The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-01-18
SHIP NEWS.
AMERICAN fURTS.

New York, Jan 8. Ar, ship Timandrs. Lee,
Buepos Ayres, Nov Is; IL. ar. sch Abenakl,
Stockton; sid. sch Flora Condor. Norfolk; ID,
ar, sch ID FL Rivers. Buenos Ayres. via barba-
dos; Is, ar, sch Telumah, South Gardiner.
B ,ston, Jan IL. Ar, sch Ella F Crowe,l.
Rockport: sid, sch Mary Langdon. Belfast; 10,
sid, sch Annie and Reuben. StoDngton.
Philadelphia Jan Ia. Ar, sch Governor Pow
ers Perth Amboy.
Newport News, Jan 10. Ar, sch Helvetia,
New York
bridgeport, Jan Ar. sch Layolta. Bangor.
Jacksonville, Jan 9. SID, sch Fred W Aver,
Savannah.
Pascagoula, Jan y SID, sch Wllilam 4 bitcti
field, Hudson, Havana.
Norfolk. Jan g. Ar sim Bella (Br) Bucks
mort. Me. land cid for Kingston;) IL, ar, sch Ed
ward Il Blake. New York.
Searsport, Jan 10 Sid, sim Ruth. Norfolk;
IL, ar, barges Waccamaw and No 700. Boston.
Stockton, Jan Is. AR, sch Kate FRAY,
light, for lumber.
FOREIGN PORTS.
Brighton. Trim, Dec 20. Sid, sch Horace A
Stone, Port Bolivar.
Shelburne, S, Jan 9. Ar, sch Wawenock,
Liverpool, S land cid for New York;
Martinique, Jan 10. Sid, sch Samuel W
Hathaway. Trinidad. VIZ
Port Spain, Jan 10. Sid, sch Augusta "
Snow, Mobile.
MISCELLANY.
New York, Jan Is. Six men. sailors from
the American schooner Annie Alnslee OF ROCK
land Me- which went ashore at Antegada
Reef Porto Rico. Jan 3. arrived here Monday
on the Steamship Carolina. They said the
schooner was a total loss. The schooner sailed
from St, Andrews Bay. Fla, Dec II, with lum-
Der for Arecibo. Porto Rico.
Rockland, Jan. 10. With two new schoonere
in frame, and the keel laid for third. the
shipyard of Francis Cobb Company is today ons
of the busiest on the New England coast, and
the owners are bemoaning the scafcity OF labor,
but for which their work W ouid be much 1ufth-
er advanced. They are employing 75 men and
could use half as many again. Nearest COM
pletion of the vessels the stoc is the three
masted schooner Frank A Morey. named for
former mayor of Lewiston, and being built for
Rogers & Webb of Boston. This is single
deck craft of about 500 gross tons. and Will nave
a carrying capacity of $50 tons. She Will pc
launched in March, and Will be commanded ny
Capt { Gorge Torrey of Deer Isle, formerly
master of the five-masted schooner Magnus
Manson. Early in June there will be launched
a four-masted, single deck, lumber schooner
with a carrying capacity of 900 tons. She is
being built for Vane Brothers of Baltimore.
The keel is stretched for four masted schoon'
er of 1900 gross tons, which will have carry
ing capacity of 22O0 tons. She will be double
deck craft, measuring 240 feet over all, and
will be launched the latter part of the summer
The builders are said to be figuring on another
important job.
"That is a sample of the condition of the
shipbuiding market at the present time" re-
marked Nathan F. Cobb, manager of the
Francis Cobb shipbuidiDg interest, as he showed
a letter to The Courier-Gazette. The letter
called for proposals for the building OF five
schooners Of 1900 to 1000 tons capacity. %
have recei lived four similar letters this week.
added Mr.. Cobb. "but our yard is full up. like
all New England yards. and we can't take OF
another ounce Of business"