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Bangor shipping men in the suit which has been brought against Trefethen & Dugan the stevedores of Portland and Bangor and the steamship FREMONA of the Thompson line, in Portland. The suit has been brought by Benjamin Thompson, Esq., and W. H. Gulliver, Esq., to recover $5,000 for the death of Patrick Conley who was killed onboard the steamship FREMONA Saturday evening at Portland. Coroner Littlefi eld’s jury met Tuesday afternoon and head several witnesses. Conley was employed at the time of his accident carrying shooks to Martin King, who was stowing it away on top of a tier of barrels of apples. In carrying the shooks Conley had to pass over the hatchway on the ‘tween decks. While so doing a hatch cover that was too short for the space that it should have covered gave way under his feet and went into the hold with him. Conley landed on his head and soon after died. There was considerable testimony


offered by fellow workmen, offi cers of the ship and others and while all agreed as to what happened nobody could seem to indicate where the blame lay. The jury after considering the case brought in verdict which recited with the usual legal iteration that Conley came to his death by falling down into the hold from the ‘tween decks by reason of an improperly covered hatch.


2 February 1904 A Machias Schooner Wrecked The N. JONES Struck on the Annisquam Bar off Gloucester – The Crew Saved.


Gloucester, Massachusetts, February


2. – The identity of the schooner which struck the bar off Annisquam during the night, was learned Tuesday when the crew appeared at West Gloucester. The vessel was the Machias, Maine, schooner N. JONES, bound from Newburyport for Boston. The JONES left the former port Monday forenoon and when in Ipswich bay Monday evening was struck by a squall and disabled. The schooner was run ashore and Capt. Chester Vincent and Samuel Washington who were the only person on board, launched a boat, landing at Wingerspeek Beach, West Gloucester. The men remained all night in Percy Wheeler’s gunning shanty. The schooner went to pieces.


The N. JONES was built at Gouldsboro, Maine, in 1852, and registered 67 tons. She was owned by George Brimmer & Co. of Boston. The craft was light when she struck and the loss is small.


18 February 1904 Launching at Rockport Rockport, February 18.


After the ice had been blown up to make a channel, the four-masted schooner WINFIELD S. SCHUSTER was launched at noon Thursday by Carleton, Norwood & Co.


The date for the launching had been set for Saturday, February 6, but owing to the ice the launching was postponed. She was launched practically fi nished and will leave within a few days with a cargo of ice for Washington. The SCHUSTER was christened with fl owers by Miss Harriet W. Crocker, daughter of the future commander, Capt. Wm. G. Crocker, Capt. J. B. Crocker of Franklin, Massachusetts, is the owner. * * * * *


With the Ships


Schooner MAGGIE HURLEY Blown 200 Miles Off Her Course Ice-Breaking at Bath


Barge BEATTIE Will Be Launched


from Kelley, Spear Yard at Bath as Soon as Ice Will Allow.


After starting from Boston with a cargo of fertilizer for Bucksport, the little schooner MAGGIE HURLEY of Rockland, was blown more than 200 miles in the opposite direction by the boisterous weather of last week. Through the good seamanship of her skipper, Capt. Huntley, she managed to work up under the ice of Block Island, and with the assistance of the steamer HECTOR reached Vineyard Haven, Wednesday, with only the loss of a few sails and some deck fi ttings, Deering, Winslow Co. of Portland has received a letter from Capt. Poland, the master of the schooner JOSEPH W. HAWTHORNE, which vessel put into Barbadoes January 26 in distress. The vessel was bound from Jacksonville to Portland with a cargo of cypress lumber, sailing from Jacksonville, December 4. All went well until December 7, when the schooner commenced leaking badly. During a heavy gale the mainsail went to pieces, the foreboom and gaff were also carried away and the cabin fl ooded. Temporary repairs were made and the schooner proceeded as far as Cape Henry, when another gale blew her outside, leaving her in latitude 41 and longitude 50 with deck load gone, long boat smashed, sails gone, cabin doors and windows stove in, all small stores, water and oil washed away, and steering gear crippled. One of the crew was so badly injured that he was unable to work for 15 days. The schooner’s leaks above her water line and her outside will be caulked without discharging her cargo. She is now being refi tted at Barbadoes and will soon start for Portland. Capt. Poland, a man weighing over 200 pounds, has been reduced in weight to 174 pounds on account of the severe strain that has been his mentally and physically. The vessel was out 53 days before her arrival was cabled from Barbadoes.


