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launched at Hancock. The following vessels have been rebuilt: Steamer schooner by A. E. Farnsworth, Southwest Harbor, eight tons; schooner, by Charles H. Curtis and James Lord, Ellsworth, 129 tons; schooner by Charles H. Curtis, 165 tons.
Three schooners have been launched in the Machias district. One of 297 tons, Sawyer Bros., Milbridge; 296 tons, E. T. White; 1,239 tons, Warren Sawyer. There are none on the shooks, but it is reported that Sawyer Bros. willlay the keel for a schooner this winter.
The building in the Passamaquoddy district has been confi ned to small vessels. Lyman Pushee at Lubec has built two steamers, one of 20 tons, the other much smaller. R. W. Spear built a sloop of nine tons at Eastport and William Kierstead at the same place, a sloop, 11 tons. Samuel Vanner launched a 13-ton schooner at Eastport; Frank Hallett, a sloop of 14 tons at Lubec.
10 January 1902 Bath Vessels
Are Hailed on All Seas From the English Channel to Cape Horn. (Boston Journal).
Senator Frye deserves congratulation that the great shipping bill which bears his name has just received the unamimous indorsement of the board of trade in that city of all cities in the United States which knows most about building ships and owning them. Bath, on the Kennebec, is not a large town, but it is probably more widely known over this world of ours than any other community of like size in any nation. It is the most remarkable maritime community in the world. It has launched more ships and sailed more ships successfully, and, what is more, it has continued its activities right down to the present day.
Though Portland, Boston, New York and Philadelphia were driven out of the ship trade by the double forces of foreign cheap wages and foreign subsidies, Bath has somehow managed to retain her grip upon the sea. It is true, of course, that her fl eet has dwindled, but it has not disappeared. The four familiar letters of the old city’s name still stand out on the handsome sterns of Yankee merchantmen in the South Pacifi c and the Indian Ocean. Bath ships still meet and hail Bath ships in the icy latitudes off Cape Horn. Their lofty skysail yards still lift in the bay of San Francisco, and when a great Yankee merchantman comes steering up the English channel it is pretty sure to be Bath-built, if not Bath-owned.
They know the sea and its business from
A to Z – these shipowners and shipbuilders of Maine’s proudest seaport. They know that business as the manufacturers of Lowell and Worcester know their calling, as the bankers of State Street and Wall Street know fi nance. The word of Bath on any question pertaining to the sea is the last word that needs to be spoken.
These men of Bath know not only wooden sailing ships, but steel sailing ships and steamers. They have launched almost every kind of craft imaginable. They have sailed in almost every trade. They have kept in the van of maritime progress. Their indorsement of Senator Frye’s shipping legislation mean exactly the same as an indorsement by our great Boston or New York banking houses of a currency proposition of Sec. Gage, or an approval by our Massachusetts manfacturers of a tariff proposition of the ways and means committee. It is the expert opinion of men who know all that is worth knowing and it will be recognized as such everywhere, except by those foes of the American ship and the American sailor whose ignorance is
HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Bangor Daily Commercial - Early 1900s majority owners of the vessel.
fi tly matched by their vindictiveness. 21 March 1902
Damaged by “Wild” Steamer London, March 21. – A cablegram from Bahia, Blanco, says that the Italian steam LEALTA, Capt. Nobersaco, New York via Buenos Ayres, broke from her moorings and ran against three other steamers – the Australian steamer PRINCESS CHRISTRIANA, from Barry; the Spanish steamer, MERCULES from Barry; and the British steamer FLORENCE from Cardiff. The damage sustained by the vessels is believed to be considerable.
7 May 1902 A Vessel Case.
An Important Ruling Made in One by Justice Peabody. The Plaintiff Wins.
The Defendant Must Pay the Sum of $655.11, With Costs – Two Agreements Which Were Broken.
The following interesting rescript in a Kennebec case, that of the Smith-Green Co., in equity vs. Leslie M. Bird, which was drawn by Justice Peabody, has been handed down and was received by Clerk of Courts Sweet in this city on Wednesday. It will be of interest to ship owners and members of the legal profession generally. The rescript is as follows:
Bill in equity to recover the proportional part of the earnings of the schooner JAMES W. BIGELOW, belonging to the plaintiffs, alleged to be in the bands of the defendant. The account fi led by the defendant shows that the plaintiffs’ part of the earning is $655.11. This the defendant claims to retain in part satisfaction of damages sustained by him in consequence of the breach of a written contract between him and the plaintiffs, then doing business under the name of Bigelow & Smith. By its terms the plaintiffs were to “sell the said Bird three-sixteenths of the schooner JAMES W. BIGELOW for $6000, with the understanding that it shall be a master’s interest; that he shall sail said vessel as long as he desires on half shares,” and providing, among other rights and limitations that if said Bigelow & Smith dispose of their interest in said vessel while said Bird is master, it shall be sold subject to this agreement.”
The defendant procured the sale of the three-sixteenths of the schooner among his friends, including one-thirty second thereof retained by himself.
These shares were understood by the purchasers to convey with them the beneficial interest granted to the defendant under this agreement, and as a consideration for this interest the price paid was considerably beyond the market value. The plaintiffs sold their interest in the vessel without notice to the purchasers of the agreement, and the defendant was superceded by another master; but the defendant had also previously sold his share without the knowledge of the plantiffs. The master’s interest does not exist independently of an interest in the vessel, nor against the will of the majority in interest of the owners, “unless there is a valid written agreement by virtue of which such master would be entitled to possession.” When the defendant sold his shares in the vessel and was superceded as master, his sailing rights were extinguished, unless preserved by this agreement with the plaintiffs.
