August 2015 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 25. 13 February 1914


HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Bangor Daily Commercial - Early 1900s Bath, February 19.


Schooner CRESSEY Escapes Doom


Bath Vessel, Blown On and Off Cape Cod Sands, Towed to Safety by Cutter Highland Light, Massachusetts, February 13. – The escape of the lumber- laden schooner DUSTON G. CRESSEY, of Bath, Jacksonville for Portland, after being threatened with destruction on the back side of Cape Cod for nearly 48 hours, and her safe arrival in Provincetown Harbor at the end of a tow line of the revenue cutter ACUSHNET, was regarded on Cape Cod Friday as most remarkable. When the ACUSHNET snatched her from the breakers an hour after sunrise Friday, a northeast snow storm, which had been threatened all nigh had broken over the cape with great fury. In another hour, according to the life savers the CRESSEY would have been ground to pieces on the outer bar with small chance, not only for her crew of eight men, but for the eight men from the Pamet River life saving station who have been on board since Wednesday night. The CRESSEY’s misfortunes began


Wednesday morning when in attempting to beat around the cape against stiff northerly blow she misstayed and grounded on the outer bar, two miles south of here. The life saving crew from the Pamet


River and Highland stations, commanded by Capt. Paine, quickly assembled on the beach and the former crew attempted to reach the schooner in the surf boat. Before the savers were off the beach, their boat was capsized and all were thrown into the surf. While an attempt was being made to shoot a line on board, the wind backed a bit into the northwest and the crew of the CRESSEY set their spanker and managed to work the schooner from the bar an exploit seldom accomplished on the Cape Cod shore.


The schooner ran up the beach a mile and anchored within a couple of (?) of the shore, and there the Pamet River crew boarded her Wednesday afternoon. The cold snap struck the cape Thursday morning and for 12 hours the CRESSEY tugged at two anchors while every plunge added to the easing of the ice. The breakers on the outer bar reared just off the port quarter but the wind held to the westward of north and blew parallel with the beach. About midnight the revenue cutter ACUSHNET, which had made a quick run from Woods Hole, came up alongside.


At daylight a light line was run over to the schooner and then an eight-inch hauser was hauled on board by the frost-bitten crew. The cutter hauled ahead a bit so that


Racing Results


FRIENDSHIP LOBSTER BOAT RACES 19 July 2015


WORK BOATS UNDER 24 FEET


Race 1 - CLASS A Skiffs 16-feet and under with outboards up to 30 hp, Operator 18 years and younger: 1) ---, Brady Carter (28.8 mph); and 2) Little Abby, Ron Carter (27.1 mph). Race 2 – CLASS B Inboards, outboards or outdrives, 31 to 90 hp: 1) J-Bird, Marshall Spear (41 mph); 2) Clusta, Al Strout (26 mph); 3) Wide Open Gone, Ryan Maloney (32 mph); 4) Not Much, Eric Harjula; and not given a position: Double T, Josh Reed; Monica E., Steven Genthner and ---, Isaac Simmons. Race 3 – CLASS C, Inboards, outboards or outdrives, 91 hp and up. 1) Makin’ Hay, Jeromy Simmons (31.3 mph); 2) Ship Happens, Owen Jameson (30.5 mph); and 3) Measure Up, Adrian Phaenephom (29 mph).


GAS POWERED WORK BOATS 24 FEET AND UP


Race 4 – Gasoline Class A – 4 & 6 cylinder 24 feet and over: No entrants. Race 5 - Gasoline Class B - V-8 up to 375 cid, 24 feet and up: No entrants. Race 6 - Gasoline Class C - V-8, 376 to 525 cid, 24 to 29 feet: 1) Black Diamond, Randy Durkee (31 mph). Race 7 - Gasoline Class D - V-8, 376 and over, 28 feet and over: No entrants. Race 8 - Gasoline Class E - V-8, Over 525 cid, 28 feet and over, superchargers/Turbos. 1) Foolish Pleasure, Galen Alley (57.8 mph). DIESEL POWERED WORK BOATS 24 FEET AND UP


