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March 2017 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 27. HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Bangor Daily Commercial - Early 1900s The BELFAST is a turbine and it takes a


minute or two to reverse her engines so that she rammed the barge and keeled her over so that she soon fi lled and sank. Her skipper and engineer managed to


climb on board the steamer but one of the deckhands was caught in the cabin and went down with the vessel. The BELFAST sent a wireless dispatch about the accident and reached her dock a couple of hours before daylight. She is not seriously injured. The WAYNE was owned by the


Susquehanna Coal Co. and hailed from Perth Amboy, New Jersey. She registered 761 tons net and was built at Bath, Maine, in 1895. The steamer stuck the barge amidships,


cutting her almost in two. The pilot of the BELFAST held the bow of his vessel in the hole so that the barge would not sink immediately. Charles H. Johnson, a deckhand on the steamer, was responsible for saving the lives of Capt. Carlsen of the WAYNE and his engineer. Johnson jumped from the steamer to the barge and helped the crew of the WAYNE to get into their clothing. Capt. Carlsen and the engineer followed Johnson back to the steamer. Nelson said he would be along in a minute. Two minutes later the WAYNE settled and sank, carrying down Nelson. There were about 100 passengers


aboard the BELFAST when the collision occurred. For a few minutes there was some excitement but they were quieted without diffi culty. The BELFAST will make a fresh start Saturday afternoon.


15 January 1912 Save Schooners from Pack Ice


Cutter GRESHAM Tows Vessels Out of Danger on Frozen Nantucket Shoals Two schooners with colors union (?)


caught in the ice embargo which (?) frozen Nantucket shoals solid from (?) Rip to Chatham, were Sunday rescued, by the United States revenue cutter GRESHAM, and successfully towed into this port, although a parting of the hawsers made two trips necessary. The schooners proved to be the FOREST CITY 49 days out from Savannah for Boston and the EDWARD R. SMITH from Brunswick, Georgia, for Boston. Attempting to pass through the shoals Saturday night, the schooners became securely locked in the heavy ice to the northwest of Handkerchief Shoal. The ice fi eld stretching entirely through the schoals left little clear water in sight and the GRESHAM being called to the rescue was compelled to cut its way through solid ice for miles before reaching the vessel. After several hours of exertion in the


face of the extreme cold the GRESHAM’s crew, which had scarcely any rest since bringing in the schooner WILLIAM E. LITCHFELD, Saturday night, succeeded I placing lines aboard both the FOREST CITY and the EDMUND R. SMITH. Heavy ice was encountered in towing


the vessels back to this port and when part way there, the hawser to the FOREST CITY gave way compelling the GRESHAM to abandon that schooner until the EDWARD B. SMITH could be brought into port. A return trip was made for the FOREST CITY and Sunday night both vessels are safely in port in Vineyard Haven. Both vessel were short of food and water and were given supplies by the cutter. Aid has also been asked of the


GRESHAM in behalf of the schooner THELMA, bound light from Fall River to Norfolk, which broke adrift when anchored at Saunderstown Saturday night. The ice gathering about the schooner


dislodged her from her anchorage and when the anchors again caught, they were found to


be grasping the waterpipe which furnishes the water supply to Fort Greble. Fearing the supply to the fort would be cut off , urgent calls were sent out for help. * * * * *


Fort Greble Cut Off Narragansett Bay was enveloped in


a frost vapor Saturday, due to a rise in temperature from zero to 27 degrees. Fort Greble shut off from communication by water through ice fi lling both the east and west passages, was also threatened for a time with the loss of its water supply by the fouling of the mudhooks of the three- masted schooner THELMA on the pipe line. The Deer Island, Maine schooner was forced to drift by the ice while anchored off Saunderstown, and casting her anchors anew, caught the pipe line. Fearing the pipe would be broken


and the water supply to the fort cut off , help was summoned from the revenue cutters ACUSHMET and GRESHAM. The quartermaster’s steamer, GENERAL ARNOLD, went fi rst to the assistance of the schooner but was unable to reach her owing to the ice.


