Page 22. MAINE COASTAL NEWS May 2015 4 November 1913
HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Bangor Daily Commercial - Early 1900s about two months.
Berg Crumpled Steamer’s Bow Furness Liner MANCHESTER COMMERCE Makes St. Johns After Collision
St. Johns, N. F., November 4 –
With her bows crushed in as far as the forward bulkhead and listing badly to port, as the result of a collision with an iceberg the Furness liner, MANCHESTER COMMERCE, crept into port here Tuesday. The MANCHESTER COMMERCE which was bound from Montreal for Manchester under command of Capt. Couch, struck the berg head on about 100 miles east of Belle Isle at 2 o’clock Sunday morning. The night was very dark and the berg looked out of the blackness so suddenly that there was no time to change the course of the steamer which crashed at full speed into the mountain of ice. The force of the impact was terrifi c and the steel prow of the liner was crumpled up like a piece of tin as far aft as the collision bulkhead and the decks were covered with fragments of ice. Capt. Couch made a hasty survey of the damage, notifi ed his agents at Montreal of the accident and headed his ship for St. Johns.
The sea was swept by a heavy storm and the steamer had a hard time making port. Torrents of water poured into the hold from the crumpled bow and the pumps, although constantly in operation could not more than hold their own against the inrushing fl ood. When the MANCHESTER COMMERCE reached here she was in a precarious condition, and shipping men declared that she was the worst iceberg wreck that ever entered the harbor. The steamer carried about 6,000 tons
of general cargo, and this is believed to be undamaged. Her lower hold, above which the water did not come was fi lled with timber, while the grain, fl our and other foodstuffs were on a deck above. The repairs to the steamer will require
13 November 1913 167 Drowned in Gale on Lakes
Total of at Least Ten Vessels Lost Between Sunday and Tuesday with Crews
That a total of at least ten vessels and 167 lives were lost in the storm that swept the Great Lakes from Sunday until Tuesday, is indicated in the compilation Thursday of reports received from various points on the lakes. In addition 31 other vessels were partially or wholly destroyed, their crews escaping.
The list of lost vessels and their dead is apportioned thus: JOHN A. MCGEAN, Cleveland; crew
28; lost off Sarnia, Ont., in Lake Huron. CHAS. S. PRICE, Cleveland, crew 28;
sunk off Goderich, Ont., in Lake Huron. JAS. S. CARRUTHERS, Toronto; crew of 25; wreckage washed ashore at Grand Bend, Ontario, on Luke Huron. REGINA, Toronto; crew of 20; capsized in Lake Huron. WEXFORD, Toronto; crew of 20; believed to have possibly collided with REGINA and sunk in Lake Huron. LEIFIELD, Sault Ste. Marie; crew of 15; wrecked on Angus Island, Lake Superior. PLYMOUTH, Monominee, Michigan; crew 7; sunk off St. Martin’s island, Lake Michigan.
LIGHTSHIP 32; crew of six; sunk off
Buffalo in Lake Erie. M. F. BUTLER, Milwaukee, crew of 15, believed foundered in Lake Superior. WM. NOTTINGHAM, Cleveland; three of crew of 25 missing; wrecked near Sand Island, Lake Superior.
Notable among the wrecked vessels
The MANCHESTER COMMERCE carries a crew of about 40 offi cers and men. She is built of iron and registers 5,663 tons gross.
whose crew escaped; were: Str. TURRET CHIEF, wrecked at Copper Harbor; crew of 17; L. C. WALDO, wrecked off Manitbu island, crew of 24 and H. M. HANNA, ashore at Point Aux Barques, crew of 22.
The other vessels were either steamers that went aground and were later released or small craft and barges. Vessel owners’ fi nancial losses probably approximate $3,000,000.
Calumet, Michigan, November 13. – The tug HEBARD left Thursday in search of the tug LAFAYETTE of the Great Lakes Towing Co. of Cleveland which is reported to have gone down during the recent storm with a crew of 12 men in the vicinity of the Huron islands in Lake Superior.
