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"17a" Pendleton Brothers (2) REPUBLICAN JOURNAL OCTOBER 15, 1903 PENDLETON'S NEW VESSEL. The four mastered schooner PENDLETON BROTHERS will be launched from Pendleton's yard in Belfast next week, probably Wednesday or Thursday. She was built and is principally owned by Capt. Fields C. Pendleton of Islesboro, and is a handsome specimen of Marine architecture. Her dimensions on the custom house books are as follows: length, 194.8 feet; breadth, 38.6; number of decks, 2; number of masts, 4; gross tonnage, 970.16; net tonnage, 850.30. Her frame is a white oak and her plank and ceiling heart pine. The lower masts our aura gone pine, 96 feet long, and the topmasts 50 feet. The standing rigging is of steel wire. Her donkey engine, boiler, and machinery is from the Hyde Windlass Company of Bath. Her anchors weigh 3400 and 4700 pounds, and she has 2 inch chains. The cabins are finished in ash, mahogany and sycamore; the state rooms in North Carolina pine; the captain's room, companionway, etc., and oak; and the full Woodhouse, engine room, etc., in north Carolina pine, all in the natural wood. The details of the decorations and furnishings are not yet decided on. The vessel is rated A1* for 15 years. Former vessels built by the Pendleton's end this yard were painted white, but the new schooner has a white rail, a black waste, a white ribbon, and below that bronze green to the water line, with the usual copper bottom. In a panel on each side of the cut water are the words: "F. C. Pendleton builder, Belfast, ME." As she sits on the stocks fully rigged, with sails bent and sail covers on, she is as handsome a vessel of her class as can be seen anywhere. The PENDLETON BROTHERS will be commanded by Capt. Jere O. Hayes of Belfast, who has seen her grow from the keel up. The master builder was O. R. Webster; joiner, Fred V. Cottrell; blacksmith, Fred A. Sanborn, all of Belfast; caulker, Gilbert Watson of Harrington; painters, Sprague & Pendleton of Islesboro; rigger, Henry Gardner of Castine; sail maker, J. G. Mulvaney of Bangor. BANGOR DAILY NEWS OCTOBER 22, 1903 There was launched from the Pendleton Bros. shipyard in Belfast at 11 o'clock, Wednesday forenoon, the schooner PENDLETON BROTHERS, another handsome vessel to be added to their feet of nearly 100 vessels. The new craft is a four-master and is one of the best built and most graceful vessels ever constructed in Belfast. Particularly is this vessel notable for its clean, smooth run and perfect outlines which insures fast sailing. The dimensions are - Length of keel 182 feet; length over all 213 feet; beam 38 ½ feet; depth of hold 20 feet. The four masts are of Oregon pine and are 96 feet in length and the top masts are 50 feet. The booms and gaffs are 41 feet; spanker boom 63 feet; bow-sprit 47 feet; jib-boom 62 feet. The gross tonnage is 970; net tonnage 850. The two anchors weigh 4700 and 3400 pounds respectively. The frame is of white oak and hard pine. The vessel is named PENDLETON BROTHERS, after the members of that well known family of Pendleton of Islesboro who own and control 100 vessels. The builder and sole owner of PENDLETON BROTHERS is Capt. Fields C. Pendleton who has taken great pride in the construction of this vessel. Every part that went into the vessel was carefully selected and personally superintended by him. Capt. Pendleton thinks the PENDLETON BROTHERS the best vessel he ever built. The launching was successful in every particular. Many people being present from Bangor, Islesboro and several from Boston and New York. Among the guests of the owner were his two sons, Fields S. and Edwin S. of New York and Mr. Smith, president of the Maritime Exchange of New York. The vessel was christened by Miss Grace Pendleton, daughter of the owner. Instead of a bottle of wine Miss Pendleton performed the ceremony with a huge bouquet of white roses. She will be commanded by Capt. Jerry Hayes of Belfast. One a recent voyage to Cuba, Captain Hayes had one of his legs broken by getting caught in the wheel ropes. He set the broken leg himself and commanded the vessel into port. The master builder was O. R. Webster of Belfast, one of the most competent builders in the country.