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29 August 1903 With the Ships
The Ice Laden Vessels Will Now Go to New York.
Schooner WILLIAM L. DOUGLAS, First Six Masted Steel Vessel Ever Built, Has Been Launched
The schooner WILLIAM H. YERKES
has sailed for Washington with ice for the American Ice Co. Other ice laden schooners which will get away from Bangor in the next week are the ELVIRA J. FRENCH and W. W. CONVERSE for Philadelphia and the LUIS G. RABEL for New York. From now on most of the ice will be shipped to New York instead of to the more southern ports as formerly. The Italian bark AMERLIA sailed
Saturday for Castellamare, Italy, with shooks from Rowland W. Stewart. The bark GLAD TIDINGS was towed to sea Saturday from Fort Point. She is bound to Rio Janerio with lumber from Bangor. Arrivals Friday included schooners
CARRIE A. LANE with 1,291 tons of coal for the Eastern Mfg. Co., HELEN S. BARNES, Sargentville; FLORA GRINDLE and E. T. HAMOR and Saturday the LEWIS R. FRENCH from Brooksville. The barge RUTHERFORD from Philadelphia with 1,545 tons of coal for the Eastern Mfg. Co. Clearances Saturday included schooners
WILLIAM PICKERING, Boston for James Walker & Co., NIL DESPERANDUM, Quincy, for the Sargent Lumber Co.; T. A. STUART, Plump Island for the Ashland Mfg. Co.; EAGLE, Vineyard Haven, for orders and the Eastern Mfg. Co.; and the E. ARCULARIUS. The schooner LIZZIE LEE, Boston, for F. H. Strickland, sailed Friday. A Six Master Launched. The steel six-masted schooner
WILLIAM L. DOUGLAS has just been launched from the Fore River shipyard and will shortly be ready to begin her career as an ocean carrier. This vessel was started
December 9, 1902. She is built of three- quarter steel, joggle plated; is 339 feet six inches over all; 306 feet long on the water line; 48 feet beam; 29 feet nine inches deep, and when loaded will draw 24 feet. The loaded displacement is 7,770 tons, and a full cargo of coal will be 5,770 tons, which can be stowed on the two lower decks and the bottom. The six masts are each of steel with
topmasts of Oregon pine, the trucks of which will be 120 feet above the deck; on them will be spread 22 sails with an area of 32,000 square feet which when set, will give the schooner a sailing speed of between eight and nine knots an hour. The vessel will be lighted by electricity and heated by steam. The WILLIAM L. DOUGLAS is the fi rst six masted steel schooner ever built and is the second largest sailing vessel ever built in this country. She is named for W. L. Douglas, the shoe manufacturer of Brockton, Massachusetts, who is one of the principal shareholders in the syndicate that owns her.
1 September 1903 Schooner W. L. NEWTON Raised She Capsized Off Norwalk, Connecticut, and the Crew of Seven Men Were Drowned Last Week.
South Norwalk, Connecticut, September
1. – The schooner WILLIE L. NEWTON which capsized off Norwalk just a week ago, was raised Tuesday by the Baxter Wrecking company of New York. The hull of the vessel appears to be uninjured, Capt. G. D. Pendleton of Islesboro, Maine, will have the vessel taken to New York and equipped with new masts and sails.
8 September 1903 Schooner Has a Queer Rig
The schooner CHARLES LULING
now in the harbor, is attracting considerable attention among shipping men. She is a “laker” having come to Bangor from
Montreal where she took a cargo of coal from the Great Lakes. She will load lumber here for the Ashland Mfg. Co. for some coast port, probably New York. The reason that the LULING is
attracting so much attention is because of her rig and the set of her masts. She is a three-masted schooner rigged vessel but has one yard on her foremast. The sailors on this coast call it a royal but the captain of the schooner calls it a “raff y.” There used to be a number of British or Canadian schooners in Bangor many years ago with this rig and they were then called “topsail schooners.” Another queer feature of the LULING’s
rig is the masts. The mastheads are very low, making the mast proper exceptionally short while the topmasts are unusually long. The mizzenmast is also set far back in the vessel right in the stern and almost as far back as the position of the wheel on the ordinary coasters. This makes the boom of the sail hang
our over the stern and it is therefore made shorter than on most schooners so that the gaff is nearly as long as the boom, making the sail very narrow and not nearly as large as the mainsail. The mizzen mast is also very short,
much shorter than either the main or foremasts and is canted back. The hull of the vessel is painted blue and appears to be much as other schooners on this coast. The CHARLES LULING was built in
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, in 1873, and hails from Grand Haven, Michigan. She is 123 feet long, 25.6 broad, 9.6 deep. Her gross tonnage is 195 and her net, 185. News of the Port
Owing to the fact that Monday was
Labor Day and the stevedores therefore had a holiday there was no change Tuesday in the coal fl eet from Sunday. Clearance Tuesday included schooners
R. L. TAY, New York, for the Eastern Mfg. Co.; MINNIE CHACE, Rockland, for Sargent Lumber Co., and others and the FLORA GRINDLE, Port Clyde for Smith Planing Mill Co. Monday’s arrivals included schooners
FRANCES C. TUNNELL, before reported with 2,319 tons of coal from Philadelphia for the Canadian Pacifi c railway; GEORGE NEVENGER, Portsmouth; D. P., Boston; GAMECOCK, Ellsworth; and the Italian
bark CHIARINA, before reported Gloucester to load shooks for the T. J. Stewart Co. The bridge PHOENIX is bound to Bangor with coal. There were no important arrivals Tuesday.
