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1876, June 10. The ship MeNear, built in Belfast in 1872, on the passage from Shields for Bombay, struck on the English coast, and was abandoned. She afterwards was saved by the crew of a lifeboat.
1876, August 25. The new ship Paul Richard Hazeltine, for Liverpool, struck on Cape Sable, during a fog. After throwing over the deck-load of deals, she floated, and resumed her voyage.
1876, December 12. The schooner General Meade, Captain Peachey, for Boston, was lost on Green Island, near Portland. Her owners were Daniel Lane, S. Otis & Co., and others.
1877, June 4. The schooner Boaz, valued at $5000, owned by S. A. Howes & Co., collided during a fog, near Boston, with the schooner F. E. McDonald, of Belfast, and was lost. There was no insurance.
1877, December. The schooner Eveline, from Belfast to Jack- sonville, became waterlogged in a gale off Cape Hatteras, and
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was abandoned. All on board were rescued, and carried to Balti- more.
1878, January 7. The bark Sarah, 536 tons, from Philadel- phia to Marseilles with oil, sprung a leak, and her abandonment became necessary. The crew was taken off by a Boston brig, and landed in Nova Scotia.
1878, January 14. The schooner Mite, from Cambridgeport, was lost on Grove Point. All on board were saved.
1878, February 18. The ship Paul Richard Hazeltine, 1836 tons, built in Belfast in 1876 by Carter & Co., and worth $100,000, with a cargo valued at $475,000, struck a sunken rock off Wallas- ton Island, near Cape Horn, on the voyage from New York to San Francisco, and immediately sank. The ship's company were carried to Valparaiso by passing vessels. She was commanded by Captain Edwin Horace Herriman, who was accompanied by his wife. His son was second mate. Wellington M. White, son of the late George F. White, was also on board. The fate of the latter, whose boat had parted company with the others, was for some time in suspense. The ship was owned as follows: Captain Herriman, onc quarter, with a small insurance; Albert Gallatin Jewett, one eighth, no insurance; Austin Carter, one sixteenth, partial insurance; Thomas Carter, one sixteenth, no insurance; Everett S. Carter, one sixteenth, no insurance; Mrs. Columbia Perkins Carter, one sixteenth, small insurance. The remaining owners were: James Patterson White, estate of Paul Richard Hazeltine, Benjamin Prescott Hazeltine, Abner G. Gilmore, George E. Wight, Albion H. Bradbury, and Nesmith & Son, of New York, all of whom had little or no insurance. Captain Herri- man, with a wrecking company, afterwards attempted to raise her, but without success. Anxiety from the loss and the subse- quent expedition resulted in his mental aberration, from which he never recovered. Wellington Mayo White later entered the employ of the Peninsula & Occidental Steamship Company, and has had charge of their steamships for years. As captain of the Miami he has made the winter run between Miami, Florida, and Nassau, Bahama Islands, thrice weekly for the past ten or twelve years, and has had charge of the dredging and staking of the ship channel at Miami for the company. (1913.)
1878, March. The brig John Peirce, built above the Lower Bridge in 1853, and afterwards converted into a whaling vessel,
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was sold in New Bedford. She was originally a schooner. The "Republican Journal" of December 9, 1853, in commenting upon her launching said, "She was constructed under the su- perintendence of Marlboro Packard Woodcock, a young and promising mechanic."
1878, April 25. The schooner Cameo, built in 1848, Captain W. R. Stover, from Boston, with goods to merchants in Belfast, was wrecked off Metinic Island, and went to pieces. A portion of her cargo was insured.
1878, October 23. The ship A. S. Davis, Captain Ira M. Ford, owned in Belfast and in Searsport, ran ashore near Cape Henry, and all on board, twenty in number, with a single exception, perished. The vessel was of 1399 tons, and was built in Belfast by Carter & Co., in 1875.
1878, December 22. The schooner J. G. Drew, 188 tons, built in Belfast in 1871, was sunk near Boston, being bound to that port from Philadelphia with coal. She was worth $8000, and not insured.
