May 2016 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 25. HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Bangor Daily Commercial - Early 1900s
apparently gave up the struggle 13 months later, when 800 miles from Cape Finisterre, after a drift of 4,400 miles; and the latter was last seen in November 1889, having been reported to the Hydrographic offi ce not fewer than 41 times and drifted 5,000 miles in 350 days. Occasionally a derelict is picked up by a steamer and towed into port, or comes ashore in a comfortable position for salvage services, many months after abandonment by her crew through stress of weather. Schooner E. H. CORNELL, left about 200 miles east of Delaware in March 1895, was picked up in August following by a steamer not far from Punta Delgada, Azores, and towed there. The four-master AGNES MANNING, coal laden, was towed to New York by the steamer EXETER CITY, which had picked her up derelict about 400 miles east of Sandy Hook. “In February 1895, the schooner ALMA
CUMMINGS was abandoned somewhat southeast of Sandy Hook. After the end of May she was not sighted again prior to March 1896, when a vessel passed her midway between the Cape Verdes and Guadaloupe. She was then totally dismasted, partially destroyed by fi re, and her decks awash. Five months later she was observed ashore on an island off the San Blas coast, Isthmus of Panama, and the natives were busily engaged in getting all worth taking from the wreck. The schooner EBENEZER HAGGETT, abandoned off Hatteras in November last, has just been picked up and towed into Flores. Doubtless quite a number of the doubtful rocks reported from time to time are due to mistaking the bottom of some capsized derelict for something even more solid. Not long since a rock, 60 feet long by 10 feet wide, was alleged to have been passed by a sailing ship in mid-Atlantic. A circumstantial report of this danger went the rounds of the world’s press, but several of the trans-Atlantic steamers proved beyond a doubt that no such rock was in evidence. This may have been a derelict with decks awash, having a stump of a lower mast standing, and covered with barnacles and seaweed.”
* * * * * He Saved Only a Nickel
Bowdoin Lermond, Son of Captain of Wrecked Schooner, Will Cherish It as Memento.
Bowdoin Lermond, the 16 year-old son
of Capt. William J. Lermond of the wrecked schooner WASHINGTON B. THOMAS, went to his home in Thomaston Wednesday, in company with his brother, who went to Portland as he received the news of the disaster. Capt. Lermond is still at the West End hotel and will remain there several days. He is recovering from the eff ects of his exposure and suff erings. Bowdoin seems none the worse because
of his experience on the wrecked vessel. He carried home with him the only thing which he saved from the wreck. After he had clung to the spanker boom
for fi ve hours and had then gone to the forecastle he removed his wet clothing and put on some garments belonging to one of the sailors. His clothing of course was left behind then he was taken ashore in the life boats but he took from the pocket of his trousers when he made the (??) they held quite a snug insurance on the schooner and that each part owner was insured. The total amount of insurance they do not know. “These terrible tragedies of the sea
come from time to time,” said one of the fi rm, “just as do the disasters in the business world on land. “We are deeply concerned over the
death of Mrs. Lermond, and over the injury to Capt. Lermond himself. He is a most
careful navigator and had the unequalled reputation of always paying a dividend on his voyages. “While the loss of the WASHINGTON
B. THOMAS is a serious one in more than a fi nancial way, our fi rm is still in the shipbuilding business and we will have another gala launching in due time.
22 June 1903 Bangor Boys Have Fast Sloop
The sloop yacht, MILDRED VERNE,
which has been purchased by William J. Crowley and J. Edward Crowley of this city for use in Penobscot Bay, is one of the prettiest boats of her class along the coast. She was formerly owned by Robert C. Foster, son of Judge Enoch Foster of Portland, a member of the Portland Yacht Club. She is an excellent sea boat and is very fast, having won several races for her former owner in Portland harbor. The boat’s dimensions are: Length over
all, 34 feet; length on water line, 26 feet; width of beam, 11 feet; height of standing room, fi ve feet and ten inches. She has cabin accommodations for fi ve persons, with room for another forward. The craft is supplied with a full complement of signal fl ags and ensigns and has a complete set of charts of the coast and instruments for navigation. The sloop will be a great addition to the
fl eet in the bay and is likely to give a good account of herself in any race in which she is entered. Her new owners brought her around from Portland, accompanying the fl eet of the Portland Yacht Club as far as Boothbay. The Messrs. Crowley have sold their
sloop, LOUISE, to H. W. Hayward of Hyde Park, Massachusetts, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
25 June 1903
Italian Bark ROSA is in Port to Load Shooks for Sicily News of the Shipping
Four-Masted Schooner LUCY H. RUSSELL, Built in Bath, a Total Loss Off Cape Hatteras.