Race 9 - Diesel Class A - Up to 235 hp, 24 to 31 feet: 1) Seaduced, Alex Benner (20


mph). Race 10 - Diesel Class B - Up to 235 hp, 32 feet and over: 1) Merganser, Donald Drisko (29 mph). Race 11 - Diesel Class C - 236 to 335 hp, 24 to 34 feet: 1) Miss Attitude, Adam Kimball (29 mph); and 2) Who’s Buyn, Raymond Carter (27 mph). Race 12 - Diesel Class D - 236 to 335 hp, 34 feet and over: 1) Pull n’Pray, Justin Papkee (18.3 mph); and 2) Miss Adalyne, Robbie Maloneaux (17.3 mph). Race 13 - Diesel Class E - 336 to 435 hp, 24 to 33 feet: 1) Miss Katie, Nick Wiberg (34 mph). Race 14 - Diesel Class F - 336 to 435 hp, 34 feet and over: 1) Ms. Rose, Ed Torosian (36 mph). Race 15 - Diesel Class G - 436 to 550 hp, 28 to 35 feet: No entrants. Race 16 - Diesel Class H - 436 to 550 hp, 36 feet and over: 1) Dawn Marie, Frank Guptill (25 mph); and 2) Viktoria Lynn, Luke Kochs (23 mph). Race 17 - Diesel Class I - 551 to 700 hp, 28 to 35 feet. 1) Misty, Chris Smith (39 mph). Race 18 – Diesel Class J – 551 to 700 hp, 36 feet and over: 1) Blue Eyed Girl, Andrew Taylor (36.3 mph). Race 19 - Diesel Class K - 701 to 900 hp, 28 feet and over: 1) La Bella Vita, Jeff Eaton (40 mph); and 2) Lisa Maria, Gary Genthner (40 mph). Race 20 - Diesel Class L - 901 hp and over, 28 feet and over: No entrants. Race 21(A) - Diesel Class M(A) – 40 feet and over, up to 500 hp: No entrants. Race 21(B) - Diesel Class M(B) – 40 feet and over, 501 to 750 hp: 1) Chelsey Ann Briella, Travis Doughty (31.6 mph); and 2) Low Budget II, Mike Jameson (29 mph). Race 22 - Diesel Class N – 40 feet and over; 751 hp and over: 1) Heather & Isaac, Keith Simmons (33 mph); 2) Amy Lynn, Gregory Simmons (30 mph); and 3) Corrie Melissa, Andrew Simmons (28 mph). Race 23 – Fastest Friendship Lobster Boat. 1) Heather & Isaac, Keith Simmons (33


mph); 2) Amy Lynn, Gregory Simmons (31 mph); 3) Low Budget II, Mike Jameson (29 mph); no position given: Dawn Marie, Frank Guptill; and Corrie Melissa, Andrew Simmons. Race 24 - Gasoline Free for All: 1) Foolish Pleasure, Galen Alley (47 mph); and 2) Black Diamond, Randy Durkee (31.8 mph). Race 25 - Diesel Free for All: 1) Lisa Maria, Gary Genthner (40 mph); 2) La Bella


Vita, Jeff Eaton (39 mph); 3) Misty, Chris Smith (38 mph); 4) Blue Eyed Girl, Andrew Taylor; 5) Heather & Isaac, Keith Simmons; 6) Chelsey Ann Briella, Travis Doughty; and 7) Amy Lynn, Gregory Simmons. Race 26(A) – Wooden Boats, up to 35’ 11”. 1) Merganser, Donald Drisko. Race 26(B) – Wooden Boats, 36 feet and over. No entrants Race 27 - Fastest Lobster Boat: 1) La Bella Vita, Jeff Eaton (40 mph); and 2) Lisa Maria, Gary Genthner (38 mph).


anchors could be weighed but when the schooner swung off on the tow line her stern was hanging over the breakers while the fi rst gusts of the northeaster were howling through her iceclad rigging. The ACUSHNET reached Province- town three hours later, the life savers remaining on board until the schooner was safe at anchor inside of Long Point.


18 February 1914


Bath Schooner KINEO Leaking Badly Sewall Five Master with Crew of 11 in Danger of Foundering Off Hatteras. New York, February 18. – Word


came to New York Tuesday that the fi ve- masted schooner KINEO of Bath, Maine, carrying a crew of 11 men, was in distress, leaking badly and in danger of sinking, north-northeast of the Diamond Shoals, off Cape Hatteras. The revenue cutter ONONDAGA has been despatched to the schooner’s aid from Fort Monroe. A wireless message received from the steamer CITY OF ATLANIA, bound from Savannah to Boston, gave the schooner’s position at 60 miles north-northeast of Diamond Shoals, the revenue cutter message said 160 miles. Both said that the schooner was making 12 inches of water an hour.