Many people give credit to the Portland tug CUMBERLAND, formerly the BELKNAP, for opening the Kennebec river to the sea, says the Bath Times. The credit is due to the tug SEGUIN, which started the jam Sunday morning so that it went up and down the river with the tide and at last broke through the Reach.


1 March 1904


Bath Schooner Made a Wreck In a Collision Off Cape Hatteras – Her Entire Crew Rescued.


Norfolk, Virginia, March 1. – Penniless and almost destitute of clothes, six members of the crew of the wrecked schooner DAVID P. DAVIS of Bath, Maine, which were picked up off Hatteras during a gale by Diamond shoals lightship No. 72 have arrived here. The men vividly recount the collision which occurred off Hatteras last Friday night shortly before midnight, when the DAVIS was run down and dismasted off Hatteras by an unknown schooner. The lookout on the DAVIS says he sighted a schooner bearing down on the DAVIS but before he could make a single movement the collision occurred and the schooner was helpless with all four masts gone and a gaping hole in her hull into which the water was pouring.


The schooner’s crew of ten men manned the pumps and worked until they were exhausted. The water continued to gain upon them despite their desperate efforts. Finding his vessel domed Capt. Erwin ordered the DAVIS abandoned Saturday morning and a boat was launched and manned. In the meantime and dismantled wreck had been sighted by Diamond Shoal lightship which sent off a boat to take off


the survivors. The lightships boat had to abandon the effort to tow the schooner’s yawl with its ten occupants and Capt. Erwin, Mate Dittman, Second Mate Wm. Hyman and Seaman Wm. Rowley were left in the boat while the other six occupants of the boat who were exhausted were removed to the lightship’s boat. While awaiting the return of the lightship’s boat for them, a tank ship hove to and picked up Capt. Erwin and his companions and steamed northward. The DAVIS was bound from Charlotte to Baltimore with a cargo of phosphate and was 13 days out when wrecked. The seamen who were brought here are: Engineer Charles Croskam, R. A. Moseley, Wm. Pearsall, Thomas Townes, James L. Newton and S. C. Holtse.


2 July 1904 Lubec, July 2.


Calais Schooner Wrecked


The three-masted schooner LANIE COBB, Capt. Farnsworth, bound from New York to Calais, laden with coal, ran ashore on Nancy ledges west of Quoddy bay, while trying to make the harbor during a heavy fog Friday. The crew escaped in safety and landed in a yawl.


She probably will be a total loss. The LANIE COBB was built in Brewer, Maine, in 1874, and her home port was Machias. She was 253 gross tonnage, 120.4 feet long, 25.1 feet beam and 9.6 feet deep.


13 July 1904 With the Ships


Thick Weather in the Bay Makes Little Doing in Harbor The New York Clears


Schooner WILLIAM J. QUILLIN Launched at Bath Tuesday is One of the Best of Her Class Afl oat.


On account of the continued thick weather in the bay, there have been no arrivals of any importance in the harbor for the past two days. The MARSHALL PERRIN for New York, with lumber from Stetson, Cutler & Co. and Redman & Co., and the ADAM BOWLBY, Boston, James Walker & Co., reported cleared Tuesday, got away Wednesday. The HATTIE P. SIMPSON fi nished discharging Wednesday morning and was expected to clear sometime during the day. The Italian bark, NEW YORK, cleared at the custom house Wednesday and work was begun loading the VESUVIO. Both have box shooks for Castellamare. The schooner JULIA ANN with moulding sand for the Hathorn Mfg. Co. and two bay coasters came up Tuesday. Two coasters also cleared. Is a Fine Craft. The WILLIAM J. QUILLIN, which


was launched Tuesday in Bath, is the 310th craft launched by the New England Co. and she is considered by those who know about sailing vessels to be the peer of her class in every particular. Her dimensions are: Length, 176.7; breadth, 37.4; depth, 13.8; gross tonnage, 695.69.


