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day’s luck from the hour that she slid down the ways at Milbridge, Maine, in December, 1895. She was a beautiful boat in lines and fi nish. With all sail set before a light breeze she was a picture in the water. In pointing into the wind the BERWIND was better than any four-master that Maine had ever turned out in 10 years. But there was a curse across her bow. In her fi rst trip to Philadelphia she ran into a steamship and was badly damaged. There was always something wrong with the crew. Less than a year old, the BERWIND had more trouble than any other vessel in the way of collisions, and fi nally, two months after her christening, more occurred on board the tragedy for which one man was hanged. That was on October 12. On that date in the dark of night, the schooner BLANCHE H. KING, Capt. J. W. Taylor, with lumber from Mobile sighted distress signals on board the BERWIND off Southport, North Carolina. Capt. Taylor sent his mate and half a dozen men to the BERWIND. They found three negroes. Robert Sawyer, Henry Scott and John Adams. The three men declared that there had been a fi ght on board and that Capt. Rumill, the engineer of the hoisting apparatus, the steward and the mate had been killed. The mate of the KING left the negroes until morning. On the following morning the KING’s crew took charge of the BERWIND and made prisoners of the three negroes. After landing the BERWIND in Southport it developed that there had been mutiny aboard the ship because cold coffee had been served to the three negroes. The rest of the crew paid the penalty of death for the cook’s mistake. For the crime Scot was hanged and the other two sailors sent to prison for long terms. The BERWIND’s gross tonnage was 996, her length 191.7, her depth 38.2 and her beam 17.4 feet. * * * * *
New Schooner Overboard.
Wednesday noon the handsome new three-masted schooner HERBERT MAY went overboard from the yard of Frank S. Bowker & Son in Phippsburg and the event was made the occasion of a celebration in the town. The craft was christened with fl owers by Mrs. Herbert Black of Brooksville, wife of Capt. Black who is going in command. The vessel will hail from Portland and is owned by the Rufus Deering Co. The offi cial measurements of the HERBERT MAY are: Length, 140 feet; breadth, 33.4; depth, 10.4; gross tonnage, 384. She was built expressly
for the lumber carrying trade and will be ready for sea the last of next week. Capt. Black was formerly of the J. C. WILLARD and is thoroughly pleased with his new command in every particular. Capt. Robert H. Goodman has a crew of riggers at work fi nishing the rigging. The Rufus Deering Co. has placed an order with F. S. Bowker & Son for a three-master, of 500 tons carrying capacity and the work will be started at once. The Bowker yard is the only plant on the Kennebec which has a contract for a three- masted schooner.
The three-masted schooner OLIVER
S. BARRETT, Captain Campbell of the G. G. Deering Co. fl eet of Bath, is long overdue and anxiety is felt by her owners and the friends of Captain Campbell. The BARRETT sailed from Port Royal, South Carolina, September 9, with a cargo of lumber for New York, and has not been heard from, and it is feared that she was lost in the recent hurricane.
11 October 1906 Paper Via Stockton
Great Northern Paper Co. Will Send its Product That Way. The Sch. NORTHLAND
Fine New Vessel Owned by the Great Northern to Run Between Stockton and New York.
The Northern Maine Seaport railroad and its terminal at Stockton Springs is to be the outlet for the production of the mill of the Great Northern Paper Co. at Millinocket and the new mills which are now in course of construction at Dolbeare rips and Burnt Land rips on the West Branch of the Penobscot river. Heretofore all the product of the Millinocket mill has gone out by rail. This arrangement has been unsatisfactory at times owing to the diffi culty in getting suffi cient cars to take the paper away from the mill. The cars have been obtained, but sometimes it has been a narrow squeak and when there are contracts to fi ll the paper has to be in Boston or New York at a certain time and there are from ten to 15 carloads a day to be shipped, a scarcity of cars is unfortunate. The Seaport road was built to meet just
this emergency and it has succeeded so far as the Great Northern is concerned. The cars are now kept on the road better than ever before and the company always has cars enough on hand for the shipment of their paper. Heretofore, however, the Great
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