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vessel. We know of the sea terms, hauling, dragging, pulling, and heaving, but driving and pushing is confi ned to those engaged in such semi-marine work as dock building and excavating. The only ship of modern times having six masts was the GREAT EASTERN and these masts were named in the following order: Fore-trysail mast, fore mast, main mast, after main mast, mizzen mast, and jigger mast. In view of this precedent the names of the seven masts of the schooner THOMAS W. LAWSON, in the judgment of the writer should be as follows: Forestaysail mast, fore mast, main mast, after main mast, mizzen mast, jigger mast, and spanker mast, which clearly eliminates the lubberly terms of driver and pusher. Matthew Mercerdes, New York, July 21.


7 August 1902 To Launch Soon


Fourmasted Schooner SAMUEL W. HATHAWAY to Go in September 1. Building in Brewer.


Handsome Craft Being Constructed by E. & I. K. Stetson is Nearing Competition.


The fourmasted schooner SAMUEL


W. HATHAWAY, being built by E. & I. K. Stetson of this city at their yard in Brewer, is fast approaching completion and it is expected that she will be ready for launching by the fi rst day of September. She will be commanded by Capt. A. L. Kent of Brewer, one of the best known masters sailing from the Penobscot.


The planking is about two-thirds completed and will be fi nished in a few days now. The after and mid-ship houses are already up and the fi nish will soon be put on. The after house will be fi nished in quartered sycamore while the midship and forecastle will be fi nished in North Carolina pine. The work of putting in the lower deck beams was completed Wednesday and the laying of the deck was begun Thursday. It is expected that it will be completed in about a week’s time. The new vessel will be of 1,000 tons gross tonnage and will be fi tted up with the latest improvements of machinery making her the best schooner ever built in this port.


The masts for the new vessel were


hauled out Wednesday and will be put in in about two weeks. These masts were shipped from the state of Washington nearly two months ago and have just arrived at the yard. Considerable work will be required on them before they will be ready to be placed in position.


The sails are being made by S. T. Pearson of this city and will be completed in a few days. All the machinery will come from the works of the Hyde Bros. in Bath and some of it is expected to arrive here within a few years. The blocks will be of the latest improved kind and are being made by the Knowledge Bros. of Camden. Capt. Crowell in Town.


Capt. Crowell of Boston, one of the principal owners of the HATHAWAY, arrived in Bangor Thursday to spend several days here looking over the schooner.


11 September 1902 With the Ships


Schooner CARRIE A. BUCKNAM to Bucksport for Repairs. Big Vessel at Augusta


Clipper Barkentine ALLANWILDE at Rosarie – Other Shipping Notes of Interest.


The only departure from port Thursday up to the time of the Commercial’s going to press was the CARRIE A. BUCKNAM, which brought a cargo of salt from Bonaire,


HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Bangor Daily Commercial - Early 1900s rock.


W. I., for Morse & Co., and which has gone to Bucksport for repairs.


The stevedores at the High head stages are hustling just now getting out the vessels now discharging there so that the schooners now on the way here with coal cargoes will not be delayed in getting a berth. Barkentine JOHN S. EMERY with her new commander, Capt. Small, has reached Sierra Leone in 35 days from Boston with general cargo. This is a good beginning for a new captain.


The Bath ship WILLIAM H. SMITH was towed to Sidney, N. S., July 19, to dock for repairs made necessary by her striking a rock at the entrance of the inner basin at Newcastle, July 4. The SMITH sailed from Newcastle, September 4, for Honolulu.


3 October 1902 With the Ships


Big Five Master Arrived in Port on Friday.


Launching at Bath


Large Schooners Building in Rockland and Thomaston – Shipping News. The fi ve-masted schooner, MARY F.


