst that happened.
On account Of the fact that the Lur-.
Inc sailed without passengers from
Xahului, while the President had n
iong passenger list, the former win be
| Employed to tow the motorship to port,
probably with the assistance Of the
'ug Intrepid whiehrswin GO out to
meet the Lurline today.
| Heavy weather which still prevails
vill probably make the towing Of the
h )reVou a slow process, and shipping
men do not expect that 1t will arrive
| ,etore Tuesday noon.
Messages received at the Offices Of
Iastle & Cooke yesterday indicate that
| he motor ship first became stalled
ONE time during ltFEiday. although
| Capt. Nelson, who is in command Of
| Ter, appears to have had hopes of recti-
| 'ying the trouble, until the pitch Of the
| rnle reached its worst early Sunday
morning, when his FIRST signals were
ient out
THE Oregon WIS on. her arst deep sea
| ,oyage. She left san Frapaisco, jan
! rnry 2, with a cargo Of 1000 tons, her
leckl0ad believed TO have consisted
mainly of distillate and gasoline drums.
She is ore of the small ships that the
| government is taking over rs fast as
hey nre produced in Pacific Coast
Yards. She is being operated by the
'hipping board under the Matson line,
% replace the MatsGn boats that have
been diverted TO the Atlantic trans
port trade. .
Although the Oregon has never been
into this port, her skipper, Capt, Nell
on, is well known here, having com
masHded the Hlonian and the R. 2.
SHIP is Experiments a
Tho, experiment. in motor ship con-
struction by the government for war
| Nxigencies has been ACCOMPANIED by
forebodings on the part of local ship
ping men. The tyre Of ship, which was
selected because IL lends itself readily
to rapid construct ton is still more or
less of an experiment which has been
INDUCED in mainly by Sweden. Ships
Of the type Of the Oregon IRE to be
depended on mostly for the, carving
Of hulk ores, principally nitratcs from
Chile.
The gale which camo from the South
Saturday afternoon caused much con
fusion IL Honolulu harbot, where ships
that were sailing had difficulty In get
ing headed out properly in the stream,
but, aside from the Oregon, there has
been no report of serious damage. 1t
Is still in doubt whether the aceident
TO the engines was the result of the
storm or whether II merely intensified
the troubles of the unfortunate ship.
| The last of several message received
At the Offices Of Castle q Cooke stated
that the LuIline would get under way
with the disabled Oregon at nine.thirty
r. m. TN