17 September 1903 15 Lives Lost at Pemaquid Point
Two Vessels Wrecked in Wednesday Night’s Terrible Gale.
The Schooners SADIE AND LILLIAN of Prospect, and GEORGE F. EDMUNDS, Gloucester, Massachusetts, Total Wrecks
Lewiston, September 17. A special to the Journal from Pemaquid
Point, says: During the gale, which accompanied
Wednesday night’s storm, two schooners went ashore on Pemaquid Point and both will probably be total losses. Out of 19 men only four were saved. The schooner SADIE AND LILLIAN,
Capt. Hardy of Prospect, bound from Prospect Bay to Boston, went ashore on the western side of the point. Western Curtis did some very eff ective rescue work on this schooner and succeeded in getting a line to the wreck and but for an unfavorable accident, her captain and crew would all have been saved. The SADIE AND LILLIAN is a small schooner and shipped only two seamen besides her captain. The two seamen were brought ashore all right but in attempting to save the cvaptain the line became caught and he was drowned. His body was, however, recovered by Mr. Curtis.
The SADIE AND LILLIAN has her
masts still standing but her bottom is gone and she can probably not be saved. The other wreck was the schooner
GEORGE F. EDMUNDS of Gloucester, Capt. Poole of Gloucester, which struck on the eastern aide of the point, and is a total loss, being stove to kindling wood. She carried a crew of 15 men besides the captain. Five of the men succeeded in launching a dory, but before reaching the shore the dory was capsized in the high seas, and only two were able to reach the shore. No bodies have been recovered. The shore is completely strewn with wreckage from the two schooners. Wednesday night’s gale was pronounced
Boat And Ship Yard News Continued from Page 18.
DISCOUNT POWER TOOLS CORDED POWER TOOLS CORDLESS POWER TOOLS FUELED POWER TOOLS PNEUMATIC POWER TOOLS FASTENERS HAND TOOLS
MATERIAL HANDLING
POWER TOOL ACCESSORIES SAFETY SUPPLIES WELDING SUPPLIES
late this summer. A Bunker & Ellis 39 has been in the
water to soak up and is now in the shop for fi nish paint. A Stanley 38 had her varnish stripped
and redone. A 38-foot Concordia had a water-maker
installed, relocated the battery under the table so they became a foot rest; system up- grades, as she is getting ready for an extend cruise to Newfoundland. A 44-foot Concordia received a new
carbon spade rudder and mechanical and electric upgrades. A Bertram 25 received a new engine. A Wilbur 38 was Awlgripped, and also
received new varnish and a Soundown pack- age to lessen noise.
S. W. Boatworks in Lamoine is still
extremely busy building new boats (Calvin Beal, Young Brothers and Libby models). In one shop they are putting the fi nishing touches on a Calvin Beal 34, which is being fi nished out as a yacht for a customer from Scituate, MA. She was scheduled to be over the fi rst week of June. For accommodations
she has a V-berth, head, galley and is pow- ered with a 450-hp FPT. In another shop, is a Young Brothers 45,
which is being fi nished out as a Sportfi sher- man for a customer from Martha’s Vineyard. She will have a full interior and is powered with a 1,150-hp C-18 Caterpillar. She is expected to be done this fall. There is another Young Brothers 45
being fi nished out as a sportfi sherman for a customer from St. Petersburg, Florida. She is also powered with a 1,150-hp C18 Cat- erpillar. They are currently working on the interior and systems. She will be launched this summer.
Starting soon will be a Calvin Beal 44,
which is being fi nished out as a lobster boat for a fi sherman from Harrington. They have also just been awarded the
bid to build the marine patrol boat for New Jersey. She will use a Calvin Beal 36 hull and have a basic interior similar to the one they fi nished for the Maine Marine Patrol, and she will be powered with a QSC 8.3 500-hp Cummins. On a sad note they had just delivered
a Calvin Beal 44 hull to Jeff Strout’s shop, which burned in a fi re.
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