BARRETT, Capt. Sargent, arrived from Philadelphia on Friday with coal for the Maine Central. The only other arrival of importance was an Italian bark from Boothbay, light. She will load shooks for Rowland W. Stewart. The tug BISMARCK is expected to bring up the lighter TRILBY from Vinalhaven on Saturday. A large crowd was attracted to the


shipyard of Arthur Sewall & Co., Thursday, says the Bath Times, to witness the launching of the mammoth new fourmasted, steel barge built for the Standard Oil Co, expressly for the oil carrying trade. She went overboard at 12:45. The craft is the fi rst steel barge constructed in this city and is the largest of the Standard Oil Co. fl eet. She wil be known as No. 93 and will hail from New York. The craft is 295 feet, 3 inches long, 45 feet, 2 inches breadth, and 26 feet, 3 inches depth, and will register about 3,000 tons. She is without doubt the most thoroughly built and fi nest equipped craft of her class ever constructd for the oil trade. She was designed by D. E. Ford of New York, mechanical engineer of the Standard Oil Co., and was constructed under his supervision.


News of the Shipping.


On Saturday, about 11:30 a.m. there will be launched from Snow’s yard, Rockland, the South Marine Railway – a handsome threemaster which has been named the WILLIAM BISBEE, in honor of a pioneer lumber dealer of Virginia. With two launches, a fourmaster at


Rockport, Thursday, and a threemaster which has been named the WILLIAM BISBEE, in honor of a pioneer lumber dealer of Virginia. With two launches, a fourmaster at


Rockport, Thursday, and a threemaster at Rockland, Saturday, and another threemaster at the Cobb-Butler Rockland yards nearly completed, and a livesticker, building at Washburn Brothers’ yards, in Thomaston, it reminds old residents of the olden days hereabouts.


Thursday morning the handsome new fourmasted schooner FRED A. DAVENPORT was towed from Hawley’s yard to an anchorage opposite the Kennebec Yacht Club, Bath, on the Woolwich side of the river. She will probably leave Friday for Windsor, N. S., where she will load plaster for Newburgh, New York.


The Maine coast seems to be furnishing most of the mackerel these days. Four hundred and sixty barrels were landed at Gloucester Tuesday taken off Mt. Desert


3 February 1903 With the Ships


Barge PAXTANG, Last of the Coal Fleet, Left Friday. News of the Shipping Fivemasted Schooner REBECCA


PALMER and Fourmaster YOUNG BROTHERS Were in Collision. The last of the coal fl eet has gone and it looks as if the stevedores were to have a rest for awhile. There will be no more large coal cargoes here for some time, it is said, as coal will be cheaper and freights are also going down. While it may be cheaper to wait for coal, it is also said that if much time is lost before coal is started again, there will not be enough got here by water for next winter’s use.


There were no arrivals Friday until late in the afternoon. The clearances included schooners: JOHN DOUGLASS, New York for the Ashland Mfg. Co.; C. TAYLOR, 3d, Islesboro and Camden, Sterns Lumber Co. and Morse & Co.; MAUD S., Hancock for Dr. E. Jordan; WILLIAM H. JEWELL, Rockland, Lowell & Engel; MINNIE CHASE, Rockland, H. F. Andrews and others; COLLINS HOWES, JR., bay port; L. SNOW, JR., Swan’s Island, and Searsport, F. H. Strickland; JULIA ANN, Friendship, F. H. Stickland, EDWARD STEWART, Frankfort, to load stone; KITTIE LAWRY, Rockland for Sargent Lumber Co., and ORIZON, Belfast for Morse & Co. Barge PAXTANG, also left for Philadelphia. News of Shipping.


The fi vemasted schooner REBECCA


PALMER from Newport News for Boston with coal, reported at Vineyard Haven Thursday, in collision Sunday night with the fourmasted schooner YOUNG BROTHERS bound from Bath to Washington with ice. The PALMER’s headgear and bowsprit were carried away. The other vessel disappeared and her damage is unknown. The collision occurred near Montauk Point.


Schooner BRIGADIER, Capt. Eaton, has chartered to load bridge stone at Webb’s Cove, Stonington, for New York, at $1 per ton.


Schooner THOMAS HIX, Capt.


Wheeler, has chartered to load lime at Thomaston for Boston at 11 cents per cask; from A. J. Bird & Co. Schooner CHARLIE & WILLIE, Capt.


