The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-04
Sad YEAR FOR SHIPPING.
Portland Has Lost Ten Good Ves-
sells.
MANY OTHER MAINE VESSELS
HAVE GONE DOWN.

Nearly Five Thousand Tons Have Been
Lost from Portland; and Over Sixty
Souls on Board Have Not Been Heard
From-Seven of Portland's Best Cap
tains are in the Number
The season just passed that has been
| very bad one for shipping. The month
OF August, usually SO serene in these
ATTITUDES, will be memorable for many
years as the hurricane August. 1t is said
by those acquainted with the records
OF shipping that no other August on
| record has to it's credit so many disas-
| trous wrecks. The hurricanes that swept
up from the tropics were simply over
whelming. No vessels, however stauneh,
could withstand them. Several, but not
all Of Portland's losses were made in
that month In all ten vessels owned in
this city have been lost within the last
year. Their aggregate tonnage was up
ward of five Thousand tons, and over
sixty of those who manned them have
not been heard from. Seven of Port
lands best captains are in this list. The
vessels lost are as follows:
| Blk. G. NJ. Stanwood, Capt. John Eos
| ter. 522 tons. Built at Harpswell in
| 1879. James Balm owner,
| Blk. Skobeleff, Captain Price Tucker,
| $50 tons, built by Mr.. Geo. Russell in
| Deering in 1882, owned by US. Winslow
| & Co.
Bk. Itonus, Capt. Slower, built by
| Hutchins g. Stubps at Yarmouth in 1876,
| S18 tons Capt. B. Webster owner.
/ Three master. A. r. Weeks, 433 tons,
Capt. Alpheus Henley, built by Robin
son at Bath in 1887, j. e. Farr. owner.
Bark A.C. Bean, Capt. Mountfort, 553
tons, built by George Russell in Deering
in 1872, john W. Musgrave owner.
tons, Capt. 7. T.. Colby, built by P. C.
Merryman in Harpswell in 1874, owned
| by US. Jordan & Co.
Brigantine Jennie Phinney, Capt. In
gersoll, 427 tons, built in 1874 at Var
mouth by Loring SSSBrewster, owned by
John W. Musgrave.
Brigantine Edward II. Williams, Capt.
Dodge, 3s7 tons, built in 1878 by G.. C.
Loring of Yarmouth, owned by j. S.
Winslow & Co.
Brigantine Rochemont Capt. Godfrey,
1896 tons, built in 1880 by Lewis A.
Spangle of Liverpool, MS, owned by J.
| H. Hamlen & Son.
| lGs
81 tons, built in Booth bay in 1866.
On the Jennie Phinney, the Edward
n. Williams and the Rochemont the
| crews were taken off. Three were saved
from the A c. Bean and one from the
| Mary Lizzie. Of the other six, no man
knows the fate of either vessels or crews
| They sailed from port, and were never
| heard from again.
| Chronologically considered, the most
| important losses of vessels built, owned
| or employed in Maine waters, have been
4 as follows since last January. There are
also included few remarkable expert
ences of Maine vessels:
Jan. 10th the ship Robert Belknap
owned by Carleton Norwood & Co., of
| Rockport, was lost in China seas; twenty
eight, including Captain Robert l..
Staples, were saved. The chief mates
wife was among those saved.
March Goth the Maine ship Shenandoah
arrived at New York from Liverpool,
| after having had wonderful escape
| from six waterspouts, each about 200
| feet high and 40 feet in diameter, which
| came after the vessel in Indian lille.
| The first part of April the steamer
| Lucy P. Miller went ashore near Petit
Menan, on this coast, and was a total
| loss.
AprilT22th ship Alaska, built in Ken
nebunk in 1865 was abandoned on the
coast of California.
In June the steamer Winthrop was
burned at Eastport.
June IS the Bath built vessel John
| Holland was sunk 1o8miIes east of Cape
| Henry by the steamship Michigan. The
| Holland was nearly new and had cost
| $4,000. She was owned at Dover, N. II.
| On June 7th the Maine ship Alexander
| McCallum was lost in a most peculiar
way. In dense fog in the North ATTAIN
tic the large steamship Servia ran into
| the ship, and the latter was literally
| impaled on the steamers sharp bow.
| The captain of the Servia, with excellent
| Judgment, sent his vessel ahead at suffi-
Gent speed to hold the ship on the
| Servia's PROV long enough for the crew
to DO rescued. Then the steamer backed
out, and the ship sank. One man was
| lost
The schooner Garlan of Machias, 1877
tons register, was run down off New
York by steamer New Hampshire, Sun
day July 2. Capt. Libby and his crew
| were saved.
The Portland bark George NJ Stan
wood, Captain Foster, sailed from
| Breakwater. The Norwegian bark Men
| ton. Capt. Stahl, kept company with the
| Stanwood until off the Straits of Florida
| An awful tempest came up then and the
| Stanwood was seen no more.
Monday, Aug. 81, occurred the ever
memorable wreck OF the mary Lizzie.
when John B. Woodbury., Charles A. Rid
ley, Horace Upton, Fred R. Mcintyre,
| Alpheus p. Doughty and John Hughes,
| of CapesElizabet were lost.
Aug. 24th schooner VIM. E. Bell, of Sui
Ivan. Me-, was wrecked on the Delaware
| coast.
The same day the RockJand schooner
Lizzie Guptill was lost on Cape Por-
| poise.
Sept. 10 the Bangor schooner Albus
foundered off Seaconnet Point. Captain
| Wheeler and crew were saved.
The schooner Catawamteak, of Rock
land, arrived at Southport, South Caro-
lima, the first of September, and reported
a remarkable experience Captain
George D. Rowe had with h:ms only d
mate and two men. In the great August
hurricane the mate was injured and had
to lay by. Then IL great wave came and
swept the two seamen overheard. The
captain was just yielding to despair at
seeing all his help gone, when the same
wave, receding, brought both sailors
back on deck, each exclaiming: "Thats
all right, Cap'n, we're back again"
August 18th the bark Skobeleff, Cap
tain Price Tucker, sailed out of this port