July 2016 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 25. HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Bangor Daily Commercial - Early 1900s
of Seansea but now hails from Genoa. She is built of steel, 260 feet long and about 25 broad. She draws but seven feet of water with 150 tons of ballast in her. She is a four- masted craft and has a small spike bowsprit but a few feet long. She was originally built for a steamer. The ERO will be in Bangor several
weeks loading shooks for Rosario. She will no doubt have many visitors while in port.
3 October 1903 With the Ships
Italian Bark CHIARIANA Sails and Colliers Arrive Bath Shipyard Sold
Accident to Schooner BENJAMIN F. POOLE – Dimensions of the New Five Master.
The schooners GEORGE B.
FERGUSON and JOHN M. BROWN arrived in Bangor Saturday, the fi rst from Portland and the second from Salem. The BROWN will go on the marine railway in Brewer for repairs. Clearances Saturday included the
Italian bark, CHIARINA for Messina with shooks; ADAM BOULBY, Gloucester, by F. H. Strickland; D. P., Boston, by the Ashland Mfg. Co.; George Nevenger, Huntington, Eastern Mfg. Co., and the Andrew Nebinger, New York, for the same concern. Schooner EDWARD H. BLAKE with coal for the Eastern Mfg. Co. has come up from down the bay.
Schooners J. W. ELWELL with coal for
Stickney & Babcock Coal Co. and MAUD PALMER, with 2,824 tons for the Great Northern Paper Co. are both below. A Bath Shipyard Sold The announcement has been made
of the sale Friday of the William Rogers’ shipyard at Bath, to W. A. Deane of Berkley,
Massachusetts, purchasing agent of the Staples Coal Co. of Taunton, Massachusetts. It is said that the yard will be immediately improved and possibly a stock company organized to build large merchant vessels. Mr. Deane has in the past had a number of vessels built there. The amount involved in the transaction is in the neighborhood of $10,000.
Accident to BENJ. F. POOLE. The Bath schooner BENJAMIN F.
POOLE which arrived in Portland Thursday met with a peculiar accident Wednesday when off Cape Cod. In some way the centerboard go loose and dropped so that the schooner was drawing about 40 feet of water. The dropping of the centerboard would have done no particular harm as long as the vessel was in deep water, but to avoid trouble in shallow water the crew undertook to raise it. A hawser was passed under the bow of the vessel and hauled along under the centerboard, the rope being handled at the ends by men on both sides of the vessel. The rope was hauled along until well near the stern and in this manner the centerboard was hauled back into place. To keep it in place until her arrival in Portland harbor a chain was passed under the vessel, extending over each side and underneath the centerboard. The work was very diffi cult and required a good deal of time and patience to accomplish, but the centerboard was secured so that the schooner got in without damage to her.
About the New Five-master The fi ve-masted schooner SINGLETON
PALMER now in frame at George Welt’s yard in Waldoboro for the Palmer fl eet, will register about 25,000 tons and will be equipped with a Hyde Williams machinery outfi t, including two engines, one forward and one aft, the whole outfit being of
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the nation and placing memorial stones in cemeteries where the crew members were from. Following the ceremony, members of the group headed off to New Hampshire to honor a crew member from the White Mountain State. For more information on Frank E.
Evans go to
http://www.ussfranke evansas-
sociation754.org/.
Navy Engineers Develop Futuristic Next Generation HUD for Diving Helmets By Katherine Mapp, Naval Surface War- fare Center Panama City Division Offi ce of Congressional and Public Aff airs
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (NNS) -- Summer 2016 is heating up with new and upcoming advances in Navy diving technologies at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD). Underwater Systems Development
Project Engineer Dennis Gallagher and his team are developing what can be described as a “next-generation” and “futuristic” sys- tem for the Navy diving community. The Divers Augmented Vision Display
(DAVD) is a high-resolution, see-through head-up display (HUD) embedded directly inside of a diving helmet. This unique system enables divers to
have real-time visual display of everything from sector sonar (real-time topside view of the diver’s location and dive site), text messages, diagrams, photographs and even augmented reality videos. Having real-time operational data enables them to be more eff ective and safe in their missions -- pro- viding expanded situational awareness and
a modern character. The launching is expected to take place early in the spring and her place on the stocks will be taken by the vessel which is to be her duplicate. The SINGLETON PALMER will be commanded by Capt. James A. Creighton of Thomaston, who was master of the schooner FANNIE PALMER. He is known far and wide in marine circles as one of the smartest sea captains hailing from a town which has always been famous for its sea captains.
