The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-23
THE LOST PORTLAND.
Where on the Bottom of Massachu- setts on the Bolton WA

Where on the Bottom of Massachu- setts on the Bottom WA
 sets Bay Lies Ill-fated Steamer?
 Supposed relics of the lost steamer Portland keep coming to light The other day it was a brass chandelier fished up fran a depth of 42O, miles outh-southeast of Eastern Point. Be fore that there had been found such wreckage as a cabin do a sink boWl, bed springs, mattresses cts. And now the find is reported copper wire, With tubing, apparently piece of bell wire such as used on the steamer, This was hauled up by trawl on the northern part of Middle Bank in the vicinity or where the other articles were found. The suggestion is made that it would pay some enterprising Wrecker to dredge in place. It is rather deep wa ter, but if fishermen's travis bring up these things the probability is that sys- tematic operations would be rewarded None of the recovered articles have been positively identified so far, we be- lieve and it would be at least a melan- choly satisfaction to have the place of the wreck identified.
 The location is to be noted. The chandelier was reported to have been found about IS miles southeast of Eastern Point Seafaring men and all familiar with the Massachusetts coast line do not need to be told that Eastern Point is the most southerly projection of Cape Ann, forming one side of the entrance to Gloucester harbor, being located seven or eight miles to the southwest of Cape Ann, lights of Thatchers Island. Eighteen miles from that point in the direction stated would locate the wreck about east of Boston and nearly half way from East ern Point to Cape Cod. The Portland left Boston about p. m. on that awful night of November 16, 1898. The storm had not then struck A little later she was passed off the Graves by the steamer Mt Desert, Capt William A. Roix, Rockland for Boston, and Capt Roix afterward said he thought the captain must be crazy to put out on such night, Still later the Portland was signed by the schooner Maud S., about half way between Eastern Point and Thatchers Island, and presently she was observed as she passed the lights on the latter island. This was the last seen on her, and when the next day wrecage and bodies from the steamer began to come ashore on Capt Cod, the natural theory was formed l that she had foundered in that vicinity, This was reinforced by the fact that early on the morning of the 27th the crew of the Cape Cod life saving station had heard the whistle of a steamer in distress. It was supposed that either Capt Blanchard finding the storm too much for him, turned about and ran before it, attempting to make harbor at provincetown. and missed it, or the steamer was disabled and drift ed across the bay going down near the cape. But watches found on the bodies | had stopped at 10 o'clock-one of them at 9:17-indicating the probable time of ] the catastrophe and that it occurred not long after passing the Cape Ann corroborates this and indicates that the steamer drifted before the gale IS or 20 miles and went down less than half way to Cape God. The exact facts will never never be known, but there is some comfort in thinking that the sus- pense and terror of the situation did not last long.-Portland Press