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The Bark HIRAM EMERY Lies Wreck on African Coast. News of the Shipping The “Bald Headed” Schooner QUINNEPEG, Building at Mystic, will be Launched the Middle of August. Wreck of the HIRAM EMERY. Pounding to pieces on the sands of Dix


Cove, on the Gold Coast of Africa her decks swept by breakers so fi erce that nothing but a native surf boat can live in them lies the hulk of the good bark HIRAM EMERY, which left the smooth water and smiling islands of Boston harbor a short six weeks ago for tropical fury of the African seas under command of Capt. Carson. The HIRAM EMERY sailed from


Boston on June 3. She arrived at Axim about ten days ago and there left part of her cargo, taking on some palm oil and other valuable African commodities. Then she coasted along to Dix Cove, a little settlement containing a few white men, more mulattoes, and any quantity of negroes. Dix Cove is not a very safe anchorage. Details are unknown but it is conjectured


that a hurricane came up from the open quarter and blew the vessel into the breakers. It is said that the crew were all saved, but the vessel herself is a total loss, and her cargo is also endangered. This is the heartrending part of it to the natives for a great part of her cargo is rum. The EMERY was in command of


Capt. Emil Carlson of Boston, late of the barkentine HANCOCK. She was 800 tons gross measurement, was built at Kennebunkport by the late Nathaniel L. Thompson, a clipper model, and had made many quick voyages. She was owned by John S. Emery & Co., and others of Boston and was insured for less than one-quarter of her value. The British schooner LACONIA,


which is now coming up the coast from Bermuda to Boston, took the germs of the terrible African fever with her when she left the east. Man after man of the crew was taken down with it and one of them died.


Then Capt. Jones sickened and died and the fi rst mate brought her into Bermuda. A new captain and extra men were taken on there and she left Wednesday. News of the Shipping. The schooner AUGUSTUS HUNT was


towed up the river at Bath, Friday, light, to load ice. The HUNT was one of the fi rst four-masters built in that city and for many years after she was built, she was considered Bath’s largest dividend payer. She was built by the Morses in 1882 at their old shipyard where the HYDE Windlass Co. is now situated. For years she was commanded by Capt. Baker, who was over 60 years old and an ex-pastor. The record breaking trips of the HUNT and Capt. Baker in the eighties are still fresh in the minds of many seafaring people. When the HUNT was new she was nicknamed “JUMBO” on account of her enormous size, registering 1141 tons, which seems small today compared with the many two and three thousand ton four, fi ve and six-masters. Notwithstanding the vessel is old enough to vote she still remains her sheer.


New London Bay: “Men of maritime


interests are watching the construction of the new bald headed” schooner at the yard of W. B. McDonald & Sons at Mystic. She is being built under the supervision of Capt. C. A. Davis, manager of the Davis fl eet. The vessels is advancing at a good rate and it is expected she will be launched about the middle of August. She is called a bald headed schooner because she will have no topmasts.


6 August 1903 Shipbuilding Figures


Schooner ANNIE F. CONLON Sailed Wednesday Afternoon with Ice for Philadelphia – Other News Notes. There was quite a number of arrivals


in the harbor Wednesday afternoon, among the number being the schooners SADIE COREY, Ashland Mfg. Co., JULY FOURTH, the Stickney & Babcock Co.; NAT AYER, Eastern Mfg. Co.; SARAH A. BLAISDELL, LIZZIE LEE, F. H. STRICKLAND; and the GEORGE W. LEWIS.


The schooner


3.5 Long shaft Leftover 3.5 Short Shaft 5 Sail power 6 short shaft


9.9 Long shaft Leftover 9.9 Short shaft 20 Long shaft


20 Long shaft Leftover 30 Long shaft 60 Long shaft


Current Inventory Outboards $900


$1,100 $1,472 $1,674 $1,999 $2,355 $3,130 $2,817 $4,010 $6,951


60 Long shaft Command Thrust $7,020 90 Long shaft leftover 90 Long shaft


$7,906 $8,785


90 Long shaft Commercial Use $9,290 115 Long shaft Command Thrust $8,950 150 Extra-long shaft


307 Bayview St., Yarmouth, ME 04096 207-846-9577 www.royalriverboat.com $12,385


150 Extra-long shaft Coml. Use $12,425 Royal River Boat


HENRY WHITNEY came up Thursday morning to load lumber from the Ashland Mfg. Co. for Salem. The schooners FLORENCE M. PENNEY and JAMES B. THOMAS were expected to come up Thursday afternoon. The PENNEY has coal for the C. P. R. and the THOMAS has a like cargo for the B. & A.


The only


important sailing Wednesday was the schooner ANNIE F. CONLON with ice from the American Ice Co. for Philadelphia. Those going out Thursday were the schooners JOHN CALDWALLADER, William Engel, New York; ALBERT PHARO, Ashland Mfg. Co., New London; ANNE LORD, to load stone at Frankfort; RESA E. with a cargo of lumber


for Thomaston and Tennant’s Harbor. Shipbuilding Statistics.


The bureau of navigation reports 117


vessels of 25,400 gross tons were built in the United States and offi cially numbered during the month of July, 1903. The largest steam vessels included in


those fi gures are the SAXON, 4716 gross tons, Cleveland, O.; the WILBERT L. SMITH, 4319 gross tons, Lorain, O., and the GRAND HAVEN, 2320, Toledo, O. The total gross tons built at Atlantic and gulf yards was 3927; Pacifi c, 1706; Great Lakes, 18,412, and western rivers, 1415, or a total of 25,460 and 117 vessels. News of the Shipping.