15 October 1903 With the Ships
Thursday Another Dull Day Along the Water Front
Bath’s Shipping
17 Vessels Launched There this Year with a Gross Tonnage of 21,788.95 – Marine Items
Thursday was another dull day in the
shipping line. There were no arrival as all of the berths for the colliers are occupied. The schooner IONA TUNNELL, with 1,997 tons of coal for the Canadian Pacifi c Railway, is discharging at the upper stage and the schooner MAUD PALMER with, 2,824 for the Great Northern Paper Co. also commenced at the lower stage. Clearances Thursday included the
barge HENRY CLAY, Philadelphia and schooners ABDON KEENE, New Haven, F. H. STRICKLAND and S. M. BIRD, New York for Union Ice Co. and Sargent Lumber Co.
Many Vessels Built in Bath The following is a summary of the craft
built at Bath during the past nine months of the year 1903:
Schooner HOPE SHERWOOD, 656 Barge FLORINE, 1,080 Schooner COHASSET, 695.46 Schooner G. G. DEERING, 1,982.29
Barge SHENANGO, 2,240 Schooner FLORENCE M. PENLEY, 1,155.89
Schooner KINEO, 3,132 Schooner F. A DUGGAN, 1,137 Barge HATTIE, 1,286 Barge LIBERTY, 1,587.37 Schooner GEORGE W. TRUITT, 690 Schooner JOHN B. BIEMILLER, 1,077 Lighter RELIANCE, 251 Schooner ELIZABETH PALMER, 3,065 Schooner FRANK HUCKINS, 545 Tug QUEQUECHAN, 80 Barge J. CARLETON HUDSON, 825 Total
21,788.95 Last year the total tonnage for 12
months were 31,242 tons but up to the same date last year the amount of tonnage launched was much less than has been put overboard up to the present time. The Kelley, Spear Co. leads in tonnage,
they having launched three schooners, two barges, a lighter and a tug boat aggregating 4041.77 tons gross. It also leads in the number of craft constructed, seven in number. Percy & Small comes next with 4220.89 tons, being the total capacity of the schooners FLORENCE M. PENLEY and ELIZABETH PALMER, the latter being the largest fi ve-masted wooden schooner in the world. Close to the Percy & Small tonnage is recorded the New England Co’s, with 4,195 tons.
The fi rst craft (No. 1) recorded by
the fi rm of Kelley, Spear Co. is the bark SILICON launched in May, 1887, which was 130 feet keel, 138.5 regulation length, 33 feet beam, 8.8 feet deep and 448.03 gross tons built for McKay & Dix of New York. The last craft launched was the barge J. CARLETON HUDSON for Hudson & Brother of Norfolk, Virginia.
increased accuracy in navigating to a target such as a ship, downed aircraft, or other objects of interest. Instead of having to rely on pre-dive
briefi ngs alone to determine what they are looking for, how specifi c items should appear and where they may be located, the DAVD system places the information right before divers’ eyes with a look and feel comparable to a point-of-view video game display.
Divers have the ability to turn the HUD
on and off , and direct topside to reposition display data in diff erent locations on the HUD.
“By building this HUD directly inside
the dive helmet instead of attaching a display on the outside, it can provide a capability similar to something from an ‘Ironman’ movie,” Gallagher commented. “You have everything you visually need right there within the helmet.” The DAVD HUD
system can be used for various diving missions, including ship husband- ry, underwater construc- tion, and salvage opera- tions. The same system can eventually be used by fi rst responders and the commercial diving community. As part of its Strate-
gic Plan for 2011-2025 to identify, exploit, and develop technology to advance the state-of-the- art in diving equipment, Naval Sea Systems
Command (00C3) is in the process of developing enhanced sen- sors -- such as miniatur- ized high res- olution sonar and enhanced underwater video systems -- to enable divers to ‘see’ in higher res- olution up close, even when water
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