April 2009 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 27.
Maritime History: News From Early 1901
The following is a summary from ar- until she stopped opposite Ayer’s Mill. Cap- AUGUSTUS HUNT has been arrested on a stone at the Mount Waldo Granite Company
ticles of the Bangor Daily Commerical for tain Baldwin simply stepped over the side of charge of manslaughter at Philadelphia. Wit- for the post office under construction at
1901, except for the first entry. the tug and walked towards ashore. When he nesses in the cases testified before a judge Chicago.
29 December, 1900: Crews at a dry-dock reached the ANDREW NEBINGER at the that a seaman, Antonio Monterio, had been 9 January: The steamer WIWURNA,
in East Boston spent all day shoring up the Ayer’s wharf he climbed up her side. This is lost overboard 120 miles off Cape Henlopen owned by the Eastern Steamship Company
six-masted schooner ELEANOR A. PERCY. something that was not usually done on any and the captain refused to put over a boat to and tied up at Southport for the winter, filled
The damage to her bottom is worse than river due to the likelihood of falling in. save him. It was stated that the complaint was and sank at her dock. At this time it is not
expected. A portion of the main keel is miss- 3 January: Gideon Young of the Mari- filed by six people, who were not American known why she sank. It is thought that one
ing, about seven eighths of her false keel is time Exchange in New York announced that citizens. In the evidence presented it was of her seacocks let go.
gone or damaged and some planks are chaffed. there were less wrecks during 1900 than in learned that had a boat been lowered immedi- 10 January: The fishing schooner
1901. any other year he remembers. He said that a ately it would have capsized and all drowned. NELLIE BURNS, Captain Edwin Doughty,
1 January: The steam yacht, owned by steamer, which get into trouble, are more than Captain Blair lowered sails to checked his arrived at Portland and announced that they
Hartley Baxter of Brunswick, is being length- likely able to get out of the predicament, speed and then lowered a boat. He said that had lost one of their crew members, Warren
ened at the Dyer Shipyard in South Portland. whereas a sailing vessel cannot. He added there was no negligence on his part and that A. Cowdry. The man were out in their dories
She has been cut in two and is having 15 feet that not a single trans-Atlantic steamer was there was no way to affect a rescue immedi- off Seal Island on 2 January. The weather was
added to her length. The interior work will be lost. True few liners are lost, but when this ately. Captain Blair is well-known in Bangor rough, but not too rough to prevent the men
done by Walter Corey company. This yacht happens, the number of lives and value of as he consistently makes voyages to Bangor fishing. Cowdry was in one dory and
was built at the Herreshoff Manufacturing property exceeds dozens of sailing ship di- during the summer. Alexander Newcomb was fishing close to him
Company in Bristol, Rhode Island. sasters. An underwriter also stated that ships 5 January: The five-masted schooner in another. Newcomb spoke to Cowdry and
* * * * * were outfitted with the most modern equip- NATHANIEL T. PALMER was purchased at then went back to work, only to look up a few
The damaged three-masted schooner ment, did not take unnecessary chances and her dock in Portland by the J. S. Winslow minutes later and Cowdry and his dory were
DAYLIGHT arrived at Rockland under the did not accept dangerous cargoes. In Britain, Company. She was built at Bath at a cost of gone. They searched for the missing man for
tow of the steamer CATHERINE, Captain a study of wrecks that occurred during the about $100,000. two days, but spotted nothing. Cowdry was
Crockett. The DAYLIGHT struck a ledge off first seven months was found to be caused by It was also learned that the three-masted from Chebeague Island, but had been living
Green’s Landing (Stonington) on 31 Decem- poor navigation or seamanship in 65 percent schooner ALLEN GREEN, owned by Captain in Boston the last 12 years and had just
ber. She was on her way to Green’s Landing of the cases. The most serious loss were John Pinkham, has been sold to Gross & Small recently joined the crew on the BURNS.
from Boston to load stone. It is not known those that went missing. One was the British of Deer Isle. 11 January: An article stated that the
how much damage she sustained at this time. steamer ROSEMORRAN, which departed 8 January: The just launched four-mas- business of shipping coal via barges was
2 January: The yard of Kelly, Spear & Baltimore for Londonberry, Ireland with a ter schooner GEORGE C. THOMAS is half increasing. Recently 12 barges, loaded with
Company of Bath launched the four-masted cargo of wheat and a crew of 36 men. The loaded with shooks at Bucksport. Once she 18,000 tons of coal, left Philadelphia and it
barge HAVANA, which was built for the steamer LIVORNO, which departed New York is fully loaded, which should take a week or was stated that this was not a busy day.
Staples Coal Company of Taunton, Massa- for Santos, went missing in March. It was also so to complete, she will need another couple * * * * *
chusetts. A large crowd gathered to watch stated that fewer warships and troopships of days work before she us ready to sail since Over at Pulpit Harbor, Charles F. Brown,
the launching despite the extremely cold tem- suffered disasters. The French lost the tor- she is a new vessel. is building a 35-footer for J. Murray Forbes of
peratures. The dimensions of the HAVANA pedo boat TURELL off Cape Finisterre and * * * * * Boston; two 21-foot day racers for C. F. Ames
are length 245.4 feet, beam 43.3 feet, depth the lost the German school ship GNEISENNU The tug RALPH ROSS, which has been of Rochester and George and Harry Shattuck
19.3 and 1,617.91 gross tons. She will be off Spain. The Japanese also lost a training hauled out for repairs to her rudder at Fogg’s of Boston; and a racing launch for a Rockland
commanded by Captain John Canaza. ship, the TSUKISHIMA with the loss of 121 railway, will be back in the water soon. She will machine company.
* * * * * lives in a typhoon in Surga Bay. then go to the Frankfort marsh and tow out Also mentioned was a new steamer be-
The tug BISMARCK, Captain Baldwin, * * * * * the schooner L. A. PLUMMER to Fort Point
came up river and was breaking four inch ice Captain Robert Blair of the schooner bay. The PLUMMER has been loading cut
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