Page 22. MAINE COASTAL NEWS December 2011 Launching Details from Way Downeast By Amos Boyd


1818 – BOSTON, packet schooner, tonnage unknown, built 1818. Used between Eastport and Boston. Described as superior built, with superior accommodations for passengers. Will sails this day weather permitting.


1822 – COLUMBIA, brig, 160 tons, built 1822 by John Brewer. Dimensions 81’ x 32’ x 9’. First master Bradford. Built by Hayden Kilby of Eastport. Launched with masts in, nearly rigged. “Handsomely glided into destined element.”


1822 – VERMONT, brig, 216 tons built in shipyard of Joshua Briggs. Launched completely rigged, sails bent. “Glided into destined element amid shouts of 200 spectators.”


1824 – FRONTIER, brig, possibly 194 tons, built 1824 by Robert Auston. Intended as packet between E. and N. Y. First master Jacob Shackford. Launched completely rigged and sparred, before high water by and before announced time. “Amid and admiring gaze of a few spectators, others disappointed by said grand spectacle. 1824 – GEM, ship, tonnage unknown, built by Robert Huston. Carrying 609 tons “plaister.” Harrod first master.


1824 – THULE, brig, 286 tons, built 1824 by Robert Huston for Timothy Pilsbury. Baker first master. The copper fastened brig launched completely rigged from shipyard at Huston’s Cove.


1825 – BOUNDARY, packet schooner, 143 tons, built 1825 by Robert Huston. Dimensions 79’ x 22’ x 9’, two masts. Launched completely rigged. John Shackford first master.


1825 – EDWARD PREBLE, packet schooner, 133 tons, built 1825 by Robert Huston. Sailed between Eastport and Boston. Advertised: The schooner will be launched this day (July 25) about 11 o’clock from yard of M. Huston, to be commanded by Captain Thomas Rogers. A gun will be fired about twenty minutes before she is launched.


1826 – JULIA, brig, 126 tons, built 1826 from yard of General John Brewer.


Figurehead. Launched fully rigged December 31. Dimensions 80’ x 22’ x 10’. Sold at auction, tackle, apparel and furniture, all of good quality.


1845 – ZELICA, brig, 131 tons, built in Huston yard. Copper fastened brig to be employed in the coasting business. 1846 – E. WRIGHT, JR., barque, 275 tons, built 1846 for Major John Wright. The Calais Advertiser announced her launching “she left the ‘weighs’ like a thing of life.” 1847 – MARY CASE, schooner, 99 tons, launched July 1847 in Lubec. Well built, thoroughly fastened with copper and iron. 1850 – SPARKLING SEA, barque, 215 tons, built 1850 by George Russell. Instead of the usual festive affairs given at this time at launching with friends invited onboard for liquid refreshments, Captain Leighton broke tradition, and served only drinking water. 1850 – THEODORE LINCOLN, barque, 495 tons, built 1850 by S. C. Foster. Dimensions 133’ x 28’ x 19’. When launched she slid off the ways and rolled over with her yards in the sea.


1852 – ARABIAN CARIBEE, clipper barque, 436 tons, built 1852 by Captain William Hinds in yard of James Potter and Sons. Dimensions 122’ x 22’ x 14’ figurehead. On her trial run to New York, lumber loaded, she made such remarkable speed (out running yachts). She was sold to a Spaniard for $20,000, who sailed her to Cardenas, crew paid off, then barque converted to a slaver renamed CARIBEE.


1852 – ESPERANZA, barque, 310 tons, built in Perry in 1852. When out from her launching about 60 hours with Parrit as master, bound for New York, the ESPERANZA went ashore at Squan in two feet of water at low tide but was buried five feet deep in the sand. She was expected to be got off without damage.


1853 – GANNYMEDE, ship, 1229 tons, built 1853 by Peter T. Vose. First master D. B. Bramhall. Because of the size and weight of the fully rigged and ballasted ship, for the launching, the creek was filled with brush in case of the speed and the force of the vessel as it left its ways. However, as soon as the


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ship slid into the water and was fully afloat. She swung around and laid to her moorings. 1853 – BREAK O DAY, clipper ship, 1762 tons built 1853 by James Porter, Williams Hinds, master builder. Launched October 18, took masts October 20 to load deals at Saint Stephens, New Brunswick for Liverpool, England with a crew of 30 or 40, and had a rough passage in the winter gales. 1854 – EVERGREEN, brig, 267 tons, built 1854, sunk 1857. Delaware Bay bound into Philadelphia from Sagua there was $10,000 on the vessel and only $2,000 on the cargo, which seems odd.


1854 – PLANTER, ship, 1946 tons built 1854 by Gilbert Frost or Henry Carter. Largest vessel built in Pembroke. Dimensions are 22’ x 42’ x 29’. First master John Carlisle. The figurehead was a black man holding a hoe, which was removed when the ship was chartered to load cotton at New Orleans for Liverpool. The slavery issue already had caused friction between the north and south. 1854 – AETOS (Originally the AQUILLA), Clipper ship, 1436 tons, built 1854 by C. S. Huston of Eastport. Dimensions 205’ x 39’ x23’. Built for the European trade. Sole owner John Bass of Eastport. First master John Bean. Sailed in West Indies trade, also to India, Australia. Sold to England, rebuilt of oak. Named first AQUILA, which was changed because there already was a ship by that name, meaning eagle in Latin. Then was named AETOS, which is Greek for eagle, almost losing its identity by the use of Greek and misspelled A.ETOS, ACTOS, etc.


