Page 4. MAINE COASTAL NEWS November 2011


Maine Coastal News P.O. Box 710


(207) 223-8846


Winterport, Maine 04496-0710 U.S.A. E-mail - igmatats@aol.com


Web site: www.mainescoast.com Fax (207) 223-9004 Publisher's Note


Where has the last month gone? I did finish typesetting a book on the history of Winterport by Teddy Weston. I am amazed at her enthusiasm, especially since she is 90 years old. This book has a couple of maritime related chapters which would be interesting to those interested in maritime history. One is on the life of Captain Benjamin Thompson, who was master of the clipper GREAT ADMI- RAL. Another is on the Boston boats, which were the big steamers that plied between Boston and Bangor and made stops at Winterport.


Maine Coastal News is dedicated to covering the waterfront of State of Maine. It covers commercial fishing, yachting (power and sail), boat yard and waterfront news and maritime history. Maine Coastal News is published 12 times per year. The distribution of Maine Coastal News is from Eastport to Kittery and is free on the newsstand. It also can be by subscription. A year subscription, 12 issues, is $20.00. A single copy is $2.00, which covers the postage. Foreign rates for subscriptions are $40.00 per year. The Maine Coastal News office is located at 966 North Main Street, Winterport, Maine. Comments or additional information write: Maine Coastal News, P.O. Box 710, Winterport,


Maine 04496. Publisher Editor-in-Chief


Jon B. Johansen Rachel Elward


Advertising Deadlines: The deadline for the December issue is 11 November. The deadline for the January issue is 9 December.


MCN's Calendar


On-Going Exhibits: – 27 Nov ’11 Aloft: Wind, Sails & Rigging; Maine Maritime Museum, Bath 17 Dec – 13 May ’12 Port of Portland; Maine Maritime Museum, Bath


NOVEMBER 7 Ocean Studies Lecture Series “Unassuming Engineers: the Effects of Injury and Nutrition on Sediment Disturbance by a Marine Polychaete, Clymenella Torquata,” Beth Campbell, Univ. of Maine 1500 hrs., free, open to public Alumni Lecture Room, Leavitt Hall Maine Maritime Academy Castine


7-10 ASMFC Annual Meeting Langham Hotel Boston, MA


15-17 New England Council Meeting Newport Marriott Newport, RI


28 Ocean Studies Lecture Series “Microbes in Coastal Systems: Why We Should Care About Those Always Overlooked, Often Misunderstood, Frequently Maligned, Yet Utterly Indispensable Members of Our Aquatic Habitats,”


Dr. Jennifer Bowen, University Massachusetts, Boston


1500 hrs., free, open to public Alumni Lecture Room, Leavitt Hall Maine Maritime Academy Castine


JANUARY 12-15 Providence Boat Show RI Convention Centre Providence, RI Info: (401) 846-1115


FEBRUARY


11-19 New England Boat Show Boston Convention & Exhibition


Centre Boston, MA


MARCH 16-18 Maine Boatbuilder’s Show Portland Yacht Services Portland


Info: (207) 774-1067


JUNE 13-14 Commercial Marine Expo State Pier


New Bedford, MA Info: (207) 799-1356


The magazine “TugBitts” is nearly com- plete, but several months overdue. You talk about a learning curve. It takes me just a few days to put this paper together and I figured doing “TugBitts” would be about the same, was I wrong. I have always believed that the way to properly report is by obtaining the information in person, but this is not possible when you are trying to cover the tugboat industry across the United States. I also feel that one should know the subject they write about. Some publications use professional writers who know proper grammar, but be- cause they do not know the subject, their articles either lack substance or accuracy. It is no secret that I like all aspects of the marine business. I do my best to read on a variety of maritime topics. In fact the present book I am reading is on the sailing vessels out of New- foundland. That could be followed by a book on Cape Cod shipwrecks or a Navy SEAL


sniper. When reporting on tugboats one should know everything they can about that vessels. I have begun creating my own list of towing vessels built in the United States. I thought that this was going to comprise several thousand vessels and be complete in a few months. Wrong again. I have just com- pleted putting in the tugs listed in the 1904 edition of the “List of Merchant Vessels of the United States” and I am at about 7,000 vessels and that took several months. Now I need to go in five year increments to put in the ones built after 1904. I also need to develop a list of tug companies so that I can contact them via e-mail for their news.


