The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-10-25
HARBoB NEWS.
Story of the ViatOr's Trough Expe-
rience.
Cant. McDufie's Achievement at kenne-
bunkport-The Latuna's Poor "TRIP
Various Items.

bunkport-The Latuna's Poor Trip
Various Items.
The three-masted schooner Viator of
Boston, Capt. Wentworth, from Sidney,
c. b. for Portland with coal for the Bos-
ton & Maine, arri we'd yesterday, having
beeen IA days on the passage. This is a
long time. The previous trip the schooner
went down and back in 16.days. This
trip she had rough experience. She
carried away her..mainsail, Clearing itsinto
pieces), the main boom and gaff and
two ibis and third jib was split.
She left Sidney October 18th and off
| Cape Sable encountered series of gales
from all directions that lasted 10 days,
most of which time the vessel had to
heaye to and struggle for her life.
One gale blew her off shore $50 miles
in just the opposite direction from her
course. Capt Wentworth said that dur
ing the last of it, he was nearly discour-
aged. He felt like giving up and leav-
ing the schooner and trying to get
ashore in his boats. One gale would no
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come, and he began to think that he
would never get ashore.
1t has been very stormy off the Nova
Scotia coast, as the record Of one ship
and several schooners wrecked there in
the past two weeks abundantly shows.
The Viator was out in all these storms
and was very fortunate to have escaped
with no worse damage. The Viator was
lowed in by the c. A. Warren, Capt
Howe.
There were soDle features in Regard to
thu rescue Of the schooner Mary e. Olys
at Kennebunkport, Wednesday, by the
Belknap that are worthy of special mem
ton. But for the courage and determine
ton of Capt. McDuffie. it is very doubt
full If the schooner woald have been
saved. In the first place when the tug
went up there Tuesday, it was blowing
such a, gale of wind that, as he went
out, Capt. Dick Matthewssof Demarest,
asked him where he was going and told
him he'd never get there in that sea.
He had the little sloop in tow for a
lighter. Continually the sea broke clear
over the tug, but she got there all right,
and Wednesday began the work of pump
ing out the stranded schooner. The
channel is very narrow at Kennebunk-
port and the tide runs very strong there.
The schooner's bow was aground. No
sooner had she been pumped out enough
SO that her bow foated; then the tide
,,x,,,,c ho,, ctorp orouud tn tho other
bank The channel is only so or rs feet
wide, while the schooner is 100 feet long.
AS she swung across there was imminent
danger that she would crush the tug
on ledge.
Every body shouted for the. Belknap to
get out of the way. But Capt. McDuffie
paid no heed. He saw that the schooner
was in great danger. If she grounded
at the other side so that she couldn't be
novel the tide would swing her across
the channel, and at low water she would
surely break in two in the middle, since
she still had 200 tons of iron pipe in her
and with 16 feet Of water in the middle
of the channel at low tide, and with
both ends on the banks. she must have
broken. So when they shouted for the
tug to get out of the way, Capt. McDuffie
simply shouted to the engineer to 'give
it to her, The tug pumped and pushed
for all that was in her, and slowly the
great hulk of the schooner was moved
from the dangerous position. and finally
swung into the channel and towed up to
the wharf Capt. McDuffie was the hero
of the hour. Managing owner Small4of
Bath was delighted, and the captain of
the schooner declared that there WASH t
one man in a thousand but that would
have lost courage and got the tug out
of the way, and the crowd waived their
handkerchiefs and cheered.
To save a big vessel like that by quick
decision and prompt action was indeed
worthy of this special mention.
The three-masted schooner Emma, 313
tons. of Portland, from Raritan river,
Y. j.. with clay for the Portland Stone-
ware Company, previously reported as
sprung a1eak and on the flats at Salem,
will not attempt to sail to this port, al
though her pumps can keep her free
1t would be too riskysto come alone and
therefore the tug Belknap went up last
night after her.
The bark Isaac Jackson, that has been
lying idle on the Cape shore for some
time, was yesterday towed across to j.
n. Hamlen's wharf where she will load
with shook for Martinique. The same
firm sSbark, J. H. Hamlen, was hauled
| into the stream yesterday afternoon to
clear for Martinique with shocks and
cooperage.
| The fishing schooner Latona. Capt.
Croucher, one of the largest and finest
| vessels in the Gloucester fishing fleet,
| arrived yesterday after a three weeks
| trip.
She hast nine double dories and is
| men. They set the trawl five times, that
49, five different days. That was all the
fair,weather they had in the three weeks.