The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-06-24
Coastwise Passages.
Some Very Speedy Ones and Others the
Reverse.

Some Very Speedy Ones and Others the
Reverse.
It's an i'll wind that blows nobody good,
and the gales of the past winter which
brought destruction in many forms to
scores of craft and placed dozens of 9th
ers on the overdue list, also treated other
ships more kindly and We're the means Of
making some of the fastest passages on
record. Today it is principally steam
vessels which are concerned with cutting
a few days or hours off their sailing time,
but when the clippers from the far East
occupied the center of the stage every
minute counted. We have now practi-
cally no wind TANNERS left to cover
themselves with glory by making fast
passages from the Orient, yet some of
our trim fore and-aft coastwise sailers
have gotten over the ground, or rather
the water, in such quick time that men
ton is by no means amlss.
One of the best Of these flying trips
noticed was accomplished by the four
masted schooner Frontenac, of the En-
ery fleet of Boston and commanded by
Captain j. L. COMBS She went from
Boston to Newport News, loaded $500
tons of coal and was back in Boston
again in nine days, which is almost
steamer time. The six-master Ruth E.
Merrill, owned by the Winslows of Port
land and commanded by Capt. G. H. Wal
lace, went from Portland to Philadelphia,
loaded coal and returned to Portland in
nine and half days, while the Boston
fve-master Davis Palmer, Captain Nc
Kown, occupied exactly the same time
from Boston to Newport News and back
to Searsport The four sticker Charles
A. Campbell of Manasquan, N. j., one
the oldest of her rig and always recog
nized as slippery craft, needed but
eleven days to go from Portsmouth to
Norfolk and return with coal. Capt. L.
H. Pierce was her skipper.
FAST SINGLE PASSAGES.
Few vessels have been lucky enough to
maintain such quick time for the round
trip, but many craft have made eXcep-
tionally fast single passages. The four
master Edward E. Briry, Capt. G. w.
Dudley, owned by Gardiner G. Deering
of Bath, ran from Portsmouth to Cape
Henry in As hours. Her three previous
round trips, between Baltimore and
Portsmouth, had been made at an aver
age of less than l6 days per trip. The
Gardiner G. Deering, five-master of
the same fleet, was four days from Nor
folk to Boston, loaded with coal. She
was commanded by Capt. ]. R. Ross,
formerly master of the Briry. The Ed
ward B. Winslow, newest and largest of
wooden siX-masters, vas 81 hours from
Delaware BreakWater to Portland, and
the same breeze famed the four master
Eagle Wing, Capt. T. B. Morgan, from
Reedy Island, Del, to Portsmouth in Sc
hours. Both were coal laden. The four
masters Henry B. Fiske, Capt. Moody,
owned by G. B. McQuesten of Boston,
and Eleanor F. Partram, Capt. B. E.
Pinkham, owned, as was the Winslow,
by the Winsows of Portland, made the
voyage from Jacksonville to Boston in
six and nine days, respectively, with
lumber. The three-master Thelma, own
ed and skippered by Capt. G. H. Spofford
of Deer Isle, came to the same port in
eight days from Savannah. On her out
ward passage which was also fast one,
the Thelma had rescued the crew of the
waterlogged five-master Elvira Ball. The
new Boston tern schooner Frank B. With
erbee, from which Capt c.. F. Watts had
just been washed overheard and drowned,
came to Boston with lumber in seven
days from Fernandina.
AT STEAMSHIP SPEED.
The four master E. Starr Jones, own
ed by Dunn & Elliott of Thomaston and
in charge of Capt. Heylinger, sailed from
Mobile to Philadelphia in 10 days. The
three-master Daisy Farlin of Bath, Capt
Parsons, was 81 hours from New York to
Charleston, S. c., and from the same
loading port to Georgetown, S. c., the
Frances V. Sawyer, Jonesport three
sticker owned and commanded by Capt
r. E. Dobbin, was 81 hours. The Bath
four master, Herbert D. Maxwell, Capt.
Foss, sailed in ballast from Baltimore to
Norfolk in 10 hours, which is at the same
rate as that maintained by the fast Chesa-
peake Bay passenger steamers. Capt.
G. T. Jenkins of the New York three
master Georgia D. Jenkins established
record OF As hours from New York to St.
John, n. B., but it was of short duration,
for soon afterward the EXilda of PARIS
boro, N. s., new three master COM
manded by Capt. 8. Tower, covered the
same distance in two hours less time.
The three sticker James Rothwell of
Boston, Capt. Fisher, with the season S
first cargo of coal for Bangor, sailed
from Philadelphia to Rockland in five
days, and but for the ice in the Penob-
scot could have made the passage to
Fort Point in the same time. This is an
unusual passage for vessel of the Roth
wells size.
Two square-riggers at least made good
trips. The Bath four masted ship Erskine
NJ. Phelps, Capt. R. J. Graham, was l04
days from Seattle to Norfolk, the Boston
bark Freeman, Captain Van Name, went
from Boston to Sierra Leone, w. c. A. g,
in 80 days, and the bark Benjamin F.
Hunt, Jr., also of Boston, Capt Soria,
came home from Turks Island in u days.
SPEEDY SMALL CRAFT.
Noticeable passages, either long or
short, by small coasters, have been con-
spicuous mainly by their absence, for the
reason that very few such craft have
been in commission. The Hastings, Capt.
kelloch, a trim little lime carrier from
Rockport, Me-, came from there to Bos-
ton in IS hours, and the Provincial schoon-
er B. B. Hardwick was only Is hours
from Clementsport, N. S., to Boston.
The feat of the little Britisher Ella &
Jennie, which went from Sackville, N.
B., to Boston, 240 miles, in 25 hours, a
few years ago, is the most creditable.
The Ella 4 Jennie has since been lost.
On the other hand, the schooner S. J.
Lindsey was 80 days from Rockport, Me-,
to Boston, but that was hardly as bad as
the time made the year before by the
British schooner TEMPERANCE Bell. which