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I nailed up the cabin doors and shutters to tered the schooners WILLIAM H. DAVEN- and will change her hailing port to New York.
prevent the sea from getting inside. PORT and ADDIE P. MCFADDEN. They will 12 February: The Deer Isle two-masted
ing built by W. A. Moody for Captain I. E. “I then went forward to the forecastle be loaded with cannon and coal at New York schooner IDA L. RAY, with a cargo of lumber,
Archibald of Rockland. Her keel is 115 long and engine room and built a good fire under for Portsmouth. was abandoned off Virginia. Captain Ander-
and she sports an overall length of 123 feet, the boiler, and although there was a foot of ice * * * * * son and three of the crew were rescued by the
beam 26 feet and depth 8 feet. At this time she on the vessel’s decks and the water froze as Kennebunkport has not seen a ship built Atlas liner ALLEGHANY and landed at New
is almost ceiled up, half the deck beams are in soon as it fell on board, I believed I should be there in years. Well-known shipbuilder David York. The RAY was making a passage from
and workers have started to lay the deck. able to pass the night safely. Clark has been given an order by John W. Norfolk to New York when she was hit by a
16 January: It was said that the five “At dark the huge combers were batter- Deering of Portland for a 500-ton schooner. Nor’wester off Cape May. She began leaking
masted schooner OAKLY C. CURTIS would ing at the vessel’s stern and after house, This schooner will be used in the lumber and for two days her crew pumped, but the
be launched the coming Saturday. She was which received the first impact and in the business and will be under the command of leak continued to gain. Soon she became
built for J. S. Winslow & Company of Portland early part of the evening the cabin was Captain William Gould. waterlogged with her deck level with the sea.
and would be under the command of Captain smashed to kindling wood and drifted to the * * * * * Captain Anderson feared that she might break
M. E. Hodgdon. He was formerly the master beach. The MYRA B. WEAVER has arrived at up, he and the crew got into the yawl boat.
of the four-master FRANK T. STINSON. The “They say that misery likes company, the marine railway in Belfast where she will be They were passed by other vessels, but they
J. S. Winslow Company recently purchased and knowing there were two kittens in the repaired. She arrived minus two masts, rail on failed to see the distress signals. The chief
the five-masted schooner NATHANIEL T. mid-ship house, where the galley is located, one side, all her houses and some keel dam- officer of the ALLEGHANY saw the yawl
PALMER, the four-master FRANK A I started after them, lantern in hand. I reached age. boat and rescued the crew, who now had
PALMER and several others. the galley, and right glad were the cats to see * * * * * frostbitten hands and feet and hungry.
25 January: The mate of the four-masted me and with them on my shoulders I started The Metropolitan Coal Company, owner 20 February: The was rumour that a
schooner GEORGE P. DAVENPORT told of back. When about half way a terrific sea of the steamer HECTOR, has been served contract had been signed for the building of
his experiences on board when she grounded struck aboard and I went into the lee rigging with a libel suit by the owners of the schooner a seven-masted schooner at Franklin, and
off Nashawena while carrying coal from Phila- while cats and lantern were washed away. JOSEPH W. HAWTHORNE at the United that she would be commanded by Captain O.
delphia to a northern port. He said, “When 4 February: Captain William R. Kregar of States District Court in Boston. The owners W. Frost. It was learned that the story began
the lifesavers came and took the crew off at the five-masted schooner NATHANIEL T. of the HAWTHORNE are seeking $7,000 fol- at a camping party at Tunk Lake near Steuben.
8:30 pm Sunday the wind, although blowing PALMER has arrived at his Fairfield home lowing a collision with the HECTOR in Vine- As for Captain Frost he recently left New
a gale from north northwest was not endan- after a very successful voyage. During this yard Sound on 24 October last year. The York for Bermuda with sails for the schooner
gering the vessel and as Captain McLeod had passage a storm hit the New England coast damages to the schooner included loss of the JOHN PAUL. She was making a voyage from
gone to Vineyard Haven for assistance. I felt forcing many vessels to seek shelter. Captain jibboom, bowsprit, and bitts and damage to a west coast port in Africa to Boston with a
that I ought to stand by until he returned for Kregar chose not to seek shelter and stayed the stem, twelve planks on the portside, cargo of oil.
fear she might be boarded by someone who outside and made Portland before any other twelve sprung planks on the starboard side, * * * * *
would claim heavy salvage if she were aban- vessel. A person at the Exchange Street ship- breaking apron and cutwater. The The managers of the schooner MYRA B.
doned. ping office said, “It was just like Kregar to HAWTHORNE is presently under repair at WEAVER were visited by U. S. Marshals of
“So I waved the lifesaving crew and our beat them out. He isn’t afraid of anything but Newburyport. Portland who placed an injunction on the
crew a good bye when they left me alone and he knows when to take a chance and when to The owners of the HECTOR brought suit schooner to stop further repairs on the schoo-
although it was bitter cold I thought at that go inside. We’re hoping he’ll come up the against the HAWTHORNE for $15,000 re- ner at Belfast. The WEAVER was wrecked in
time I should pass a comfortable night. They Penobscot during the coming season; if he garding the damages she sustained in the Vineyard Sound several months ago and was
had hardly left before the wind shifted to does he will be congratulated by all of us collision a few days after it happened. As to taken to Boston. She was then brought to
southwest and I doubt if I should be believed upon being in command of one of the best who was at fault will likely be settled in court. Belfast where repairs were estimated to cost
if I stated how the heavy seas breached craft afloat.” 11 February: Captain Fields Pendleton about $10,000. The injunction was issued by
across the DAVENPORT’s decks. I saw at * * * * * recently purchased a majority interest in the F. S. Pendleton and others of Islesboro who
once that a bad time was coming on fast, so The United States government has char- Bath schooner JOSEPH W. HAWTHORNE own 21/64 shares of the vessel. The WEAVER
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