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had been stopped the boat had gone ahead half a length, and by the time it was reversed she had gained a length and it was impossible to keep her off the rocks. Chas. Tapley was the engineer in
charge, the regular man, Fred Bennett, hav- ing laid off for the trip. The CIMBRIA is lying just beyond the Bass Harbor wharf, her stern being but a few feet away from the pier head. The CIMBRIA is well-known to all Bangor people. She is a wooden propeller steamer, 116.7 feet long, 18.5 feet beam, 7.6 feet hold, 289.14 tons gross and 247.42 tons net register. She was built in the Barbour yard, in Brewer, and launched on May 8, 1882.
The steamer cost $20,000 and was uninsured, so that if it is impossible to save her as it is feared, it will be, the company, and especially the Barbours who own the majority of the stock, will suffer a heavy loss.
17 October 1898 CIMBRIA is Safe.
Ross & Howell Get Her Off the Rocks. Wrecked Steamer is Now Being Towed to This Port.
Hull Badly Strained and Houses Shat- tered, But She’s Safe. The steamer CIMBRIA, is off the rocks of Bass Harbor.
This announcement was made by the
steamer’s agents in this city on Monday forenoon, and at the offi ce of Ross & Howell, the towboat company engaged in wrecking the craft.
On Sunday night and Monday morning some reports without foundation were sent in circulation about the city, saying that the CIMBRIA had broken in two, and so forth. However, on Monday morning, she was
gotten off the rocks and is now on her way to Bangor in charge of the tug RALPH ROSS. The steamer is not under her own steam, and is being towed. There is said to be no doubt of her reaching Bangor safely, and her owners are accordingly highly pleased. The CIMBRIA ought to reach Bangor between 9 and 10 o’clock on Monday night. It is understood that she will at once go onto Stetson’s marine railway for a thorough examination and repairs. A telephone message from Capt. Geo.
H. Barbour, who has been at Bass Harbor since the day of the accident, said that the boat was whole, not having a single hole in her, notwithstanding the fact that she had been on the ledge for nearly three days. The house of the CIMBRIA is badly damaged, having listed badly, and it is thought that the greater amount of repairing will have to be done upon that part of the craft. The machinery, although necessarily more or less jarred, will it is expected, need nothing more than an overhauling. This was the process used by which the boat was gotten off the ledge. Chains fas- tened to a schooner alongside were passed under the keel of the CIMBRIA and then made fast on the wharf. The chains were arranged at low tide. As the tide came in, the schooner lifted and as she rose the wrecked steamer was taken up on the chains. All the while she was being pumped out by the tug RALPH ROSS.
As soon as the CIMBRIA was fl oated, she was immediately taken in tow by the ROSS, the pumps being used continually. The steamer is leaking badly but it is on account of the parting of her seams by the great strain.
18 October 1898 CIMBRIA Arrives.
Creeps Lamely Into Her Old Berth Here At the Other End of the ROSS’ Stout Towline.
She’s Badly Damaged, But Can Be Re- paired and Will Be.
Creeping lamely into port at the end of the stout tow line running astern from the big tug RALPH ROSS, the wrecked steamer CIMBRIA came up to her old berth at the Bar Harbor wharves, foot of Union Street, early Tuesday afternoon. She left Bass Harbor on Monday in tow of the ROSS, but had to be taken back to harbor on account of the heavy weather. Very early on Satur- day, she was started again, and came along without accident. The tow passed in by Fort Point at 10:30 o’clock, and was reported to Capt. Walter Ross, of the towing company, at that hour. A little after 2 o’clock, the tow rounded High head and the ROSS brought the CIMBRIA up to her berth, where she was tied up, the tug lying alongside to keep the seam pumps moving.
It had been intended to take the CIM-
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