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boat is the one in the ice on Monomoy and the body of the cook will be found in it. A lighthouse tender, which rescued the crew of the G. M. PORTER, Perth Amboy for Calais, which was left in a leaking condition off Point Gammon, stopped at the Cross Rip on the way up the Sound Wednesday and brought the fi ve men here. Two of them were taken to the marine hospital to be treated for frost mites.
17 January 1914 The Schooner FULLER PALMER Abandoned at Sea
Norfolk, Virginia, January 17. – The
British steamer MARINA passed here with Captain Clark and the crew of the fi ve-masted schooner FULLER PALMER, abandoned at sea. All are well and will be landed at Baltimore. The PALMER sailed from Norfolk for Boston, January 4, coal- laden.
* * * * * Captain Otis Webster Clarke, master of
schooner FULLER PALMER, has visited Bangor in command of schooners MAUDE PALMER and REBECCA PALMER. His present vessel is of too deep draft to navigate the PENOBSCOT, being one of the three biggest sailing vessels afl oat, with a deadweight carrying capacity of 5,500 tons, being 300 feet keel, 489 feet beam and 27.4 moulded depth, and on 5,500 tons draws 28 feet of water. She was built for him at Bath, being launched fi ve years ago, and at the time was considered needlessly strong, more than 300 tons of Norway iron strapping alone being used on her, and the closeness of her great timbers made her the most compact vessel ever built at Bath. She was built under Captain Clarke’s personal supervision, he being a heavy owner, and in her entire equipment was considered the last word in marine architecture of her type. Her cabins, offi ce, engine room, wrecking pumps and various labor and safety devices made her a model. Mrs. James McLeod of this city,
half-sister of Captain Clarke, was in communication with Portland and Boston Saturday morning and received tidings from both places. Captain Clarke has the reputation of being an unusually prudent mariner, combining the trains of driver with careful navigation. He has been most fortunate, and although but 45 years old, has accumulated much property, and has considerable vessel and building investments. It is a singular coincidence that one of his earlier commands, the big EVA L. FERRIS, was sunk after battling with a blizzard in Massachusetts Bay on Thanksgiving Day, 1898. Captain Clarke, his bride (they were making honeymoon trip) and crew being rescued in the nick of time by a Gloucester man. Captain Clarke was the hero of one of the exciting episodes of the Spanish War, when, as master of the ANN LOUISA LOCKWOOD, he stole out of Gonaives, Hayti, by night, eluded Spanish cruisers outside and being sighted clapped, on every (?) and outsailed his pursuers making the run from the Mole St. Nicholas to Brunswick, Georgia, faster than ever steam or sail ever before or since covered the same route. He began his career at Calais, his fi rst command being the schooner T. W. ALLEN, of which he was made master at age of 18. He is closely related to the Murchie
family of Calais, is a 32 degree Mason and a prominent member of Aleppo Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Boston. * * * * *
Crew of FULLER PALMER Saved Five Masted Schooner is Abandoned at Sea in Sinking Condition Passing Steamer Sights Wreck and
HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Bangor Daily Commercial - Early 1900s Rescues Crew
Seamen from Northland, also Caught in Northwest Gale, Safely PRESCOTT FULLER Not Heard from
Portland, January 17. The fi ve-masted schooner FULLER
PALMER was abandoned at sea in a sinking condition. All hands were saved and are on their way to Boston on the steamer which picked them up. This information was received Saturday
by J. S. Winslow & Co. managing owners of the Palmer fl eet of schooners, in a message from Capt. L. W. Clark of the FULLER PALMER. No further particulars were given.
The owners, upon receiving word from
Captain Clark of the rescue of his crew, were confi dent that it was the FULLER PALMER which those on board the schooner ORIOLE saw 100 miles east of Thatcher’s Island on Thursday morning and that the crew were taken off by the steamer at that time. This leaves the PRESCOTT PALMER the only member of the Palmer fl eet of big stickers unaccounted for. FULLER PALMER Cost $100,000 The FULLER PALMER was built at
Bath six years ago at a cost of more than $100,000. She registered 2,361 tons net, 300 feet long, 19 feet beam and 27 feet depth. She ordinarily carried a crew of 12. * * * * *
Boston, January 17. With the reported
rescue 100 miles off the Maine coast on Thursday of the crew of a fi ve masted schooner, believed to have been the PRESCOT PALMER, which with the FULLER PALMER, was caught by the northwest gale early this week, the search for the missing vessels by the revenue cutter GRESHAM became easier Saturday. When the GRESHAM sailed Friday
there were three big schooners, coal-laden from Norfolk and the missing list, the NORTHLAND bound for Searsport, Maine, the PRESCOTT PALMER for Portsmouth, N. H. and the FULLER PALMER, for this city.
