The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-02-22
OVERDUE VESSELS.
Many Great SchOoners Blown Out to
Sea.

Nv oreat n eceSS1ty Tor Anxiety as YET But
They Are from Ten to Tw Give Days Ov-
due-The Barkentine Au Sable of Port
land Among the Number.
The stormy weather of the past month
has been of unusual duration and severi-
ty, more SO than at any one time for
many years, according to the statement
Of those who know. The marine disasters
have been very numerous and at the
present time there are many large and
valuab vessels that are long overdue,
having either been blown far out of
their course or suff cred disaster. Among
those of most interest to Portland people
are the following:
The harkentine Ausable of Portland,
Charles Loring, captain, owned by Us.
Winslow & Co., left Tampa, January
18th, and has not since heen heard from.
She was bound for Baltimore and the
schooner Olive Pecker was bound for
the same port and left Tampa at the
same time. The latter arrived in Balti-
more February LIST.
The Sara G. Ropes of Bath, four
masIed schooner is one of the smartest
and best that carries coal along this
coast, and the same adjectiyes are
equally applicable to her captain. She
left Portland on the third of February,
light. bound for Norfolk, Va. She ought
under ordinary circumstances, to have
arrived there in from four to six DAYS
and is consequently at least twelve days
overdue. Her master, Captain Krigar,
is of German birth and is about Al years
OF age. He started out to seek his for
tune in America, from his home in Ger
many at the tender age of thirteen
years. He has been a sailor ever since
and quickly rose from cabin boy to cap
tain, in which latter position he has
had unusual success. He has never re-
visited the place OF his birth, In all the
twenty-eight years since he left there,
though he.has of course frequently heard
from his family.
The Alicia B. Crosby, four masted
schooner of Bath, left Boston on the 9th
inst. for Norfolk, Va, light. She is
about as long overdue as the Sara G.
Ropes. Her captain, George W. Bunker.
is Portland citizen.
The Talofa, Captain Fletcher, another
four masted Bath schooner, left Port
land on the 18th inst. for Philadelphia,
light. She is some twelve days overdue.
The Mary E. H. G. Dow, Captain NAL
johnson, still another four masted Bath
oh hri To 1af%
ton on February 9th, for Norfolk, and
has not since been heard from. There
is coincidence about this vessel. She
is the successor of another Mary E. H.
G. Dow, which was lost last year, when
only year old. 1t is to be hoped, of
carried out in the case of the present
vessel to the sad case of the former, and
there is no reason why she should not
be safe. In fact1all of.th above vessels
are not by any means given up for lost,
although they are SO long overdue.
Those great four masted schooners have
probably scudded TO sea before the hur-
ricane like frightened deer or caribou
before the wolves and at as rapid a
rate of speed. "They'H make twelve
knots under bare poles," said one sea
captain of long experience. Thus they
go many hundred miles out into the
ocean and it takes long time to beat
back again.
Another overdue vessel is the p. P.
Ramirez, that left Darrien, Ga, with
hard pine for Portland, January Goth.
She is ten or eleven days overdue. =.
Two three masted schooners, ice-laden,
the Woodland Abrams and George Dix
on, left the Damarisootta river for Nor
folk on the 4th inst. Neither has yet
been heard from.