February 2009 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 29.
Maritime History:
Various Articles from Early 1900
* * * * * $33,486,772 for materials, mill supplies, freight
30 April – The Bath schooner NELLIE T. and fuel.
MORSE, Captain Kenniston, which was mak- The total American tonnage was 826,694,
ing a passage from Jamaica to New York with which was a decrease of 461,631 tons from
a cargo of lumber, was reported ashore near 1890. It was noted that the number of ship-
the Rockaway Beach lifesaving station. There builders increased 17 percent, capital invested
was no one on board and her agents, A. H. increased 1,340 percent, wages increased 261
Bull & Company, had not heard of the disas- percent and the total value produced from
ter until contacted by the Associated Press. construction and repair increased 340 per-
The crew had abandoned the vessel and cent from 1890 to 1900.
landed at the Rockaway Beach lifesaving It is thought that the shipbuilding capital
station. The cargo consisted of 345,000 feet for the next decade will be between the Dela-
of lumber for the Wood, Barker & Company. ware River and the Chesapeake Bay districts.
* * * * * * * * * *
3 May – During the past week the new 85- 10 May – A big crowd gathered around
ton fishing schooner MARION E. TURNER the Barbour yard in Brewer to watch the
arrived at her homeport of Tremont under the launching of the excursion steamer VERONA
command of Captain Clarence E. Turner. The just before noon. The launch was smooth and
TURNER was built by W. Irving Adams of once she hit the water the tugs STELLA and
East Boothbay and was named for the WALTER ROSS were waiting mid-river to
captain’s eight year old daughter. Her dimen- take her in tow. The STELLA pushed the
sions are length 91 feet; waterline length 77 VERNONA into the inside berth at Rollins’
feet; beam 23 feet; depth of hold 9.5 feet; and wharf with the TREMONT on the outside.
draft of 11 feet. She cost $8,000 and is owned Both Captain George H. and Captain Henry
by Jordan & Trefethen of Portland, Parker W. Barbour were given congratulations for
Brothers and Frank Thompson. Her crew such a splendid launch.
An artist rendition of the old schooner POLLY.
consists of John Rowe, Hiram Dix, Heman Her keel was laid on 16 October and a
Barbours in 1892 and burned at Providence,
in 1884. She was brought to Bangor after she
Gott, Benjamin Halet, Thomas Pinkham, large crew has been working on her construc-
RI.
was launched and was only in town for 15
Randall Trask, Howard Staples, Frank Th- tion with the exception of the time between
The main deck is open aft forward to the
minutes before she was sold to the Bangor
ompson, Millard Clemons, John O’Brien, Christmas and 1 March.
engine room. The saloon deck is also open
and Brewer Steam Ferry Company, which was
Rodney Grey, Isaac Dunbar, and Tan Holt. The 149-ton VERONA was the largest
with the exception of the house, which con-
owned by Captain H. J. Leach and Captain
* * * * * steamer built by the Barbour since the
tains clerk’s office, main companionway and
Charles Burr.
9 May – The census bureau of the United CIMBRA launched in 1882. She was designed
a room for life preservers. Her upper deck has
The gist of the article was about replac-
States released their finding on the shipbuild- on the lines of the CITY OF BANGOR, which
just the pilothouse and captain’s quarters.
ing this great vessel, but the cost would have
ing industry for 1900. It showed that there was built in the 1870s. The Barbours other
Passengers will not be allowed up on this
been great. However this last spring she had
were 1,116 shipbuilders who had an invest- steamers have been more for general service
deck.
a difficult time with the spring floods and
ment of $77,862,701. However, this figure on Penobscot and Frenchman’s Bay, and not
* * * * *
there is a need for additional passenger space
does not include the stock of any corpora- excursions as the VERONA was. She has a
In 18 years the small steamer BON TON,
in the good weather.
tion. The products returned at $74,578,158. length of 124 feet, beam 28 feet and draws 8
which traversed the Penobscot River be-
* * * * *
The wages for office personal was $2,008,537 feet. For power she has an Almy water tube
tween Bangor and Brewer, was estimated to
12 May – The Calais two-masted schoo-
and for workers $24,839,163. They also spent boiler. Her engines come from the
have carried more than 5,000,000 people. The
Continued on Page 30.
$3,685,661 for rent, taxes and etc; and another AWASHONKA, which was built by the
BON TON was built by Bramhall at Camden
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