The NORTHLAND was picked up off the entrance to the Penobscot Friday by the revenue cutter WOODBURY. A fi sherman arriving at Gloucester last
Friday night reported sighting a steamer taking off the crew of a disabled fi ve-master, 100 miles east of Cape Ann. It was believed here Saturday that the disabled fi ve-master may have been the PRESCOTT PALMER. The GRESHAM, upon learning of
the safety of the NORTHLAND, and the probable rescue of the PRESCOTT PALMER’s crew, directed her search Saturday to the eastward of Massachusetts bay, as it was believed that the FULLER PALMER was blown well off Cape Cod. * * * * *
Gloucester, Massachusetts, January
17. – The rescue of the crew of a disabled fi ve-masted schooner by a steamer off the Maine coast was reported by Captain Lewis Wharton of the schooner ORIOLE, which
arrived late Friday from Bonne Bay, N. F. Captain Wharton was unable to learn the name of either vessel. The unknown schooner, fl ying distress signals, was sighted, Captain Wharton said, at daybreak Thursday, about 100 miles east of Thatcher’s Island. Just as the ORIOLE was making for the vessel, according to the captain’s story, a steamer caught sight of the signals and went to
the rescue. The steamer’s boats took off the crew of the schooner and then set fi re to the derelict. As the services of the ORIOLE.
Search Sea for Two Schooners
Cutter GRESHAM Asked to Hunt for the FULLER PALMER and PRESCOTT PALMER
Considerable anxiety was felt among
shipping men in Boston Friday for the safety of the five-masted schooners FULLER PALMER and PRESCOTT PALMER of which no word has been received since they were caught off the coast by the northwest gale Monday night. All were coal-laden from Norfolk. The FULLER PALMER was bound for Boston, the PRESCOTT PALMER for Portsmouth, N. H. They passed Highland Light on Monday just before the gale swept the coast. Captain Herbert H. Wallace of the schooner GRACE A. MARTIN, which was abandoned off Matinicus Rock on Wednesday saw the three vessels at 10 o’clock Monday. They encountered the same weather conditions that caused the loss of the MARTIN and shipping men fear that disaster may have overtaken them. The three schooners carried a total of
37 men. It was thought for a time Friday
night that the PRESCOTT PALMER was safely accounted for, marine reports from Portsmouth, N. H. having announced her arrival there. Subsequent investigation however, showed the schooner at Portsmouth to be the GEORGE P. HUDSON. The revenue cutter GRESHAM was
ordered to sea Friday night to search for the missing vessels.
Portland Not Alarmed E. W. Clark of the J. S. Winslow
company at Portland, said there was no excuse for alarm on account of the failure to be reported of the schooner FULLER PALMER, which was last heard from as having passed Highland Light on Monday.
The REBECCA PALMER was reported 35 miles off Cape Elizabeth by Captain Lewis of the NORTH STAR on arrival Friday night and she should be in before morning. Late Friday afternoon Mr. Clark sent a request to the revenue cutter GRESHAM that she go out to look for the schooner. The
NORTHLAND Disabled Information
was received in Portland Friday night from Lieut. Ridgeley of the cutter WOODBURY stating that the WOODBURY had picked up the four-masted schooner NORTHLAND three miles south of Matinicus Light, which is west of Penobscot Bay. Mr. Ridgeley stated that her fore and mizzen sails were blown away and that she was leaking badly. Her rigging was considerably damaged
and her crew badly frost bitten. The WOODBURY is towing her to Rockland. The captain of the NORTHLAND reported to Lieut. Ridgeley that he was in company with a five-masted schooner Tuesday morning, but did not know her name. He says that he suddenly lost sight of her and believes she must have foundered. The WOODBURY was returning from the Bay of Fundy where she had gone to the assistance of the steamer COBEQUID. Shipping men in Portland say that the
schooner seen by the NORTHLAND was without doubt the GRACE MARTIN and not either of the PALMERS.
23 February 1914 The Schooner KINEO Turns Up Safe Bath Five Master Towed Into Lewes, Delaware with Sails Gone and Cargo Shifted
The fi ve-masted Bath, Maine schooner
KINEO, 70 days out from Port Arthur for Providence, and for whose safety fears had been felt, arrived at Lewes, Delaware Sunday under tow of the tug ATKINS HUGHES. The schooner was leaking badly and her sails were damaged. The KINEO put into Nassau three weeks ago with sails gone and her cargo shifted. After making repairs the vessel again set sail but encountered storms further up the coast and was forced to summon aid by wireless. Last Wednesday the revenue cutter ONONDAGA went in search of the KINEO, which was reported in distress below Diamond Shoals. After 24 hours the cutter had to give up the search because of a shortage of coal.
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