October 2009 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 21.
Maritime History:
Shipbuilding News 1895
For the historian finding tidbits of Brothers & Co., and named for R. W. Hopkins piece of furniture ever turned out in Bath. are the officers’ quarters and a forecastle for
information such as these written in the of Boston. The HOPKINS is a first class The seating capacity of the room will be ten. 12 men. She will be lighted by electricity,
“Industrial Journal” in January and vessel of 900 tons, white oak frame and The after room in the deckhouse is the including a 12 inch search light, and have
February 1895 is like finding a briefcase clipper model. Her Oregon pine masts are 95 smoking or social hall, twelve feet square, electric bells throughout and will be fitted
full of money on your front steps. The more feet tall, and she is a double decker, is fitted finished in quartered oak, from which a with the Williamson steam steerer. Her coal
and more I read the old newspapers the with engines and boilers from the Bath Iron mahogany staircase with quartered oak rail storage will be the finest in existence. Her
more gaps I am able to fill in with lost Works, steam windlass and Edison hand leads to the main saloon on the lower deck. coal capacity will be 45 tons and she will carry
information on a variety of maritime pumps. Her two large anchors weigh 3600 This saloon is seventeen feet long and the 600 gallons of fresh water. She will be
topics. Most of the information in this lbs., each and her kedge anchor 800 pounds, full width of the ship, finished in mahogany provided with a donkey boiler for steam
article is regarding vessels and filled in all from Camden. The HOPKINS will be with panels of a different shade. The room heating purposes.
what happened to some of them. For those commanded by Capt. W. Hichborn of will contain book case, table, piano, The PEREGRINE’s hull is divided into 6
with an interest in reading history these Searsport. sideboard, etc. water tight compartments and is built of steel
facts are simply fascinating and enjoyable Abaft the main saloon are two guests’ throughout. For boats she carries a naphtha
reading. 10 JANUARY staterooms, finished in mahogany with launch, a life-boat and a gig, each 23 feet long
The “Industrial Journal” was SHIPBUILDING NOTES. birdseye maple panels and abaft these in the and a 16 foot dingy, and she is to be
published in Bangor from 1880 to 1918 The new yacht building for Eugene extreme stern of the vessel two guests’ toilet completed about the middle of April. She
and is a wealth of knowledge on all sorts on Tompkins at the Bath Iron Works is to be rooms. Forward of the main saloon are two was designed by Charles R. Hanscom, the
businesses in the State of Maine. Over the ready for delivery by May first. She is to be owners’ staterooms, each in white and gold famous yacht designer of the Bath Iron
last several years I have been copying and called the ILLAWARRA. with furnishings of rich mahogany, and Works.
transcribing out any marine related The steam yacht being built at forward of these, two toilet rooms finished in
article. To date we have several thousand Millbridge by Ansel Sawyer for W. M. mahogany with tile wainscoting. 17 JANUARY
pages transcribed with just a few years left Roberts of Bar Harbor, will be 30 feet long and The engine is of the vertical triple On Friday afternoon last the official
to complete this project. This is the bases for about 7 feet in width. The well known ability expansion type with cylinders 14 inches, 21 papers were signed by Secretary Herbert
the International Maritime Library, which of Mr. Sawyer as a builder of yachts, assures inches and 34½ inches in diameter which placed the Ammen Ram KATAHDIN
will make all these articles available via an excellent craft. respectively and a stroke of 22 inches. It will in the list of United States naval vessels, and
the Internet. Sawyer Brothers of Millbridge have make 150 revolutions per minute, driving the she will go into commission about ten days
more confidence and enterprise than many yacht at a speed of 14 knots. Its horsepower from the date of her acceptance. The Bath
3 JANUARY Maine shipbuilders may have built will be 800. There are two boilers of the Almy Iron Works will receive at once $150,000 of
SHIPBUILDING NOTES. considerable tonnage in the past year and water tube type capable of standing 200
Continued on Page 22.