Hinckley, has chartered to load random granite at Pleasant River, Vinalhaven, for New York, at $1.20 per ton.


Schooner G. M. BRAINARD, Capt.


Farr, has chartered to load bridge stone at Crotch Island, Stonington for New York, at $1 per ton, from John L. Goss.


Schooner FRED B. BALANO, Capt.


Sawyer, and LIZZIE COCHRAN, Capt. Kent, have chartered to load cut granite at Stonington, from John L. Goss, for New York, at $1.25 per ton.


The following schooners chartered,


Thursday: ANNIE KIMBALL, Sweetland, Roberts Harbor, Vinalhaven, to New York, Charlie Woosley, Ginn, Granite Island, Vinalhaven, for New York; ELIZA LEVANSALER, Kalloch, Long Cove, St. George, Tuttle’s Wharf, for New York – all loaded with paving, the fi rst two at $1 per ton and the third at $1.10.


6 February 1903


Bath Built Brig SUNLIGHT Wrecked in Southern Seas. News of the Shipping


THOMAS W. LAWSON Bound for Boston With 8000 Tons of Coal – Bark GRACE DEERING Sold. The brig SUNLIGHT, Capt. Thomas


7 February 1903 With the Ships


CLARA CLARITA to Make Another Attempt to Raise DAVENPORT. News of the Shipping


British Schooner F. RICHARD Has Tempestuous Passage of 35 Days from


James is a complete loss. The SUNLIGHT was a staunch little ship of 34 tons and was built in Bath over 22 years ago. Capt. James and her crew of seven men arrived in New York Thursday on the steamship MORRO CASTLE, from Havana. “We were bound for Boston with a


cargo of logwood and had just left the Bahamas when we encountered a heavy gale off Savannah in Mar,” said the captain in describing the loss of his ship. “The storm increased, and for eight days the brig was driven about like a chip. On the morning of December 10 we were able to get our reckoning and I discovered that we were off the Long Key of Cuba.


“The waves were washing clean over the decks and I saw that our chances of getting away from the lee shore were small. A gale was blowing dead on a great sandbar and about noon we struck grinding into the rocks and sand. For two days we were held captive on the wreck, the high seas making it impossible to land.


Everything that was not well fastened was swept overboard, and we were rather short of provisions. On the morning of the 12th


the masts went over the side and the vessel began to break up. Just as we were on the point of giving ourselves up for lost, a fi shing-boat put out from Batabano and noticed our signal of distress.


“The little craft approached us and lay


alongside. The crew took us to Batabano, and from that place we made our way to Havana, where the United States Consul helped us back to New York. It was hard to keep the men from throwing themselves there within sight of land. This is the fi rst wreck I was ever in during my 50 years experience on the sea.”


News of the Shipping. The fi vemasted schooner OAKLEY C.


CURTIS, has arrived in Portland with 3,659 tons of coal for Randall & McAllister. She is lying in the lower harbor waiting for a chance to discharge. The steamer ALAMEDA, which arrived in San Francisco Wednesday from Honolulu, reports having seen during a storm on the night of January 30 the distress signal of a square rigger. In less than ten minutes the square rigger had disappeared and it is believed it must have been swallowed up in the sea. It is thought that the disabled vessel may have been the FLORENCE, a Bath built vessel, now out 65 days from Tacoma for Honolulu. The FLORENCE was built in Bath in 177 by Goss & Sawyer. She is of 1,574 tons burden. Recently the vessel was sold to the California Shipbuilding Co. of San Francisco and has been in the Pacifi c trade the past year or two. The tug PORTLAND has gone to


Vineyard Haven to tow the schooner NORMANDY to Bath. The vessel has a cargo of coal for the Gibbons Coal Co., of that city.


The sevenmasted schooner THOMAS


W. LAWSON passed out FORTRESS MONROE, Wednesday, on the way to Boston from Newport News with nearly 8,000 tons of coal.


The bark GRACE DEERING, now at Portland has been sold to Thomas Norton & Co., of New York for about $6,000. She will be used in the coffee trade between Rio Janeiro and Baltimore, with Capt. Green, formerly of the bark XENIA, as master.


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