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forced into port. She will be assisted by the from severe weather. Her crew kept her afloat for control of the Penobscot and now ship-
tug RALPH ROSS. The two will clear ice all the by continuous pumping and buckets. After pers are bracing themselves for a rate hike.
The CARD kept running off before the way to the Boston & Bangor Steamship several days of repairs she set sail for Halifax. 26 February: The steamer ORION towed
gales which continued to follow in succes- Company’s dock She was again hit by foul weather, which blew the Thomaston three-masted schooner
sion until midnight of November 23, when the * * * * * her out to sea. The crew suffered from the JENNIE LOCKWOOD, Captain Hawthorn,
FRANKFORT hove in sight,” said Captain The schooner MAUD BRIGGS has gone elements and fatigue. Going from Halifax to from Norfolk to Boston, where she will be
Lowell. “She lowered a boat and took us off. ashore near Highland Light, Cape Cod, Mas- Eastport is a voyage of about two days, the repaired. On 4 February the LOCKWOOD set
We were hospitably treated and were landed sachusetts. She had loaded a cargo of crushed MARTHA A. BRADLEY took more than two sail from Brunswick with a cargo of lumber.
at Bremen where we secured return passage stone at Stonington and was delivering it to weeks to arrive and that prompted another That very night when she was 25 miles off
by the BARBAROSSA.” New York. It was stated that she had been announcement that some thought she had Cape Lookout she was in collision with the
21 December: The three-masted schoo- over taken by a gale, which drove her ashore been lost. new schooner HENRY B. FISKE. The colli-
ner ESTELLE, Captain Edwin G. Hutchinson, and was breaking up. This is the first mishap 6 February: The Ross tugs, which worked sion cause the LOCKWOOD to lose her fore-
continued her record breaking pace. She of her master, Captain S. W. Webster of West the Penobscot River, were sold to James T. mast, jib boom and bowsprit, broke the wind-
sailed from Bangor to Curacoa and then to Tremont. Morse of Boston after a very lengthy nego- lass and other damage. She was forced to
Ship Island in the Gulf in 23 days. She aver- The MAUD BRIGGS was built at the tiation of more than three years. The tugs anchor and two days later she was taken in
aged 173.9 miles a day since leaving Bangor. Oakes yard in Brewer in 1875. During her 26 involved were the BISMARCK, DELTA, tow by the Norwegian steamer LINWOOD,
She departed Bangor with a load of ice and years she has not been involved in many RALPH ROSS and WALTER ROSS all for who towed her to Norfolk. The FISKE also
lumber on 6 November and arrived at Curacoa mishaps and has been an excellent paying $35,000. Separating out the costs the BIS- suffered some damage. She had two holes
in 15 days. She departed there on 30 Novem- vessel. She had recently been rebuilt and was MARCK was $18,000; DELTA, $1,000; forward and the jib boom was gone.
ber and arrived at Ship Island on 9 December. as good a vessel as any other coasting schoo- RALPH ROSS, $15,000; and WALTER ROSS, * * * * *
After she loads her agent does not know for ner. Her managing owner is Charles A. Barbour $1,000. No word has been heard from the schoo-
where she will sail. of Brewer. The tugs were owned by the estate of ner H. E. THOMPSON, Captain William
The ESTELLE has sailed this passage 1902 Mrs. Anne C. Ross, 3/8; estate of Gilbert Reemie, which departed Brazil about Christ-
many times, taking out ice and lumber and 15 January – The schooner MAUD Howell, 3/8; and Walter Ross, ¼. mas. She was carrying a cargo of ore to
returning with salt. She has made some quick BRIGGS was in a collision with the Philadel- Captain Walter Ross has been running Baltimore and should have made port by now.
trips in the past, but this is certainly the best. phia schooner R. S. LEAMING off Chatham, the company since the death of his father. He Her usual master said that the voyage can be
The ESTELLE was built by William Beazley of MA. This has been settled by compromising will continue running them under the owners made 30 to 35 days, but usually, especially
Bucksport in 1891. on about 50 percent of the vessel’s and for the upcoming season. The new owner, during the winter months, one must allow at
28 December: The five-masted schoo- cargo’s value. Captain James T. Morse had a long discus- least 45 days.
ner JAMES PIERCE was launched from the * * * * * sion with Captain Ross after the papers were * * * * *
yard of Washburn Brothers of Thomaston. The fishing schooner MARTHA A. signed. When asked the following day, Cap- It was announced that the next five-
She was the first five master to be built at that BRADLEY was making a passage from Bay of tain Ross did not want to answer questions masted schooner to be built at the Welt yard
town. Islands, Newfoundland, with stops at about the sale or meeting. He did say that the in Waldoboro for Captain Palmer, will be
30 December: The tug BISMARCK made Louisburg and Halifax, and arrived in Eastport vessels, which had been working the river, named PAUL PALMER. She will not be as
her way from the Kennebec to the Penobscot after a horrendous voyage. She had been will continue to do so for the near future. large as the recently launched PRESCOTT
River to break ice around Bangor. During her twice given up as lost. When she arrived in Over the last two years there had been a PALMER.
trip she was hit by heavy winds and was Louisburg she had suffered a lot of damage price war between the Ross and Morse tugs
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