Also I finally sat down with my uncle, Bradford W. Luther, and interviewed him about his time as a shipwreck diver. This was interesting and hopefully by the time the next issue is due I have this off tape and ready to print. I have also obtained my uncles collec- tion of notes on the shipwrecks of Massa- chusetts and Rhode Island. Many of these disasters involved Maine vessels, which in many cases is not documented in the vessel’s history.


Then on my run to Beals Island in mid- October I found Doug Dodge. I followed him over to his shop on Beals Island and what an interesting interview that ensued regarding the new boat he has under construction and a look back at his life as a boatbuilder, most notably with his great uncle, Harold Gower. Again, that will be ready for the next issue.


Passed Over the Bar: Strout, Grindle and Beal


Cumberland Center - EVERETT ARTHUR STROUT, 86, died Friday, Sept 23, 2011 at Mercy Hospital in Portland. He was born at St. Barnabas Hospital in Portland on Oct 24, 1924, the son of Andrew Everett Strout and Gertrude Marion Farnham. Everett earned his Eagle Scout badge, graduated from Deering High School in 1941 and attended the Univer- sity of Maine at Orono. He then graduated from Maine Maritime Academy in the class of 1943-2. Then it was off to war in the U.S. Coast Guard’s Merchant Marine during WW II, traveling in a convoy in the Atlantic as an Asst. Engineer on the Liberty ships. Everett received an Honorable Discharge in 1945. While attending a USO dance in Antwerp, Belgium he met his future wife, Martha J. F. Bosschaert. They were married October 30, 1948 in Portland and moved around the state as his career dictated.


Everett worked at a woolen mill in Vassalboro; then over to Stockton Springs where he began his career as an engineer in a chemical plant. In 1955 it was back to south- ern Maine where he trained at Mason Station in Wiscasset for Central Maine Power’s new Cousin’s Island Steam Plant from which he retired as Shift Supervisor in 1984. He was also a volunteer fireman in Cumberland. Everett enjoyed sailing throughout Casco Bay and along the coast of Maine. He built his family’s summer camp in the 1960s at Kettle Cove in Casco where he spent many hours boating and fishing on the lake. Everett enjoyed steam engines, building train mod- els, steamboats, radio-controlled models and carving birds. He could be found at steam meets and Antique Power Association dis- plays all over the state as well as Lees Mills, NH. He enjoyed breakfast at the counter at Cole Farms and Saturday night bean suppahs.


He was a member of the Vassalboro Masonic Lodge Neguemkeag #54; Cumberland Congregational Church, Port- land Marine Society, Freeport Elders Asso- ciation, Cumberland Historical Society, Cumberland Fire Department, Greater Port-


land RC Boaters and Maine Maritime Academy’s Alumni Association. He was predeceased by his wife Martha in 2004, twin sons Charles Everett & James Arthur shortly after their birth in 1951; his father Andrew in 1967; his mother Gertrude in 1988. He is survived by his son Allen (Marilyn) of Otisfield and Harpswell; two granddaughters: Kelly Strout of Otisfield and Lindsay Strout of Charlottetown, Prince Ed- ward Island; his younger brother Earl F. (Beverly) of Lyme, New Hampshire; his cousin Richard Jordan of Apopka, FL; and three nieces Tracy, Karen & Robin. At his request, there will be no funeral service. Interment at Moss Side Cemetery in Cumberland will be private. Those who wish to remember Everett, may make a donation in his memory to The Cumberland Historical Society, P.O. Box 82, Cumberland, ME 04021 or Maine Maritime Academy, Development Office, Pleasant St, Castine ME 04420.


Edmund B. Grindle


BLUE HILL - Edmund B. Grindle, 75, passed away Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, with his family at his side, at home on Angel Avenue. Edmund was born Sept. 5, 1936, son of Archibald and Katherine (Gray) Grindle. Edmund grew up in Blue Hill and spent his career working as a diesel mechanic on heavy equipment and boat engines. He operated heavy equipment and drove over-the-road tractor-trailers for Paul Martin of Sullivan. He is survived by his wife, Judith (Ryan) Grindle; sister, Joyce (Grindle) Gray and her husband, Maynard, of Deer Isle, and their four sons and their families; and his children, Russell Grindle and his wife, Rita, of Blue Hill, Nanette Grant of Orland, Yevette Grindle of Florida, Dennis Candage and his wife, Deborah, of Penobscot, Dana Candage and his girlfriend, Kristy Astbury, of Brooklin, Rusty Candage and his wife, Brandi, of Blue Hill, and Mary Nevells and her husband, Jamie, of Blue Hill. He leaves behind 16 grandchildren, eight


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