Portland (shipwreck)

Painting of steamship from the side showing the whole ship as it steams with flags hoisted and three decks populated with riders.
PS Portland at sea, by Antonio Jacobsen.
History
NamePS Portland
NamesakePortland, Maine
Owner
  • Portland Steam Packet Co.
  • (later the Portland Steamship Co.)
RouteAtlantic Ocean between Portland, Maine and Boston, Massachusetts
BuilderNew England Shipbuilding Co., Bath, Maine
Cost$250,000
LaunchedOctober 14, 1889
HomeportPortland, Maine
FateSank on 27 November 1898, during the Portland Gale
General characteristics
TypePassenger paddle steamship
Tonnage
Length
Beam
  • 42 ft (13 m) hull;
  • 68 ft (21 m) across wheel guards
Draft10 ft (3.0 m)
Depth of hold15 ft 6 in (4.72 m)
DecksThree
Installed power(1) 62-inch-bore (1.6 m), 12-foot-stroke (3.7 m), 1,200-horsepower vertical-beam steam engine with (2) boilers
Propulsion(2) 35-foot-diameter (11 m) paddlewheels; each having (26) paddle buckets, 8 ft × 2 ft (2.4 m × 0.6 m), dipping 4 ft (1.2 m).
Speed12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Capacity156 staterooms accommodating 700 passengers; 400 tons freight[1]
Crew63
Portland (Shipwreck and Remains)
Nearest cityGloucester, Massachusetts
NRHP reference No.04001473[2]
Added to NRHPJanuary 13, 2005

PS Portland was a large side-wheel paddle steamer, an ocean-going steamship with side-mounted paddlewheels. She was built in 1889 for passenger service between Boston, Massachusetts, and Portland, Maine. She is best known as the namesake of the infamous Portland Gale of 1898, a massive blizzard that struck coastal New England, claiming the lives of over 400 people and more than 150 vessels.[3]

Construction and design

Portland's wooden hull was built by the New England Company in Bath, Maine. The 1200-horsepower vertical-beam steam engine was constructed by the Portland Company, with a bore, or cylinder diameter, measuring 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) across, together with a 12 ft (3.7 m) stroke.[1] The ship's two iron boilers were constructed at the Bath Iron Works, also in Bath, Maine.

Portland was built for the Portland Steam Packet Company (later renamed Portland Steamship Company), at a cost of $250,000 ($8.48 million in 2023), to provide overnight passenger service between Boston and Portland.[1] She was one of New England's largest and most luxurious paddle steamers in existence at the time, and after nine years' solid performance, she had earned a reputation as a safe and dependable vessel.[4]

Final voyage and sinking

On November 27, 1898, Portland, having departed Boston earlier, was en route to Portland, Maine, following her traditional route. Unbeknownst to the crew, a powerful storm system was quickly traveling north, and Portland, despite her reputation as a remarkably safe vessel, was ill-equipped to handle such extreme conditions.

At some point during the storm, Portland sank off of Cape Ann with all hands, the exact number of which cannot be determined, as the only known passenger list went down with the ship. Initial newspaper accounts at the time estimated the loss as from 99 to 118 persons.[5][6] The bodies of only 16 crew and 35 passengers were ever recovered, but present-day estimates are that the Portland was carrying, in total, from 193 to 245 persons, including 63 crew.[7]

Her loss represented New England's greatest steamship disaster prior to the year 1900.[4]

Shipwreck

The shipwreck is lying 460 feet (140 m) below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean near Gloucester, Massachusetts, at an undisclosed location within the federally-protected Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.[8] The site was first located in 1989 by John Fish and Arnold Carr of American Underwater Search and Survey. The find was confirmed in 2002 by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expedition that used remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to photograph the wreck.[9] The wreck was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.[10]

Divers explore Portland wreckage

In 2008, five Massachusetts scuba divers became the first to reach the steamship, also known as the "Titanic of New England".[8] The divers made three successful dives, and reported that the wreck was strewn with artifacts, like stacks of dishes, mugs, wash basins and toilets, but no human remains. They did not, however, explore below the deck because of the danger.[8] Because of the depth of the wreck site, they reported that some of their dive lights imploded, and they could only explore the site for 10–15 minutes before needing to return to the surface.[8] The divers "were unable to retrieve artifacts" due to rules in place at the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.[8]

See also

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d Stanton, Samuel Ward (1895). "American Steam Vessels". Great Lakes Maritime Society. p. 387. Archived from the original on 24 May 2008. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  2. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  3. ^ Heit, Judi (19 October 2010). "Lost or Damaged Vessels". portlandgale.blogspot.com. The Portland Gale. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  4. ^ a b "Portland". Maritime Heritage. Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. 2 January 2009. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  5. ^ "Ninety-Nine Lives Go Out with the Wrecking of the Portland: Steamship Dashed to Pieces on the Rocky Shore of Cape Cod". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. The San Francisco Call. Library of Congress. 30 November 1898. p. 1. Retrieved 26 October 2014. The list given above numbers fifty-one passengers and forty-eight officers and crew.
  6. ^ "The Portland Sunk; 118 lives lost; Steamer from Boston wrecked Sunday off Cape Cod". The New York Times. 30 November 1898. Retrieved 26 October 2014. The steamer Portland, bound from Boston to Portland, went down off Truro, on the outside of Cape Cod, Sunday morning. Every man, woman, and child on board at the time of the disaster was drowned, in all 118.
  7. ^ "Passenger and Crew Lost with the Steamship Portland". Maritime Heritage. Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. 5 January 2009. Archived from the original on 2017-02-06. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  8. ^ a b c d e "Divers reach steamship that sank off Mass. in 1898". USA Today. October 7, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-07.
  9. ^ "Location of the Portland Wreck confirmed by NOAA". NOAA. 29 August 2008.
  10. ^ "Shipwreck in NOAA's Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Added to National Register of Historic Places" (PDF). NOAA. 17 February 2005.

References

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