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25 August 1903 With the Ships


Trade is Dull with the Exception of Fuel Carriers.


News of the Shipping


Three-masted Schooner EMMA S. LORD Successfully Launched at Milbridge Monday Forenoon.


With the exception of the coal trade


which is extremely brisk, matters in a shipping way are rather quiet at present. The schooner JAMES B. JORDAN with 1,051 tons of coal for Stickney & Babcock Coal Co., arrived Tuesday as did the schooner LUIS G. RABEL with coal for the Bangor Gas Co. and the schooner MABEL from Vinalhaven has also arrived. The schooner CHARLES L. DAVENPORT with 1,613 tons for the


Canadian Pacifi c commenced discharging Tuesday and the schooner ALICE HOLBROOK fi nished at noon discharging for the same concern. Clearances Tuesday included schooners NOROMBEGA, New York for the Ashland Mfg. Co. and the J. M. MORALES, Vineyard Haven for orders and Lowell & Engel. EMMA S. LORD Launched


The schooner EMMA S. LORD was


successfully launched Monday at Milbridge. This schooner is owned by Henry Lord of this city and others and will hail from this port. The launching was at 11 o’clock from the Sawyer Bros.’ yard, where she was built and was attended by a large number of people including many from Bangor. She is a three-masted vessel and her


dimensions are: Length, 139 8/10 feet; breadth, 32 2/10, and depth, 10 55/1000. She is of about 350 tons with a carrying capacity of some 700 tons. She will be commanded by Capt. George A. Erksine of Bucksport, late of the schooner HATTIE H. BARBOUR.


26 August 1903 7 Drowned on Bangor Vessel


The WILLIE L. NEWTON Was Capsized Off Norwalk, Connecticut Owned by Pendleton Bros. Edward Coombs of Islesboro Was Captain – The Entire Crew Perished. South Norwalk, Connecticut, August


26. – The two-masted coasting schooner WILLIE L. NEWTON of Bangor, Maine, was


capsized six miles east southeast of Green’s reef lights in Long Island sound during the storm of Tuesday night. As the craft was completely overturned while the sails were being lowered, it is believed that the entire crew numbering probably seven men were drowned. On body believed to be that of the captain


has been secured, it had fl oated out of the cabin. The wreck was sighted by Capt. Walter Miner, of the tug PATIENCE of New York as his vessel was towing barges from New York to Providence. He fi rst saw a schooner’s keel above water and being convinced that some craft had met disaster, anchored his tow and steamed around the derelict. On determining the fact that a good sized schooner had been wrecked, he attached a line to the keel and brought the vessel into Wilson’s cove Wednesday. After the schooner had been anchored the


tug steamed into Norwalk from which place Capt. Miner sent a message to the owners of the NEWTON. The tug then returned to the schooner and found that the body of a man had fl oated out of the cabin. In the cabin was a letter addressed to Edward Coombs at New London, Connecticut. The postmark shows that the letter was from North Islesboro, Maine. The body was brought here and viewed by the medical examiner. It will be held awaiting identifi cation. The condition of the wreck shows that


the head sails had been blown away and that the lower sails were being furled at the time


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the vessel capsized. The WILLIE L. NEWTON was built at


Bangor in 1881 and that was her home port. She was of 326 tons burden. She put into New London on the 22nd


for a harbor and sailed


from there two days later for New York. * * * * *


Bangor Schooner Lost


The WILLIE L. NEWTON, Owned by Pendleton Bros., Islesboro, Capsized and Seven Men Drowned.


The two-masted, 326 ton schooner,


WILLIE L. NEWTON, hailing from Bangor was capsized in Tuesday night’s gale six miles southeast of Green’s reef lights in Long Island sound. The captain, Edward Coombs of Islesboro, and the crew of probably six men are all supposed to have been drowned. The body of one man, supposed to be the captain, has been recovered. The schooner is owned by the Pendleton


Bros. of Islesboro and was built in Bangor in 1881. She put into New London, August 22 for a harbor and sailed from there two days later for New York. Up to the time the Commercial went


press it could not be ascertained whether there were any Bangor men in the crew or not. It is not thought likely, however, as the schooner has not been in this port for some time. Capt. Coombs was well known here.


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