1879, January. The brig Don Quixote, from New York for Limerick, was wrecked near the island of Arran. She registered 426 tons and was built in Belfast in 1866.
1879, February 7. The schooner Martha Sargent, from Belfast for Baltimore, with potatoes, was cut through by ice, below the latter port, and sunk.
1879, May 15. The schooner Almon Bird, of about 400 tons, three-masted, built in Belfast by Carter & Co., in 1872, was lost on Cross Island, near Machias.
1879, August. The schooner Helen M. Condon, 212 tons, built in Belfast in 1867, and uninsured, foundered on a voyage from Philadelphia to Gloucester with all on board. Captain Fred A. Dickey, Jr., of Northport, aged 25, and an enterprising man, commanded her.
1879, September 10. The bark Emma L. Partridge, 469 tons, was abandoned at sea on a voyage from Liverpool to Matanzas, having struck a reef near Turk's Island. She was the last vessel built in Belfast by Captain Henry McGilvery, being completed in 1876. (The records at the Custom-House state that she was built by Henry S. Staples.)
1880. In February, the brig Josic C. Hazeltine, 523 tons, Captain Aaron W. Nickerson, sailed from Troon, Scotland, for
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Cuba, and was never again heard from. The wife and family of the master were on board. The vessel was built in 1872 for Cap- tain John Hassell.
1880, April 5. The schooner Ralph Howes, Captain C. B. Getchell, on the passage from Wilmington to Boston, went ashore near Montauk Point, and became a total loss. She was of about 150 tons burden, built in Belfast in 1873, owned by S. A. Howes & Co., and others, and was uninsured.
1880. In March, a silver vase was transmitted by the British Minister to Captain Rufus B. Condon. It bore the following inscription: "Presented by the British Government to Captain Rufus B. Condon, of the American Schooner Fred A. Carle, of Belfast, Maine, in acknowledgment of his humanity and kindness to the shipwrecked erew of the bark Martha, of Shoreham, aban- doned at sea on the 17th October, 1877."
1881, January. The ship Charlotte W. White, Captain William P. Dyer, was given up as lost. She sailed from St. John, New Brunswick, for Liverpool, November 19, 1880, and probably foundered. She was twenty-two years old, and partially insured.
1881, April 16. The schooner James Bliss, from Belfast for Jacksonville, Florida, was abandoned waterlogged.
1881, September 9. The ship Louis Walsh, 1080 tons, built in Belfast by White & Conner in 1861, and commanded by Captain Augustus S. White, arrived from Liverpool, being the first ship which had entered the harbor for nine years. She remained until the following year, being then sold to New York parties.
1881, September 9. The schooner M. W. Drew, Captain George Dickey Mahoney, from Jacksonville, Florida, for New London, Connecticut, was swept by a gale off North Carolina, became waterlogged, and was abandoned. The crew was taken off by the steamer Seminole. She was of 165 tons, built in Belfast by Carter & Co., in 1870, and was uninsured.
1881, September 20. The ship R. B. Fuller, 1360 tons, from Cardiff for Valparaiso, with coal, was burned at sea. All hands were saved. She was built in Belfast by Carter & Co., in 1874.
1881, September 28. The ship Alice Buck, 1425 tons, built in Belfast in 1870, went ashore near San Francisco, on a voyage from New York to Oregon, and became a total loss. Eleven of the crew, including two mates, perished. She was insured on her outfit.
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1881, October 6. The schooner Malabar, Captain Ed. Curtis, from Hoboken, New Jersey, for Belfast, with coal, was totally wrecked at Nantucket. She was 126 tons, and built in Belfast in 1845 by Carter & Co., for Captain James Gilchrist. She was uninsured. The cargo was covered.
1881, October 20. The barkentine, David Babcock, 487 tons, built in Belfast by Henry McGilvery in 1874, was lost off the coast of Brazil, on a voyage from New York for Rio Janeiro.
