Dates and Events and Visits to Hecker Island - p, 3 
Dates of Visit or 
Event Personnel Remarks 
Source 
Wov. 5w 1917 
May 27, 1894 
Annexation Party 
Oct. 25, 1917 H.L.Tucker 
F.E.Ferris 
Harold W. Rice 
Wov. 5? 1917 Cummins party 
MS.title* Trip of the Motor Vessel "J.A. Cummins 0 Tucker (MS) 
from Honolulu to French Frigate Shoal, Wov. 2-1^, 
1917 to visit wrecks of the schooner Churchill 
lost Oct. 25, 1917. Dropped anchor at 9^5 a.m. 
under bluff of West Cove. 10^30 a.m. Low, Miller, 
Lishman, Tucker, and two of the crew go ashore 
landing to left of gut in West Cove. Investigated 
ancient runin, bird life, and finally discovering 
documents in metal tube under flag pole on summit 
above west cove. 
Gives document claiming island as part of the Tucker (MS) 
Hawaiian Territory under president of provisional 
government, Sanford B. Dole. Persons signing 
document were J.A. King (Minister of the Interior), 
Wm. Freeman (Master of Hawaiian Str. Iwalani ) 
Jas. Gregory (Cheif Officer of same) Albert Tullett 
(2nd officer of same). 
Records left by Tuckers party of Wov.5? 1917 Tucker (MS) 
Visit by the power sampan Makaiwa . of Kahului, Maui, 
Rice in charge. 
Document left read that on way to F.F.S. to salvage Tucker (MS) 
Churchill anchored at above date. States that following 
people explored island from end to end. Eben P. Low, 
H.L.Tucker, "Dude" Miller, John Lishman and four 
Hawaiian boys of the Cummins crew. Bird-notes : 
Black-footed Albatross, Laysan Albatross : very numerous 
Young fluffy boobies numerous, many frigate and tern 
young. Ho young albatross noted. Hawaiian boy catches 
wild duck which is either Laysan of Hawaiian teal. 
Very tame. Miller and Lishman strip cat ching turtle. 
Caught several small sharks, ulua, sword fish, and small 
red fish at Hecker Island anchorage. 
