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Maritime History:
Dec. 1907 and Jan. 1908
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PARKER, up for extensive repairs. She was her Atlantic port to Cape Horn was 68 days. anchor and coming ashore to manage the
built at Boothbay in 1873 on a fisherman’s This was bested by the ship ARYAN, Cap- interests of the Monson Steamship line at
one little girl. Despite it being the middle of model and hails from Rockland. tain Andrew S. Pendleton, who went from Havana, Cuba. Three years ago he traveled
winter, life on Boon Island was not half bad. Again there is additional information on Cape Henry to Cape Horn in 58 days. There to Belfast, Ireland and oversaw the construc-
Talking about island life a new light- the quick passages made by the ERSKINE M. were numerous other references of faster tion of a steamer for this line. Upon retiring he
house tower had been constructed at PHELPS. Someone researched the times of passages then the PHELPS, but there is not made improvements to his home and hoped
Robinson Point on Isle au Haut. The tower older vessels and found the PHELPS was not the room here to complete the listing. How- to enjoy a nice, long retirement there. His first
was built with dark gray granite to a height of the fastest times. He also stated that you did ever what the author of this article pointed wife, Clara Black, died at sea with him, leaving
24 feet and the upper 16 feet is red brick. There not need to go back to the 1850s, but that out is that the PHELPS has yet to earn the title him to care for three children. In 1898 he
is a 40-foot long white bridge leading to there were modern sailing ships, which had of ‘Queen of the Seas.’ married Josephine French, who cared for him
several buildings. The light is 45 feet above better passages. The Belfast bark C. P. J. L. Stanley & Son of Manset had re- until the end.
the water and is visible for 12 1/3 miles. DIXON, Captain Frank L. Carver, better the cently purchased the gasoline powered 55- The captain and crew of the schooner
On 1 April the ship ARTHUR SEWALL, PHELPS’ time from Chili to Philadelphia by 11 foot fishing boat ALERT, which became HELEN G. MOSELEY, Captain T. E. Harper,
Captain Gaffney, had departed Philadelphia days on her passage from Iquiqui to New stranded at Winter Harbor the middle of arrived on the steamer EARL OF CARRICK
for Seattle with a cargo of coal. After more York in the 1880s. Then there was the ship January. As she was running into the harbor at Newport News, VA on 27 January. The
than nine months and not a word of her all JEREMIAH THOMPSON who made the pas- during a southerly gale her engine quit. She MOSELEY, which was making a passage
hope has now been given up. Besides the sage from Callao to New York in 76 days in the grounded, began pounding and soon be- from Savannah to Boston with a cargo of
captain there were 27 other crew members on 1860s. The ship HOPE, Captain Lebbeus came filled with water. Captain Parks and his lumber, had become waterlogged off Winter
board. Curtis, sailed from New York to Callao in 84 two crew members made it to shore safely. Quarter Lightship and was abandoned by
The 22-ton steamer GARDINER, built at days in the 1870s. The iron ship TILLIE E. On 23 January the body of Captain Walter the crew. They were in the lifeboat for just
Bath in 1893, has been purchased by Captain STARBUCK, Captain Eben Curtis of A. Gilchrist, master of the schooner four hours before being picked up by the liner
F. C. Pendleton of Islesboro for $3,500. It is Searsport, made a trip from New York to LEONORA, which sank off Hatteras on 7 BIERAWA, which was heading to Hamburg
not known what he plans to do with her. Yokahama, Japan in 112 days, but five days January, arrived at Thomaston. The from the Newport News/Norfolk. They were
The schooner MELISSA TRASK had later the Selkirk, Captain Crowe, in 107 days. LEONORA wrecked on Diamond Shoals and then transferred to the EARL OF CARRICK
repairs made at the Gilchrest marine railway The STARBUCK also made a passage from just two person were saved. Captain Gilchrist off the New Jersey coast. When off Fenwick
in Belfast. She was launched on 15 January, Philadelphia to Portland, OR in 107 days. As was 33 years old. Island, the MOSELEY was hit by a gale. She
but due to a major leak she was hauled back for the PHELPS’ run from the equator to Cape The Bangor schooner AUGUSTUS H. anchored, but the waves crashed into her
out the following day. The leak was located Hatteras in 18 days, this was easily beaten by BABCOCK, Captain McKown, set a new causing her to leak. All hands were at the
and repaired and she was re-launched sev- the Bath ship HENRY B. HYDE, Captain John record passage from Fort Tampa to the Phila- pumps and were able to keep the water down
eral days later. She will be stored for the G. Pendleton, who sailed from San Francisco delphia Breakwater in just eight days. for a time. Several hours later she began
winter and hauled back up in the spring for to New York in 88 days in the 1890s. On this From Sandy Point we learn of the pass- taking on more water and began to fill. Two
paint and hanging the rudder. Coming up on passage she ran from Cape Horn to the ing of Captain James Palmer Stowers at New days later she was waterlogged and the crew
the railway at the Gilchrest yard will be the equator in 19 days and from there to Sandy York on 18 January. He was initially involved was forced into the lifeboat.
three-masted 202-ton schooner ABEL W. Hook in 38 days. The time of the PHELPS from in the foreign trade before swallowing the
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