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long. The craft will have a compound engine and the work will be started upon her right away.


The schooner MILDRED MAY is on


the North Marine railway at Rockland. She being fi tted with a letter keel, and is also being caulked and painted. The barge HATTIE for the Boston and


Baltimore Co. will probably go overboard from the New England Co. yard Bath, next Saturday. The five-masted steel schooner,


KINEO will be ready for use the middle of next week.


15 May 1903 Sailor Hurt


Mate and Cook of Schooner Indulged in Scrap Friday. One in Hospital


Friendly Setto on the SARAH C. SMITH Came Near Resulting in a Fatallity.


A friendly scrap which came very near


terminating seriously if not fatally, occurred at 11 o’clock Friday forenoon on board the schooner SARAH C. SMITH, unloading coal at Stickney & Babcock’s wharf on Front Street. As a result the cook of the vessel is now in the marine hospital with a fractured wrist and several bruises around the head and back. The mate and cook of the vessel,


whose name is said to be HEINHOLTZ, indulged in a friendly bout which became more unfriendly as it progressed and each tried to throw the other down into the hole of the schooner. It is said the men had been drinking and were a little the worse for the ardent. After rolling around the deck for a few minutes the mate was successful in throwing HEINHOLTZ into the hold but the cook did not lose his hold and took the mate along with him. The drop was 20 feet and it is thought


that they struck a glancing blow on the keelson and finally brought up on the fl ooring. HEINHOLTZ was underneath and the mate on top. HEINHOLTZ was found to have


sustained a fractured wrist and was badly bruised about the head and hips. His back was also somewhat hurt, although no signs of internal injuries have shown up as yet. The mate was uninjured by the fall. After having his wounds dressed


HEINHOLTZ was removed in the patrol wagon to the marine hospital where he will have to remain for a few days.


23 May 1903 With the Ships


A Number of Arrivals in the Harbor on Saturday.


News of the Shipping


Three-Masted Schooner MARY E. MORSE, Abandoned off Egg Harbor Sold to Pendleton for $6,575.


There were a large number of arrivals in


port Saturday, chief among them being the schooners FRED A. EMERSON, cement, to the Great Northern Paper Co., HANNAH F. CARLETON, coal, Stickney & Babcock, TELUMAH, coal, Bangor Gas Light Co., HOPE HAYNES, light to load for the Ashland Mfg. Co., and the C. B. CLARK, light, to load for the Eastern Mfg. Co. Among the schooners to sail were the


SARAH C. SMITH, Boston, by the Ashland Mfg. Co., ANNIE R. LEWIS, New York, by Sterns Lumber Co. and the ASHLAND, Izetta, New York, by the Eastern Mfg. Co. and CORINNA M., Orrington, to load wood. The Norwegian steam HELM was expected to fi nished discharging her coal for the Great Northern and to get away Saturday. News of the Shipping.


HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Bangor Daily Commercial - Early 1900s The three-masted schooner MARY E.


MORSE, built in Bath in 1881 by Morse & Co., built in Bath in 1881 by Morse & Co., which was abandoned off Egg Harbor several weeks ago after collision with the steamer PARTHIAN and whose crew was rescued and landed in Boston, was sold at U. S. marshal sale in Philadelphia, Thursday to F. C. Pendleton of New York for $6,575. After being abandoned the vessel was picked up by fi sherman who libeled her for salvage. The MORSE was 644 tons net. She was owned by parties in Mobile. The new barge HATTIE for the


Baltimore & Boston Co. launched this week from the New England Co. yard, Bath left this Friday for Norfolk in tow of the tug BOSWELL. The barge is chartered for six months to carry coal between Norfolk and New Bedford. Capt. T. P. Robbins is accompanied by Mrs. Robbins and they have fi tted out their quarters in an elaborate and comfortable manner. Capt. Willey of the schooner J.