1881, November 23. The schooner James W. Brown, 161 tons, was totally lost near Cape Henry, Virginia. The crew were taken off in lifeboats. Captain Alvin F. Elwell, of Northport, com- manded her.
1882, February 1. The schooner Stephen E. Woodbury, Cap- tain Oscar Luville Limeburner, was run down and sunk by the schooner Enoch Robinson, near Cape Cod. She was 117 tons, and built in Searsport, in 1876.
1882, February 17. The bark H. D. Brookman, built in 1856, was abandoned waterlogged during a voyage from New York for London.
1882, June 24. The schooner S. D. Hart was lost on Chatham Beach.
1883. The bark Shirley left port in the early spring and was never heard from.
1883, August. The bark Palo Alto was wrecked at Porto Bello. She was 460 tons, and built in Belfast in 1864.
1883, September 15. The schooner Lois V. Chaples was towed into Charleston, South Carolina, having been dismasted in a gale, and was sold to wreckers.
1884, January 5. The ship Inspector, 1222 tons, built in 1860, by Carter & Co., of Belfast, went ashore on the western South American coast and was lost.
1884, January 13. The ship Cora, Captain Joseph Thombs, was thrown on her beam ends off Cape Horn, and subsequently reached Montevideo in distress. She was ordered home for re- pairs, and arrived in Belfast in October.
1884, April. The brig A. G. Jewett, Captain Reed, of Orring- ton, foundered at sea.
1884, December 18. The schooner A. O. Gross, formerly the Olive, rebuilt by David Whitten Dyer, in 1880, and partially owned in Belfast, was abandoned at sea.
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1885, September. The schooner F. E. McDonald, 253 tons, built in 1873, was wrecked near Turk's Island.
1885, November. The schooner Waldemar, of Bangor, was sunk in Belfast Harbor.
1885, December 7. The schooner F. A. Carle, Captain Rufus B. Condon, from South America for New York, went ashore on the Rhode Island coast, and was totally lost. The mate and one sailor were drowned. Her tonnage was 439, and her value $12,000. She was uninsured.
1885, December 10. The schooner T. H. Livingston, 235 tons, Captain Frank G. Swett, went ashore on Metinic Island, and became a total loss. She was built in 1874.
1886, March 14. Captain George Dickey Mahoney, of the schooner Fannie A. Gorham, rendered valuable aid in rescuing passengers from the Oregon, a Cunard steamer of 7000 tons, which was wrecked by collision with a vessel near New York. In September, Captain Mahoney received from the British Govern- ment a gold medal as a testimonial. It is of solid gold, the size of a twenty-dollar piece. On one side is a vignette of Queen Vic- toria, with the following motto: "Victoria D: G: Britanarium Regina F: D:" On the reverse is a wreath and crown with the words: "Presented by the British Government for Saving the Lives of British Subjects." On the edge of the medal appears the captain's name and the date of the rescue, March 14, 1886.
1886, April. The brig J. H. Lane, Captain Alonzo Shute, owned in Belfast and in Searsport, went ashore in Florida, and was a total loss. The steward was drowned.
1887, July 24. The schooner William G. Eadie, 46 tons, went ashore at Mount Desert, and was lost.
1887, July 27. The schooner Abraham Richardson, Captain George Pattershall, with paving-stones from Citypoint, went ashore opposite the Robbins Settlement, and was seriously in- jured.
1887, August 18. The schooner Nathan Clifford, 133 tons, from Boston for Belfast, struck a ledge near Boothbay, and was lost.
1887, September 5. The schooner Earl, Captain Closson, from Belfast for Boston, with paving-blocks, sprung a leak off Cape Elizabeth, and was totally lost.
1887, October 31. The schooner Mary, 159 tons, built in 1868,
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was run down near Boston by the schooner James Costa. She was abandoned by her owners, but was afterwards raised.
1887, November 11. The sehooner Helen Mar, Captain Fred Pattershall, collided with Pollock Rip lightship, was dismasted and lost.