The schooner CHARLES
DAVENPORT finished discharging her coal for the Maine Central and the SARAH C. ROPES commenced for the Bangor & Aroostook railroad, Thursday. The schooner GEORGE E. WALCOTT with 2,458 tons for the B. & A. railroad came up Thursday and took the Davenport’s berth. The Italian bark ROSA, which has
been discharging salt at Rockland, arrived in Bangor, Thursday. She will load shooks for Sicily by Rowland W. Stewart. Among the other arrivals were schooners ANNIE R. LEWIS, moved up to Sterns’ mill from Winterport and the C. TAYLOR 3d, Islesboro.
Schooners CORA GREEN, Norwich, for the Ashland Mfg. Co., and SALLY
B., New York, for the Sterns Lumber Co., are both loaded and ready to sail. Schooner NORUMBEGA is also ready to go to Frankfort, where she is to load stone. Schooner MASSASOIT is about ready to sail with ice for Baltimore. Schooner CAROLINE GRAY with coal to John F. Woodman & Co., is due here and is probably hanging up at Rockland, her homeport, for a day or two.
Schooner CHARLOTTE T. SIBLEY has been
chartered by E. & I. K. Stetson to load hard pine for their new schooner, at Savannah. Wednesday the masts for the new vessel arrived from Seattle, Washington, being conveyed by three cars. The sticks are beauties being 105 feet long. They will go overboard at High head and be rafted to Brewer, where they will be turned and oiled and made ready to be set up sometime in August.
News of the Shipping. A dispatch from Halifax dated
Wednesday states: “The steam yacht HELENA of Bangor, which put in here for coal some days ago sailed for New Brunswick but met heavy winds and after going as far as Egg Island the captain decided to put back here arriving last night. She will proceed when the weather moderates.” The four-masted schooner EDWIN R.
HUNT lies in the stream in Boston with jibboom gone and a mass of wreckage under her bows, as the result of a three- masted schooner called the MARGARET B. ROPER dragging anchor Sunday off East Boston, on account of the stock pulling out from anchor so that the vessel couldn’t hold ground. The ROPER dragged across her bows and sustained some damage to her mizzen rigging. She was afterwards towed to a safer anchorage by the tug MARIE. Both craft are Bath vessels. In a terrifi c thunder storm early Sunday
morning, the four-masted schooner, LUCY H. RUSSELL of Port Jeff erson, L. I., owned principally by Capt. J. L. Randall of Groton, went ashore on Gull Shoals, 25 miles north of Cape Hatteras. From advices it is quite certain that the vessel will be a total loss. She pounded hard all day Sunday. Her captain and crew of nine men were taken off by lifesavers. The RUSSELL was bound light from Boston for Brunswick, Georgia, where
she would have loaded with ties for New York. A tug is by the wrecked craft and if there is any possibility of saving her the attempt will be made. Capt. J. L. Randall received news of the disaster Sunday and immediately took a train for the south. The LUCY H. RUSSELL was built in Bath in 1887 by the New England Co. She could carry about 1,100 tons of coal. She is
194.3 feet in length, her breadth is 39.9 feet and she draws 18 feet of water.
29 June 1903 Bath Shipbuilders Busy.
Business for the First Six Months of this Year Shows that Rumors of Declines are False.
Ever since the beginning of the year
there have been persistent rumors to the eff ect that shipbuilding in Bath was on the decline. These rumors were undoubtedly based upon the fact that at the beginning of the year this industry was between two fi res. The coal strike was yet to be settled to the satisfaction of the shipping men, while many owners of vessel property were reckoning the year’s profi ts and losses, and little was said about future contracts beyond those on the stocks at that time. The fi rst three months of the year did
not compare favorably with the amount of tonnage launched for the corresponding period since the boom which followed the election of Pres. McKinley in 1896, but for all that a rapid gain was made in the second quarter, and from fi gures obtained at the custom house in Bath it is seen that the tonnage launched in the fi rst six months of this year is quite up to the average, and only varies to the extent of a few hundred tons from that of the corresponding period a year ago. There is a large amount of work
under construction in the various yards at the present time and the outlook for the remainder of the year is much more promising than it was a year ago. At the plant of the Bath Iron Works nearly
1000 men are given steady employment and there is under construction there the largest contract ever undertaken by a private fi rm
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