EDWARD DRAKE is at his home in Bath on a brief visit while his vessel is loading ice up river for Philadelphia. She will be ready for sea Saturday. The schooner LEWIS K. COTINGHAM


arrived at New England yard Bath, Friday from Boston and will haul out on the railway to caulk bottom and for general repairs. She will load ice for a southern port.


1 June 1903


Shooting on a Maine Vessel Second Mate Johnson Charged with Killing a Negro.


Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, June


1. – Second Mate Johnson of the Bath, Maine, schooner EDWARD E. BRIRY, Capt. Dudley, charged with murder on the high seas, was brought here Monday by the U. S. Revenue cutter SEMINOLE. The SEMINOLE also had on board the body of J. C. Finch, a West India mulatto, a member of the crew of the schooner, who, it is alleged, was shot by Johnson for refusing to obey orders, early Sunday morning and in self defense, the sailor having attacked Johnson and bitten his arm. The EDWARD E. BRIRY is a 1,600 ton


schooner, built at Bath in 1896. She is bound from Philadelphia for Boston with coal and early Sunday, while she was between Block Island and Gay Head, the shooting took place. According to information given by those on the SEMINOLE at 1 a.m. when the second mate and Finch were on watch together, the sailor refused to obey the mate and armed himself with a knife and a belaying pin. Johnson who was unarmed was forced to take refuge in the after house. Later Finch went to call the watch


below and Johnson took advantage of the movement to rush to his cabin and secure a revolver. Finch saw the movement but was not cowed by the revolver. He had dropped his knife, but he sprang upon the second mate, and with a terrifi c blow on the side of the head which dazed Johnson, sank his teeth in Johnson’s arm. Johnson, fi red the bullet entering the body near the left nipple. The sailor fell and died within a few minutes. Johnson’s arm was badly injured by Finch’s teeth.


While off Woods Hole Sunday evening,


the SEMINOLE sighted a schooner at anchor with the mutiny signal flying. Running down, the cutter found the other vessel to be the BRIRY and an armed boat load was sent to her. Capt. Dudley requested Capt. Rogers of the SEMINOLE, to take the body of the dead man ashore and take Second Mate Johnson to the nearest port. This was done, the landing being made here.


6 June 1903 This Island Tug is a Powerful Craft. A great innovation in the way of log


tugs and Maine lake steamers in general has lately been made by the Ashland Mfg. Co., or by its branch concern, Marsh & Ayer, who have been cutting lumber around Chamberlain Lake the past winter. This innovation, which when everything


is taken into consideration is a most remarkable piece of work, is the twin screw steamer GEORGE A. DUGAN. The tug, for that is what she is, now fl oats on the waters of Chamberlain as she was launched May 14, and has successfully taken the 12,000,000 odd logs which Marsh & Ayer cut in that region, across the lake. This is really the fi rst year that logs


have ever been rafted down Chamberlain Lake. Last winter was the beginning of the cutting around there and Eagle Lake and this tug is the natural outcome. About 2,000,000 logs are taken across the lake at one time and if these were warped across as they are on other lakes it would take a large crew of men a week to do it. The DUGAN can do this work at a far less expense in about ten hours.


About the Little Tug. The plans for the tug GEO. A. DUGAN


were made at the Eastern Mfg. Co.’s pulp mill in South Brewer by C. B. Clark and George A. Dugan for whom the boat is named. The plans and all of the working drawings were done by Mr. Dugan who is the mechanical engineer at the mill. It was Mr. Clark who designed Fred W. Ayer’s steam yacht HELENA and Mr. Dugan drew the plans and working drawings for her. The GEO. A. DUGAN is 70 foot beam


and is very shallow, being built especially for the log business drawing but four and one-half feet of water. She has twin screws and double 8 ½ by 10 engines. This is a great improvement over the old side-wheelers which are generally found on the lakes. The engines can be run separately so


that by backing with one and going forward with the other the tug can be turned in her own length. This is a great help also in the log business. The castings for the engines were made


