Show I I I S S VISIONS BEAD SHIPS Phantom Vessels Were Seen Off the Coast of Maine t S C Iuro I n nu u living 1 In In m ml l who c believe In time tho dead IShip I ship iv l' l tradition fum fan familiar lar larlo to lo them from childhood a and d readily accepted accepted ac uc- ac- ac as truth lruth by these old men of oC the semi sea who share tho the superstitions of or orthe the sailors and whose whoso fancies lean to 10 the tho romantic and picturesque says saya the Boston DONton Herald Is 18 not the only locality that numbers a phantom ship amon among her traditional and misty belongings but bUl buther buther her phantom has bc been n Immortalized In Inthe time the verse verso of Longfellow an and is thus distinguished dis dis- from Crom room the common sort of or ghost ships that are arc told of in iii ship chandleries all alt along shore from Crom Eastport Eastport Eastport East- East port to Kittery tier Her 1211 g Onion The rhe Hl people declared that time the dead ship came often orten to their shores although she never reached tho harbor She come came always at dusk usk and andI generally in lii stormy tormy we weather ther a pouring In tn the Offing ani neil and coming straight on on with all sail set only to fads fade away like at a i mist wh when whon n close in Not only the time folk but the of the Islands of oC disco Casco bay lJay believed In Inthe Inthe the time phantom and antI in the tho ill III omen men of tier her coming coming- that her appearance appearance- off orr shore was a u sure sign that within u a month cr crape lp would hang upon time the door of oC one of or those who had bail seen her Time The Harps Hurps- well voll tars told the tho poet pool all the details of or orthe time the ghost ships ship's appearance how appearance how she sho seemed always to lo como come in a fog Cog or mist although h the weather at ut tho time time lime might be perC perfectly clear No o crew was to be seen n upon her decks no hand at ather ather her helm holm and sho she came on with neither nap flap of or salt sail nor creak of or block like block like e a veritable spirit ship In the time days when Longfellow formed his friendship at there were wore still living upon time the neck nock old men who I knew the name that was borne by the Iho phantom situ ship when she sho was a reality of oak anti and iron tron land sailed time the seas with witha a sturdy Yunk Yankee e c crew The fishermen fishermenS affirmed that the they had been personally S acquainted with her imer captain and with members of or her crew all of ot whom whom-mm wore won lost when the ship went down on the reefs roofs off the neck and titus became a phantom and the poet tells us that In his da day there sat In the shipyards of or Freeport a aged cd men who had hewed the heavy oal oaken clI timbers that ma made mado o her hex frame From all nil this time belief belld of earl eari early men In tho time phantom shiv I seems natural enough h and their belief r has been ball handed lIed down to the present L generation although no one claims t to have hae seen the Hac phan phantom lorn in tn recent t years cars Her lust appearance It Is said was wo I about the tho year 1878 |