Descendants of William Hascall of Fontmell Magna (1490-1542)

Notes


22749. Capt. Judson Torrey Haskell

Judson Torrey Haskell was a seaman. He is listed as a yachtsman at age 31 in the 1900 Federal Census of Deer Isle and at age 50 a yacht captain in the 1920 Census.


42936. Ada Marie Haskell

Ada Marie Haskell was unmarried.


Norman Arthur Gray

Norman Arthur Gray was a seaman. At age 38 he was an "officer on a private yacht" (1930 Federal Census, Everett, Massachusetts).


Herbert P. Bray

Herbert P. Bray at age 28 was a yachtsman (1900 Census). He is listed in Deer Isle town records in 1907 as a sea captain.


Allan Torrey Smith

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Allan served as a First Engineer, S.S. Oregonian, Merchant Marines during World War II.

He resided in Hancock County, Maine prior to the war.

Allan was declared "Missing In Action" when the Oregonian was attacked by German aircraft about 120 miles Southwest of Svalbard in the North Atlantic and sunk during the war.

22 crew members were killed plus 7 of the armed navy guards. The 14 survivors were picked up by escort vessels and taken to Scotland.

His remains were not recovered.


Arthur Brown Knowlton

Arthur Brown Knowlton at age 31 was a seaman (1920 Census) and is listed as a fisherman in the 1920 Census.


22755. Capt. Edward Young Haskell

The Deer Isle & Stonington Press
July 1, 1927

News came Wednesday of the sudden death of Capt. Edward Y. Haskell of New London, Conn., formerly of Deer Isle. He was the son of the late Capt. George D. Haskell by his first wife, and was 48 years of age. When hardly out of his teens, he became a commander of yachts and soon was one of the widest known captains on the Atlantic coast, his last command being the palatial steam yacht Viking. He married in early life Miss Helen, dr. of the late Capt. And Mrs. Ed. A. Richardson, who together with two sons, William and Edward Y., Jr., and two daughters, Barbara and Julia E., survives him.
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Newsletter of the International Haskell Family Society
Volume 13, No. 3, September 2004

On April 30, 1905, a London, Connecticut, USA newspaper announced:

Captain Edward Y. Haskell of this city, master of the steam yacht Viking, has been granted a patent on an instrument to be used in connection with the mariner's compass for the purpose of sighting a moving object at sea and recording automatically its true bearing on the compass.

Prior to securing a patent, Capt. Haskell, himself a navigator and ship master of extensive experience, tested out his course marker and finder in actual service and found that under all conditions, when a moving object was sighted through the finder, the needle provided for that purpose recorded the bearing of the object accurately. Further, Capt. Haskell found that when the object was sighted a second time, the observer, having the course of his own vessel in mind, determined at once the probability or possibility of a collision, if neither vessel changed its course.

The Haskell marker and finder's simple design, accuracy of results, inexpensive cost, and lack of cumbersomeness in attachment to a binnacle renders it a valuable accessory to the navigation bridge.

... Patents have already been applied for in Europe and agencies are being formed for securing patents in all parts of the world.
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The instrument that Captain E. Y. Haskell invented is used to this day. It has never been superseded because  it is simple and accurate. The Pelorus, as it came to be called, is a navigational instrument resembling a mariner's compass but without magnetic needles, and having two sight vanes by which bearings are taken.

By December of 1916 Captain Haskell had been able to place his invention, by then known as the "Haskell Locator", on steamers of a number of shipping lines, including Clyde, Luckenbach, Ocean, White Star, and American-Hawaiian, as well as on a goodly number of large private steam yachts.


Frank Emery Hardy Jr.

Frank Emery Hardy, Jr. at age 26 was a yachtsman at the time of his marriage to Carrie Haskell.


42959. Emery Haskell Hardy


Newsletter of the Haskell Family Society
Vol 6 No 3 September 1997

Emery Haskell Hardy, 71, of Deer Isle, Maine, USA, died 14 March 1997 at the Island Nursing Home. Born 30 October 1925, he was son of Frank and Carrie (Haskell) Hardy Jr. He served in the Army during World War II, worked on the windjammer Mattie many years, and as maintenance worker at the French Camp and Maine Waterways until retirement. A 55-year member of the Deer Isle, County, State and National Granges, he is survived by a brother, Roger Hardy, and several nieces, nephews and cousins. He was predeceased by three brothers, Granville, Phillip and Amos; and a sister, Marguerite. Burial at Forest Hill Cemetery.