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The Last of the Hudson When Atlantic coast seafaring men heard that the five-mast schooner George P. Hudson had been rammed and sunk in Vineyard Sound in a fog on July 12, they said: "Oh, they'll raise her again; you can't kill the Hudson!" Such was this old schooner's repu- tation for toughness, but it is very unlikely that she will recover from this latest disaster. The steam col- lier Middlesex cut a 50-foot hole in her port bow when she hit her, her fore and main masts were carried away by the crash, and she went down almost instantly in 13 fathoms, tak- ing with her Capt. John H. Thomas, of Cambridge, Mass., and two negro seamen who had no time to get away. Incidentally her loss reduces the po THE MARINE REVIEW . 'now disbanded, of William F. Palmer, of Boston. Her first notable mishap occurred in January, 1906, when she missed the entrance of Chesapeake Bay in thick weather while inward bound in ballast, and went high and dry on Virginia Beach. The stumps of an ancient submerged forest penetrated her bottom, and her case looked: so hopeless that she was abandoned to the underwriters. Final- ly floated by a wrecking company she was repaired by them and renamed for the man responsible for her. salvage. Later she was sold to the Coastwise Transportation Co., of Boston, and again when that concern began to re- place its schooners with steamers, to Russell Brothers, of Boston. Several years ago she stranded in a gale of wind on the south side of Long Island, a sinister graveyard of FIVE-MASTED SCHOONER GEORGE P. HUDSON number of five-mast schooners on the east coast to 23, while there are now but seven six-masters remaining. The unwieldly type has been hard hit by steamers and barges of late; none have been built in the last five years,' and the rig is slated for early extinc- tion. The Hudson perhaps was the best known of the the big wooden sailing craft on the coast except the pioneer five-master Governor Ames, and it is to the remarkable series of mishaps she. suffered during her 14 years' career that she owed her fame. . She was built at Waldoboro, Me., in 1900, was 2,075 net tons, 266 feet long and had a carrying capacity of 3,500 tons of coal. Originally she was called the Fannie Palmer, and a mem- ber of the famous white-painted fleet, ships which lets few escape once they strike the sands. The Hudson bilged and filled with water, but was floated and made as good as new. Later while bound from Portsmouth to a coal part she went ashore in the fog on Peaked Hill Bar, one of the worst menaces to navigation off dreaded Cape Cod. Fortunately she was in ballast; again she surprised the sea- faring fraternity and was pulled off intact, ies sie had been on fre in Hampton Roads when loaded with coal. On each occasion the blaze is supposed to have started from the donkey engine in the forward house. 3oth times it was extinguished before reaching her cargo, though serious damage was done above decks and the vessel was nearly sunk by the weight September, 1914 x of water pumped into her to put out the flames. : While at anchor in New York bay a few years ago she was run into by a tramp steamer which struck her abreast the spanker-mast and almost cut "her stern (off... Once more she survived what would have proved a death blow to many of her sister craft, and not long after was in com- mission again. When last October she ran _ into the five-master Margaret Haskell in the fog in Vineyard Sound, she seems to have been the aggressor for the fivst, tame on? record.' "On that doce casion, however, she by no means escaped unscathed, for she lost part of her headgear and damaged her stem, being towed to Boston and repaired. Her many misadventures had robbed the Hudson of nearly every vestige of her once graceful sheer, and marine observers along the coast recognized her as being the worst "hogged" Cratt "int the: coal trade: A coincidence connected with her passing was that the Middlesex, which finally sank the Hudson, is owned by the Coastwise Transportation Co., which had discarded the big schooner a few years before. ' Panama-Pacific Service The International Mercantile Marine Co., comprising the American, Atlantic ' Transport, Red Star, White Star and White Star-Dominion Lines announce that early in 1915 a new passenger and freight service to be known as _ the Panama Pacific Line will be established, sailing every three weeks between New York and San Francisco through the newly opened Panama canal. The steamers selected for this new route from coast to coast are the Finland and Kroonland, each 22,000 tons displace- ment, favorably known to thousands of trans-Atlantic travelers who have voyaged upon them in the Red Star Line's New York-Dover-Antwerp Service. The Finland and Kroonland are American- built steamers flying the American flag, and as they are the largest vessels ever scheduled in a regular coast to coast trade, they will meet the popular de- mand for a pleasant, comfortable coast- wise voyage with a trip through the Panama Canal to see the wonders of its operation. The transit from New York to San Francisco will be made in sixteen days, and the Finland and Kroonland will call enroute either to San Diego or at Los Angeles, according to itinerary, which will be a great convenience for travelers bound to and from the south- ern section of California. In view of the expected large volume of travel to OR a ee TN oe Set oper cise Tn 3