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Maritime History: News From Early 1901
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Later the tug RALPH ROSS brought into The Ellsworth schooner LEONORA, their infinite wisdom they erected a wood and
Bangor the small coastal schooners C. TAY- Captain Bonsey, loaded with cement for iron structure, which was a third the cost of
relatives at Tremont, Maine. Cook Fuller’s LOR, A. HAYFORD, ANNIE F. KIMBALL Dorchester, Massachusetts, was hit by a the proposed stone structure. In 1847 the
relatives had not been located and his body and A. J. WHITING. These schooners will gale. She was anchored off Bishop & Clerk’s work was begun under the supervision of
remained at Gloucester. likely load lumber for points down the bay. Ledge off Nantucket and lost one of her Captain W. H. Swift of the topographical
11 April: The Calais schooner ABNER At Fort Point is the schooner anchors in the nor’easter. She tried to make engineers’ department and was ready for
TAYLOR, loaded with laths for New York, AUGUSTUS HUNT, with coal for Bacon & Hyannis harbor, but they misstayed and hit operation in January 1850. The structure stood
went ashore at Baker’s Island, off Southwest Robinson, and will arrive on the next tow. bottom. They let go the other anchor, but the 70 feet over the rocks and 50 feet above the
Harbor. The crew had great difficulty getting Two of the schooners that wintered in chain snapped and they were forced to make high water mark. The first lightkeeper was a
the schooner off the rocks, but finally suc- the ice of the Penobscot River off Bangor, their way out to sea. During the storm she lost Mr. Dunham of West Bridgewater, Massa-
ceeded and was able to make Bass Harbor POSTBOY and JOHN T. WILLIAMS will be her stern boats and davits. chusetts at a pay of $600 per year and two
with four feet of water in the hold. Her captain soon underway. The POSTBOY will load 23 April: The tragedy that occurred re- assistants who received $300 per year. Dun-
then contacted Ross & Howell from them to lumber for New York at the Ashland Manu- garding the loss of the Minot’s Ledge Light- ham learned quickly that this lighthouse was
send a tug and tow the vessel to Rockland. facturing Company’s dock. The WILLIAMS, house fifty years ago was remembered. At not safe. In storms he noted that the structure
The tug RALPH ROSS was scheduled to owned by the Pendletons, will be hauled out 2200 hours at the height of one of the worst moved four feet. Dunham gave his notice five
leave the following day. at the Stetson yard in Brewer for an overhaul. storms to strike the New England coast a months later unless the engineers made the
16 April: The first vessel, the three- She needs to be recaulked where the ice single massive wave ripped the lighthouse structure safer and his pay was increased. His
masted schooner LAVINA CAMPBELL, to pulled out the oakum during the winter. Once and smashed it on the rocks below with the supervisors said that he was motivated by
arrived at the Port of Bangor this season. She the repairs are complete she will also load loss of her two lighthouse keepers. Some greed and he resigned. He was replaced by J.
was towed from Portland with a load of coal lumber at the Ashland dock. blamed Congress and a civil engineer for the W. Bennett in October 1850 who said that
by the tug BISMARCK. * * * * * what they say was a needless disaster. In Dunham’s arguments had no basis.
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