14 November 1913 Gets Ancient Damages
Capt. William E. Frost has received a check for $8.38 from the government as his share for the capture, in 1798, of the sloop FRIENDSHIP, owned by Robert Patten. This ship was captured by the French in 1798, from its American commander. About the same time the schooner ORANGE also fell into the French hands. It, too, belonged to Patten, who is an ancestor of Capt. Frost. In 1880 the French government reimbursed the United States for the capture of these ships and Patten’s descendants have been fi ghting, for their share of the reimbursement ever since. There were 26 claimants for the money, three of whom belonged to the Frost family. Besides Capt. Frost there were his two sisters, Miss Sarah E. Frost of Topsham and Mrs. M. M. Riggs of El Paso, Texas. Each received $3.33, which was 1/78th
of the
entire amount claimed. Attorneys and other claimants received the balance. * * * * *
Another Ship May Lie Under Capsized One
Theory Advanced That the REGINA and the CHAS. S. PRICE Collided and the Latter Foundered
Does another vessel lie beneath the wreck of the overturned vessel in Lake Huron, 13 miles from Port Huron, Mich? This is the theory advanced by Milton Smith, assistant engineer of the ill-fated steamer CHARLES S. PRICE. Smith had a premonition of the approaching danger and
left his ship at Cleveland the day before it rode into the teeth of Lake Huron’s gale and foundered with all hands on board. Mr. Smith returned to Port Huron Thursday night from Thedford, Ont., where he went to identify the bodies in the morgue there.
The fi rst body he identifi ed ws that of John Groundwater, chief engineer of the PRICE, whose home was in Cleveland. “Are you sure?” asked the coroner. “As sure as I know my own name is Smith,” he replied. “Well, this man had one of the
REGINA’s life preservers wrapped about his body,” said the coroner.
How the chief engineer of the steamer PRICE happened to be found in one of the life preservers of the REGINA, Smith could not tell. Then it dawned upon the Port Huron man that the REGINA and the PRICE may have collided and in the attending excitement sailors of each vessel grabbed the life preservers nearest.
His theory is further strengthened by the fact that the bodies of the men who went down on the REGINA and the PRICE were found in precisely the same position on the shore, some of them even clasped in each other’s arms. This practically substantiaties the belief that the overturned vessel on Lake Huron is either the REGINA or the PRICE. It also is thought that the vessels collided with such force that one of them either is weighted down underneath the other or has sunk completely from sight.
21 November 1913 Phantom Vessel Menaces Bark with Collision
Tales of phantom steamship going ahead at full speed with not a man on the bridge or any person visible on the deck are being told in New York by the offi cers and crew of the ANNIE M. REID, which has just returned from a trip to Australia. The vessel is a four-masted bark and noted for her speed. The phantom steamship, the sailors say, passed within a few feet of the bark’s bow and the storm that had been raging at the time stopped almost as soon as the vessel passed. A weird, greenish light could be seen coming from the hatches and scuttles of the tramp. The bark is now moored in the Erie
Maine DMR News Continued from Page 11.
DISCOUNT POWER TOOLS CORDED POWER TOOLS CORDLESS POWER TOOLS FUELED POWER TOOLS PNEUMATIC POWER TOOLS FASTENERS HAND TOOLS
MATERIAL HANDLING
POWER TOOL ACCESSORIES SAFETY SUPPLIES WELDING SUPPLIES
one I made lightly. However, these were the latest in a long list of violations he com- mitted,” said Maine Department of Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher. “In fact, he had been charged with three other violations in 2014 which had not yet been adjudicated when he was charged with the 2015 violations. He continues to show a pattern of willful disregard for our Marine Resources laws, so I have permanently re- voked all of his licenses.”
Lemoine held both a scallop dragger and lobster license.
The authority to revoke is new for the department and is the result of a law passed in the last session of the 126th legislature. Under the law, license holders with six or more convictions or adjudications of marine resource laws may have their licenses per- manently revoked by the Commissioner. Not including the March violations, Lemoine has been adjudicated or convicted of 19 violations of Maine’s marine resources laws since 1998. On April 14, Commissioner Keliher sent a letter to Lemoine notifying him of the revocation and informing him of his
right to request an administrative hearing before the department. During the hearing, the Commissioner will consider all evidence presented and either confi rm the revocation or reinstate his licenses. If reinstatement is granted, his licenses may be subject to a peri- od of suspension depending on the evidence presented.
“This new authority is not one I an- ticipate having to use often, since the vast majority of license holders voluntarily comply with our laws,” said Commissioner Keliher. “But when faced with people who, like Lucas Lemoine, demonstrate a pattern of willful disregard for the laws that protect and sustain our valuable marine resources, I will make use of any and all authority to remove those law breakers from the water. “Access to both lobster licenses and scallop licenses is limited, so the individu- als who hold these licenses are privileged. That privilege comes with a responsibility to comply with the laws that protect and sus- tain our marine resources. Removing repeat offenders like Lucas Lemoine will allow people waiting to get into these fi sheries a chance to earn a living through lawful par- ticipation in Maine’s commercial fi sheries.”
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