The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-05-03
kockIand's Busy Shipyards.
Courier. Gazette I


me most conspicuous object on tho
Rockland waterfront now is no W no .ne
snip IN course of construction at +
snow & Go. s sbipyard. Begun original.
~ as a schooner for the famona Snon,
meet, she was sold soon after the keel
n q oeen laid to the Atlantic Martini
TO-. which decided to have a larger
cratt, equipped with power. The keel
VA Vas consequently heightened to IT'S feet:
1he snip mas a beam of 81 feet. and
draws To- feet. There will be two mole
!nasls Tor handling the cargo, and her
Two DIESEL engines of 24O h. .. each are
expected to produce speed of eight or
ns'i re R ano Her tanks have a capacity
Vi oo'ooO gallons of crude oil, which will
GIVE cruising radius of 10, 600 miles,
Inc real feature of this craft, how
ever, is the bridge amidships, which is
surmounted by house which will con-
tam the officers quarters and mess room.
ABOVE which will be pilot house with
the captains quarters The ship is to
carry 10 men, and Is intended for the
general trade. She will be ready for
launching in June.
Inc construction of this motor ship is
Dy no means the only activity in the
snow yard. The Maine Central steamer
oleur de Monts is out for cleaning and
painting, and will be followed by the
other Maine Central boats which make
this their winter headquarters The
smack Marion McLoon has been painted,
ana the SIN ok Silas McLoon has had a
fairbanks Morse oil-burning engine in
stalled. The freighter Undine is being
re-topped. The smack Christie A. Cox,
which was ashore last winter and pretty
badly smashed up, is being converted
into fisherman, her lobster well having
been removed
The Lehigh Valley barge No. 767, which
was recently ashore at the entrance of
Vlnalhaven harbor, lies astern of the
new motor ship, and will go on the ways
as soon as the Sieur de Monts gets bat k
hole IN the bottom of the barge can
plainly be seen. The repairs at this po t
will be only temporary
Working on the various craft in Shows
yard are 80 busy men, many of whom
have devoted many years to building and
repairing vessels The dean of them all
is ''UncIe George" Hayden, whose mem
cries of former shipbuilding activities in
Rockland find the present scenes hardly
more than child's play by comparison.
Look at those sticks" said Capt.
Israel Snow, directing the reporters
attention to two carloads of massive
Louisiana oaks some of which are 45
feet long and measuring 20x24 inches.
Ihey would make an admirable keel for
such a ship as the government is now
asking private yards to build. In fact |.
l.. Snow 4 Co. stand ready to build one
of these craft if the necessary number
OF men can be obtained. Scarcity of
shIpcarpenters is a greater handicap
Just now than scarcity of materials.
Across in Francis Cobb Co. s shipyard
the spars have just been installed in the
schooner Frank A. Morey, VIII CHI will q
put overheard the first high course of
tides in May. probably the 9Th. Edw.
Bohndell of Rockport was the man who
had charge OF Juggling the big sticks.
Alongside the Morey is schooner of
about the same size. which has already
been named the Allen, although hardly
beyond the skeleton stage. The craft is
ceiled, and will be lunched some time in
July.
The keel has been laid and part of the
frames are in place for four-masted
schooner of 1900 tons which is being built
for Crowell & Thurlow of Boston, and
which will be launched late in the fall.
These three vessels take up the wards
capacity, and put it beyond the question
for the builders to even consider the gov.
ernments proposition. Over and above
that is the fact that the Cobb COMPANY
also has contract TO build another four
master for Crowell & Thurow after the
Frank A. Murey has been launched