The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-12-21
NEWS OF THE SHIPPING.

secured the contract for building the hull of 9
porgy steamer for the Atlantic Fertilizer Com.
pany. The new craft will be duplicate
of the two which the same firm is building TO,
C. A. Sickles & Brothers, and which are now
framed out. John J. Wardwell is the designer
of the three steamers, which will be the finest
of their type ever put together. They will be
ITO feet in length, % 6 feet beam, and IL fee,
draught. The engines will be of the triple ex-
pansion type with cylinders 15x24, % by "a
and SO by "a The steamers will be equipped
with IA foot boilers, and will carry 1876 poun ds
of steam. The hulls of the steamers will be
built along the usual lines used in the con-
struction of pogy steamers, and will be mod.
ern and up-to-date in every detail. All the
cabins will be finished in natural wood and the
steamers will be capable of carrying 1000
barrels of fish. The use of the gasolene
motor in fishing craft has become well nigh
universal, and it is now extensively used in the
packet service. Last week there were three
strictly gasolene packets in Portland harbor.
One of them, the Sylvan B. Beal, owned by
Capt. C. H. Beal and his son of Beals, Me-, and
built for them the past summer. is about 60
feet long and is equipped with two IS horse
power engines. These gasolene packets
would not have had much advantage over
Capt George F. Ryan when he was running
the schooner James Holmes in the Boston
packet service. When ready to sail he put to
sea regardless of wind or weather and many OF
his trips were made in nearly steamboat
time Capt. H. o. Merrill, an old
time sailing ship master from Maine and later
in steamships and tugs, is now an inmate OF
the Hospital National Home at Hampton, Va,
due to his being considerably out of health. -.
The steamer Borinquen, which brought a
cargo of coal from Newport News to Sears
oort. is a new craft of about 1000 tons and
was built on the Great Lakes. Capt Jubaei
c. Rich has made trip to Orland for brick in
his new craft, the ketch Actoekon, and
last week sailed with grain, feed, hay and
yaroral cargo for Swans Island and Somes
Sound. She is 80 tons net, was built at
Nyack, N. Y, in 1867, and was originally
the sloop yacht Addie Voorhees, and later the
Addie. She was owned in Rockland at one
time and her last haling port was Deer Isle.
An ocean race of over 600 miles ended at
B11cksport Thursday afternoon. December 7th,
when the Bangor schooner Lizzie Griffin got
into port two hours and half ahead OF the
Rucksport schooner T. M. Nicholson. Both
schooners left Bonnie bay on the coast OF New
foundland, December LIST, about p. M Inc
Griffin was about an eighth of mile ahead as
thew stood out of the harbor. Both schooners
were heavily laden with salt herring and both
shippers knew that the race was on and mace
every effort for record run. That there
should have been but two and half hours DIFF
ference in run of over 800 miles is remark
able and shows how evenly matched are the
shippers and their trig little craft. The
Kelley, Spear Co. of Bath has contracts for
three big barges for the Staples Transporter
ton company of Fall River, Mass, and launch
ed one about two weeks ago. The full-rigged
American ship Erskine M. Phelps recently
completed 133-day voyage at Seattle from
Philadelphia The Phelps is famous as fast
sailer, and before she was four years old had
broken seven worlds records for speed. She
is 3l2 by As by 25 feet and was built in Bath,
Maine. in 1898 The fishing schooner T. M.
Nicholson, Capt. Lester Gilley, one of Capt.
7. M. Nicholson's feet, arrived at Bucksport,
December 7th with a cargo of herring from
Newfoundland, just three weeks from the
day she cleared from that port. The Gilbert
Trans portation Co. of Noank, CT, which
went into the hands of receiver some time
ago, is now in litigation and there are three
sides to the suits, the receiver acting for the
company the bondholders who are looking for
tn cir own interests, and the stockholders from
whom the receiver and the bondholders want
TO collect. The Hartford Courant says: GAS
mat tiers now stand there is no hope that the
creditors will get anything and the outlook is
poor for the bondholders. If the court should
hold that the stockholders are liable on their
common stock holdings, there is hope that the
bondholders will realize in full and that the
creditors will receive good dividend after the
bondholders are satisfied. The schooner
Northland, Capt Saunders has made 10 round
trips from Norfolk to Searsport and four
round trips from Norfolk to Portland in II
months. Capt. Saunders expects to round out
the year by making another round trip to
Searsport and this will make Is round trips IN
the year from Virginia to Maine. The Sch.
Mary Eliza is on Gchrest's marine railway to
be replanked. She is handy bay coaster and
With new planking will be given new lease
of life.