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reaching the side of the OREGON and were pulled aboard. The last the men saw of the EMERSON she was down by the head off Cape Sable and the seas were making a clean breach over her. On Wednesday afternoon the shipwrecked men were transferred to the steamer NANETTE which brought them here.


The A. P. EMERSON was owned by Herbert C. Hall of Boston. She was built at Belfast, Maine, in 1873, registered 231 tons net and was 124 feet in length, 29 feet in breadth and nine feet in depth.


13 December 1906


Maine Schooners in Collision Off Boone Island


Portland, December 13. – The two masted schooners LILLIAN and ALICE T. BOARDMAN, bound from Machias and Calais with lumber for Boston, were towed into the harbor Thursday by the tug PRISCILLA in a damaged condition as a result of a collision just before midnight off Boone Island. The damages which will be repaired here at slight cost, included a fl ying jibboom lost by the BOARDMAN and broken plates in the stern of the LILLIAN. The collision took place in a heavy squall as the schooners came up into the wind, the bow of the BOARDMAN taking


the LILLIAN on the stern near the pilothouse. Both remained outside during the morning awaiting a tow.


15 December 1906 Maine Vessel Near a Wreck Hard Experience of the Old Schooner Watchman of Deer Isle


Kittery, December 15. – A message received here Saturday indicated that the crew of the schooner WATCHMAN, which sailed from here Friday in tow of the tug PORTSMOUTH, had a severe experience on their trip to Boston where they arrived at night.


The WATCHMAN, which was bound from Calais for Boston with a cargo of lumber in command of Capt. H. E. Murphy, put in here early Friday, leaking and with her mainsail and jibs carried away as the result of having been caught in a heavy gale off the coast. She was taken in tow by the tug PORTSMOUTH which also had two barges loaded with brick in tow for Boston. When off Thatcher’s island the schooner had continued to leak to such an extent that she rolled over on her beam ends and the tug’s hawser parted. Capt. Murphy and crew took to the yawl boat and succeeded in reaching the tug where they were taken aboard. The tug then managed to pick up the schooner again and after a slow trip fi nally reached Boston late Friday night. Part of the


schooner’s deckload of lumber was washed overboard before she righted herself. It is said that she will be repaired at Boston. The WATCHMAN is one of the oldest coasting vessels in commission, having been built in Seaville, Maine, in 1847. She hails from Deer Isle, Maine, and registers 85 tons net.


An Abandoned Vessel Off Thatcher’s Island


Gloucester, Massachusetts, December


15. – There is an abandoned schooner drifting in the path of navigation in the vicinity of Thatcher’s island. This information was brought to this port Saturday by the fi shing schooner, IDA SILVER, which sighted the schooner about half a mile to the eastward of Thatcher’s. The IDA SILVER which was out on the fi shing grounds Friday sighted the same derelict northeast of Thatcher’s island. At that time the abandoned vessel which apparently had been used in the coast trade had lost her bowsprit and a considerable quantity of wreckage was hanging over the sides.


The vessel was trimmed in white and there was a name on her stern but because of the spray which was breaking over the schooner only the fi rst letter which was “F” could be made out.


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22 July 1907 “EVELYN N. THAW” Launched Famous Name Given Scow Which a Rockland Man Has Built for Transporting Lumber.


Wednesday morning the Brook at Rockland was agog with excitement over preparations for the launching of the EVELYN N. THAW from Charles E. Bicknell’s yard. The craft is a fl at-bottomed, sharp-bowed scow, sloop-rigged, with centerboard, and sail. The scow is 62-feet long, 22 feet beam and fi ve feet hold. It is equipped with a 24 h. p. gasoline engine and has a steam derrick. The craft’s fi rst charter will be to lighter the British schooner GEORGIE E., which is wrecked on a ledge up the bay, and which has been bought, with its cargo by Mr. Bicknell. The purpose for which the scow was constructed, principally, was to ply between Rockland and head of the ride in Morrill. Mr. Bicknell has a mill in Morrill, and has on hand there, ready for transportation, a million feet of lumber, 1200 cords of hardwood, cedar logs, etc. In fact the mill alone will keep the scow busy a full year. C. E. Drinkwater of Northport will command the EVELYN THAW. The carrying capacity is about 150 tons.


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