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December 2016 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 23. 29 March 1904


HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Bangor Daily Commercial - Early 1900s 23 April 1904


Late Maritime Items. On her maiden voyage the fourmasted 9702


schooner HENRY F. KREGER arrived in Boston early Friday morning from Norfolk with a cargo of 2000 tons of coal and anchored in the stream, says a Boston paper. Her commander is Capt. John C. Darrah, formerly in the four-master EDWARD T. STOTESBURY. She was built by E. S. Crosby of Bath, Maine, her hailing port, who is also her managing owner. Her dimensions are 203 feet length; 40 feet beam and 21 feet depth of hold and she has a carrying capacity of 2000 tons. The new schooner has very pretty and graceful lines and is an up-to-date craft in all particulars, having all the modern appliances for the rapid handling of freight. She is named after the son of Capt. Kreger of the six-masted schooner ADDIE M. LAWRENCE now in port.


4 April 1904 Maine Vessel in a Collision


The MARY E. PENNELL, Badly Damaged Near New London, Connecticut


New London, Connecticut, April 4.


– The schooner MARY E. PENNELL of Machias, Maine, was towed into this port Monday in a badly damaged condition as the result of a collision with the WM. JONES of Faulkner’s island in Long Island Sound about daylight. The PENNELL was bound for Winter


Harbor, Maine, with a cargo of coal and the JONES was westbound with a cargo of laths. The JONES, according to the stories told by the crew, had just tacked and her sails had not fi lled when the PENNELL sailing in an opposite direction and upon the port tack bore down and struck her upon the quarter. The bowsprit of the PENNELL tore out


the rigging and sails of the JONES and the PENNELL’s stem crashed into the JONES with suffi cient force to cut a large hole. The JONES fi lled quickly and turned over on her beam ends only her cargo of laths keeping her afl oat. The steward of the JONES who was asleep in his bunk was taken from the wreckage unhurt. The tug JOHN HUGHES went out


again with the JONES crew after bringing in the PENNELL in an endeavor to recover the JONES.


Re-Built Vessel


A Sea-Captain Tells of Changes in a Bangor Craft


Was Designed in Bath


Members of the Building Committee Thought to Improve on the Plans – Has to Carry Ballast.


“It was back in the ‘70’s that this took


place,” said the old sea captain who was spinning the yarn. It was a rainy day and several old salts had gathered ‘round a stove in one of Bangor’s shipping offi ces and were telling stories. “Yes, it must a been about ’76,”


he continued, as his audience waited breathlessly for the tale. “There was several Bangor men as was building a schooner at one of the yards which used to be down on this side of the river. I won’t say which one cause that might give it away and I don’t want to make no hard feelin’. “Well among them that put in a lot


of money for this ‘ere craft was a couple o’ men that thought they knew a lot about ship building. No one ‘er them fellers was a meatman, kept a meat shop, and the other was a farmer. Both had some money and as they was buying quite a piece of the schooner they was put on the buildin’ committee. “At that time there was right smart of


lot of buildin’ goin’ on around here and some pretty good ship builders/ I tell yer. Take ‘em all together though and they couldn’t model as good a vessel as could a man down to Bath. This bein’ so it got to be quite the thing to get this designer at Bath to model the vessels and then they’d be built in Bangor. “That was the way o’ the vessel in


question. This same Bangor yard had turned out as fast and as slick a craft the year before as one ‘ud see in a long while and this Bath feller had designed her. Well, so he drew the designs for the new one, the craft the mighty smart meat man and farmer had put their money into. “Bein’ on the buildin’ committee as


they was, the plans, when they was all drawed, came to them. Well, they thought they was pretty good plans, in fact they was mighty like them that he had drawed for the schooner the year before. They was one thing, however, and that was that these two smart alecs thought she had orter carry a leetle might more than she did. Changed Her Dimensions.


“Wall, sir, what did them two critters do


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but get to work and make her a leetle deeper in the hold and a leetle might diff erent her so she’d carry more. Well they altered her anyway in the depth without making the right changes in the length of her. “When she came to be launched she was


a bird. Somehow she didn’t set quite right and when it was looked into and examined it wasn’t long before it was discovered just what had been done to her. “Well, say,” concluded the captain,


“that schooner’s sailed the seas for many years and all that time she’s been obliged to carry 300 tons of ballast to keep her upright. Yes, sir! 300 tons of freight on every trip that no one got any pay for.”


21 November 1904 Shipping News Schooner I. K. STETSON was Pulled


Off the Ledge Sunday. Towed Up to Brewer


Schooner JOHN ROSSERT Launched at Bath Saturday – Tramp Steamers Bod for Square-Riggers


The schooner I. K. STETSON which


went ashore at Mosquito Island, Tenant’s Harbor, in the blow of Sunday, November 13, was pulled off the ledge Sunday morning by the tug BISMARCK and towed to the Stetson yard at Brewer where she was beached. The schooner’s cargo of southern pine will be taken out, a task that will probably require a week and then she will probably be patched up and taken to Belfast for repairs, as the probability of the river closing before repairs on her at the Brewer yard could be completed would make this


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