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Maritime History:
Ship News 1895
nately he caught at a rope and saved his life. The crew was saved by the keepers of the in 1858.
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Men were knocked down on the wharf while Cuckholds fog signal station, but the vessel Wreckage picked up near Turks Island
Reef, Calcos, and was ground to pieces. On trying to help the schooner, and the force of is a total loss. leaves little doubt that the Maine schooner J.
account of the heavy seas and high wind then the wind was such as to nearly carry a strong The schooner SEA PIGEON of Seal Har- E. COOLIDGE has been lost. She was a three-
prevailing no assistance could reach the ill- man with it. “You can judge something of the bor, grain and lumber laden, and which was masted craft of 387 tons, built in Millbridge,
fated craft until two days later. In the mean- force of the tempest from one fact,” said Capt. blown to sea from her anchorage at Seal Maine, in 1889, and was valued at $18,000.
time the crew suffered terrible hardships. On Johnson, “before we parted our chains our Harbor while Capt. Lynam was ashore a Her master, Capt. Jesse H. Bragdon, leaves a
the afternoon of the second day the British jibboom dipped two feet under water several month, and a half ago, has been reported as family in Lamoine. She sailed from Point-a-
steamer BETA, from Halifax, hove in sight times. We never saw anything like it before.” towed into Bermuda. Capt. Lynam had given Pitre, November 30th, in ballast, for Fortune
and sent out a boat. With great difficulty it Captain Johnson said that the most thrilling her up, but will investigate the report of his Island, where she was to load with salt for
succeeded in rescuing four of the crew and moment was when they went on the reef, property being rescued. Baltimore. She carried beside the captain, two
transferred them to a wrecking schooner. before they were driven on the flats, and mates, a cook and four seamen.
Afterwards the schooner’s boat took off the when there didn’t seem to be the slightest 31 January
captain and the rest of the crew and carried hope of saving the schooner or for that matter The delegation of owners of sailing ves- 7 February
them to Grand Turk. Her cargo of lumber was the crew. He spoke in the highest terms of the sels, headed by Capt. J. S. Winslow of Port- The side wheel steamer HENRY MORRI-
sold at auction while the vessel was on the coolness and seamanship of Captain Beals, land, who have been in Washington urging SON of the Bangor & Bar Harbor Company’s
reef, the purchasers to pay salvage and duty who never for an instant lost his presence of a compulsory pilotage law, have met with fleet has been sold to Capt. William H. Swift
out of the $70 paid. She was 324 tons register, mind. much encouragement. They have pledged to and F. D. Gallupe of Boston, who will use her
was 128 feet long and 32 feet beam, and was their measures the vote of all Pennsylvania as an excursion boat at that port. The price
built in Belfast in 1881. 24 January Congressmen, and also much of New York, paid is reported at $1,500. The HENRY
The schooner FOREST BELLE was lying The 28 ton fishing schooner SEA besides members from New England. MORRISON was in her early days a famous
at anchor in Bass Harbor when the recent big QUEEN, formerly owned by the C. E. Weeks The lighthouse board has given notice boat. She was built at Williamsburg, NY, in
storm broke along the Atlantic coast. Captain Company of Rockland, was sold at that place to mariners that about January 30, a bell, 1854, and after running for a time in New York
Johnson and Captain Beals, the latter com- a few days ago, Walter S. Staples bidding her struck by machinery, will be established at waters she was sold to the city of Boston and
manding, were on the FOREST BELLE at the in for $95. She was built in Portland in 1857. Burnt Island station, on the southeast part of was for many years used to transport prison-
time and the former told a reporter of the Schooner WILLIE, of Green’s Landing, Burnt Island, and the west side of the en- ers between Boston and Deer Island. When
Portland Press of their thrilling experience. which was damaged by going on the rocks trance to Boothbay Harbor, Maine. During the J. PUTNAM BRADLEE was built for the
Captain Johnson, said he never know any- near that port, recently is repairing at the thick or foggy weather the bell will be city of Boston’s convict route the HENRY
thing like it on the Maine coast before, and North Marine Railway in Rockland. She is sounded a double blow every minute. The MORRISON was sold to Rockland parties,
man and boy he has been at sea for many receiving part of a new keel and part of a new bell tower stands about 60 feet southeast and for a time she ran between Rockland and
years. When the schooner parted her cables, stern. one-quarter south from the light tower. Blue Hill. In 1867 she was purchased by the
Captain Beals said to Captain Johnson, who The schooner ZELIA, Capt. James E. The New York Herald reports that the Bangor & Bar Harbor Company, and in the
is his brother in-law: “We must save her if we Breen, owned by Boardman Brothers of New York bark FRED P. LITCHFIELD, Hong winter if 1887-8 she was new-topped at
can.” and the two men at the risk of their lives Calais, was recently burned off Mahogany Kong to New York, put into Barbadoes, Jan. Barbour’s yard and came out in the following
rowed ashore with a hawser. At that time the Island. The ZELIA was 104 tons register and 20th, with Capt. Chadbourne and wife both spring as the steamer BAR HARBOR. On
wind was something fearful, and there was was 23 years old. The wreck was sold at dead. The FRED P. LITCHFIELD is now on account of failure to comply fully with the
something that closely resembled a tidal public auction at St. John and brought $44. the way to New York, and full particulars can laws. In rebuilding, however, the change of
wave. The water came in over the sides of the The vessel AURORA, 85 tons, Capt. E. only be learned after her arrival. Captain name was not allowed, and the name of
schooner more like a solid wall than spray, L. Morris of Nova Scotia, and bound from that Walter Chadbourne was formerly of HENRY MORRISON was restored. After
and captain Johnson had a very narrow es- place to Boston, was wrecked on the south- Rockland, and was the son of Thomas W. further extensive changes in her construc-
cape, being lifted from his feet, but fortu- ern point of the Western Cuckholds recently. Chadbourne, who was sheriff of Knox county tion the boat was placed on the line between
SATURN Needs Gallons and Gallons of Paint!
SATURN sitting at a dock in Bangor last fall.
This aft stern bitt has been ground and primed.
This is an early Spring view of the bow, which now has been chipped, ground and primed. Still need do more work on the inside of the bulwarks. Should be done before September.
We are now sitting at Kustom Steel in Brewer where where work has been progressing. The plan is to paint as much as possible including hull, main deck, boat deck and
bulwarks, but to accomplish this we need funds for paint.
SATURN is a 117-foot railroad tug built as the BERN for the Reading Railroad in 1907. She is one of the last railroad tugs in existence and should be saved for future generations
to enjoy. For further information : (207) 223-8846 or make out check to: Friends of SATURN, P.O. Box 710, Winterport, ME 04496.
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