Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-12-27
SHIpRUILDING IS
BOOMING IN MAINE

Maine is a deliberate State, and
wooden shirhuilding as it is done here
is an art that can't be hurried but as
the fame Of Maine ships is as wide as
the world everybody who wants a new
vessel likes to have her constructed
"DoWn Fast feeling sure of a good
job.
Maine doesn't believe i'll the new war
doctrine OF 'shps while YOU wait" but
keeps on putting them together in the
same old solid way, so that as G~.)'n
Babbldge says, they will be fit to stay
outdoors in" and SO that. along about
the Year 1867. they will be mentioned
in the papers as being after moderate
expenditure for repairs, practically as
good as ever
Some very fine specimens of Maine
shipbuilding havo been sent overheard
recently and a lot more are nearly
ready to take the water.
At AIilbridge the four-master Joan
kielberg, $50 tons built for New
York sugar and molasses importing
tOlCtiil hdS IduiIclttu lTblll J1c NdTu
of the Sawyer Shipyards Corporation.
At Harrington the Frye-F'lynn Com
pany launched Il pretty little three
master. the Lucy Evelyn, 300 TONS in
tended for the West India trade. She
is owned by her builders, the Machias
Lumber Company and Capt. Everett c.
Lindsey of East Machias. who will
command her.
Tho Frye-F1ynn Company also
launched on Dec. 3 the 100-t0n two
masted schooner Lucy d. Peabody, the
first vessel OF her size and type--the
old fashioned handy coaster-built in
Maine in many years.
On Nov. 2S there was launched from
the yard of r. l.. Bean at Camden the
four-masted schooner Florence B.
Phillips $50 tons, built for Capt. j. B.
Phillips Of Sag Harbor. n. v On Dec.
the schooner Anna Laura McKennev.
500 tons. was sent over from the ward
OF the Atlantic Coast Ship Company at
Boothbay Harbor on Nov. 80 the
SO0-ton wooden freight steamer
Bourgancy, the first of four for a
French shipping firm, was launched at
South Portland.
At Beams yard in Camden frames
are ready for two four masters of
about 1000 tons net register each. while
another fourmaster is nearing com
pletion and will be launched about
Jan. IS.
At Belfast Capt Fields Pendleton Is
making ready to build q four-master
Of 1000 tons net In the Mathews ward
&. r. Frost is getting together ma
terials for five master of 1900 tons
net for Capt. w. f. Kreger of Fairfield
and others.
At Milbridge the sawyer Shipyards
Corporation will build several LARGO
schooners, and the Frye Flynn Com
pany is getting out frames for two
four masters and two five masters. one
or more Of which will be built at Har-
rington.
At Thomaston, Dunn & Elliott are
completing four master, the Marpar-
ret Throop, and at Boothbay Harbor
the Atlantic Coast Ship Company IL to
build two more schooners on the
model Of the Anna Laura NcKerne,.
recently launched.
Bath has several large schooners ,on
the stocks, and Rockland viii CON
tribute several to the new fleet. Al
stockton a four master. the Agnes L
wilcox, Will be launched in Lanuarv
At Sandy Point. Is miles below Ran.
gor, the Sandy Point Shipbuildine Gov
poratlon has contracts for two 35oo.
ton hulls for wooden steamers for tha
emergency fleet, and has expended
Sloo'oo0 in preparing a yard wbero
eight or ten large vessels NAV he co,
up. ~
When the cry for ships to be bui,+ g,
rush went up last spring and tbero
was talk of building wooden vessa,s IN
~ Gays Maine smiled. knowing ths- -
couldn't be done-rightly.
But Maine went to work in ber o,a
tifne methodical way, got the materia1s
together as fast as crews could on.
hardwood frames in the native woods
routed OLD ship carpenters who had r.-
urea years ago. some of them oceogen-
arlans, and now the substantial re-
suits are beginning to appear.
1t Will have been one Of the hest
years in the history Of shippuild,n.
and 1913 promises to eclipse all prev.
Gus records in the yards of Maine.