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of the WHITEMORE, proceeding with the gear on her bow without investigating the extent of the damage. The WHITEMORE was towed here. Capt. B. F. PASCALE of Stonington, owner of the WHITEMORE, has demanded damaged from Farrand & Spear of Rockland, owners of the SCHLAEFER.


* * * * * Ellsworth Schooner Lost


Rockland, May 1. The two-masted schooner J. M.


KENNEDY, Capt. Hutchins of Ellsworth, bound from Rondout, New York, with 1,400 barrels of cement for Coopes & Co., Belfast, was wrecked during the gale early Friday on the “Old Man” ledge off Port Clyde and is a total loss. Capt. Hutchins and crew of three men escaped in their life boat to Port Clyde and were brought here. The KENNEDY was owned by Joseph Higgins of Ellsworth, was of 120 tons, 87 feet long, 25 feet beam and seven feet deep. She was built at Ellsworth in 1869.


* * * * * With the Ships


WEBSTER BARNARD May Be Saved Though Badly Damaged. News of the Shipping.


Steel Barge SHENANGO Launched Bow First Thursday at Bath – BISMARCK Furnaces Repaired. The schooner MARY PALMER


fi nished discharging Friday morning and her place was taken at the stages by the barge DARBY. The schooner EDITH H. SYMINGTON with coal for the Bangor & Aroostook railroad took the place of the steamer LANCASTER late Thursday and commenced discharging on Friday. With the exception of a number of


small bay coasters there were no arrivals of importance during the day. Schooner JACOB S. WINSLOW has arrived at Fort Point. Reports to the contrary, the schooner IDA C. SOUTHARD is not out of the river yet.


The schooner WEBSTER BARNARD,


Capt. Atwood, New York, for Bangor, with coal, which ran ashore on Barley ledge late Wednesday, was full of water Thursday. The cargo was partially removed. The schooner may be saved although badly damaged. The BARNARD was 150 gross tons and was built in Bucksport in 1868. News of the Shipping


The steel barge SHENANGO being


built for the Guppy petroleum company of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, was launched at 3:18 Thursday afternoon at Bath. The barge is 300 feet long, 45 feet beam, 23 feet deep. The gross tonnage is 2240 and the carrying capacity 1,280,000 gallons. The estimated cost was $275,000. She will carry oil from Port Arthur, Texas to Philadelphia, her home port.


Bath Times: Isaish King, foreman of the boiler department of the Knickerbocker Towage Co., arrived home Thursday morning with a crew of boilermakers from Bangor where they have just completed repairs on the furnaces on the tug BISMARCK. They worked three days and nights on the job, with only stops for meals, as the craft was badly needed for the work on the Penobscot. The anchors for the cruiser CLEVELAND, building at Bath, arrived there this week from the Charlestown Navy Yard. There are six, including four 6,000 pound stock anchors and two Baldy stockless anchors. The schooners GEORGIE L. DRAKE


and REBEKAH MOULTON are bound to Bath from New York with coal for the Gibbons Coal Company. The SAMUEL DILLAWAY is also coming there with a load for Drummond.


HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Bangor Daily Commercial - Early 1900s The schooner EMPRESS is on the north


marine railway. Rockland, having a general overhauling. The new four-masted schooner


FREDREIC A. DUGGAN at the New England Co.’s yard, Bath, will be ready for sea not later than next Saturday. Ram Island Ledge lighthouse was


officially and finally located Tuesday. Col. W. S. Stanton, chief of the lighthouse department came down from Boston for the purpose and was taken out from Bath in the government tender OCEAN VIEW. After carefully looking over the ground it was decided to place the tower at a point very near where the tripod now is. This is at the extreme outer point of the ledge.


2 May 1903


Fast Launch Owned by a Bangor Man William C. Bryant’s new craft,


UNDINE, which was put into the water this week by Cobb, the Brewer Builder.


8 May 1803 With the Ships


$12,000 Salvage Awarded Against Schooner LYMAN LAW. News of the Shipping.


Three Masted Schooner MARGARET M. FORD Soon Be Launched at Vinalhaven.


Schooner ELAZER A. CLARK


fi nished discharging at the lower High head berth Thursday night and her place was taken Friday morning by the schooner C. A. CAMPBELL. The steamer READING at the upper berth also fi nished on Friday and sailed for Philadelphia. She will be followed by the schooner JACOB S. WINSLOW. The Norwegian steamer ORN is


expected either late Friday or on Saturday at Fort Point with a cargo of coal from Pictou, N. S., for the Great Northern Paper Co. Among the craft below is the schooner


M. D. CRESSEY with 3,400 tons of coal, one of the largest cargoes which comes to this port. The Bath schooner HENRY O. BARRETT is bound to Bangor with coal, as is the schooner ALICE CLARK with 2,700 tons for the Bangor & Aroostook. Schooner PEMAQUID, with slabs


from Morse & Co., sailed Friday for Boston and the schooner ORIZON which is loading lumber for Boston will be ready to sail on Saturday.


