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Remarkable Showing Made by Schooner S. W. HATHAWAY in Six Months – She was built by E. & I. K. Stetson


There were few arrivals in the harbor


on Saturday and Sunday, the most important ones being the barge SUNBURY, with coal for the B. & A., and the schooner LIZZIE RICH, with phosphate for the C. M. Conant Co. Both of these vessels came in Sunday. The ALBERT T. STEARNS cleared Sunday to load ice at Rockport. The schooner AGNES E. MANSON


and the Barge SCHUYHILL sailed Monday, the former going to Hillsboro, N. B., and the latter to Philadelphia. The barge EAGLE HILL is expected to arrive in the harbor on Monday.


A Good Showing. One of the best fi nancial showings that


any Maine-built schooner has made for a long time is that of the schooner S. W. HATHAWAY, Capt. Kent. This schooner was built in Brewer at the yards of E. & I. K. Stetson and launched last October and in the sixth months that she has been running, she has given fi ve dividends as follows: First,


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rity. Lately her check’s dissappeahed for Celeste’s had time to put er’ in tha mailbox. Wa’ant be no increase cause gas’s gone down. But gas isn’t fi gured in. “Gawdfrey Daumonds”, Percy, These fellahs, some of em’s women too, they mustah gone ta some diff erent school ta put that one ovah. Well Reggie, you know, well you


know, for I fell asleep in fronta the TV otha night they was this commontator dronin’ on. But tha last thing I recall him sayin was somethin’ about we was a nation of sheep waitin’ to be sheahed. Now I’m only gues- sin’ what he means is tha shepherds is tak- ing us for a free haircut. “Might be Percy. Might be.”


$640; second, $1024; third, $1920; forth, $1280; and fi fth, $832. Total, $5696. This is a remarkably fi ne showing for any schooner in the same time that she has been running and is one that the fi rm of E. & I. K. Stetson is especially proud. She is at present on the way to


Galveston from Philadelphia with coal at $1.60 and discharge. As soon as she fi nishes discharging the present cargo, she will probably go to Port Tampa to load phosphate rock for Baltimore. This at $2.50. The schooner I. K. STETSON has


just been chartered to load cypress at Jacksonville, Florida for some northern port at $5.75. She is at present at Providence, Rhode Island, but will leave for Jacksonville Monday. The schooner MELISSA TRASK has


been sold recently to C. W. Crane & Co., of New York for $4,000. The TRASK is a Bangor vessel and was built in Brewer in 1880. She is 236.73 gross tonnage and 198.16 net tonnage. She is 113.2 feet in length, 29.2 in breadth, and 9.7 in depth. The Standard Oil Co. is soon to make


an eff ort to save what it can of the tug ASTRAL, which was wrecked during the winter near Mt. Desert Rock. D. J. Stryker, the company’s Rockland agent, has learned that the hull and machinery are still there apparently intact, although the spars and some of the upper work long since became a prey to the waves.


News of the Shipping. The following additional facts have


been received in regard to the collision of the Bath-built schooner MARGARET L. WARD and the Southern Pacifi c steamer EL RIO of Galveston Bar. According to Capt. McKown, all his


lights were burning brightly and every possible signal made to avert the collision but the big steamer bore straight down upon the doomed vessel, cutting her in two and sending her to the bottom immediately. From accounts of the collision given by


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Eug, Clark and Chief Mate E. J. Ingalls, it was about 30 seconds from the time of the collision until the Ward sank. The captain had his family on board. They were asleep in the cabin. The mate saw the steamer and started to ring the bells. The whole crew turned out; all bells were ringing, the winch whistle was blowing, all hands on deck were shouting for dear life and both anchorage lights were showing when the EL RIO struck the schooner carrying away her aft gangway and wheelbox and cutting into the cabin. All hands took


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to the rigging. Capt. McKown had his son in his arms, but was struck with something in getting into the rigging, lost consciousness and the little fellow slipped into the sea. Mrs. McKnown gave the little girl to one of the sailors who was lost in trying to save her.


Mrs. McKown


suff ered greatly from exposure in the cold


water and when she learned of the loss of her children was completely prostrated with grief. Said Capt. McKown in speaking of the aff air:


“Our nights were the very best made.


They were shining like electric lights. There was absolutely no sea on. In fact, the gulf was almost as smooth as the bay is today. We were lying headed south. “We were struck fair and square and about thirty feet of our stern was cut down. “The schooner sank so rapidly we did not have time to take observation.” The revenue cutter GALVESTON is at


the scene of the disaster to investigate and, if possible, recover the bodies of the lost. Steamship owners are feeling the fi rst


pinch of the new activity in the steamboat inspection service. The regulations impose a penalty of $500 for failure to inform the service of the expiration of the period of one year for which an inspection certifi cate is in force. This regulation, long ignored, is now being enforced, much to the astonishment of vessel owners. Their only defense for not reporting the expiration of the certifi cates is that the date on them is obscure. This is to be remedied on the certifi cates to be issued hereafter, although, it is not accepted as a valid excuse for failure to report expirations. Several fi nes of the full amount have been imposed, and as the present feeling of the department is that these matters are vital to the life of the traveling public. Ass’t Sec. Armstrong has announced that he has no alternative except to enforce the regulations.


