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26 January 1904 Eulogy of AUGUSTUS HUNT. The Bath Times must have owned
insured shares of the late schooner AUGUSTUS HUNT which went aground and broke up on the Long Island coast, Saturday. Following is from the Times: “The extent of the growth of merchant
vessels in size since 20 years ago is emphasized by the loss of the “Jumbo” of that time, the AUGUSTUS HUNT, registering 1141 tons, little more than a third of the size of the larger vessels of today and about the tonnage of the smallest schooners that are built for the particular trade in which the HUNT engaged. She was the second schooner equipped with more than three masts, and was considered a more or less reckless experiment on account of her size and novel rig. “She was also under Capt. Baker,
her original commander, a pioneer of the coastwise fl eet of today, which braves all weathers and plies up and down the coast with almost the regularity of the steamship lines. Capt. Baker is said to have been the fi rst of all coastwise skippers to keep the sea in all sorts of weather and if he couldn’t beat
off a lee shore to cast his anchors where he happened to be and ride out the storm on the heaving bosom of the open ocean. That is the ordinary practice of the big schooners of today, and the weather that holds them in port has to be pretty severe, but the small vessels of 20 years ago kept inside the headlands when the storm signals were aloft and the heaviest part of the coastwise carrying was done in the summer. “Needless to say, with such managers
as B. W. and H. F. Morse, and with such a dare-devil skipper as Capt. Baker, the HUNT was a great moneymaker. She paid for herself many times over and was so much in advance of her day that she remained a fi ne dividend earner throughout the 22 years of her life. The HUNT was in many years an epoch maker in the schooner fl eet, and her wreck will be noted with interest in all American ports.” Capt. Frisbee of R. H. White’s yacht
PEREGRINE has resigned his position on account of ill health. His successor is Capt. A. W. Rich of Bucksport, who was for quite a time in command of the FORMOSA owned by Mr. Fabian of Boston. Capt. Frisbee’s last visit to Bath, the birthplace of the
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SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- Aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) and the “Blue Tails” of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 121 completed the fi rst west coast aircraft carrier underway period with the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, Oct. 21. VAW-121 and their upgraded Hawkeye
got underway Oct. 14 to complete fl ight deck certifi cation and carrier qualifi cations. According to Lt. Eric “Biscuit” Gunn,
a naval fl ight offi cer assigned to VAW-121, the E-2D will bring a few operational advan- tages to Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 11. “The E-2D opens and expands the battle
space,” said Gunn. “It is now able to see smaller targets at larger range. This really helps with our airborne early warning and tactical command control missions.” Some of the other improvements aboard
the E-2D are more powerful turboprop en- gines and the future potential for air-to-air refueling. Testing for the E-2D began at Naval Air
Station Patuxent River, Maryland, in 2007, leading to the aircraft’s fi rst launch and re- covery at sea aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) Feb. 1, 2011. These test fl ights were conducted by Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 20 representatives over
PEREGRINE, was last summer when the craft was repaired at the Bath Iron Works, the result of being run down by one of the Eastern Steamship Co.’s steamers in Boston harbor.
The new four-masted schooner JAMES
B. DRAKE, Capt. Sawyer, was towed to sea from Bath, Monday afternoon, by the tug SEGUIN, bound for Brunswick, Georgia, for a cargo of hard pine for New York. The craft made a pretty picture going down stream with all her bunting waving and attracted lots of attention from people along the river front. The river was entirely free from ice except along the banks. There are few if any harbors along the Atlantic coast which are as free from ice, as the harbor of the Shipping City at the present time. It is thought that the SARAH C. ROPES
formerly commanded by Capt. W. R. Kreger of Fairfi eld and which recently went ashore on the coast of Duboy, Georgia, can be fl oated, and that her days of usefulness are not yet over, which will be good news to Captain Kreger’s friends, many of whom in this vicinity have enjoyed the captain’s hospitality on this vessel on various trips. The barkentine ETHEL V. BOYNTON
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a six-day observation period, ultimately deeming the aircraft as eff ective in an oper- ational shipboard environment. The E-2D made its fi rst operational
appearance aboard the east coast-assigned aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) with the “Tiger Tails” of VAW 125 in March 2015. VAW-121 launched their fi rst E-2D
from Naval Station Norfolk in November 2014. With two years of training and qual- ifi cation with the E-2D, they are excited to bring the newest equipment to the operation- al front while aboard Nimitz. “It has been a long transition,” said
Gunn, “but we are ready to get into the tac- tical and operational side.” Nimitz recently earned its fl ight certi-
fi cation after a 20-month extended planned incremental availability and is underway in preparation for a upcoming 2017 deploy- ment.
