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rig. Of the new steamers the largest and most PORTLAND DISTRICT.
notable has been the ST. CROIX, built at Rig/Name/Tonnage/Where Built/Builder
the amount due on the craft, and the balance Bath and equipped with machinery at Steamer/SEBASCODEGAN/90.10/Portland/Portland Shipbuilding Co.
of $30,000 in about three months. Portland, for the International Steamship Steamer/LOUISE/21.33/Portland/Portland Shipbuilding Co.
Company. Additional to the list published Steamer/DELIA/5.20/Portland/S. C. Morgan
SHIPBUILDING IN MAINE. for Machias district schooner NELLIE KING, Steamer/HAROLD/4.06/Brunswick/E. B. Nickerson
The Record for 1895 Much Below the foreign, which was wrecked off the Schooner/LETTIE MAY/25.08/Harpswell/E. I. Allen
Average. Only About 13,000 Tons of New Washington county coast, was bought and Scow/ALICE/7.10/Portland/Henry Adamson
Vessels Launched from the Maine rebuilt by Messrs. Mansfield at Jonesport, Scow/VIXEN/7.32/Yarmouth/Solomon Sawyer
Shipyards During the Past Year. The with a gross tonnage of 104.10 tons. Total: 7 vessels, 160.19 tons
Outlook Fairly Bright for 1896. The outlook for 1896 is more
THE JOURNAL presents this week its encouraging. At Bath there is considerable BATH DISTRICT.
annual compilation of Maine shipbuilding activity and there are numerous vessels on Rig/Name/Tonnage/Where Built/Builder
statistics. The year that is gone has been the stocks, including several large four- Schooner/MARY E. PALMER/1455.70/Bath/Nathaniel T. Palmer
charterized by unusual quietness in the masted schooners and barges. Belfast Schooner/SWORDFISHER/13.71/Bath/John Harrington
shipyards and the aggregate tonnage of the district, usually a busy shipbuilding center, Schooner/WILLIAM H. CLIFFORD/1386.56/Bath/Percy & Small
vessels that have left the stocks is much has contributed nothing the past year but in Schooner/LEWIS H. HOWARD/1054.17/Bath/Gardiner G. Deering
below the average. 1896 the showing will be different, H. M. Schooner/BAYARD HOPKINS/212.16/Bath/N. E. S. Co.
An analysis of the figures presented Bean having on the stocks at Camden two Schooner/ANNIE F. KIMBALL/387.98/Bath/George Hawley
below discloses that 63 vessels have been big four-masted schooners, while Schooner-barge/ROSEMONT/651.84/Bath/Kelley, Spear & Co.
launched, with an aggregate net tonnage of McDonald & Brown are building for Schooner-barge/DEVON/667.24/Bath/Kelley, Spear & Co.
13,116.17. There is a preponderance of Baltimore parties a fine barkentine at Belfast. Schooner-barge/WAYNE/761.16/Bath/Kelley, Spear & Co.
schooners and sloops, the latter being In the Wiscasset district the prospect is Schooner/barge/ARDMORE/762.25/Bath/Kelley, Spear & Co.
slightly in excess in numbers, while about the same as last year, while in the Schooner/barge/FOREST BELLE/1271.24/Bath/William Rogers
steamers, barges, scows and steam yachts Waldoboro district there are several vessels Sloop/EMMA C./26.57/Woolwich/Daniel E. Pierce
follow in this order. There has not been either building or under contract. At North Sloop/JAMES M./31.53/Woolwich/Nathaniel T. Hanson
a ship, bark, barkentine or brig enter the water Brooksville a schooner of 40 tons is well Sloop/WALTER E./9.31/Phippsburg/Frank S. Bowker
from a Maine shipyard during 1895. The advanced. The Sawyer Bros. at Milbridge Sloop/ADA/6.81/Perkins/George W. Call
districts that have contributed most freely are to build two vessels, schooners of 250 Steamer/NELLIE G./6.78/Woolwich/Nathaniel T. Hanson
are Bath, Waldoboro and Machias. There and 1000 tons respectively. Steamer/SALACIA/168.79/Bath/N. E. S. Co.
have been a fair number of big four-masted Below will be found the vessels Steamer/ST. CROIX/1064.01/Bath/N. E. S. Co.
schooners constructed, Bath, Thomaston launched during 1895 by districts: Total: 18 vessels, 9887.81 tons
and Harrington making contributions of this
KENNEBUNK DISTRICT.
WISCASSET DISTRICT.
Rig/Name/Tonnage/Where Built/Builder.
Rig/ Name/Tonnage/Where Built/Builder
Sloop/ROSS L. COE/165/Kennebunk/David Clark
Schooner/KATIE L. PALMER/30.10/East Boothbay/W. I. Adams
Schooner/ALICE/7/Kennebunk/B. F. Jackson
Sloop/BLANCHE AND IDA/13.44/East Boothbay/W. I. Adams
Steamer/NEMO/11.10/Kennebunk/B. F. Jackson
Schooner/MAUD SPURLING/51.01/East Boothbay/W. I. Adams
Total: 8 vessels, 183.10 tons
Sloop/TOURIST/11.11/Boothby Harbor/E. Tibbetts
Sloop/(not yet named)/29.54/Wiscasset/Asa Plumstead
Total: 5 vessels, 135.20 tons
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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