Page 22. MAINE COASTAL NEWS January 2015 HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Bangor Daily Commercial - Early 1900s 8 October 1907 Ashore in Storm


Sloop COMFORT of Bangor Went on Beach at Hersey Retreat Early Tuesday Morning


Victor Chaison and Three Other Bangor Men Who Were Aboard Escaped in Safety.


The sloop yacht COMFORT, owned by


Victor Chaison of the Aroostook House of this city, went ashore near the Hersey Retreat at Sandy Point, some time Tuesday morning and at last accounts was pounding badly with its rigging all gone. The COMFORT left Bangor Monday morning with Victor Chaison, Paul Aneola, Fred Burns and Joe Cluett aboard. They were going for a fi shing trip down the bay and intended to be gone a few days.


When the steamer STOCKTON, Capt. Bennett, arrived in this city Tuesday noon from down river, its crew reported on its arrival here that a small sloop yacht, named COMFORT, was ashore at the Hersey Retreat, near Sandy Point. When the STOCKTON went by the yacht was pounding badly and all of its rigging appeared to be gone. No one was seen on the boat.


The storm in the lower bay was unusually severe and a big sea was kicked up by the southeasterly storm. Telephone lines were all out of order on that side of the river Tuesday afternoon, and the COMMERCIAL was unable to ascertain any facts as to whether the Bangor men got ashore all right or were missing. The COMFORT is a sloop of about 25 feet in length and has a tonnage of fi ve or six tons. It is quite an old boat, but is seaworthy. Mr. Chaison, together with Paul Aucoin, Fred Burns and Joe Cluett, left this city Monday morning for a trip down the bay. The Bangor men intended doing a little fi shing incidentally, and return home in a few days.


Considerable anxiety was felt at the Aroostook House Tuesday afternoon as to the safety of Mr. Chaison and his


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Navy Undersea Museum Opens USS Thresher Exhibit


By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Seth Coulter, Navy Public Affairs Support Element West, Det. Northwest KEYPORT, Wash. (NNS) -- Naval Under- sea Museum, Keyport, Washington, held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the unveiling of a new USS Thresher (SSN-593) exhibit Dec. 3.


USS Thresher was the Navy’s most advanced submarine when it sunk April 10, 1963, with all hands on board. This tragedy became a turning point for the Navy to es- tablish the Submarine Safety (SUBSAFE) program and the Deep Submergence Sys- tems project.


“Thresher was an example of military


companions, but no information had been received there concerning the disaster. Reached Shore in Safety.


Through the kindness of Bangor &


Aroostook offi cials, who called up their Sandy Point station Tuesday afternoon for the Commercial, it was learned that the COMFORT went ashore about 7:30 o’clock Tuesday morning and that the Bangor men had reached shore in safety.


29 October 1907


Bath Bark DIRIGO Back from Trip around Horn


Having rounded Cape Horn, the


DIRIGO, America’s biggest bark, a four- masted steel vessel of 3,000 tons net register, built in Bath and commanded by Capt. George E. Goodwin, came to berth at the foot of Van Brunt street, Brooklyn, Sunday. On her voyage from Honolulu, a Japanese of the crew was lost overboard and several other men were washed into the scuppers with bruises and broken limbs.


Capt. Goodwin, who put in at Delaware Breakwater two days ago for orders, said that around the Horn he found quieter seas and milder airs than at any time before in his 24 years at sea.


There were favoring winds at the start from the Hawaiian port on June 4, and for the fi rst 20 days the DIRIGO made the fastest runs since her launching. Then heavy weather set in and about 1,000 miles from Cape Horn at 2 o’clock one morning there were buried orders to shorten sail. Twenty- four members of the crew are Japanese and there are six white men.


Up aloft the watch scrambled to take in the upper topsails. One Suji slipped from the port end of the foretopsail yard and fell into the seas a hundred feet below. His comrades cried out “On deck!” – the only English words they had learned – and then John Paul, acting boatswain, slid down the forestay to the forecastle deck to give the alarm, but the DIRIGO had forged ahead half a mile and there was no chance to fi nd the sailor.


U. S. NAVY N E W S


When the DIRIGO neared Cape Horn in heavy weather the man at the wheel allowed the bark to broach to and the mainsail was blown away. The DIRIGO wallowed in the breaking seas, one of which tumbled aboard and washed the crew on deck into the lee scuppers. Tug TOKIE, a Japanese, sustained a broken leg, which was set by Capt. Goodwin with Mr. Marks, fi rst offi cer. Sunday TOKIE was smiling and as lively as the others in the crew.


Built in Bath, Maine, in 1894, the DIRIGO is owned by Arthur Sewall & Co. Her name is a part of the seal of the Pine Tree State. She brings a cargo of sugar.


4 November 1907


Sch. CHAS. H. SPRAGUE Ashore in Quoddy Bay


The Providence schooner CHARLES H. SPRAGUE, lumber laden, bound from Annapolis, N. S., for Porto Rico, sprang a leak and fi lled while off West Quoddy head early Sunday during a southwest gale and driving rainstorm. She put into Quoddy


Bay and anchored, but being in danger of capsizing, in the heavy sea, shipped her anchors and tried to make the upper bay but grounded on the point near the government breakwater, where she now lies in a dangerous position on a rocky reef. The water poured into her so rapidly that everything below decks was spoiled. The wind at the time reached a velocity of 50 miles an hour.


