May 2009 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 29.
Maritime History:
News From 1901 & 1904
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however during the launch the falls jammed fore and main gaffs. He was able to get with
MAGNUS MANSON. SOUTHWARK, Captain E. V. Roberts in dense
and with the steamer rolling in heavy seas the in 25 miles of Sandy Hook on 22 February, but fog off Portland. The SOUTHWARK left her
men were thrown into the sea. Unfortunately the wind changed direction and they were
4 April – The Machias schooner MARY dock at Grand Trunk and headed down the
two men, Chief Officer Alexander Turner and pushed out to sea again. He tried to make
E. PENNELL was in a collision with the schoo- harbor under command of Pilot Martin. She
Carpenter Gray, both of England, could not Montauk, and then New London, but the
ner WM. JONES of Faulkner’s Island on made her way through the fog and rounded
be rescued. Since the schooner made no Block Island channel was blocked with ice.
Long Island Sound. The PENNELL was Spring Point light and headed out the chan-
effort to save themselves the steamer left the They were finally able to reach Newport,
heavily damaged, but did make her way into nel. As she neared Portland Head Light she
scene. Rhode Island.
New London, Connecticut. The PENNELL heard the fog signal of a sailing vessel dead
Four hours later the British steamer
had a cargo of coal she was taking to Winter ahead and the steamer slowed. Martin con-
MICMAC, making a passage from Hull, En- 29 February – The five-masted schooner
Harbor and the JONES was heading west with tinued her heading out the channel and with
gland to New York, noticed the NEWTON in GARDINER G. DEERING, Captain Ross, col-
a load of lathes. The PENNELL had just the bell buoy astern and Portland Head light
distress. The three masted schooner was lided with the Merchants & Miners Trans-
tacked and her sails had yet to fill when she to starboard the forward lookout yelled a
built at the Crosby yard in Bangor in 1881. She portation Company’s steamer ESSEX, Cap-
hit the JONES. The JONES filled and rolled warning to the bridge. Immediately the en-
was owned by the Pendleton Brothers and tain Johnson, in thick fog and sunk. The
over and it was only her lathes that kept her gines were put full speed astern, but just as
others and valued at $10,000. Back on 25 ESSEX stopped and rescued the schooner’s
afloat. the engine was slowing her progress she
August the NEWTON was capsized off eleven man crew. The schooner had been struck the schooner amidships. One man
Green’s Reef light on Long Island Sound and built by her owner, Gardiner G. Deering, in
9 April – The three-masted schooner from the BENNETT, William West, lost his
Captain Edwin Coombs of North Islesboro 1903 at a cost of $90,000. Her captain wrote
STEPHEN BENNETT, Captain Robert Glass, life. Before the collision he was asked to come
and the six crew members drowned. She was Deering and said that he thought that the
was making a passage from Stonington, Maine on deck by the captain, but he failed to appear
righted and repaired and commenced sailing schooner could be salvaged. This is the sec-
to New York with a load of granite, when she and this cost him his life. The BENNETT was
under the command of Captain Norwood. ond boat Deering owned lost in the last ten
was struck by the Dominion liner built at Camden in 1872.
days.
22 February – While lying at the Atlantic
Wharf in Rockland, the schooner MARION 5 March – The four masted schooner
F. COBB caught fire. The fire began around EDWARD H. COLE was launched at Rockland
the stove pipe in the house and cause about for the Crowell & Thurlow Company of Bos- TOOL OF THE MONTH
$500 in damages. The schooner is owned by ton. She has a length of 228 feet, beam 43.2
Cobb, Butler & Company and is valued at feet, depth 20.7 and displaces 1,791 gross
about $50,000. tons. It is thought that she will be a great
vessel since her lines were based on the
24 February – The steamer MICMAC famous schooner JACOB M. HASKELL built
arrived in New York with the captain and crew at Rockland in 1901. She has been built for the
WHILE
of the Bangor schooner WILLIAM L. NEW- coal trade and will be under the command of
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TON. Captain E. W. Rogers of Dorchester, MA.
LAST!
26 February – The four-masted schoo- 11 March – It was announced that it was
ner of Bath DAVID P. DAVIS, Captain Erwin, believed that the Boston 60-ton fishing schoo-
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The rescue boat took off six of the exhausted steamer MARS is at Bath loading lumber for
crew and took them back to the lightship. As Buenos Ayers, South America. This is the
the others awaited the return of the rescue first time for this and she is also the largest Over 20 years of marine experience
boat the tank ship TOLEDO, Captain tramp steamer to ever visit Bath. Captain T. P.
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The Belfast schooner CHARLOTTE T. thus will head to New York to load general
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jected to severe weather on his passage from
Jacksonville, Florida, departing 5 February, 29 March – Kelley & Spear of Bath

Wood & Fiberglass to 60 feet
with a cargo of lumber. They had been hit by launched the four-masted schooner
gales that forced them off course and was FRONTENAC.
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finally able to round Cape Hatteras on 17
February. He was then pushed out into the 2 April – The New England Company of
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Gulf Stream where he lost his flying jib, and Bath launched the five-masted schooner
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