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- Bangor Daily News
DEER ISLE - Arthur C. "Dud" Haskell crossed the bar March 2, 2010, at Island Nursing Home, Deer Isle. He was born at home Aug. 20, 1920, son of Beatrice Pickering and Arthur C. Haskell Sr. He was a master mariner and followed the sea his entire life. He was a Merchant Marine veteran of World War II, serving on the Alcoa Polaris, a troop transport in the Pacific. He was a friend to all and helped all in need. He especially enjoyed his work with Memorial Ambulance.
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Issue 82 of the Haskell Journal.
DEER ISLE'97Arthur Cabot "Dud" Haskell Jr.crossed the bar, March 2, 2010, at the Island Nursing Home. He was the oldest child of Arthur C. and Beatrice Pickering Haskell. He was born at home in Deer Isle, August 20, 1920. He graduated from McKinley High School, Deer Isle, in 1938, and was a proud member of the high school band.
In 1939 he began his maritime career on the yacht Camargo. In 1940 he went to work for Merchant & Miners Co. climbing the hawse pipe on ships S.S. Kent, S.S. Fairfax, S.S. Berkshire, and the ill-fated S.S. Dorchester. At the beginning of WW II he got his 3rd mate's papers and shipped on the Alcoa Polaris, a C-1 military cargo ship on an around the world trip via the Panama Canal to Australia, the Persian Gulf to Cape Town, South Africa, to Buenos Aires and back to the United States. The ship was converted to a troop transport. He sailed as 2nd mate to the Pacific where it was involved in the conflicts at New Guinea, Bougainville, Saipan and the Leyte Gulf.
After the war he went back to yachting, and earned his unlimited masters license in 1951. He spent the 50s as master of yachts cruising the Atlantic and Caribbean. In the 60s he returned to commercial vessels, serving on missile trackers, cargo ships, and tankers. In 1980 he retired from the sea, to Deer Isle, to help with the care of his parents, until their deaths. He was very community-minded and did what he could the help people and the community. He joined the Memorial Ambulance Corps, earned his EMT and served on the Board of Directors.
He mentored several school children, and was always interested in attending school events'97especially basketball games. He took great interest in his grandchildren's accomplishments. He was a local historian of Island families and local lore'97keeping many journals and scrapbooks. He was a 55+ year member of Marine Lodge #122 of Deer Isle. His special project was the restoration of the Shakespeare School, a one-room school that in recent years had been used as a school bus garage. With the help of others in the neighborhood, he returned the building to its original configuration.
Always a friend, he cared for several of his friends and shipmates in their final days. He was predeceased by his parents, a great-grandson, Joe, and three close boyhood friends, Ted Pickering, Charles Haskell and Walker Pickering. He is survived by his daughter, Carole LeMoine of Ellsworth, son Jon, and his wife, Doreene, of Deer Isle; grandchildren, Julie Allen, Janet Carter, Jennifer Brown, Barbara Aldrich, Jonathan Haskell, Susan Lucey and Jessica Haskell; great-grandchildren, Taylor, Rob, Patrick, Jennie, Samantha, Chelsea, Whitney, Christina, Nicholas, Rylie and Cayle; brother, Victor, and his wife, Barbara, of Stonington, sister, Carolyn Heston of Beech Grove, Ind.; several cousins, nephews and a niece; and very many friends, especially Eric Ziner and family.
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U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010
Name: Arthur Haskell
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 20 Aug 1920
Death Date: 2 Mar 2010
Branch 1: MM
Enlistment Date 1: 28 Apr 1943
Release Date 1: 15 Aug 1945
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U.S., Merchant Marine Applications for License of Officers, 1914-1949
Name: Arthur C Haskell Jr
Birth Date: 20 Aug 1920
Application Date: 2 Aug 1944
Residence: Deer Isle, Maine, USA
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