Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-16
A HUGE FIVE MASTER.
The Dorothy Palmer, the Largest Ever
Built, Nearly Completed.

Bangor, Me. May 15.-The largest
FIVE masted schooner ever built, the
Dorothy Palmer is now approaching
completion in the yard of George L.
Welt at Waldoboro, and will be
launched in the last week of May This
vessel is SO finely modelled that she
looks like an immense yacht, and her
lines are the delight of all the old ship
carpenters and draughtsmen who have
seen her. She is 273 feet keel, 46 feet 6
inches beam and 26 feet 6 inches depth
of hold, registering about 5000 gross
tons She has a very heavy oak frame,
hard pine planking and the strongest
fastening ever put into a vessel of her
size. Her five lower masts are of Ore
gon pine each lis feet long, with top
masts of spruce 60 feet long. The fore
mast is 80 inches in diameter, mizzen
50, and main, spanker and jigger-
masts, each 90 inches. She will spread
II, 900 yards of sail, has % horse
power Hyde reversible engine. two
Boldt stockless anchors, weighing 5000
pounds each and carrying 220 fathoms
IF boWlink chain, screw steering gear.
steam pumps, steam heat, electric
lights and all other modern equip
ments, including q handsome bathroom
in the afterhouse, and piano.
Immediately following the launch of
this big schooner work will be begun
upon another of the same size and
model. to be known as the Singleton
Palmer. and after that will be built still
another of the same size, not yet named
md to be temporarily known as No 10.
All of these great vessels are to he add
ed to the Palmer fleet, of which Will
lam F. Palmer of Boston, is the man
aging owner.
At Vinalhaven. which island is sim
ply a big lump of granite in the middle
IT Penohscot bay, there is soon to be
launched three masted schooner, and
the event will be novelty to most of
the people there, for it is many years
since launching took place on the
Island. The vessel, which has been
named Margaret NJ. Ford, is 142 feet
keel. "a feet beam and 10 feet depth of
hold, registering about 400 tons. She
has three 12-foot hatches being de-
signed expressly for the stone trade,
and is to be equipped with steam power
FOR handling cargo. She is chiefly
owned by Joseph Ford Of Boston. and
will be commanded by Captain James
Webster of Vinalhaven. Captain 4. NJ.
Webster. the builder, will begin late in
the summer to construct another YES
sci OF about the same size and model,
also for the stone trade. The Webster
shipyard is located in the woods on
Pleasant river, directly on the edge Of
a stone quarry.
e. Il |. X. Stetson of Bangor, have
Just launched for the Navy Depart-
ment four coal barges, known as Nos
~. oil and 81. to be used in connection
with the naval coaling station at East
Lamoine. on Frenchmans Bay. The
arm has this week laid the keel of a
four masted schooner of about 1000
tons, to be owned by Bangor and Bos-
ton parties, and to be commanded by
captain Charles Trask of Brewer. now
master of the schooner Isaiah X. Stet
son. The new vessel will be named for
horace A. Stone, a Bangor capitalis1
and ship-owner.
Inc kelley & Spear Company of
bath. mas closed a contract with Ros-
Ton parties to build a barge of about
-"oo TONS carrying capacity, 10 be
iaunched in six months and to be Md
ca TO the fleet of the Baltimore and
Boston Barge Company. The builders
also have on the stocks two otbe,
pafges, schooner and a steam scow
The New England Company of Ra+b
Is building for the Baltimore and Roc.
ton Barge Company a barge to no
launched this month. F. S. Bowker of
Fhiilppsburg, has a three masted
schooner in frame. Nearly all of tb..