1889. The schooner Juliette, Captain Eben Holmes, for Bev- erly, sank off Cape Ann. One of the crew, Albert Cunningham, of Belfast, was drowned.
1889, April 9. The schooner Palatka, Captain Henry J. Chaples, from Georgia for New York, encountered a hurricane, was dismasted and abandoned. She was built by Carter & Co., of Belfast, in 1883, and had a partial insurance.
1889, October 24. The schooner Welaka, 410 tons, built by Carter & Co., of Belfast, in 1873, bound from Darien, Georgia, with lumber, became waterlogged, and was abandoned, her erew being rescued by an English steamer.
1890, February 5. The schooner Prescott Hazeltine was burned in Portland Harbor. Buildings on the wharf where she was loading took fire, the flames were communicated to the vessel, and she was entirely destroyed. She was 385 tons, and was built in 1871.
1890, March 4. The schooner St. Johns, Captain Fred Augus- tus Gilmore, from Jacksonville, Florida for New York, went ashore near Cape Hatteras, and was a total loss. The crew were taken off by life-saving men, except Henry Saunders, who was washed overboard and drowned. She was a three-masted vessel of 406 tons, built in Belfast, in 1882, by Carter & Co.
1890, December 12. The schooner Stella M. Kenyon, built in Belfast by MeDonald & Brown, in 1880, sank on a bar near New York, and was a total loss.
1890, December 16. The schooner Yale, built in 1884, dragged ashore at Sandy Hook in a blizzard, but was afterwards saved.
1890, December 26. The schooner A. H. Hurlburt, of Glouces- ter, from Belfast with ice, went ashore at Narragansett Pier, and became a total loss.
The "Republican Journal" of March 10, 1890, stated that fifty Belfast vessels had been lost or sold since 1870, namely : Wrecked, twenty schooners, one ship, one barkentine, and one brig; sold, fifteen schooners, five ships, three barks, one brig, one steamer; and two vessels have been condemned.
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1891, July. The new barkentine Steadfast, of Baltimore, built by George Washington Cottrell, and which left in January, was totally lost on the island of St. Croix during her first homeward voyage from Brazil.
1891, August 18. The brig Ned White, Captain Alvin Elwell, 550 tons, built in 1874, was driven ashore at Martinique, during a hurricane. The captain and the crew had a narrow escape. She was the last of the former large fleet of square-rigged vessels from Belfast.
1891, October 26. The schooner Annic L. McKeen, owned by Addison parties, but hailing from Belfast, was wrecked on the coast of Nova Scotia. She was built by Carter & Co., of Belfast, in 1872, and measured 244 tons.
1892, July 2. The schooner Tiara, 26 tons, built in Essex, Massachusetts in 1839, and owned by Captain Nathaniel S. Pendleton, was totally destroyed by fire at North Castine.
1892, October. Captain Fred A. White was awarded a certifi- cate by the Massachusetts Humane Society for rescuing and kindly caring for three men taken from a capsized yacht off Cape Cod, June 22.
1893, August 28. The schooner Myer & Muller went ashore on the coast of North Carolina, and was lost. She was built in Bel- fast, in 1883, by Carter & Co.
1894, September 30. The ship Ivanhoe, 1563 tons, built for Captain Edwin Horace Herriman, 1865, and later sold at San Francisco, foundered at sea, between Seattle and San Francisco.
1894, October 10. The schooner Clara E. Colcord, from Phil- adelphia for Bangor with coal, struck on Cornfield Shoal, filled and went down. All on board were saved. She was built by Jacob Young Cottrell, of Belfast, in 1883, and measured 515 tons.
1894, November 11. The schooner Edward Johnson, built in 1874, registering 380 tons, owned in Boston, and partially insured, was burned at Bahia with her cargo of case oil.
In 1894, two old coasters were dismasted, and laid to rest in the upper harbor, Belfast: the schooner Moses Eddy, whose age was sixty years, and the schooner New Era, built in 1853.
1895. The schooner William Frederick, 430 tons, Captain H. G. Jordan, was abandoned at sea on the voyage from Georgia to Belfast, with lumber. The crew were saved with difficulty in a lifeboat.