The SPRAGUE is of 318 tons gross, was built in Madison, Connecticut, in 1882, and carries a crew of about seven men.


7 November 1907 Gale Wrecks Many Vessels


Storm Destructive Along the Coast and in the Interior Sections. Boston, November 7. – Wednesday


night’s storm which blew several vessels on shore at various points on the New England coast, and which littered the interior with broken trees, signs and other insecure material, was well down toward the provinces at dawn Thursday after a


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(Race Director). 20 to 25 boats at the start


prowess. So, it was a big shock when it sank,” explained Mary Ryan, curator of the Naval Undersea Museum. “The exhibit we’ve put together is to learn about the Thresher but to also learn what the Navy did to make sure something like that never happened again.”


The loss initiated major changes in


safety, construction and quality assurance programs throughout the submarine fl eet. “Before the Thresher went on its fi nal cruise she was tested during an overhaul,” said Cmdr. Daniel Ettlich, from Cameron Park, California, Puget Sound Naval Ship- yard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility Business and Strategic Planning Offi ce. “Out of the 150 joints tested, 14% were considered substandard. That equates to over 400 joints through-out the submarine being mechanically unsound.”


Though distant in time, the memory of this disaster still lingers for veterans who served during those years. “We had a job to do and if something went wrong we took care of it and continued on,” said retired Master Chief Mechanist’s Mate Harry Gilger. “The men who went down on that sub were shipmates and though we can’t bring them back we can try to make sure it never happens again. The sub force takes care of each other, and always will.” Since the initiation of the (SUBSAFE) program no certifi ed submarine has ever been lost.


As for the race, the Notice of Race has been drawn up. The DNA of the Vendée Globe has of course been respected and there are no major changes. The Jury and Race Committee have been appointed. The President of the Jury will be Bernard Bon- neau, “one of the most famous judges in the sailing world, who will also be President of the Jury at the Rio Olympics in 2016.” Bru- no Retailleau handed over the microphone to Jean Kerhoas, who spoke about the new IMOCA class rules and the question of the use of foils, which should add to the tech- nological attraction of the Vendée Globe. The sailors were quite naturally given pride of place at this conference. Bruno Retailleau reminded everyone that there is ongoing contact with all the solo sailors. “In this diffi cult economic context, the Council and the SAEM Vendée offer their help to the skippers, who are looking for sponsors, through the use of marketing and communication tools, but also with joint meetings in order to explain the high return on investment that an event like the Vendée Globe with such media coverage offers.” No fewer than around thirty sailors hoping to compete in the Vendée Globe made the trip to present their projects.


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To sum up, “We already have fi fteen teams committed, which is much more than we had with two years to go to the 2012 race, and we are confi dent that we should have between 20 and 25 boats on the start line on 6th November 2016,” declared Bruno Retailleau. “We’re looking at quality too, as a third of this fl eet will be made up of new boats, which is an exceptional proportion and even a unique situation in such ocean races.” The President of the Saem Vendée concluded, “The 2016 edition of the Vendée Globe looks like being an exceptional one from every point of view. Firstly, with a line-up offering quantity, quality and diver- sity, which promises an exciting race out on the water. Then there is the coverage, which is being stepped up. Finally, with solid partnership agreements, we are able to work without any worries. All of this will strengthen the Vendée Globe in its position as the greatest ocean race in the world.” The 15 sailors already committed: Aboard seven new boats: Morgan La- gravière (FRA / Safran), Armel Le Cléac’h (FRA / Banque Populaire), Alex Thomson (GB / Hugo Boss), Sébastien Josse (FRA / Groupe Edmond de Rothschild), Andrea Mura (ITA / Vento Di Sardegna), Jean-Pierre Dick (St Michel-Virbac), Nandor Fa (HG / Spirit of Hungary).


Aboard eight existing boats: Vincent Riou (FRA / PRB), Yann Eliès (FRA/Groupe Quéguiner), Jérémie Beyou (FRA / Maître Coq), Tanguy de Lamotte (FRA / Initiatives Cœur), Louis Burton (FRA / Bureau Vallée), Eric Bellion (FRA / Comme 1 seul Homme), Rich Wilson (USA / Great America IV), Armel Tripon (FRA / For Humble Heroes). Other projects that are underway: with varying degrees of progress, some of these sailors also attended the press confer- ence: Sébastien Audigane (FRA), Yannick Bestaven (FRA), Nicolas Boidevezi (FRA), Arnaud Boissières (FRA), Ryan Breymaier (USA), Christophe Bullens (BEL), Guo Chuan (Chine), Bertrand de Broc (FRA), Fa- bien Delahaye (Fra), Kito de Pavant (FRA), Eric Defert (FRA), Alessandro Di Benedetto (ITA), Raphaël Dinelli (FRA) Corentin Douguet (FRA), Marc Emig (FRA), Roland Jourdain (FRA), Jean Le Cam (FRA), Eric Loizeau (FRA), Nicolas Lunven (FRA), Paul Meilhat (FRA), Gildas Morvan (FRA), Alex Pella (ESP), Jeff Pellet (FRA), Juan Carlo Pedote (ITA), Christopher Pratt (FRA), Jorg Riechers (ALL), Phill Sharp (GBR), Bernard Stamm (SUI).


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