The Republican journal., 1910-02-24
FOUND BOTTOM UP.
Sch. George E. Prescott, Derelict. No
Trace of the Crew.

SAI SSOIGC Il. 1ISSAOtt, q DClCH\k. 4NO
Trace of the Crew.
GLOUCESTER, Mass, February 16. Al
though the quarter-board containing the
name of the two-masted schooner which
floating derelict bottom-up off Eastern
Point was picked up by the revenue cut
ter Androscoggin today is hidden in the
waters in which the schooner grounded
while being towed in here tonight, it is
reasonably certain that the Inflated
craft is the old-time coaster George E.
Prescott of Rockland, Maine, which left
Portland undertaken, February 18th.
Whatever craft it is, her crew of proba-
bly, half dozen men have undoubtedly
found a watery grave.
Everything indicates that it is the
Prescott. While the cutters men were
making ready to attach tow line today,
they caught glimpse of the words
''Rockland, Me-" on her quarter board,
indicating her hailing place. They could
not then discern her name. The British
schooner Preference which arrived at
Vineyard Haven today, reported that she
left Portland III company with the Pres
colt and several other schooners. All
but the Prescott are accounted for. The
Preference reports, too, If sighting the
capsized schooner and Captain Gale says
the derelict answers the description of
the Prescott, and that, like the Prescott,
she was undertaken.
The capsized schooner was first sighted
on Monday by the tug Neponset ten
miles off Minot's Light. Early today
the fishing schooner Tecumseh reported
sighting the vessel, and notified the An
droscoggin then in Gloucester harbor.
The revenue cutter located the derelict,
took her in tow and proceeded for this
port, the Gresham standing by, but as
sistance was not needed. The schooner
grounded in the outer harbor however,
and the revenue cutter was forced to
leave its tow there until the morning.
The schooner probably was wrecked in
Friday nights storm.
The schooner George E. Prescott was
built at Camden, Me, in l848. She is
owned in RocSland, and had been COM
manded for the past five years by Cap
tain E. D. Crowley of Jonesport. She
is worth upwards of $1,000. She is 139
feet long, and has net tonnage of 89.5.
The schooner Prescott was bound for
Boston, with 125, 900 feet of spruce tim
Der, consigned to the Sawyer Lumber
Co., East Cambridge, Mass.
She carried, besides Captain Crowley,
a crew of three men, of whom one, the
mate, was Arthur Tinker, %, Of Mount
Desert, Me. The other two We're sea-
men shipped at Calais, Me-, to replace
Harry E. Demuth of Thomaston, Me-,
and George Sands, who fortunately for
them, We're sent ashore there on account
OF sickness.
1t IS SAID that the schooner 5 deck-Ioad
was somewhat higher than ordinarily, on
account OF Ice on the load. mus the Old
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schooner would nave mad tendency to
be somewhat top-heavy, seamen say,
thus explaining the cause OF her capslz-
ing.
GLOUCESTER, Mass, February II. 1t
was a sorroWful Identification which
+ rank E. Crowley Of Boston this even
ing made of the two-masted schooner
George T. Prescott, which, bound from
Calais for Boston, capsized in Friday
storm. To Crowley it meant the GER
taintv Of the loss OF his father, Capt. E.
D. Crowley of .J0nesn0rr. Me. To this
name should be added also those of the
three members of the Prescott's crew.
The old time coaster it is believed.
shook all hands from her decks into a
waterv grave. Young Crowley identi-
fed the vessel as the Prescott. bv sever
al peculiarities which. though she is still
bottom up. were evident to him after his
trips with his father.
4 tale more bound I'D with the sea
would be hard to find. CAPTAIN Crowley.
beyond the half century in wears. Welded
to the lure of old ocean after retire
ment of IS wears. met the fate which
during his long sea-faring life he had
several times missed barely. and which
on one occasion claimed the life of his
brother.
Since bow Capt. Crowley has sailed
the seas, In his youth he sbipDed he
fore the mast and rose TO be canta;n of
several sQuare-rigged clipper ships. Be-
fore taking a command of his own he
had shipped as mate with his brother as
captain, Their vessel was wrecked and
his brn+her and q number of others loci