Page 26. MAINE COASTAL NEWS September 2015 HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Bangor Daily Commercial - Early 1900s The Company.


At the annual meeting of the Bangor & Bar Harbor Steamboat Co., last week, directors were chosen as follows: L. J. Morse, Dr. A. C. Hamlin, Wm. P. Dickey, Geo. H. Barbour, and Henry W. Barbour. These are the offi cers: Geo. H. Barbour,


president; H. W. Barbour, general manager and secretary; L. J. Morse, treasurer. News of Maine’s Shipping. Camden Launching will be Witnessed by a Party of Bangor People – Other Notes of Bangor Interested. The big Bean schooner at Camden will be launched on Thursday forenoon at 10:30 o’clock and will be probably witnessed by a party of Bangor people among whom will be Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Woodman, Mrs. Abel Hunt and Miss Hunt. It is not defi nitely decided as yet which is the larger vessel, the Bean schooner or the NATHANIEL T. PALMER, the fi ve-master launched t Bath a few weeks ago and down in the Exchange Street offi ces the question is frequently discussed.


The schooner WILLIAM O. SNOW built in Bath in 1881 by Goss & Sawyer has not been heard from since the November storm. She said from Newport News on November 27 and was last seen off Atlantic City. The vessel was 560 tons and was commanded by Capt. L. I. Ellis and his brother was mate. They were natives of Deinsport, Massachusetts. One theory urged is that the schooner was run into by a steamer and the accident failed to be reported.


Capt. Wm. Reed and his young son who were rescued from the dismantled schooner FANNY ARTHUR and landed at Gibraltar, are on their way back to New York, Capt. Reed, is the son of Capt. Reed, of Camden. He is a cousin of Mrs. James Lee, wife of Capt. Lee, who left Philadelphia last March in the schooner WILLIAM JOHNSON, and has never since been heard of. Capt. Reed was married only a short time before the sailing of the FANNY ARTHUR.


12 January 1899 She is Maine’s Pride of the Ocean. Schooner JOHN B. PRESCOTT, the World’s Biggest Fore-and-After, Took the Water at Camden on Thursday. Rockland, January 12. – The brig fi ve- masted schooner JOHN B. PRESCOTT, which has the distinction of being the largest of her kind afl oat, was launched here from H. M. Bean’s ship yard at 11 o’clock today. The crowd which witnessed the launching numbered thousands. No mishap occurred. The christening was made with fl owers, by Miss Fannie Prescott, of Webster, Massachusetts.


The schooner which has been nearly eight months in the builders’ hands cost about $83,000.


The gross tonnage of the PRESCOTT is nearly 2500 tons, and this gives her a coal-carrying capacity of 4300 tons. She spreads 10,000 square feet of canvas on her fi ve masts. Her dimensions have been variously exaggerated under the semblance


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of nautical correctness, yet she is the biggest schooner in the world. Though her overall length is commonly stated at 410 feet, that measurement is from the after end of her jigger boom to the very forward tip of her jigger boom to the very forward tip of her jibboom, and does not represent the length of her hull fairly. The PRESCOTT’s keel is 282 feet long, and her real length overall, from stern to bow, is 320 feet; this should be regarded as her real measurement in place of the 410 feet eked out by measure her bowsprit and jibboom and the tail of her jigger boom is it sticks out over her taff rail aft. However, she is still a record-breaker. The breadth of the PRESCOTT is 44.04 feet, and her depth 21.11 feet. Her carrying capacity is about 300 tons more than that of the big Palmer schooner recently launched at Bath.


The model for the JOHN B. PRESCOTT was made by her master builder, John P. Wardwell of Camden. While carrying capacity has been the great object, the vessel will also be capable of a very fast rate of speed. She has two full decks and a poop deck running to within one berth of the forward hatch. The lower decks are of hard pine and the poop d


eck is of white pine. There are four houses; the forward house, 24 feet square, containing the engine room and forecastle; the midship house, 15 feet square, divided into a galley and sail room; the afterhouse, 32 feet square, and the wheel house, 12 feet square, for the protection of the man at the wheel. The


captain’s cabin is an elegant affair fi nished in ash, cherry, sycamore, mahogany and quartered oak. It contains 11 rooms all told, richly upholstered and provided with all the modern conveniences and comforts. There is a complete electric bell system communicating with every part of the vessel. The schooner is provided with three iron tanks having a capacity of 5000 gallons of water, and engine of 20 horse power, four steam pumps, a windlass and a steam capstan, all of the most improved pattern. An interesting fact concerning the pumps is that they have a capacity of throwing 2100 gallons in one minute. The two anchors are ponderous affairs of 6000 pounds each and manufactured in Camden by a concern which has become famous for that industry. The remainder of the ground tackle consists of 180 fathoms of 2 5/16 inch chain, representing a weight of 35 tons. The fi ve masts are of Oregon pine, the mainmasts measuring 112 feet and six inches in length, and the topmasts being 56 feet in length. The other spars are in proportion. The rigging is of wire, the best that could be obtained. The immense area represented by the 10,000 square yards of sail is one of the most striking features in connection with the big craft. Another remarkable feature is the 8-foot keelson, by far the largest which was ever built in a schooner. The lower beams measure 14 inches, and placed four feet from center constitute almost a deck by themselves.


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