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1895, October 4. The schooner Nellie S. Pickering, Captain Nelson Kimball, from Belfast for New York, with paving-stones, went ashore near Martha's Vineyard, and sank. She was built in 1880, by Carter & Co., of Belfast.
1896, February 9. The schooner Florida, 286 tons, built in 1872, but owned abroad, went ashore on Salisbury Beach, Massa- chusetts, and was lost with all hands.
1897, April 9. The bark Nellie Smith, of which Captain Jerry Oliver Hayes, of Belfast, was master, was lost in a collision while temporarily in charge of the mate for a voyage. The three officers and two of the seamen were drowned.
1898, February 1. A severe snowstorm which swept the coast proved more disastrous to the lives of Belfast citizens than any calamity since 1860, when the fishing schooner Foaming Billow, with her crew of fourteen men, nine of whom belonged in Belfast, was wrecked. The above storm caused the loss of the schooners James Holmes and Marcellus, in Gloucester Harbor, with all on board. Both vessels sailed from Boston, and the former had a cargo of merchandise for Belfast parties. They dragged their anchors, drifted together, became entangled, and were driven ashore. All on board perished. Captain Franklin George Ryan, Fred I. Gordon, James E. Patterson, John Jackson, and Alfred Staples, on the Holmes, and George W. Richards and George E. Bean (the latter a passenger), on the Marcellus, were from Bel- fast. The bodies of Patterson and Richards were not found. The latter vessel hailed from Searsport, where Captain A. A. Larra- bee, her master, and three of the crew belonged. The Holmes was built by Horace S. Perkins, at the mouth of Goose River, in 1874, and measured 133 tons. For fourteen years she ran as a packet to Boston, under the command of Captain George F. Ryan, whose son was only temporarily in charge at the time of her loss. The barkentine R. A. C. Smith, from Mauritius for New York, was wrecked near Port Elizabeth. The master, Horatio B. Hooper, and the second mate were lost. The Smith was built in Belfast in 1889, by George Gilchrist, and afterwards sold to parties abroad.
1898, June. The schooner Stephen Morris was abandoned at sea, and her crew was never heard from. Frank Webber, of Bel- fast, was mate.
1898. By the wreck of the schooner Lester A. Lewis, at Pro-
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vincetown, Massachusetts, Captain Nelson Kimball, a native of Belfast, lost his life.
1898, November 26, 27. On her passage from Boston, in a gale, the steamer Portland, of the Portland line, was lost, and all on board perished. Portions of the vessel and many bodies came ashore on the back, or eastern side, of Cape Cod. The steamer was commanded by Captain Hollis H. Blanchard, of Woodfords, formerly of Belfast, and Frank A. Patterson, of Portland, formerly of Belfast, was quartermaster. The steamer Pentagoet, of the New York and Bangor line, is supposed to have foundered in the same gale and all on board lost.
1899. October 30. The schooner Yale was wrecked by a gale and collision while on a passage from Savannah, Georgia, to Washington. Captain Coombs and the crew were saved by the schooner José Olaverri. The Yale was of 621 tons and built in Belfast in 1884.
1899, August 20. The barkentine Priscilla, 611 tons, built in Belfast in 1886, and owned in Baltimore, was totally lost off Cape Hatteras. The captain and ten men were saved, but his wife, two sons, and one passenger perished.
1899. The schooner Fairy Forest, 39 tons, owned by Captain J. L. Smith, of Belfast, went ashore at Petit Manan and became a total loss, together with her cargo of herring.
1900. The schooner Fannie & Edith, which had been sold abroad, was wrecked near Portland.
1900, October. The schooner Eliza J. Pendleton, built in Belfast in 1891, went ashore in Nova Scotia, but was subse- quently floated, and brought to Belfast for repairs.
1900, October 1. The sloop yacht Marjorie, formerly owned by Charles Albert Pilsbury, was wrecked on Brimstone Island.
