His beautiful home in Bath was filled with a valuable collection of pictures, 

 rugs and bronzes, and he was recognized as an authority in those arts and a 

 discriminating collector. Mr. Andrews had been, for several years, president 

 of the First National Bank of Bath. He was a member of many clubs, of 

 the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and an associate member of 

 the Council of this Society. 



RANSFORD D. BUCKNAM 



Ransford D. Bucknam was bom in Hantsport, Nova Scotia, in 1869, 

 but was brought to Moimt Desert, Me., when still an infant. When he was 

 four years old his father was lost at sea. While still a lad he secured a place 

 as a cabin boy on a ship plying the Great Lakes. After two years he shipped 

 from Boston on a steamship bound for Australia, and was shipwrecked on 

 the north coast of that continent. 



Returning to the Great Lakes carrying trade, he became master of a 

 whaleback, was promoted to be manager of the Alexander McDougall fleet 

 and superintendent of the American Steel Barge Company. He next entered 

 the employ of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and was first officer of 

 the City of Pekin, when he was off'ered the position of marine superintendent 

 of the Wm. Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company. He com- 

 manded the U. S. battleship Maine No. 2 on her trial trip and the cruiser 

 Medjedia, which the Cramp Company built for the Turkish Government an4 

 agreed to deliver to them. The Medjedia arrived in the Bosphorus on July 

 4, 1904, and the Sultan retained him as naval expert to teach the Ottoman 

 sailors how to handle a warship and to shoot accurately. For his services 

 to the Sultan he was decorated with many medals and the insignia of the order 

 of the Osmanieh. 



After the overthrow of the Sultan (Abdul Hamid), Admiral Bucknam 

 was retained in the service and was the leading authority at the Turkish Ad- 

 miralty during the Balkan wars. 



Admiral Bucknam died on March 27, 1915, in Constantinople. 