Workmen at Bath Iron Works are sent a crew into the woods to cut the frame pounds pressure. Forward of the boiler room
pushing the construction of the steel yacht for a 250-ton three-masted schooner.
for Eugene Thompkins of the Boston President Cleveland has signed the bill
Theatre. providing for the purchase of the ram New England Fiberglass Company
The new Bath four master on the stocks KATAHDIN, and she will go at once to
at Minott’s yard measures, gross 1228.60 Brooklyn Navy Yard to be put into apple pie
tons; length 204 ft.; beam, 39.2 ft.; depth, 18.4 order before going into commission. She will
Yacht Repair/Restorations
feet. be manned by part of the crew of the
The schooner Cambridge was driven battleship TEXAS, probably.
ashore on Sawyer’s Island, near Boothbay
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damage. Launched From the Ways at the Bath Iron
The launching of the new Bath Works.
schooner ALICE M. COLBURN took place The elegant new yacht PEREGRINE,
on Wednesday from Wm. T. Donnell’s being built at the Bath Iron Works for R. H.
shipyard, Miss Harriet T. Brown of Bangor White of Boston at a cost of $100,000, was
PAUL E. LUKE, INC.
christening the new craft. She is 201 feet long launched last week, receiving her
and will be commanded by Captain Angus christening at the hands of Miss Eleanor Fireplaces - Automatic Feathering Propellors - 3-Piece Storm Anchors
McLeod. Hyde in the presence of a large crowd.
Jacob Loring, the Rockland boatbuilder, The PEREGRINE was decorated with
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has his shop full of work this winter. He flags from sprit tip to stern and was so light
15 Luke's Gulch, East Boothbay, Maine 04544
recently completed a ship’s boat for on the ways and the incline so gradual that
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Washburn Brothers, who sold it to the she scarcely seemed to move for the first few
owners of the schooner C. S. GLIDDEN and feet of her slide and after rounding gracefully
had it shipped to her at New York, at the same the stern of the Sagadahoc, lying at the pier,
time ordering a larger boat for their vessel. was quickly joined by the SEGUIN and
RALPH STANLEY, INC.
Mr. Loring also has the frames of two smaller brought to her moorings.
WOODEN BOATS
boats up. Her length over all is 158 feet, 3 inches
for work and pleasure
Treasurer L. S. Coombs of the New and her water line is 131 feet. Her beam is 23
England Company telegraphed to Bath early feet, depth of hold 14 feet, mean draught 10
this week from New York, where he has been feet and extreme draught 10 feet, 9 inches.
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on a business trip, that the company had just She is to be schooner rigged with two masts
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secured the contract for building an 800 ton, carrying 4500 square feet of canvas and will
four masted schooner for New York parties. have two decks running the length of the
Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679 (207) 244-3795
The dimensions are 170 feet keel, 38 feet vessel, a forecastle deck 18 feet long, and
beam, and 15.6 feet depth of hold. The vessel raised 3 feet above the main deck, and a
will be built in the best possible manner and promenade deck on top of the deck house MAINE COAST LUMBER, INC.
have all the ? necessary on a first class craft which is 74 feet long by 14 wide. This
of this kind. Work on the new schooner will promenade deck will be clear for the use of
begin at once. owners and guests except at the forward end, 4 Warren Ave.
17 White Birch Lane
The sloop boat built by L. A. Coombs, where the steering apparatus, charts, etc., Westbrook, ME 04902
York, ME 03909
the Vinalhaven boatbuilder, for Ed. will be placed. On the main deck beneath the
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Robinson, will be completed this week. She forecastle deck the space will be used for
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is a beauty - 23 feet over all, 8 feet wide and store rooms and for the accommodation of a
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draws 5 feet. She is built of white oak, the Hyde steam barge-brake windlass. Abaft the M-F 7am-5pm
Saturday 8am-12pm
model having been designed by Mr. forecastle deck, and just forward of the deck
Coombs, who during the past seven years house, a companionway will lead to the
has built the “ELATE,” “SHAMPOO,” forecastle and on either side of the
“ACME,” “BETA,” and “ALICE MAUD.” companionway seats and lockers will be
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He began at once on a 32-foot boat shaped placed.
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will have a ton of lead on her keel, and will will be taken up by the captain’s room, the
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enter the races at Rockland next year. pantry, galley, hatchways and a storeroom,
The new year was suspiciously ushered the dining hall. It will be finished in paneled
in at Thomaston on Wednesday, but the oak. Its height in the clear will be 6½ feet. In
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W. HOPKINS, just completed by Washburn board and dish closet which is the finest
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