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HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Belfast Republican Journal 1907 11 November


THE COLOMBO LOST?


and left the vessel. We had not much more than clear that the STETSON before it sank. The yawl boat was a small one and rather old and several times it seemed as if we would never reach the shore. We headed for land and after 18 hours of the hardest kind of rowing came in sight of the lifesaving station at Fletcher’s Neck. The light grew saw us when we were about 2 miles from land and came out to our rescue and towed us so shore. The SUSAN STETSON was an old craft having been built in 1867 at Damariscotta. It was owned by W. D. Emerson of Bucksport and was of 143 gross tonnage, 89 feet long, 21 feet beam and 8 feet, 2 inches draught. The COLBURN Ashore


The schooner ALICE M. COLBURN bound from Philadelphia to the city with coal was driven ashore on West Chop near Vine- yard Haven during Wednesday night’s storm and according to advices received here Thursday was resting in 17 feet of water and leaking slightly. Several hundred tons of its cargo will be taken off and it is expected that will be sufficient to bring it offshore. The COLBURN draws 24 feet of water. The COLBURN hails from Bath, where it was built in 1896. It is a vessel of 1603 gross tonnage, 225.1 feet long, 43.3 feet in breadth, and 20.4 feet deep. It carries a crew of 10 men. Its cargo is consigned to the Hincks Coal Co.


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Italian Bark Loaded at Stockton May Have Gone Down


THE CREW PICKED UP


Steamer ROCKLAND Was Over Three Days to Boston and Return, Meeting Very Rough Weather


Indications are that the Italian bark CO- LOMBO, which loaded shooks at Stockton Springs, the T. J. Stewart Co. being the ship- pers, has come to grief judging from the following Associated Press dispatch re- ceived Monday noon:


Philadelphia, November 11 – the Aus- trian tank steamer ELEIKA from Shields for this port passed in the Delaware capes Mon- day afternoon and showed signals, which it is supposed mean that the steamer has onboard the crew of the Italian bar CO- LOMBO. The bark sailed from Stockton Springs, ME, , October 12, for Palermo. The report will be confirmed when the ship reaches port.


The COLOMBO, while leaving Stockton October 12, did not get to see until the 30th 31st


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as from Stockton she went to Rockland, where she remained some weeks. The CO- LOMBO carried about 400 tons of scrap iron which she had purchased for ballast and while she was a staunch appearing craft, would be likely to go down if she should get much water aboard.


The cargo which consisted of the thin wood for 397,680 boxes was valued at little less than $17,000 and was insure. The steamer CITY OF ROCKLAND, Capt. Curtis, of the Eastern Steamship Co. comes very near holding the record for slow time in making the Bangor-Boston run. She arrived in this city late Saturday afternoon after a trip to Boston that took three days


seven hours and 25 minutes. It was no fault of the boat but rather of the elements that the ROCKLAND did not make the run in the usual time.


She left her dock in this city Wednesday on schedule time but on reaching Rockland it was found advisable to lay in overnight on account of the gale that was raging outside. She lay dead Rockland all night and as the gale showed no signs of abating she stayed there all Thursday and Thursday night leav- ing for Boston at five o’clock Friday morning. Foster’s wharf, Boston, was reached at 6:05 that evening.


She left Boston on her return trip to Bangor at 11:20 the same evening and was at Rockland inside 12 hours but met some trouble and delay coming up the river. The water in the river is high for this season of the year because of the heavy rains and the big boat was delayed at landings.


Bangor was reached in the dark and the steamer was immediately turned about and started back to Boston after a stop of little more than an hour. She struck another gale but went through to Boston all right.


21 November


AGROUND OFF INDIAN POINT Schooner PEMAQUID Had Narrow Escape From Injury on Way From Bucksport to Winterport.


Bucksport, November 21


The schooner PEMAQUID arrived here Wednesday for another cargo of flour and grain. The last trip she made she had quite a narrow escape from injury on the rocks when off Indian Point. It was quite calm and about half tide and Capt. Huntley was drifting but to near and when she grounded on the rocks. One of his men in a boat had a very narrow escape from drowning. The boats painter


parted and the boat drifted up river when one of the tannery men saw what had happened and managed to get the boat back to the vessel. In the meantime Capt. Huntley put up a flag of distress and expected help of the steamer TREMONT which passed within a few feet of the vessel, but failed to notice the signal. The cargo of 200 barrels of flour and 2400 barrels of corn was quite valuable. The vessel and cargo was owned by Charles A. McKenney of Winterport and when the tide came, she floated off all right. Mr. McKinney and Capt. Huntley desire to thank the man from Blodgett’s tannery for coming to their assistance in a very trying hour.


25 November


BAR HARBOR SCHOONER EMMA W. DAY LIBELED


The coasting schooner EMMA W. DAY of Bar Harbor, which arrived in Portland, Friday afternoon, was seized Saturday by the United States Marshal on a liable for personal damages in the sum of $500 brought by James Ferron through his attorney. Irving E. Vernon, Esq., but Capt. Bray, who was also part owner, furnished a bond and the vessel was released. Ferron, who while employed about the schooner sometime ago, was in- jured and taken to the hospital. He claims that with others he was engaged in taking a quan- tity of old iron from the vessel at Widgery’s wharf a part of the rigging gave way, allowing a block to fall, striking him on the head and knocking him into the hold and thereby he was considerably injured. Capt. Bray claims that all parts of the rigging used in the work of discharging work in sound condition and that nothing gave way, and that the careless- ness of the man alone caused his fall into the hold.


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This is the five-masted schooner FANNIE PALMER being launched at the George L. Welt shipyard in Waldoboro in November 1900. She was built for William F. Palmer and named for his two-year old daughter. She had a length of 266.1 feet, beam, 44.6, depth 25.1 and 2,258 tons displacement with a carrying capacity of 3,700 tons. She was considered a unlucky vessel. She went ashore on her maiden voyage in Cape Charles, VA and remained there for several months. She was sold and renamed GEORGE P. HUDSON and she again went ashore off Shinnecock Light, Long Island, New York. In 1911 she caught fire at Sewall’s Point, Norfolk, VA, while loading coal. Two years later she was in collision with the schooner MARGARET HASKELL off Vineyard Haven, MA. Her end came in a collision with the SS MIDDLESEX, near Great Round Shoal, MA on July 11, 1914. Captain Thomas and two seamen were lost.


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