It had been executed on his part by the purchase of three-sixteenths of the vessel in the name of himself and his friends and was in terms broken by the plaintiffs by the unconditional sale of their interest as
The right of the majority in intrest of the owners of a vessel to control its management is charged with the duty to retain and exercise it not only for the benefi t of all of the owners, but others whose property and lives may be involved, and an agreement to surrender such contract permanently or indefi nitely is inconsistent with the trust which the law implies and imposes. He Can’t Recover.
The agreement between the plaintiffs and the defendant is not available to the defendant to enforde recovery of damages. He had lost the master’s interest, not alone by the fault of the plaintiffs, but by his own act in selling his interest in the vessel; and he is remediless under the contract, which is void as against public policy. It does not appear that he was induced to purchase this interest by the fraud of the plaintiffs. He must be presumed to have known that the agreement was invalid, and that his possession and control of the vessel could be terminated at the pleasure of the majority in interest. The plaintiffs should therefore recover the sum of $655.11 and interest from the date of accounting, with costs.
Decree according to the opinion. 5 August 1902 31 May 1902
The fourmasters S. P. BLACKBURN, MILES M. MERRY and HENRY W. CRAMP are still tugging at their chains down at Fort Point cove. The BLACKBURN will come up Monday and take the place of the PALMER at the High head stages. There’s nothing at the depot stage now as the vessels below are all too deep to go there.
2 July 1902 Had a Prince
Capt. Nichols Brought a Royal Cabin Boy on His Maine Ship Came From Cape Town His Royal Highness Says That the Maine Mariner was Too Much of a Hustler.
One of the best known Searsport mariners, Capt. Nichols, who is well known in Bangor shipping circles, commander of the Maine clipper ship GOVERNOR ROBIE, which has arrived at South Brooklyn, has a real live prince for cabin- boy. The cabin-boy was 40 years old and inclined to stoutness. His royal dignity was often ruffl ed by the Maine skipper’s quick, snappy orders and the sometimes emphatic style, skipper fashion, in which the master of the craft reminded His Royal Highness that he was “too slow for any use.” “You’re slower than a toad in a
tar-barrel,” was Capt. Nichols’ favorite observation, borrowed from old Eb Holden to his cabin-boy.
Prince Hossanah Carentes – for this is the cabin factotum’s name – would there upon seek the seclusion of his berth and sorrowfully. “Look at those,” he said, tossing over a woollen holder for a stove lifter that was stitched stiff in checks. “There are 82,000 stitches by actual
count. That means that the captain called me down 82,000 times in a trip of only 50 days from Cape Town.”
The prince carried a big black ebony cane and a bag of South African souvenirs, photographs and a recommendation from his pastor of the Dutch Reformed church at Somerset West, Cape Colony, and his passport, signed by the governor of the colony and Consul Hay. Prince Hossanah Carentes’s pastor’s certifi cate might be considered rather equivocal. It reads: “I take great pleasure in certifying that Prince Hossanah Carentes, the bearer, while a
In the Harbor
Schooner J. H. WAINWRIGHT to Repair at Bucksport. SEAVEY at Fort Point
Several Vessels of the Coal Fleet Due
Here Soon – Names for the Seven Masts – Other Shipping News.
Capt. Cobb of the schooner J. H.
WAINWRIGHT which was boarded by river pirates one night last week and stripped of everything that could be carried off, came to Bangor Monday night and on Tuesday made arrangements for towing the vessel to Bucksport where she will undergo repairs and will receive a new outfi t to replace that which was stolen. Thus far no defi nite clue has been found as to the identity of the thieves although the police are now working on the case. It is possible that there will be developments later on.
The fourmasted schooner MALCOLM
B. SEAVEY, with coal for the Maine Central railroad, was at Fort Point Tuesday and will probably come up the river Wednesday to discharge. The barge SAGNA arrived Tuesday with 3,000 tons of coal for the Maine Central, to be discharged at the High head stages. The barge DRAPER is tied up at Lowell
& Engel’s wharf at East Hampden. She has coal for the Eastern Mfg. Co., and will begin Wednesday discharging at South Brewer. Several other vessels of the coal fl eet now bound to Bangor are expected to arrive within the next day or two. Names of Seven Masts.
A writer to the Nautical Gazette comes to the help of the mast-namers, with suggestions for the names of the masts on the THOMAS W. LAWSON. He writes: “Sir – In the New York Herald of the
inst. the writer’s attention was called to the nomenclature as applied to the masts and sails of the new sevenmasted steel schooner THOMAS W. LAWSON, which was launched at the works of the Fore River Ship and Engine Co., Quincy, Massachusetts, on the 10th
11th inst. The masts
and sails the vessel carries were placarded as follows: Fore, main, mizzen, spanker, jigger, driver and pusher. This is a manifestly wrong and unsailorlike; for what nautical man ever heard of a mizzen mast being placed forward of amidships, or a spanker mast being located at the centre of a
The
member of my church, behaved very well.” * * * * *
With the Ships threemaster ANDREW
NEBINGER came up river early Wednesday morning and is discharging coal at the dept stages that is going over the railroad. Stevedores took hold of her Wednesday and her cargo will be out there before Thursday night. The barge LOGAN that is carrying coal to be discharged from the High head stages isn’t in the bay yet. She is expected before Thursday night however and work will be commenced discharging her at once. In the lumber fleet the schooner
MELISSA TRASK and RIGHT AWAY are ready to sail. The MELISSA TRASK is carrying pine boards and spruce for Lowell & Engel to New York and she will sail Wednesday night or Thursday morning. The MAUD SNARE will commence loading at once for Lowell & Engel for New York and will sail the middle of next week. Business is picking up slightly in the lumber trade but the slump in the coal receipts is throwing everything out of joint. Schooner ESTELLE, Capt. Hutchinson, is loading hard pine at Jacksonville for New York.
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