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February 2017 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 23.


resumed her fi tful progress to New York after resting up for two days. The trail along the New England coast to this port was as tedious as that between Bangor and Boston, but Capt. Kemp fi nally succeeded in making port and decided to wait for a tow to a pier in South Brooklyn. The IZETTA is nearly 50 years old


HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Bangor Daily Commercial - Early 1900s Of course he began in the forecastle and


28 February 1911 13 March 1911 Stories from the Career of Late Capt. Charlie Barr


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– 46 years to be exact – for she was built at Brewer, Maine, in 1865, and has been working steadily since her launching. Never a very fast sailor, the old schooner did not improve with age, although she was remarkably free from accidents and generally maintained a steady although not rapid schedule. Besides Captain Kemp there are fi ve


men in the crew of the IZETTA, which total includes the cook, mate, carpenter and deckhands. A heavy load of lumber is consigned to Brooklyn yards and when this is discharged the IZETTA will probably take a miscellaneous cargo northward unless she gets orders for a southern voyage.


7 February 1911 Schooner on Beam Ends and Forecastle Afi re


Marveling that they were alive to tell


the tale, the 18 men of the crew of the fi shing schooner TEAZER, which reached T Wharf, Boston late Monday, told of having faced death while imprisoned in the burning forecastle of their almost capsized craft off Sable Island, January 29. The schooner was struck by a northeast


gale when riding at anchor off Cape Sable, Monday morning, according to Capt. Dunsky, which threw her on her beam ends, with her masts fl at upon the waters. The galley stove emptied its live coals into the forecastle and started a blaze which threatened the crew with cremation, while the galley range threw its boiling water over me of the crew who had to be removed to a hospital Monday night. By a miracle the schooner righted


herself, bringing up as she did so, one of the dories securely caught in the cross-trees of the foremast – the others were all smashed. The inrush of waters quenched the fi re in the forecastle and thus all but the man who was scalded, escaped injury from the fi re. A mustard mug, stuck in the ceiling


of the forecastle, gave one evidence of the capsizing of the craft when she tied up on T Wharf Monday night.


Famous Skipper Began Life as a Grocer’s Clerk – First Experience Sailing a Fishing Smack Home in a Hard Gale – Fouled the Kaiser’s Yacht in Race at Kiel


No yacht skipper was better known on


both sides of the Atlantic than Charlie Barr. “Wee Charley” he was often called by his friends. He won fame in British waters with small craft, brought the MINERVA to this country and raced her here. He looked on this land and found it fair, and while here he became the foremost skipper in the world, thrice sailing the defending yacht in races for the America’s Cup to victory. He was equally good with a large or


a small yacht, and for one season he had charge of a steamer, and for that had to stand a lot of good natured chaffi ng. The announcement of his death came as a shock to those who knew him here, and his death has taken away a skipper whose place will be hard to fi ll. No one who has watched him handle yachts like the RELIANCE or COLUMBIA in races, who had seen him take those vessels through the narrowest possible places of carry on sail when others were shortening had any idea that Capt. Barr’s heart was aff ected. They had hoped to see him handle the WESTWARD in races against the new Plant schooner next summer, and had looked to see a reneval of contest seen only when the America’s Cup is sailed for. It is just two years ago since Capt. John


Barr, elder brother of Charley, died. John was more than 20 years older than Charley and many thought the elder Barr was father of the man who has just died. The ancestors of the Barrs were followers of the sea, and John when very young took to sailing small boats and while Charley, who was born in 1864, was serving an apprenticeship to a grocer Capt. John was winning fame as the skipper of a ten tonner named ULERIN. Young Barr left the grocer’s business as soon as possible and took to the sea and from that time he steadily forced himself to the front and won in his career through life because he was plucky and skillful, loved his boat and the sea and because when he started to do anything he did it well.


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served as a deck hand, as all good sailors, have to do, but it was not long before his skill was recognized. He was engaged fi rst with his brother, and when the summer season was over instead of returning to the grocer’s ship he engaged to go fl ounder trawling on the middle reaches of the Clyde in an eight ton smack, the wettest, coldest, dirtiest work to which man can doom himself, so that he might the quicker and better perfect himself in the diffi cult art of sailing a cutter rigged vessel. Young Barr had not been long on


board the smack when it became apparent that fate for once wasn’t blind when she beguiled this man to the sea. With the exception of himself the men in the smack were comparatively elderly men, and one bitterly cold winter morning the little boat


was caught in a shrieking nor’easterly gale off Portincross on the Fairlie. Millport was the natural harbor to make for but after several gallant attempts to sail the smack there it was apparent that she could not make port. The elder men had become enfeebled and disheartened when Barr, who had been working splendidly, quietly took the tiller and assumed command. Having seen how hopeless it was to attempt to beat the boat to a port of safety, he boldly put her before the wind and started to run to Ardrossan. The boat was only half decked and he had an awful time to keep her from being pooped by the bigger seas. Off the entrance to the harbor in spite of all his skill, she nearly foundered and he had to give up the idea of making Ardrossan and headed her for Troon, a harbor lying in the deep open bay a few miles to the south. The weather was becoming


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