Sunday night the revenue cutter


ACUSHNET broke her way through the ice to the schooner and taking her in tow carried her to a safe anchorage in deep water in the main channel off Sanderstown.


16 January 1912


Sail to Save Fishing Fleet New England Schooners Frozen in at Bonne Bay, N. F.; Await Cutters’ Aid Portland, January 16.


Bound for Bay of Island and Bonne


Bay on the west coast of Newfoundland to release, if possible, 30 American fi shing schooners which are frozen in the ice, the revenue cutter ANDROSCOGGIN steamed out of the harbor Tuesday. She will proceed at full speed to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, a distance of about 750 miles, and will be followed by the GRESHAM which was in Boston when the summons came from Washington to go on this notable mission. The ANDROSCOGGIN left port at 7 a.m. after waiting for and taking aboard the owners of several of the Gloucester craft, and should reach Bay of Islands, which is about 25 miles south of Bonne Bay, by Friday morning if weather conditions are not unfavorable.


* * * * * Curling, N. F., January 16. Twenty-


fi ve New England fi shing vessels were imprisoned in the ice at the Bay of Islands and Bonne bay and it is believed here that it is extremely unlikely that they will be released before April unless there is a big and unlooked for change in weather conditions. Three of the schooners, the auxiliaries, VEDA, MCKOWN and SALADIN, attempted to force a passage through the ice in the Bay of Islands and came near being crushed. To escape they were obliged to return to port. At Bell Burns, 130 miles north of


the Bay of Islands, the schooner W. H. MORRISEV was crushed in the ice and is a complete wreck. Her crew reached land in safety. The HELEN C. WELLS was driven ashore at St. George and wrecked. Her crew was saved and her cargo of codfi sh salvaged. The imprisoned fl eet at the Bay of Islands


includes the ALOHA, VEDA, McKNOWN, SALADIN, ALERT, ARTHUR JAMES, MIRANDA, MASSACHUSETTS, S. H. WILLARD, CONSTELLATION, LOTTIE G. MERCHANT, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, OREGON, ARKONA, JOHN R. BRADLEY, SENATOR GARDNER, ATHLETE, ESSEX, ELIZABETH N., MARGIE SMITH,


and GARFIELD, all from Gloucester and Bucksport. With the exception of the MARGIE SMITH and GARFIELD, all of the schooners were loaded with frozen and salted herring. At Bonne Bay are the SMUGGLER,


BOHEMIA, SYLVANIA, T. M. NICHOLSON, ORIOLE, GOSSIP, and the British schooner STRATHCONA. Two have half cargos and the remainder full cargos of frozen herring. The total value of the cargoes of the entire ice-bound fl eet is estimated at upwards of $100,000. The Bonne Bay fl eet attempted to sail


Saturday, but met ice at the mouth of the bay and the Arctic fl oes packing in, compelled them to return. The Bay of Islands fl eet only fi nished


loading Saturday and Sunday and made eff orts to sail but met ice and was stalled. Inland wind is packing the ice more


solidly about the entrance to the harbors and each day sees the vessels more fi rmly imprisoned.


17 January 1912


BISMARCK in Trouble. Got Caught in Hudson River Ice Floe Sunday Night and May Be Damaged. The old tug BISMARCK, one of


the largest and most familiar of the fl eet that for many years piled the waters of the Penobscot, and for the past two years owned by the Knickerbocker Steam Towage company of New York, where she has been doing duty, was very suddenly brought into prominence on the Hudson during the cold spell which hit New York Sunday night. While proceeding down the Hudson


with the tug PRINCESS having in tow three barges of the Knickerbocker Ice Company and with the temperature below zero and the ice making fast it was found necessary to fi ght the rapid forming ice, being in fear of getting frozen in. Snapping of hawsers, the PRINCESS’ loss of her propeller blades and staving of a hole in her side which made it necessary for the BISMARCK to run to steam aid and beach her, together with the cold weather made the night an unusual one. The rapidly forming ice could not be coped with and the entire tow is now hung up in the fl oe and in danger of being crushed by the ice.