Capt. Edwin Cobb of Norfolk, of the


Baltimore and Boston Barge Co., who is supervising the construction of the new barge ANNIE which is being constructed at Kelley, Spear company’s yard at Bath reports that the work is progressing rapidly on his craft. She is one-third in frame and will be ready to go overboard the last of October. A duplicate of the ANNIE will be started on the site now occupied by her. Capt. Cobb was pleased Wednesday to meet P. Dougherty of Baltimore, who is passing a few days in town on a pleasure trip, Mr. Dougherty is one of the largest barge and towboat owners in Baltimore. The new steel steamer C. W. MORSE


arrived in New York Tuesday from Wilmington, Delaware, to receive her engines at Fletcher’s yard in Hoboken. She will have a speed of 25 knots. It will require nearly a year’s time to complete the boat, which is to surpass any other in the Hudson River service in elegance of appointments, speed and safety. The construction of the hull of the C. W. MORSE is a new feature in steamboats hereabout, as the vessel has steer bulkheads up to the saloon deck. The schooner GEORGIE L. DRAKE


with coal for Richmond went ashore at the head of Swan Island Tuesday and in order to get her over this shoal portion of the river, part of her cargo was taken off in lighters. She was docked Tuesday evening.


11 August 1903 With the Ships


Capt. Cambage is Sailing in Schooner Alone on this Trip Freights – Charters


News Notes of Vessel Movements in


and Around Bangor’s Harbor – Barges Coming.


Monday’s arrival in the harbor were


the schooner’s L. D. REMICK and the LILLIAN. The REMICK was light and the LILLIAN had a general cargo for Haynes & Chalmers and W. V. Dunbar. The schooner LIZZIE LEE cleared Tuesday with lumber for Boston from F. H. Strickland. The schooner ESTELLE, which has been on the railway in Brewer for some time was expected to go off Tuesday and in that event she would go to Frankfort either late Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning to load paving stones for Philadelphia. Quite a number of barges are coming to


Bangor nowadays. The SCHUYLKILL will probably fi nish unloading Tuesday afternoon and will clear sometime Wednesday. The DARBY will come up Tuesday afternoon with coal for the Maine Central. The KIMBERTON is at Fort Point cove waiting for a berth here. She will follow the DARBY. It was reported on Exchange Street,


Tuesday morning, that the barge MAHONEY with coal for Hincks & Co., and the Stickney & Babcock Co., had sprung a leak in the sound and had put into Provincetown. This could not be substantiated. It was reported, however, that she would go to Providence to unload her cargo.


There is quite a fl eet of vessels at


Stetson’s railway in Brewer now undergoing repairs. These are the DAVID FAUST, GLENDY BURKE, SUSIE P. OLIVER, ESTELLE, R. W. HOPKINS and the IDA C. SOUTHARD. From Hong Kong.


William H. Duley of Parker Head


received a letter last week from his son, ERWIN, who is a junior engineer on the 10,000 ton steamer TREMONT of the Pacifi c line of steamers. It was written in Hong Kong, China, and tells many interesting facts about that country. The company which owns this steamer and many others on the Pacifi c has taken a contract to do 80 percent of the government work in connection with Manila and to do this she will haul out this trip at Seattle and be in the hands of a large crew for two months after which she will be capable to do the work required. Young Duley is the youngest engineer


in the employ of the company, having not yet passed out of his teens. He left Bath in the spring of 1901 and engaged as oiler on the steamer, and his ready Yankee smartness secured him advancement to his present position and his many friends predict that his advance to a higher position will not be delayed. W. E. Purington of Parker Head is chief engineer of the steamer and is considered one of the best in the employ of the Boston Steamship Co., which operates a large fl eet of steamers. He’s the Whole Crew.


Usable to obtain a single sailor, Capt.


Cambage, aged 70 years and lame, set sail on his 60 ton two-masted schooner NEW BOXER, Tuesday, weighed anchor at Boothbay Harbor, and sailed alone for Salem, Massachusetts, with a cargo of lumber. He sailed from Bangor with one man who ran away as soon as the schooner reached Boothbay Harbor, and after laying a week Capt. Cambage, who is a Rockland man, became discouraged and decided to navigate his schooner single-handed.


19 August 1903 Steamers Hit


CITY OF BANGOR and FRANK JONES Collided at Rockland. JONES the Worst Off


CITY OF BANGOR was not Seriously Injured and Proceeded On Way – Capt. Arey Talks


While making the turn around Rockland


breakwater Wednesday morning on her way to this city from Boston, the steamer CITY OF BANGOR of the Eastern S. S. Co., collided with the steamer FRANK JONES of the Portland, Mount Desert & Machias line, which was bound eastwards. Both boats were more or less injured, the FRANK JONES being the worst of the two. She tore away the guard rail and the castings cut off of the wheel, bent the bracers and broke the bucket. The BANGOR’s injuries were not so serious. Her starboard paddle boxes were considerably smashed in, but other from these damages she was uninjured. It was about 6 o’clock Wednesday


morning that the accident occurred. Both steamers had taken on their passengers and were leaving the harbor, and were quite close together. It was very foggy at the time and both boats were proceeding at slow speed out of the harbor. In turning the corner of the breakwater to shape her course upriver, the guards of the JONES hit the starboard paddle boxes of the BANGOR and both paddle boxes on both steamers were badly damaged. After a hasty examination on the part of


the BANGOR’s offi cers, it was found that no serious injury had been done that would


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