Schooner C. B. WOOD sailed Friday


with lumber by the Ashland Mfg. Co., for Vineyard Haven. Schooner EMMA GREEN also sailed for New York by William Engel, Schooner E. S. WILSON loaded by Morse, sailed for Stonington and the schooner POST BOY for New York, by the Sargent Lumber Co. The barge PHEONIX also sailed on Friday for Philadelphia. Schooners MYRA SEARS from


Rockland and LUCY ELIZABETH from Tremont were the only


arrivals during the day. Schooner ESTELLE has left New York for Bangor with coal for the Bangor Gaslight Co. After discharging she will take a general cargo to the West Indies and will deturn to Bangor with salt from Bonaire. $12,000 Against LYMAN LAW. Judge Hale,


Portland, handed down Thursday afternoon his decision in the libels of the steamer NORTH STAR and crew, and of the schooner HOPE


11 May 1903


Barge MANHEIM and Schooner DEERING Here with Coal. News of the Shipping


Five $1,000 Suits Brought Against Capt. Harding of the Bath Schooner, CORA F. CRESSEY.


The schooners C. A. CAMPBELL and


JACOB S. WINSLOW fi nished discharging coal Monday and will sail for a coal port. Their places at the stages will be taken by the barge MANHEIM with 1,521 tons for the Canadian Pacifi c railroad and the schooner LYDIA M. DEERING, with 1825 tons for the Maine Central railroad. The schooner HATTIE BARBOUR


with coal from Philadelphia to the Bangor Gas Light Co., arrived Sunday as did the schooner NORTHERN LIGHT and the steamer READING with fuel for the Hincks Co. and A. H. BABCOCK came up Monday. Other arrivals included schooner JOSIE HOOK, Boston, GLENDY BURKE, Gloucester, ROSS E., Tenant’s Harbor, and ANNIE R. LEWIS from Boston. Among


the schooners which cleared Sunday and Monday were the LILLIAN, Gloucester, by F. H. Strickland; JULIA BAKER, Boston, by the Sargent Lumber Co., E. ARCU- LARIUS, Fall River, by F. H. Strickland; MAUD S., Camden, by Morse & CO., and the R. L. TAY by the Eastern Mfg. Co. Schooner GEORGE B.


SHERWOOD and crew against the schooner LYMAN M. LAW, which was picked up abandoned off Cape Cod, on February 1, and towed into Provincetown. Judge Hale awards salvage to the amount of $12,000 to be divided as follows: $7,375 to the owners of the NORTH STAR; $2,125 to the captain and crew of the NORTH STAR; $1,900 to the schooner HOPE SHERWOOD and $600 to her captain and crew, Capt. Bragg of the NORTH STAR is awarded $350, Engineer Sault, $275, LEWIS STATON, steward of the HOPE SHERWOOD, $250. Judge Hale found that the LYMAN M.


LAW was in danger of sinking and that the services of a steamer were necessary to bring her into port.


FERGUSON will sail Tuesday for Onset by the Ashland Mfg. Co.


New of the Shipping. Suits to cover $1,000 each have been


brought against Capt. Harding of the Bath schooner, CORA F. CRESSEY by Emil Gormo, Conrad Erickson, Charles Cann, John Karlson, and G. Cerbracht, former seamen, as damaged for alleged false imprisonment on a recent voyage from Newport News to Boston. The men claim that the second mate left at Newport News; that the vessel was undermanned and when the captain was asked to replace him he refused. Then they asked for their discharge, which was denied them and they were placed in irons for 24 hours, during which time they were fed on hard tack and water. On arriving in Boston they say that the master off ered to pay them, deducting for the days they were in irons and they refused to accept. They also seek damages under the United States revised statutes for the alleged reduction of their food. The schooner CAROLINE GRAY is


in the stream at Rockland, loaded with cut stone for the Naval Academy, Annapolis. The fi ve-masted schooner building at


Percy & Small’s yard Bath, at the South End has been sold to William F. Palmer of Boston, the manager of the Palmer fl eet, which is today one of the largest fl eets of sailing vessels on the coast. The vessel will be ready to go overboard the last of July or the fi rst of August. She will be the fi rst vessel built by Percy & Small to fl y the Palmer fl ag. The schooner HATTIE COLLINS is


having a new backbone and new planking at the South Marine railway, Rockland. The sloop MAGGIE E. DAVIS, owned


by David Hall, is being fi tted with a new keel in the rear of the Bird block, Rockland. The Bath Iron Works has received a contract for a large steel tug boat 110 feet


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