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HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Miscellaneous News from the Bangor Commercial Maritime History


17 April 1900 The Doughty Case. Horace M. Sargent of Portland, agent of


the fi shing schooner ELLA M. DOUGHTY has just received notice of a decision by the Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, of much interest to vessel owners and especially to those engaged in the sword fi shing and mackerel business.


It has always been the practice among those classes of fi shing vessels, while on the fi shing grounds to lie hove to, as it is termed among seafaring men that is with the jibs made fast to windward and the after sails trimmed quite fl at and their wheels down. In this way the vessel forges ahead


slowly, and her crew are able to practically hold their ground, without the necessity of anchoring. It is also frequently done by all classes of vessels in heavy weather. On August 30, 1898, the ELLA M.


DOUGHTY of Portland, while on a sword fi shing to the LaHave Banks, was lying hove to with her wheel hard down and lashed. A little before midnight on that


day, she was run down by the steamship COLUMBIA, then on a voyage from London to Boston and then proceeding at a speed of nine to ten knots an hour. The steamer struck the schooner on the starboard bow, carrying away both of her masts and otherwise injuring her. The schooner was afterwards taken by the steamer in tow and towed to Boston. Mr. Sargent as the agent of the schooner fi led a libel in the United States District court in Boston, and the case was tried before Judge Lowell in January, 1899, and resulted in fi nding the steamer in fault for excessive speed and the schooner was also found in fault for lying hove to in a fog without having a man at the wheel and for not blowing her


fog horn regularly, and for not exhibiting a fl are up light, and ordered that the owners of the schooner recover one-half of their damage.


The owners of the schooner appealed to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals where the case was heard in January last, and that court has just announced its conclusion reversing the fi ndings of the district court, and holding that the steamer was wholly to blame for the collision and ordering that the owners of the schooner recover the full amount of the damages sustained by them. Benjamin Thompson of Portland, was the attorney for the owners of the ELLA M. DOUGHTY and Hon. Louis S. Danney and Frederick Cunningham, Esq., of Boston, were the attorneys for the steamship COLUMBIAN.


21 April 1900 Steamer Burned.


The ROSE STANDISH Practically Destroyed at Calais.


Was on the Blocks Being Put in Condition for Season.


Odd Fellows Entertained at Calais – Other News from the Border.


Calais, April 21. The popular old steamer ROSE


STANDISH, of the Frontier Steamboat Co.’s line, was practically destroyed by fi re early Friday evening as he lay on the blocks at the lower side of the down river wharf, and the winter freight shed owned by the company, situated on the same wharf was also destroyed. The STANDISH was valued at $24,000, and was insured for $11,500, the freight shed was valued at $1,000 and was partially covered by insurance. The ROSE STANDISH, up to 13 years ago, was a pleasure boat in Boston harbor,


NAVY NEWS: BUDGET, USS THRESHER AND CHURCHILL


Continued from Page 6.


ercises at sea, allows us to build international cooperation with other seagoing nations,” added Stone. “It makes for a stronger pres- ence against common maritime challenges, to include piracy, and ensures the sea lanes remain open around the world.” CHURCHILL deployed June 20, 2012, with two SH-60B helicopters from the He- licopter Maritime Strike Squadron 72, Det. 8, in support of counter-piracy and maritime security missions in the Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Red Sea, and Arabian Gulf. The ship initially deployed as part of the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group. When USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69) returned to Norfolk, Va., CHURCHILL, USS JASON DUNHAM (DDG 109), and USS FARRAGUT (DDG 99) remained on station in the Arabian Gulf. At that point, CHURCHILL attached to the JOHN C. STENNIS Carrier Strike Group for the du- ration of their Fifth Fleet operations. In March, the CHURCHILL was the recipient of Destroyer Squadron 28 Battle Effi ciency Award. This marks their third consecutive Battle “E.” This honor is award- ed annually to ships and crews that exhibit the maximum condition of departmental readiness in their group, and their capability to perform their wartime tasks. Battle “E” awardees demonstrated sustained superior performance in the following six excellence categories: Maritime Warfare; Engineering and Survivability; Command, Control, Communications, and Information Warfare; Logistics Management; Commander Naval Surface Force Safety Award and the Effi - ciency Excellence Award.


“Our crew did an outstanding, phenom- enal job on deployment,” said USS WIN- STON S. CHURCHILL Command Master Chief Myla Presco. “The ship is coming back to Norfolk better than it left, and ev- ery Sailor can come home with a feeling of accomplishment.”


Sailors anxiously endured the hours as homecoming drew near. Gas Turbine System Technician (Mechanical) 3rd Class Charles O. Bates waited to meet his son for the fi rst time. “I get to fi nally hold my baby,” said


Bates, a fi rst-time father. “I am really excited and nervous.”


CHURCHILL is the only U.S. Navy ship to have a Royal Navy offi cer assigned permanently to the ship’s company, a sym- bol of the partnership between the British and American navies. It is also the only U.S. Naval vessel to fl y a foreign ensign - the Royal Navy’s White Ensign is fl own as well as the Stars and Stripes. CHURCHILL is the fi fth U.S. warship to be named in honor of an Englishman.