in Bangor at the Union Iron Works made in Bangor at the Union Iron Works and the boat was built on the shores of Chamberlain Lake. All of the engines and parts which could not be made on the spot were carried in to the lake over a 25 mile tote road. The DUGAN’s hill is of oak, she has a


steam windlass forward and has a speed of about eight knots. She is manned by four men but has berths to accommodate a great many more. She is about 75 tons gross and 60 net and cost in the vicinity of $5,000. The mere idea of building such a boat


on the shores of a lake in the wilderness of northern Maine 25 miles from a railroad would be enough to daunt most people but this craft was so built and is a success in every way as was proven last month when she took 12,000,000 logs across the lake, a distance of 18 miles.


9 June 1903 Maine Schooner Wrecked The two masted schooner MODOC


from Sand River, N. S., to New York was completely wrecked by a collision in the fog Monday with the three masted schooner, FRED A. SMALL. Both were Machias, Maine schooners. Capt. Smith and crew of the MODOC


escaped in their boats and were brought into Portland with the wrecked craft by a towboat. The collision occurred 15 miles southeast of Portland head. The SMALL was not badly injured. She


proceeded and is expected in port. At the time of the collision it was


impossible to see a ship’s length ahead. The SMALL struck the MODOC head on and completely smashed in the port side, the main mast was carried away down to the deck load and the captain and crew of six men narrowly escaped death. They put out in their boats and were picked up by the tug PISCATAQUIS of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, which brought them here. Had it not been for the load of piling, the MODOC would probably have sunk immediately. The FRED A. SMALL, Capt. Thompson,


was bound from Red Beach, Maine, to New York with plaster. The schooner MODOC was built at


Columbia Falls, in 1882 and was owned at Machias, Maine. She was 99.8 feet long, 29.4 feet wide and 8.5 feet deep. Her tonnage was 189 gross and 180 net.


13 June 1903 With the Ships


The Staunch Bangor Schooner FRED A. EMERSON Lost News of the Shipping


Four-masted Schooner JOHN B. BIEMILLER to be Launched in Bath Saturday Afternoon.


Much regret is felt among Bangor


shipping men over the loss of the staunch little two-masted schooner FRED A. EMERSON, which was capsized in the height of the gale, Friday, near Little Gull light in the race while bound from New Bedford to New Haven light. The schooner was in command of Capt.


I. B. Ulmer of Hampden well known here and had two men lost, George Wayland, reported from Portland and E. Arquith of Hampden. The schooner was owned by Capt. Ulmer of Hampden and by Bangor parties, the Sterns Lumber Co. having quite a share of her. She was partially insured in Bangor. The EMERSON had just finished


discharging a cargo of lumber at New Bedford from Bangor by the Sterns Lumber Co. and was bound light to New Haven where she was to take a cargo to Rockland. It is thought possible that she may be towed in if found and repaired. She was an exceptionally good schooner of 122 tons register and was a staunch craft in every respect. The schooner ALICE M. COLBURN


which is loading ice here for Washington will be ready to sail Sunday. Two other schooners are here for ice. The ALICIA B. CROSBY for Washington and the MASSASOIT for Baltimore. The schooner MARY E. PALMER with coal for the Bangor & Aroostook railroad has not commenced discharging yet as on account of the weather nothing being done on the coal vessels Friday or Saturday. Among the arrivals Saturday were


schooners MAUD S., Camden, OMAHA from Boston with 900 casks of cement for the Great Northern Paper Co. and the SALLIE B. from Rockland. A number of vessels are ready to sail but may not get away for several days on account of the weather. Among them are schooners HENRY WHITNEY, New Rochelle, Lowell & Engel, GEORGE B. FERGUSEN Pawtucket for the Sargent Lumber Co., John Cadwalader, Boston for the Ashland Mfg. Co., LIZZIE LEE, Brooksville for James Walker & Co., W. T. EMERSON, Boston for the Sterns Lumber Co. The schooner SARAH A. BLAISDELL is all loaded also by James Walker & Co. for Neponset.


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