The Republican journal., 1899-01-19
Maine Shipping.
Some Figures from the Treasury Department
About 1t.

WdlHe onlpplng.
Some Figures from the Treasury Department
| About 1t.
The commissioner of navigation in the
Treasury department has made publ c
some comprehensive figures about the ex-
tent of the shipping industry in Maine.
He shows that there are but two register
ed and enrolled steel vessels in the State.
One of these is vessel of J, O04 tons, reg
istered in the Bath district; the other is
vessel of 80 tons enrolled in the Waldo
boro district.
The total number of sailing vessels in
the State, enrolled, registered, and licens-
ed, is 1,S2S, of 2S3, S06 tons. OF these
500 are under 20 tons anu are licensed,
while |, 055 are permanently enrolled, with
a tonnage of 179,004 tons. The registered
vessels of rs, 994 tons are 129, while there
are % more temporarily registered. TWEEN
| ty-two vessels are registered in the Gus
| toms district of Portland and Falmouth
and have a tonnage of Is, 765 tons, while
10 are permanently registered in the Bath
district, having tonnage of 20, 0S1 tons.
In the Bangor district there is only one
permanently registered vessel and it is of
81 tons burden. There are 1859 perma-
nently enrolled vessels in the Waldoboro
district, of %, 238 tons burden in the aggre-
gate; in the Bath district there are 127
such vessels of 3d. 800 tons burden; in the
Portland and Falmouth district 1O7 YES
sells of 30, 629 tons burden. The largest
number of licensed vessels, 1873, is in the
Castine district, with total tonnage of
1,195.
The total number of steam vessels reg
istered, enrolled, and licensed in Maine,
is 16S, of 80, S57 tons burden. The Port
land and Falmouth district include 46 of
| these with total tonnage of Is, 123 tons.
| None of these steam vessels are registered;
26 of them are enrolled. The Bath dis
trict has the next largest number SO, of a
total burden of 1856 tons. Only eleven
of the 15S vessels are registered; 81 of
them are enrolled and 70 of them are
| under 20 tons burden.
| The commissioner also makes some in
| tereSting statements about the wages paid
| to seamen in Maine. For sail vessels to
Great Britain the average wage out of
| Portland is $40 a month for able seamen:
| from Waldoboro it is S24 a month and
| from Boston $50 month. For vessels
under 1900 tons to South America, the
average wage paid at Portland is SIS a
month for able seamen while it is SIS a
month at Pensacola and S25 a month at
| New Orleans.
In the coasting trade, however, the
wages paid for sailors who 90 out of
| Maine ports is generally better than in
| Boston. For ships under 800 tons the
wages paid out of Bath are So a month
op the average for able seamen and $50
month for boatswains. First mates on
! steam vessels of the same burden out of
Bath are paid sos month and first engi-
neers So month. The same wages are
| paid for able seamen on sail vessels out
of Portland aud Waldoboro. But out of
| Portland first engineers on steam vessels
| get on an average Ny} a month. For the
same class of engineers out of Newport
| News the average pay is S120 month.
| Able seamen of similar service on sail
vessels out of Boston receive on an aver
age $50 month and out of New York
$3.50. For able seamen on vessels be-
tween 500 tons and 500 tons the pay out
| of Bath is 80 month on the average
and S26 out of Portland, but at Pensacola
| the pay is as low as ST. month. Out of
| Baltimore first engineers on steam vessels
| of this burden receive on an average Sll3
| month, but out of Bath they receive on
an average only SIS month, and second
engineers $50 a month. Out of Portland,
Me-, first mates for sail vessels of this
burden receive on an average $50 month,
the highest average paid in any port on
the Atlantic or gulf coast. Philadelphia
| has the lowest average-S;}S. so for first
mates on sail vessels of between 800 and
1,500 tons.
On vessels over 1900 tons the pay is
about the same out of Portland, the only
port in Maine from which vessels Of that
burden sailed. The rate of steam YES
i Of oh ba bI,r owl
similar to the rates for lighter vessels.
AS general thing the seamen and off
GERS of British ships are shown by Com
missioner Chamberlain to receive much
smaller wages. On British vessels bound
! to North America the average pay for a
British seaman is SIS. % a mouth, slight
improvement over the wages of recent
years. That is for steamships, but for
| sailing vessels the average wages of sea-
men are S14.5S, which has also slightly
| increased in recent years. The average
pay per month for first mates on steam
ships under 800 tons for Great Britain is
1876. - a month"; and the average pay of
first engineers for such British vessels is
$50. 25 a month. The average pay for
first mates on British sailing vessels is
only %26. 10 a month. For larger vessels
the pay is correspondingly increased, so
that first mate on sail vessel of ?, 600
! tons or over receives an average salary of
S3S. So a month.
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