November 2008 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 29.
Maritime History:
Various Articles from the 1890s
450,098 tons, were built on the Great Lakes. Bangor, the CHARLES L. DAVENPORT suf- ated he went into the woods to learn how to nomination for 1896. Sewall married Emma
Comparing these numbers, the British built fered damage due to a fire in her coal cargo. select timber for shipbuilding. Later he formed Crocker of Bath, who’s family was also very
827 steel vessels, 1,423,344 tons, in 1899. She had been taken to Washburn Brothers in E. and A. Sewall with his older brother. When involved in the shipbuilding industry of that
A brief note stated that the British Thomaston for the repairs and workmen were his older brother passed away he formed the city. Together they had three sons, Harold
steamer CUTCH had been wrecked on rushing to get them done. Captain Crocker Arthur Sewall & Company. This company M., William D. and Dummer. The family has
Douglass Island and that 21 crew members was remaining with his vessel to oversee the was a major shipbuilding and shipping busi- an interesting past, one of which was a
had been landed at Seattle, Washington. It repairs. He was examining the damage and ness known around the world. When the witchcraft judge. It was Dummer Sewall who
was also stated that the Yukon River steamer stuck a stick right through the charred plank- some shipbuilders changed from wood to came to Bath from York and purchased the
BONANZA was wrecked on Fifty Mile River ing. Captain Crocker also said that had the steel, it was Sewall who would build the first tract of land in 1762, which the Sewall yard
after striking a rock on 25 August. All the DAVENPORT not made the port of New York sailing ship in the United States. He was a was located on. The first Sewall shipbuilder
passengers and crew safely made it ashore, when she did she would have foundered at strong voice for the merchant marine, saying was William D., who built a 190-ton brig in
but the cargo was thought to be a total loss. sea. that American commerce should be carried in 1823.
As for the vessel, it was thought that she George B. Moody of Bangor announced American ships. Sewall was also interested 7 September 1900 – The two masted
could be saved. that he was leaving for Newport Shipbuild- in railroads, and for nine years he had been schooner GEORGE A. PIERCE loaded lumber
4 September 1900 – The British trans- ing Co. at Newport News, Virginia, where he president of the Maine Central. He was in- at City Point in Bangor grounded during the
port MONTCALM had loaded with 1,400 will work as a designer. Moody graduated volved in city politics and was the State of night forward and began to fill. The crew
mules at New Orleans and cleared for South from MIT with a degree in naval architecture. Maine’s choice at the Democratic National
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Africa. However, she anchored in mid-stream The two-masted schooner LIZZIE Committee. He was also the vice presidential
just below New Orleans for about two days SMITH, Captain John Lane, was making a
due to a mutiny on board. The reason for the voyage from Rockland to New York, was
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mutiny was that the English stokers refused aground. It was stated that she and her cargo
to work side-by-side with the Danish stok- will be a total loss. The crew remained on
ers. Also, the Chicago mulesters thought board that night, but when daylight arrived
that the quality of food was poor. British they abandoned their vessel as they were
Consul Connelly of New Orleans, along with rescued by the lifesaving station at Monomoy
assistance from the agents of the vessel and Light. The SMITH was making her way
several British captains to find a solution to through the channel at Monomoy another
the issue. After hours of negotiations, the schooner to windward prevented them from
leaders of the mutiny were placed in prison. tacking and to avoid a collision she went
The agents for the vessel refused to remove aground. When the tide rose the vessel
the Danish stokers, ordered the captain to stained and she filled with water, which started
proceed, but the British stokers rebelled and her cargo of 1,400 barrels of lime on fire.
a riot ensued. Forty British stokers were 5 September 1900 – Noted shipbuilder
hauled off to prison and when the Chicago and Bath businessman Arthur Sewall died at
mulesters heard what was happening they his summer home on Small Point. Sewall’s
made their escape. health was not good and his doctor told him This is a history of the Gardiner G. Deering yard of Bath, which was one of the
An unknown four masted schooner was to rest. His condition was not considered to preminent yards during the mid to late 1800s. Only 1,000 copies published!
aground on Monhegan Bluffs at Block Is- be in serious until he suffered the stroke. He
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land, Rhode Island. A tug and the lifesaving remained unconscious until his death. Arthur
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