The New York Herald of Tuesday related the incident in part as follows: The times in few miles from the upper


end of the Tappan Zee to Tarrytown the heavy seven-inch towing lines parted and had to be knotted together. At daybreak Saturday and the tugboat


PRINCESS, which was ahead, rammed a piece of ice that stove a hole through her side below the water line and carried away the fl anges of her propeller, leaving her helpless and in danger of sinking. The BISMARCK dropped the tow, made fast to the disabled tug and pushed her on the mud fl at at Piermont long dock on the west side of the Tappan Zee. Going back to the tow and picking it up,


the BISMARCK bravely headed down the narrow channel she had cut and rammed the ice. The four heavy barges behind, closely lashed together, came up with a bump that drove the forward end of the MAGEE under the stern of the BAVIER, smashing off the MAGE’s capstan and the hardwood foot- thick middle and side towing bit. It was found that the rudder of the


tugboat had also gone, and that the tow was helpless. “We cannot go another foot,” said Capt.


T. C. Brown of the BISMARCK, Monday. “We got ashore Monday morning and brought out provisions, but we are here to stay until the company gets tugboats that can


break a channel up from Yonkers and take us in. Whether any tug could do it until the weather moderates I doubt.”


31 January 1912 Belfast Still Ice Bound


Cutter WOODBURY Makes a Channel Through and was at Work Wednesday Enlarging it.


Belfast, January 31. The Penobscot Bay is still icebound,


although the revenue cutter WOODBURY came in Monday night and made a wide channel. She had hard work getting through, however, and was obliged to buck many times to gain an entrance. Remaining at the dock in the inner harbor until 10 a.m. she than steamed away, having to go to Friendship Tuesday to cut out a schooner frozen in there. Lieut. Rudolph Ridgeley promises to do all that the craft is capable of doing to break up Belfast harbor and Penobscot bay and planned to return Wednesday for that purpose.


Agent Pote wired the Eastern S.


S. company Tuesday morning, the (?) continuous here stating that the (?) was a chance for the steamer to enter in the channel cut by the WOODBURY, the river above Stockton being (?). Up to Tuesday the bay steamers had not ventured out since Saturday. A small boy, who was skating around


the shore got into an air (?) which is made around the rocks by the rising tide. He was soon rescued.


3 February 1912 America Losing Ground in Merchant Marine


United States Falling Behind Other Countries in Shipbuilding, Lloyds Register for 1911 Shows


A striking commentary on the manner in


which American interests are losing ground in the matter of merchant marine is found in the current issue of Lloyds Register of British and Foreign Shipping, which is an animal summary of shipbuilding all over the world.


The total tonnage of vessels built in


1911 was 2,650,140, exclusive of war ships, of which 2,531,423 tons were steam and the remainder sailing vessels. This was an increase of about 692,000 tons over the preceding year. Of the vessels constructed 77 percent were built for registration in the United Kingdom, the steam tonnage of which was thereby increased about 650,000, while its sailing tonnage decreased about 139,000. In contrast is the showing made by


the United States, which constructed only 171,569 tons, a decrease from the previous year of about 160,000 tons, although the trade of this country has been steadily increasing in all foreign countries. Another interesting point is that while 78,000 tons of the decrease was in the construction of vessels for the great lakes, the remainder, 82,000 tons, was in coast construction. Little Holland shows up with 93,050


tons, an increase of 22,000 over 1910, without including such vessels as are designed exclusively for river navigation, and France launched 45,000 tons more than she did the year before; Germany increased her output by 96,000 tons, while Astria- Hungary and Japan also show a decided increase. The largest steamship launched in the year was the TITANIC, 45,000 tons, of the White Star line, the next in order being the LACONIA, 18,150 tons, of the Cunard line.


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