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Maine Coast Fisherman, Feb 1956
Page 12
MAINE COAST FISHERMAN
February, 1956
Dragger Raised;
Deck Hose Sinks
Rare Fish Found
The Barbara G.
STONINGTON CONN - Recent-
By Samuel Cottle
the Stonington fishing dragges
POINT JUDITH RT Owner
William D sank during the night
Captain John Cattle has had his
with a load of trash fish aboard at
troubles Four times in succession as-
Bindion Dock
sistance has been given by local fish.
When her crew members ment to
the dock in the morning to make
ermen and the Coast Guard for
preparation to unload the track fish.
troubles with the Barbara G vary
they found their 62-fout bost under-
ing from having a net in the propel-
water
ler to losing a rudder
The owner of the big 12-year-old
The pay-off came recently when
William D la William Paraces of
Montauk L.L. with Cost Edmund
she sank to the bettom while tied up
Roderick as skipper and Lionel
at her berth A deck hose had fallen
Maderios and Douglas Roderick as
unnoticed in the harbor and a eighon
crew
ing process had taken place. rocking
Preparations were made for sal-
a continual stream of water into the
Vage immediately and the Sanchez
Salvage firm barge and divers were
engine room
brought in the next day A diver
Captain John has raised her. over-
went to the harbor bottom for about
hauled the engine and electrical
20 minutes and hooked cables under
system and is now back towing
the hull of the submerged dragger in
around Block Island Sound
below freezing temperatures The
huge crane then hauled the vessel
John Sisson's new steel dragger
up to the surface where she was
North Star has arrived She of
pumped out and an estimated 60 to
western style with the wheel-house
70,000 pounds of trash fish were
forward and her expected carrying
taken off here
The ruised dragger was then haul.
capacity will be 25 tons
ed out and a thorough inspection of
The pogy boat Janet caught fire
her bottom showed no leaks It is
while lying at the state owned dock
believed that during the night. suc-
She is now being repaired at the
tion caused one of the pump hozes
Round House Shipyard in James-
which was over the side to bring
FOR water aboard flooding the vessel
Load Of Trash Fish - William D. sank at the Bind ass dock with 35 tons of trash fish awoard. A pump
town
The large 816 pound scup which
hose siphoned water into the hull during the night.
was caught by the Old Mystic off
Watch Hill, R.I. last month. has de.
SIPHON EFFECT
Scallopers Delayed
finately been identified by Yale Un-
During the past month two TEL
Iversity scientists as a scup. but not
sels have been KUOH at their docks
At Jonesport
one of our northern varieties
by the sipon effect of hours
James E Morrow, an lethyologist
The Addison and Harrington Rivers
hanging over the side
of the Bingham Oceanographic Lab.
If a deck have is filled with
were opened on January 1. but as
oratory of Yale University, declared
water - say from having pamped
vet the scallop draggers have not
that the fish was a jolthead porey
out bilges - and one end 1s drep.
Calamus bajanado, a tropical species
been able to dras in those areas be-
ped over the side the water 10.
common around Bermuda. the West
cause they are blocked by Ice
maining in the bake falls back in.
Indies and the Florida Keys It is
a
to the bilse corking water from
The scallop price has risen to 50c
southern relative to the common
ouiside back into the best
a pound but few draggers have been
porgy and sheepshead but up till
The siphon effect thus started
able to take advantage of this higher
now. it has never been reported as
will continue filling the best with
being seen north of Bermuda said
price as their boats have not been in
water until the bust sinks making
Morrow To find one in New Eng.
running condition for very long dur-
belh water levels the same
land especially this time of year, is
ing the past few weeks. Almost every
really something It's really a rare
in this community Most of the dig-
boat In this area has been held up
one Morrow estimated the 8% pound
fish which was 25 inchez in length to
gets have had to find other way of
for repairs. and several are still not
Huge crane on Sanchez lifts William D. bodily off the bottom. A diver
be about 10 years old.
making a living tab winter because
in running condition
of the scarceness of clams
passed the liftline cables under the hull.
Yard Uses Mile
Of Wire In
BOSTON COMMISSION CO., INC.
MONEL TANKS
Special Salvage
Wholesalers - Receivers - Distributors
Safety Afloat Begins
GLOUCESTER MASS - Glouces.
ter Marine Railways Corp., is now
of
WITH
overhauling the Abram H. New Bed-
ford scalloper that was pulled away
from looming destruction on a Nan-
SEA FOODS
ALLCRAFT "SEAFARER" MONEL
tucket sand bar
FUEL AND WATER TANKS
To free the dragger from the sand.
six inch hawser was wrapped
Tel. Hubbard 2-0013
a
lengthwise around the hull for three
2-0014
ALLCRAFT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Inc.
turns. One mile of one-inch plow
steel wire was hooked to the brible
VERNON A. (Van) HASLUND - FISH PIER, BOSTON, MASS.
and the boat towed across the sand
27A HAYWARD ST.
CAMBRIDGE 42, MASS.
bar to deep water.
The dragger was rushed from the
scene of the beaching to Nantucket
Harbor.
Robert Fisher. general manager of
the railway here. sent three, four
an six-inch pumps to the island They
Why risk fire?
THE ONLY WAY TO COMPETE WITH
were put in operation on the dragger
and she was towed to Gloucester.
pumping like a fire-boat all the way
when you can dieselize your
Here she was put on the railways
immediately for a survey and for
repairs
auxiliary equipment with PETTER
Archer's
The yard is also overhauling the
PETTER diesel power means:
IS BY USING
Judith Lee Rose. 104 foot wooden
trawler built in Southwest Harbor,
Diesel safety
Maine in 1952. She is hauled out hav-
ing a complete winter overhaul and
Diesel reliability
changing to a new four bladed
Archer"S"
wheel.
Diesel economy
The Cushmeer 113 foot steel trawl-
er formerly named Josephine Ess
and recently returned from Ger-
1500-6500 walts
many and reconditioned for North
DC AC
America'sinest
Atlantic trawling. A new four
bladed wheel was installed supplied
Battery Charging &
by Haskell and Hall Co., Salem. Mass
Lighting Plants
SOYBEAN SALAD OIL
Our Lady of Fatima, 96 foot wood-
en trawler, former U. S. Gov't mine.
Power for Bilge
sweeper was overhauled prior to
Pumps
leaving for fishing on the Virginia
Refined
Capes. The vessel has an Atlas-Werke
Compressor Sets
Fish Finder newly installed by Ray.
PREMIUM
deodorized
theon Mfg. Co.
Aircooled or
FLAVORAT
and winterized
Figuera Da Foz former Gloucester
Watercooled
schooner Marion & Alice is having
the complete port side rebuilt includ
Engineered to suit your requirements spores & service are
ing 22 stanchions waist, bulwarks and
NO
EXTRA
by continuous
immediately available through our coastwide dealer network.
fishrail and sheathing. prior
to
COST!
leaving to fish out of the Fulton Fish
A superb all for canning
PETTER DIESEL ENGINES
tuna and sardines!
Market, New York The repair work
was made necessary because the port
ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND COMPANY
side was completely carried away in
Div. of BRUSH ABOE INC. 60.07 39th Ave. Woodside, L.I.
MINNEAPOLIS 2, MINNESOTA
heavy weather fishing during the
Branch Office: 1526 Hendricks Avenue, Jacksonville, Flo.
month of December
Clams remain at $6.00 per bushel
MENTION MAINE COAST FISHERMAN
1000.18.
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Maine Coast Fisherman, Feb 1956
Newspaper sheet, Maine Coast Fisherman, Feb 1956, with interesting stories (lobster 8 cents each, etc.)
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