The Republican journal., 1908-11-19
WIRELESS ON SCHOONER.
PendIeton Sisters Said to Be the Only
One So Equipped.


There are a great many steamships
equipped with wireless telegraphy but it
remained for the four-masted schooner
Pendleton Sisters, now in this port, to be
the first sailing vessel to be fitted with
the great invention.
While the Pendleton Sisters is, at the
present time, the only sailing vessel with
wireless, it is only question OF time
when every sailing craft in the world will
be so equipped, for as Captain w. j. Small
of the Pendleton said recently, it is a
necessity on any craft as it allows the
vessel to keep in communication with the
land and in stormy weather would be the
means of saving many lives should the
vessel go ashore or be disabled at sea.
The apparatus aboard the Pendleton
Sisters was installed by Captain Small
and his chief engineer, Ralph N. Seeley,
and is a MASTERPIECE in construction, and
while it has taken nearly three months
for the two men to install the apparatus
it is now in perfect working order and
during the vessels trip to this port she
was in communication with Boston when
So miles to the eastward of Cape Cod.
Although the reporter did not have a
very good knowledge he ventured to re-
mark that the captain had done good
job, and that the apparatus was as good
as seen on many of the large steamers
which come to this port. II will tell you
there is no doubt about our apparatus
working, for we have given it "a thorough
test and everything has proved satisfac-
tory to myself and the Chief said Cap
tain Small. IA man who follows the sea
nowadays must be everything, from
pugilist to lawyer, remarked the cap
tain.
The wires at the vessels masts run
from the foretopmast to the spanker top
mast distance of l42 feet and are as
long as those on any ship in the world.
On the end of each wire spiral springs
are attached so as to take care of the
play of the topmasts when the vessel is
under sail. The apparatus for the re-
ceiving and sending of messages is locat-
ed in the engine room of the vessel for
ward and at the present time the spark is
furnished by dry cells, but later Captain
Small intends to install a dynamo, which
it is expected will give better results.
The spark coil is the kind used by the
United States navy and contains seven
and one-half miles of the finest wire,
wound in 100 parts.
Mr.. Seeley, the engineer, is the opera
tor and is an expert electrician, but this
is the first time that he has ever installed
wireless telegraphy on vessel or on
Shore While he is not an expert teleg-
rapher he has had no difficulty in send
ing messages with good speed, but has
had little difficulty in receiving messages
from some of the expert telegraphers
who have been in communication with
the vessel. However, with little more
practice, he hopes to become more familiar
and be able to take messages with the
same speed that he is able to send them.
The Pendleton Sisters halls from New
York, but is owned by Captain F. c. Pen
dleton of Islesboro. Captain Small also
makes his home at Islesboro, but is well
known in this city and is one of the jolli-
est shippers along the coast. The vessel
was built in Belfast three years ago and
is one of the handsomest four-masters
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