IRVEN SPANCER MAULL, LEWES HARBOR MASTER

IRVEN SPENCER MAULL

1969 LEWES HARBOR MASTER

Irven S. Maull of Lewes, an automobile mechanic, has been the

Lewes Harbor Master for the past 12 years but still does not know what

the job is all about. He said somebody called him from the capital in Dover and asked if I wanted a the harbor job. He questioned what the job required, they answered 'nothing' , so that being the sort of job I wanted,

I took the job. They never told me what a harbor master was or just what

he has to do, so I never did anything. They don't pay anything either.

Irven did know that other Delaware River harbor masters had things to do

like keep ships moving about, make sure harbor traffic goes the right way.

That did not happen in Lewes, no pay, no work, only a title.

Maull had spent most of his 79 years on the water, fishing parties, government work and such, took pilots out to ships going up river from 1929 to 1959.

Boats are Maull's life, today he builds them and makes repairs.

The mention of the British brig, the DeBraak, he is all fired up and told

us it is a bunch of foolishness. He had guided Merritt Scott and Chapman

a year or so ago, but did not find her, I told them she is under the sand of

the capes. But no one wants to hear shipwreck tales, bad times at sea stories anymore.

So, Irvin S. Maull, wrong spelling, is still harbor master of Port of Lewes,

and Rehoboth & Lewes Canal, even though his appointment expired July

1, 1965. He has nor been replaced.

Abstract: Wilmington Morning News, Saturday December 6, 1969, Sussex Burau's Peninsula People.