Navy to Commission Littoral Combat Ship Detroit
From Navy Offi ce of Information
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
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy will commission its newest Freedom-variant littoral combat ship, Detroit (LCS 7), during an 11 a.m. EDT ceremony Saturday, Oct. 22 on Detroit’s waterfront.
Detroit is the sixth U.S. ship in our na-
tion’s history to be named in honor of city of Detroit. Adm. Phil Davidson, commander, U.S.
Fleet Forces Command, will deliver the cer- emony’s principal address. Barbara Levin, wife of former U.S. Senator Carl Levin, serves as the ship’s sponsor. In a time-hon- ored Navy tradition, she will give the order to “man our ship and bring her to life!” “This ship represents so much. It rep-
resents the city of Detroit, the motor city. It represents the highly-skilled American workers of our nation’s industrial base, the men and women who built this great warship and it represents the American spirit of hard work, patriotism and perseverance,” said the Honorable Ray Mabus, secretary of the Navy. “The USS Detroit will carry these values around the world for decades to come as the newest ship in our nation’s growing fl eet.”
The fi rst USS Detroit was a British
sloop of war captured by the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812. The screw sloop
owned in Machias arrived in New York Saturday, and reported striking a supposed submerged wreck of Cape Henry causing the vessels to leak badly. She put into Norfolk in distress and was towed to New York by the tug WALTER A. LUCKENBACH. Lightship 74 broke from her chains
during the storm Friday and drifted out to sea. Capt. John E. Ladd was on deck at the time and he succeeded in acting promptly in keeping her from the rocks. They had a fearful afternoon and night. After a while they got up steam and slowly worked back. The storm was fearfully high, snow and rain falling, with the wind at the tempest point. The lightship was not in position until
Tuesday. 3 March 1904
Born in Bangor
The Late Capt. Henry Bradbury a Native of this City. Was Famous Mariner
For Many Years He was in Command of the Famous Schooner POLLY – Took Many Cruises.
Capt. Henry Bradbury, one of the oldest of Maine’s veteran skippers, and whose
of war Canandaigua was renamed Detroit for a brief time in 1869, but returned to her original name that year. A turn of the century cruiser served for nearly 15 years. In 1923, another cruiser was commissioned and served throughout World War II, earning six battle stars. The most recent ship named Detroit was a fast combat support ship that served from 1969 to 2005. USS Detroit is a fast, agile, fo-
cused-mission platform designed for opera- tion in near-shore environments yet capable of open-ocean operation. It is designed to defeat asymmetric “anti-access” threats such as mines, quiet diesel submarines and fast surface craft. The LCS class consists of two variants,
the Freedom variant and the Independence variant, designed and built by two industry teams. The Freedom variant team is led by Lockheed Martin (for the odd-numbered hulls, e.g. LCS 1). The Independence variant team is led by Austal USA (for LCS 6 and the subsequent even-numbered hulls). Each LCS seaframe will be outfi tted
with a single mission package made up of mission modules containing warfi ghting systems and support equipment. A dedicated ship crew will combine with aviation assets to deploy manned and unmanned vehicles and sensors in support of mine countermea- sures, anti-submarine warfare or surface warfare missions.
Navy Casualty in Iraq
From Navy Expeditionary Combat Com- mand Public Aff airs
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (NNS) -- A Sailor assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 3 based in Corona- do, California, died Oct. 20 after sustaining injuries while deployed to Iraq. “The entire Navy Expeditionary Com-
bat Command (NECC) family off ers our deepest condolences and sympathies to the family and loved ones of the Sailor we lost,” said Rear Adm. Brian Brakke, commander, Navy Expeditionary Combat Command/ NECC Pacifi c.
Chief Petty Offi cer Jason C. Finan, 34,
of Anaheim, California, was serving in an advisory capacity to the Iraqi coalition force supporting Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq.
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