She will have a carrying capacity of 600 M lumber of 1200 tons of coal. She is a single decked vessel and was built expressly for the general coastwise trade. Loaded she will draw 16 feet. She has a hard wood bottom, hack top thoroughly fastened and built upon honor by a crew of expect mechanics in every department. She is one of F. W. Rideout’s models and the combination for speed and carrying is one of the best. The masts are Oregon pine 92 feet long, the fore is 26 and the others 25 inches in diameter. The rigging is wire set up with turn buckles. The spread of canvas will be 5000 yards. There are two anchors, one a stockless of 4000 pounds, the other a stock


of 3200 pounds. The chain is 200 fathoms 1 ¾ inches in diameter.


She has a complete Hyde Windlass


Co. outfi t. All iron work about deck is galvanized. She has two boats, a 22-footer fi tted with a gasoline engine of fi ve and one- half h.p. and a 16 foot small boat. The sails of the QUILLIN were made


by W. H. Maguire of Baltimore. The cabin arrangements are most commodious and comfortable, and fi nished in polished woods as pretty as an up-to- date steam yacht. The after cabin is fi nished in bird’s eye maple and maple with gold trimmings. The captain’s room is in white wood with pure white ceiling. There are two spare staterooms. The furniture is oak and plush. The bathroom contains all the latest furnishings. The forward cabin contains the staterooms for the mate, steward and engineer and a well arranged pantry, fi nished in quartered oak. The fl oors are hard wood. The cabin is heated with a hot water system. The QUILLIN is rated A1 for 15 years


in American Bureau of Shipping. * * * * *


Lanched at Milbridge Handsome Schooner FLORA A. KIMBALL Went Into the Water


Tuesday – She Will Hail From Bangor The schooner FLORA A. KIMBALL, launched at Milbridge on Tuesday, is one of the best vessel ever built by Sawyer Bros. of that town who have the reputation of turning out fi rst class craft. She was built under the supervision of Master Builder Strout and her measurements are as follows:


Length, 140 7/10; beam 32 3/10; depth,


11 4/10; gross tonnage, 401.76; net tonnage, 321.35. Offi cial letters K. T. F. B. The vessel and equipments are all in accordance with Record requirements. She will hail from Bangor and is owned by Hon. Henry Lord, managing owner, and others of Bangor, Sawyer Bros. the builders, Capt. Gilbert S. Kelley of Milbridge, who will command her and parties in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.


The vessel is named for Mrs. Flora A. Kimball, wife of Mr. George S. Kimball of Carbondale, Pennsylvania, one of the principal owners of the vessel. Mr. and Mrs. Kimball, who formerly resided in Bangor, were present at the launching. Tuesday, the day of the launching, was a beautiful day and a large crowd of people, from Milbridge and the surrounding towns were present.


The launching was very successful, the vessel sliding smoothly from the ways amid the cheers of the people in the yard, and music from the Milbridge band. The vessel was christened with fl owers


by Miss Aline Glass of Bangor, a relative of Mr. and Mrs. Kimball.


After the launching a lunch was served to the guests on board by Capt. and Mrs. Kelley.


* * * * * Marine Mishaps at Portland Portland, July 13.


As a result of the dense fog off the coast the past two days, two accidents were reported Wednesday. The U. S. tug SIOUX which came from Portsmouth last week for use of the Maine naval reserves encamped at High Head, Harpswell for two weeks, grounded on Clark’s ledge, near High Head, was fl oated at high tide and later, owing to injuries sustained, was beached. Her planking was broken and she was badly strained.


An unknown sloop yacht about 25 feet in length, was discovered on the southeasterly side of Great Diamond island. She grounded bow on and laying on one side.


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