“(The deployment) was a very good introduction to the United States Navy,” said CHURCHILL Navigator, Royal Navy Lt. Matthew F. Millyard, who joined the ship mid-deployment in December. “I’m looking forward to serving with it on U.S. soil.” The ship, whose motto is “In War: Resolution, In Peace: Goodwill,” was com- missioned in 2001 as the 81st Arleigh Burke- class destroyer. She carries a complement of 259 Sailors and 39 offi cers. “It’s an honor to command these excep- tional men and women. This is truly a special ship and a special crew,” said Stone.


running to Nantasket, but she got the reputation of being top heavy and became unpopular. The Frontier Steamboat Co., of this city, purchased the steamer after her fall from public favor, and she has done service on the route between Calais, Eastport, Robbinston and St. Andrews since that time, and has always been very popular with the traveling and pleasure seeking public. Last fall the STANDISH was hauled out at the lower wharf for the winter instead of at Eastport as formerly, the reason for this change being that the railroad company had purchased the wharf where she was already docked for repairs. She was being made ready for the summer business and was to have been put on the route about May 1. Carpenters, painters and caulkers were busy on the boat getting her ready, and the tools owned by the men thus engaged were on the boat at the time the fi re was discovered. It is not known whether the fi re started in the steamer or in the freight shed, as both were underway when the fi remen arrived on the scene, but it is generally supposed to have started in the steamer. The shed contained no freight, but the lift crafts and other fi ttings of the steamer, together with a quantity of oil, in barrels were stored there. Saturday morning it was announced


that the fi re started in the freight shed, probably from spontaneous combustion.


8 May 1900 Schooner NOROMBEGA’S Mate Killed He Fell into the Hold of His Vessel on Monday Afternoon and Broke His Neck, Dying Instantly.


Charles Anderson, mate of the schooner NOROMBEGA which is discharging coal at the sheds of the Bacon & Robinson Co., on Front Street, was instantly killed on Monday afternoon, shortly after 4 o’clock, by falling into the hold of his vessel. Anderson was looking into the hold to see what progress the shovellers were making, when he lost his balance and fell. He struck on his head, breaking his neck and dying instantly. Physicians were called but they could


only confi rm the men’s suspicious that Anderson was dead. Coroner Finnegan was called and he caused the body to be removed to the undertaking rooms of Finnegan Bros., where it will be kept until instructions are received from the dead man’s relatives who are supposed to live in Savannah. Anderson was about 40 years old and shipped from New York a couple of weeks ago for his fi rst voyage on the NOROMBEGA.


19 May 1900


Capt. Daniel Golden of the Waterfront. He is Famous Along the River and the Wharves.


Capt. Daniel Golden, diver, woodsman,


sailor, life-saver, policeman, junk-dealer, etc., etc., is one of the best known fi gures on Bangor’s waterfront; during the past 20 years he has been employed constantly on the river, either at the limbering operations in the woods or on the Penobscot at this city. His occupations, as the titles given above show, have been many and varied but the captain himself prefers to be known as “the voluntary life-saver of the port of Bangor.” One of the reasons for the captain’s publicity is on account of his associations with some of the best known divers who have worked in this vicinity and because of his own skill in going under the water. During the winter, Capt. Golden is employed by John Ross & Son, lumbermen, while in the summer he buys junk and performs various duties along the wharves, when he is not engaged in lifesaving or, in the rescuing of hats and other articles which get into the


water.


“I’m at home on top or under the water,” said the captain as he posed for his picture before the Commercial’s artist. “I’ve been here for 20 years and am known as the best man on the water in Maine. There’s nothing that I can’t do on the river and I’ve never seen the storm that could keep me ashore when I’m out in my good boat, JENNY LIND. “The JENNY LIND will be launched on Monday and then I’ll be ready for business. She’ll be moored at Morse & Oliver’s slip and will be at the service of the public at all times.


“This weather is no surprise to me, for I’m a weather prophet and I prophesied two weeks ago when I saw the moon canting over that we’d get some rain and we’ve got it. Haven’t we? There’s nothing about the weather or water that this man doesn’t know for haven’t been on it all the time for 20 years and haven’t I been out in waves that kept everyone else ashore?” “The JENNY LIND will be out on


Monday, so tell the people that Capt. Golden is ready to save lives at all times, either in the day or night.”


6 February 1901 Old Schooner CLEMENT


History of Ancient Jonesport Craft. Sea Captain Talks of the Pictures of Famous POLLY


The TRITON’s Long and Leaky Trip from the Kennebec to New York. “Talking about old schooners,” said the sea captain as he stretched his feet up to a radiator in an Exchange Street shipping offi ce on Wednesday forenoon, “the POLLY isn’t the only one for down in Jonesport they have a vessel, the CLEMENT, which is pretty nearly old enough to vote. She was built at Vinalhaven in 1827 and in her palmy days was occasionally seen in West India ports so she known other waters than those of the Maine coast.


“Of late years, however, the CLEMENT has not ventured out of the Machias district preferring to spend the remainder of her days near home ports. She is employed as a wood and lumber carrier and although she isn’t real clipper for speed she still manages to hold her own with many coasters of a later date.


“She has battled with the wind and storms for considerably beyond the period allotted to most sailing vessels but she is still in remarkably good condition and there seems to be no reason why she should not be around to celebrate her diamond anniversary providing she meets with no accidents. “Speaking of the POLLY, some of the old vessels that have been reproduced in the papers of New England have been ridiculous in the extreme. She has been represented as a three-masted schooner, a brig, a bark, and one enterprising western paper went so far as to show the POLLY as a full rigged clipper ship bristling with guns. The real POLLY as you know, is a harmless schooner with a high poopdeck and altogether inoffensive looking. It is her history and age that makes her, imposing – not her appearance.” The TRITON’s Trip.


This is the tale of the voyage of a sieve and of a skipper who made most of the trip by rail, told by a New York newspaper. It shows that he had a due appreciation of the sieve-like qualities of the aged little American schooner TRITON. She arrived at Newtown Creek last Friday with a cargo of lumber from Kennebec River, Maine after a voyage of three months. The wonder is not so much at the length of the voyage as that the TRITON ever fi nished it. Capt. Mahan, her skipper, was on board when the TRITON, with patched and


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