1900, November 8. During a gale the schooner E. S. Wilson capsized in the harbor, but was righted and repaired.
CHAPTER XLVI
WILD BEASTS, BIRDS, AND FISHES
Deer - Large Moose Antlers - Belgian Hares - Doves or Pigeons - Quail - Sparrows - Mackerel or Tinkers - Menhaden - Whales - Horse Mackerel - Bluefish - Squid - Hake - Lobsters - Seal.
WILD BEASTS
A S deer in the vicinity of Belfast were becoming scarce, the Legislature of 1895 passed an act prohibiting them from being hunted or killed within Waldo County, for a period of six years. In 1899, another act rendered their destruction or capture unlawful for four years, except during October, restricting, how- ever, the number to two, which one person could shoot or pos- sess. This protection resulted in their becoming plentiful and drivers along our country roads not infrequently catch glimpses of one or more, at all seasons of the year (1913).
In December, 1898, two small deer ventured into the city, and were seen on Washington Street; pursued by boys, one made its way into the harbor, but was captured from a boat, was kept as a pet until the next spring, and then liberated. The other, after jumping through the glass of a store on Main Street, escaped and swam across the harbor.
The following spring nine deer were seen on the Searsport shore road, and the following month, two droves, one of four and the other of five animals, frequently appeared near East North- port.
In March, 1900, a large doe passed unmolested, and apparently without fright, along several business streets, finally plunging into the river and swimming across.
The "Maine Sportsman's Journal" for January, 1896, gave an engraving and description of a set of moose antlers owned by Charles Bellows Hazeltine, which were the best exhibited at the New York Sportsman's Exposition in 1895, in competition with the largest of the United States and Canada. The official mea- surements were as follows, made by the Roosevelt Committee: Girth, 82 inches; length, 41 inches; palmation, 82 and 212 inches;
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27 points. They spread sixty inches straight front, and seventy- three inches back surface measured at the same point. The animal bearing these horns was shot several years ago near Chesuncook Lake. They are thought to be the largest perfect set in the world.
In October, 1897, a moose was seen by Martin S. Gray, near Belmont Avenue, Belfast.
Belgian hares were first introduced into Belfast in October, 1900, by Dr. William Lincoln West.
BIRDS
Domestic doves or pigeons are common in Belfast streets, and are protected by law. They frequent old buildings, and the church belfries are to some extent incubators for them. They have learned to steal grain from wagons. They generally are satisfied with gleaning what no one wants, minding their own sedate and gentle business, never quarreling, never dinning the ears with raucous outeries; on rosy feet they mince along, while their deli- cate, rainbow-glowing necks slip back and forth with the coquet- tish rhythm of their stepping. During the winter months, they are sometimes unable to obtain enough to eat and depend upon charity. In 1892, Mr. Moses Walter Rich cared for several hundred.
In 1896, a mourning dove was shot by Albert Cargill Burgess, near the Berry place. The bird is rare so far north, and is believed to be the only specimen ever seen in the vicinity of Belfast.
A large number of quail from Europe were liberated in the Penobscot Valley in 1881, and the next spring two pairs were seen near the Head of the Tide.
During 1881, small sparrows appeared, which proved to be of the genuine English kind, imported a few years ago to destroy the canker-worm. They have since rapidly increased.
Mr. Ora W. Knight's "Birds of Maine," published in 1908 by C. H. Glass & Co., of Bangor, will be found useful by those who desire to inform themselves on the birds of this region.
FISH AND OTHER MARINE LIFE
The visits of mackerel or tinkers to Belfast Harbor have lately been few and far between. During September, 1884, a school of large offshore No. 1 mackerel, some weighing over two pounds, appeared and remained several days.
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In July, 1892, the bay was alive with mackerel, which were slow to bite, and only caught in nets. They were succeeded by horse mackerel, bluefish, and small sardine herring in abundance. Mackerel were again numerous in the summer of 1898 and 1900, when they were caught from the wharves and from the Lower Bridge, as well as from boats.
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