The KINEO is a vessel of 1,867 tons and


is owned by Arthur Sewell & Co. of Bath. * * * * *


Up and Down the Coast The schooner BAYARD HOPKINS, stripped of her sails, was towed into port at Morehead City, North Carolina, by the revenue cutter SEMINOLE. The schooner was swept fore and aft by the hurricane of February 18. The SEMINOLE picked her up Sunday in a desperate plight off the Diamond shoals of Cape Hatteras.


19 February 1914


Schooner KINEO Can’t Be Found Bath Four Master in Distress Off Hatteras; Captain’s Family Aboard


Wife and Child and Crew of Eleven


Vessel When Reported Wednesday 165 Miles off Diamond Shoals was Leaking Badly


Norfolk, Virginia, February 19. –


Wireless calls sweeping over the sea from the radio towers on the middle Atlantic coast, revenue cutters and numbers of steamships Thursday found no trace of the fi ve-masted schooner KINEO of Bath, Maine last reported Wednesday, making 12 inches of water an hour and in a disabled condition. The schooner with her crew of 11 had been in bad fortune for the last month; twice she had her sails blown away by gales and once put into port for safety. When she was sighted by the steamer CITY OF ATLANTA Wednesday it did not seem necessary for the liner to take off the crew but the revenue cutter ONONDAGA began a search. The KINEO was then 160 miles northeast of Diamond Shoals. * * * * *


New York, February 19. – The United Fruit steamer METAPAN, which reported Wednesday that she had paused in her voyage to this port from Panama in an effort to aid the schooner KINEO, in trouble off Cape Hatteras, sent a wireless message here Thursday saying that she had given up the search for the schooner and would reach New York late Thursday. Among the passengers is Col. Geo. W. Goethals, chief engineer of the Panama canal, who is coming to confer with President Wilson with reference to permanent organization of the canal zone of which he has been appointed governor.


* * * * * Capt. Farrell’s Wife and Child Aboard


The wife and two year old child of Capt. Farrell, in command of the fi ve-masted schooner KINEO, are with him aboard the vessel in search of which the revenue cutter ONONDAGA was dispatched Wednesday from Fort Monroe after word had been received that the KINEO was leaking and in distress 1600 miles northeast of Diamond shoals. The vessel carries a crew of 11 men. No word as to her condition has reached her owners, the Arthur Sewall Co. The KINEO, which left Port Arthur,


Texas, December 13, with oil for Providence, was blown off her course and put into Nassau, January 29. Since leaving Nassau she has not been heard from until Wednesday. The schooner which registers 1,867 tons net, was built at Bath, in 1903.


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Schooner is Ashore at Boothbay Harbor Boothbay Harbor, February 19. The two-masted fishing schooner


WATAUGA of Portland, with a cargo of 1,500 pounds of mixed fi sh, was full of water and held fast on the Hypocrites ledges at the entrance of the harbor Thursday. The schooner was carried onto the rocks by the tide shortly before midnight and Capt. Jeremiah Orchard of Portland and his crew of four men rowed two miles in their dories to the mainland. The schooner was built at East Boothbay ten years ago and owned by A. C. Bennett of Portland, her value being given as $3,000.


20 February 1914


Hears the Schooner KINEO is Afl oat and Proceeding


Because reassuring advices were received in New York the United Fruit steamer METAPAN, after stopping for two hours in latitude 37 25, longitude 73 50, while on her way from Panama to New York early Thursday gave up her search for the fi ve-masted Bath, Maine schooner KINEO, reported to be in trouble off Cape Hatteras. At 2:15 a.m. when Captain Spencer of the METAPAN reported upon the steamer’s arrival in New York Thursday night he received a wireless from the steamer CITY OF ATLANTA saying that the KINEO was proceeding northward.


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Norfolk, Virginia, February 20 – Because of a shortage of coal, the revenue cutter ONONDAGA is returning to port without having located the five-masted schooner KINEO of Bath, Maine, reported in distress below Diamond Shoals. The ONONDAGA is expected to report in port Friday morning. She has been searching for the KINEO for over 24 hours.


21 February 1914


The Five Master KINEO Given Up as Lost New York, February 21. – After nearly three days of futile searching for the schooner KINEO reported sinking 160 miles off the Diamond shoals hope for her safety has been practically given up by her agents here. The revenue cutter service, however, still believes that there is a chance the vessel has not gone down. The revenue cutter ITASCA is to join the ONONDAGA near the reported position of the KINEO. He ONONDAGA and the ITASCA will cruise on parallel lines of about 100 miles in length for several days at least, in an endeavor to fi nd the KINEO.


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