1857 – CHARLES HEDDLE, Barque, 412 tons, built 1857 by C. S. Huston. Vessel has a reputation of being lucky, never having been damaged. Only one accident recorded. Sam Thompson broke a leg during a gale in 1862, when the barque was approaching Havana.


1859 – MARY STORER, ship, 521 tons, built in 1859 by James Cox, Rideout, master builder. Dimensions 135’ x 29’ x 14’. “A fine specimen of naval architecture, an excellent model. Material included hard woods, hackmatack, hard pine. Sparred by Mr. Covanger (whose rigging is noted for its symmetry and beauty. First cargo was plaster for Mobile, Alabama. Later sold to Genoa.


1859 – KNOW NOTHING, ship, 700 tons, built 1859 in Trescott. Owned by John Balch of Roxbury, intended for “burden”,


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approximately 514,000 fish, a 75% decrease from a high of 2 million fish in 2006. Landings from the commercial striped bass fishery have been consistently lower than the recreational catch. Commercial land- ings increased from ~139,000 pounds in 1987 to just under 5.9 million pounds in 1997 and have remained steady due to quota restric- tions. Landings in 2010 were 7.06 million pounds. Gill nets are the dominant commer- cial gear used to target striped bass. Other commercial fishing gears include hook and line, pound nets, seines, and trawls. Copies of the stock assessment update will be available via the Commission’s website at www.asmfc.org under “Breaking News.” For more information, please contact Kate Taylor, Fishery Management Plan Co- ordinator, at 703.842.0741 or ktaylor@asmfc.org.


having large stowage. Built of southern pine, oak and eastern timber. Heavily fastened with copper and iron. Named for a popular (or unpopular) political party of that era. 1859 – NAHUM STETSON, brig, 196 tons, built 1859 by Thomas Watts and a company of carpenters who started work in 1857. The depression in ship building prevented her completion in 1857. First master, Andrew Feeny.


1860 – JOHN H. FRENCH, schooner or brig, 195-210 tons, built in 1860 by Abijah Leighton. Dimesions 98’ x 26’ x 9’. C. S. Crosby, first master. Built of birch, oak, hackmatack, finished in good style, well fastened. Sold in Philadelphia in 1860 for $10,000.


1862 – ALICE, brig, 201 tons, built 1862 by W. H. Hall. Edgett, first master, when the brig was owned in Eastport. On her “maiden” voyage, she went ashore near entrance to Bass Harbor, but was gotten off not much damaged.


1863 – ZELINDA, barque, 559 tons, built 1863 by C. S. Huston and named for his third wife, who had predeceased him. Though prices were high for building at the time the ZELINDA was described as beautiful, finished and furnished in the best manner with an elegant cabin painted by Swift, so that pine resembled the rarest of woods. Rigging and sparring done by W. D. Ayman and Samuel Baker. ZELINDA was launched September 26, and made passage from Eastport to Boston in 27 hours. She was valued at $40,000.


1864 – WILLIAM ROBERTS, barge, 208-300 tons, built 1864 by C. S. Huston, also sole owner. Dimensions 126’ x 31’ x 8’. Built for New York owners to run on North River. After the barge was towed to Saint Andrews, New Brunswick to load cedar sleepers, she was towed to New York by a Portland tug. 1865 – JOHN H. MCLARREN, barque, 564 tons, built 1865 by C. S. Huston. Named for one of Eastport’s best known and respected captains, and vessel owners. Owners included Captain McLarren, R. Mowe, S. B. Hume & Co., David Perkins, Samuel Stevens, C. S. Huston & Paine Bros., Bren & Son of Boston. Names of prominent merchants and cost of building in wartime suggest substantial investment. On October 11, 1865 Captain Corning took out clearing papers for Cow Bay, Nova Scotia. 1867 – CARDENAS, barque, 388 tons, built 1867. Dimensions 131’ x 30’ x 12’. 3 masts sold for African trade, 1878 for $7,000. 1869-70 – SYRA, bark, 514 tons, built 1869 by Hobart and Pettingill; master carpenter John McVicar and William Parrott. Cost about $23,000. Iron work by Thomas and William Lauglin, joiner work by John Lowe and William Pettingall, painting by Samuel Whaler and William Wilder, spars by John Holman, rigging was of imported wires, superintended by George Day, who made the sails. Ornamented cabin painting by Harry Harrington of Eastport.


1874 – EMMA ALICE, bark, 701 tons, built 1874. Launched by Shaw Brothers on Thanksgiving Day.


1876 – ANNIE H. SMITH, ship, 1482 tons, built 1876 by Nickerson and Rideout. Dimensions 222’ x 40’ x 24’. On maiden voyage she made remarkable fast passage New York to Melbourne in 74 days. Carried about 300 passengers and general cargo. Years later sold in New York as coal barge. 1877 – GLENEIDA, barque, 783 tons, built 1877 by John McVicar. Designed by Aaron Frost, cost $129,157. One source said she was poorly built and top heavy even without a deckload. However, she was carrying machinery worth $175,000 when she left New York for Argentina.


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