25 April 1903 Mutiny on a Big Maine Ship


The Crow of the Bath Ship EDWARD SEWALL Became Unruly at Woosung – Riot Soon Quelled.


Honolulu, April 25. – Advices received


from the Orient by the steamer DORIE sate that a mutiny broke out on the American ship EDWARD SEWALL at Woosung. Capt. Quick was unable to cope with the mutineers and he sent for assistance to the U. S. Batleship OREGON, which was in the harbor. Marines were sent to the ship. The EDWARD SEWALL is now on her way to Honolulu. She is owned by Arthur Sewall of Bath, Maine.


28 April 1903 With the Ships


Steamer ORN and Barge Kimberton Leave for Coal Ports News of the Shipping


New Four-master, FREDERIC A. DUGAS, to be Launched Tuesday at Bath.


The Norwegian steamer ORN fi nished


discharging Tuesday morning and sailed in the afternoon for Pictou, Nova Scotia. The schooner MARY PALMER was brought up to take her place at the stages. The barge KIMBERTON also fi nished


discharged on Tuesday and sailed for a coal port. The bay coasters EMILIE BELLE and MAUD S. sailed for bay ports with lumber on Tuesday. The barges at Stetson’s yard, Brewer, were to be launched Tuesday. Stevedores Fisher & Mulligan made a


record in discharging the barge KALMIA with 1500 tons of coal at M. W. Newall & Co.’s wharf, Bath. The work was performed with a single crew of six shovellers and coal was hoisted out of the barge at the rate of 380 tons a day. The men started in last Tuesday morning and fi nished Saturday afternoon. Rockland Schooner Lost.


The Rockland, Maine, schooner


ALBERT T. STEARNS, which grounded on the Shovelful shoal at an early hour Monday morning while on her way to the


Delaware Breakwater, with a load of ice from Bath, was abandoned by her crew Monday afternoon and will prove a total loss. The ALBERT T. STEARNS was built in Newburyport in 1883. She was 182 tons net burden, 152 feet long, 35 feet wide and 17 feet deep. She formerly hailed from New Bedford, but recently was purchased by Rockland parties. It is understood that she is fully insured. The wreck occurred very near that part of the shoal on which the barge WADENA grounded in March 1902, and it was while taking some of the wreckers off the barge that the crew of the MONOMOY station lost their lives.


News of the Shipping. The British schooner DEETA M.,


Captain Lantz, commenced discharging 1684 knees Monday morning at the Maine Centeral wharf, Bath, for Morse Bros. This is the craft that had her anchor caught off City Landing Saturday afternoon and it was supposed that it was up against the water main. Capt. Lantz claims it did not catch on the pipe or trestle work but on a cliff . It was released at high water without any diffi culty. The schooner M. H. REED will have


a new forefoot and her stem fastened at the North Marine railway, Rockland, and the schooner ELLA FRANCES will haul out at the same place this week. The schooner MAUD WHITMORE is being caulked, and having a new keel at the same railway. The new four-masted schooner


FREDERIC A. DUGGAN, Capt. Thompson, was to go overboard Tuesday afternoon at 1 o’clock from the New England Co. yard, Bath. The craft is sail rigged and ready for sea. Her offi cial measurements are: Length, 195.5; breadth, 49.4; depth, 18; gross tons, 1137; net, 981. She will hail from Mata(?), New Jersey. Schooner HATTIE C. LUCE, Rockport,


for St. Thomas, previously reported at Vineyard Haven to repair rigging, has completed her repairs and will proceed with favorable weather. The schooner POST BOY, of Bangor


dropped into the harbor of Rockland, Saturday and remained over night leaving Sunday morning. She was bound westward. E. H. Gay & Co., the Boston bankers, in


a circular on Eastern Steamship Co. bonds gives the gross earnings of the Eastern Steamship Co. for year ended December 31, 1902, as $1,321,475 in 1901, and $1,194,871 in 1900. Bark MATANZAS, 920 tons, built by


Wm. Rogers of Bath, in 1889, has been sold to Charles S. Smith of Hammonton, New Jersey, for the general coasting and West India trade. Capt. Smith is also the owner of schooner MADALENE COONEY. The Bath schooner ALICE M.


COLBURN arrived in Boston Sunday from Newport News with a cargo of coal. The two-masted schooner, JULIA


EDNA, Capt. Tewksbury Dodge of Belfast, dismasted near Cranberry Island and later towed to Belfast by the schooner MYRA WEBSTER, is to have her masts replaced with other sticks.


1 May 1903 Maine Vessels Collide


Rockland, May 1. The schooner A. H. WHITEMORE


from Stonington to Portland, with granite, ran aground Friday in the Fox Island thoroughfare and a half hour later was badly damaged in collision with the schooner ABBIE SCHLAEFER, Capt. Peterson, bound from Stonington to New York, with stone.


The SCHLAEFER passed within two


feet of the stranded schooner and carried away the stern gear, main boom and mainsail


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