The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-06-13
"pENDLEroN SATISFACTION"
That is the New Name of the Schooner
Myra b. Weaver.

That is the New N.me of the Schooner
Myra B. Weaver.
On Friday, Nov. 8, 1900, the Myra B.
Weaver, while on the voyage from
Mobile to Boston with hard pine lum-
Der, parted her anchor during gale in
Vineyard Sound, struck on Handker-
chief Shoal and capsized. Her master,
Capt. W. S. Vannaman, his wife and
niece, Miss Ella DeBois, and three sail
ors were lost. The body of Miss De-
Bots was found frozen stiff in the rig
ging by the crew of the tugboats who
afterward came to the rescue of the
the vessel, and still dashed to the masts,
was lowed into Boston; the bodies of
Capt. Vannaman his wife and the mate
of the vessel were not recovered.
THE WRECK REBUILT.
Capt Vannaman, who belonged in
New Jersey, had been married in Jack
sonville Just before starting on his trip,
and he and his wife were making their
wedding journey North in the vessel.
Mrs. Vannaman was Miss Mary E.
Emerson, native of Louisiana, and it
was at her invitation that her niece,
Miss DeBois of Mobile, accompanied
them in the Myra B. Weaver. After
the wreck, the vessel was righted and
lowed to Boston by three tugs, and after
discharging her cargo of lumber and
receiving temporary repairs she was
lowed to Belfast to be rebuilt, arriving
there on Feb. 3. She had lost two of her
masts, all of her deck houses, the entire
port rail, her keel, and had received
other damages.
A vessel whose wreck on Nantucket
Shoals last November furnished one of
the most tragic sea stories of the year
will soon sail from Bangor, Me-, bearing
the strangeSt name ever bestowed upon
any craft in this part of the world.
This is the three masted schooner Myra
B. Weaver, built at Bath in 1888 by John
Mcdonald, registering 49s tons and we'll
known i'll the coasting trade. The
story of how she got her new name is in
teresting as illustrating the character of
the seafaring Yankees of down East
full of shrewdnesS, perSiStency and grim
humor
A contract was made with George A.
Gilchrest of Belfast to repair the vessel
thoroughly for the sum of $4,000, and
she was hauled out on Gilchrest's rail
way and work begun. On Feb. Is, how
ever, work was suddenly stopped on ac-
count of dispute between the Pendle-
tons of Islesboro, who owned 11-64ths of
the vessel, and the Bath owners, chief
among whom was Alexander Ferguson,
concerning the extent to which the ives
sci should be repaired. Capt Fields
Pendleton, representing the PendletOn
interests, offered, for the purpose of end
ing the dispute, to buy the shares of
the other owners or sell to them the
Pendleton interests, but the other
owners were unwilling to accept either
proposition, and, in order to get the
matter before the courts, Capt. Pen
dleton libeled the vessel.
The case soon came to trial in the
United States Court at Portland, and
Capt. Pendleton won, the Court decid-
ing that his proposition was both fair
and businesslike, and the only way of
settling the differences between the
contending parties.
THE NEW NAME GIVEN
Having, after much expense of time
and money won his case Capt. Pendle-
ton proceeded with the repairs on the
schooner, and few days ago she was
lduucneu from lne GllcnfeSJ railway
practically new. On Wednesday she
was lowed to Bangor to load lumber
for New York, and meanwhile Capt.
Pendleton had applied to the United
States Treasury Department for per-
mission to change the vessels name,
He desired for two reasons to change
the name-tirst, he thought that the old
name would be ''hoodoo;" and second,
he desired to give expression in the
new name to his satisfaction at having
won the famous admiralty suit. Conf
dent that the permission would be
granted, he had a set of new flags made,
and upon the burgee he had inscribed
the new name he wished to give to the
vessel.
Up to the time the schooner left Bel
fast on Wednesday, no word had been
received from the Treasury Depart
ment, but on Wednesday night, after
she had arrived at Bangor, and while
Capt. Pendleton himself was also there,
telegram came giving the desired per
mission to change the vessels name.
Then it was that the new name became
known. When the vessel leaves Ban
gor she will have on her stern, quarter
and bows, and in white letters on her
blue burgee, the strange but significant
legend