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| 14064 | Puritan - Schooner |
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| Vessel Name - Puritan Class – schooner Hull - wood Masts - two Rig – gaff rigged Build date - 1886 Built by – McDonald & Brown Built at – Belfast, Maine Tons - 116.07 "Down at Hall Quarry there is considerable activity in granite shipping. From the firm of Campbell & Macomber a large cargo of cut granite will be shipped by the schooner Puritan this week, valued at $3000. The stone goes to Hartford, Conn., via New York, on contract they are filling. Several other cargoes will be shipped later." – Daily Kennebec Journal, Saturday, September 30, 1905. "SCHOONER ABANDONED. PICKED UP BY A TUG AND TOWED TO BOSTON. Sy Telegraph to Th* FrMmaa. Boston, Mass., July 20.— The two masted schooner Puritan, of Belfast, Maine, was picked up dismasted and abandoned by the tug Vesta yesterday off The Graves, and towed here. The Puritan was bound from Deer Isle, Maine, to New York, laden with granite, and was off the Pitch of Cape Cod when the storm broke Saturday night. The captain put back to Salem for shelter, but when off The Graves he lost his masts. A lobster smack took off the captain and crew apd brought them to this port and a tug was sent out for the dismasted vessel, which was found near the spot where it was abandoned." – The Kingston Daily Freeman, Volume 02, July 20, 1903. | 
Description: Vessel Name - Puritan Class – schooner Hull - wood Masts - two Rig – gaff rigged Build date - 1886 Built by – McDonald & Brown Built at – Belfast, Maine Tons - 116.07 "Down at Hall Quarry there is considerable activity in granite shipping. From the firm of Campbell & Macomber a large cargo of cut granite will be shipped by the schooner Puritan this week, valued at $3000. The stone goes to Hartford, Conn., via New York, on contract they are filling. Several other cargoes will be shipped later." – Daily Kennebec Journal, Saturday, September 30, 1905. "SCHOONER ABANDONED. PICKED UP BY A TUG AND TOWED TO BOSTON. Sy Telegraph to Th* FrMmaa. Boston, Mass., July 20.— The two masted schooner Puritan, of Belfast, Maine, was picked up dismasted and abandoned by the tug Vesta yesterday off The Graves, and towed here. The Puritan was bound from Deer Isle, Maine, to New York, laden with granite, and was off the Pitch of Cape Cod when the storm broke Saturday night. The captain put back to Salem for shelter, but when off The Graves he lost his masts. A lobster smack took off the captain and crew apd brought them to this port and a tug was sent out for the dismasted vessel, which was found near the spot where it was abandoned." – The Kingston Daily Freeman, Volume 02, July 20, 1903. [show more] | |||||
| 14014 | USS Dolphin |
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| USS Dolphin, a 1486-ton steel unarmed dispatch vessel, was built at Chester, Pennsylvania, as one of the first ships of the "New Navy". Dolphin - Length 240 feet. Breadth 32 feet. Mean draft 141/4 feet. Displacement 1,486 tons. Speed 15.50 knots per hour. Personnel 7 officers. 110 men. Cost $315,000. Commissioned in December 1885, she steamed around the World during her first three years' service, and then served off the U.S. east coast and in the West Indies area for the next three decades. For much of this time, Dolphin was employed in support of high-ranking Government officials, as well as on more conventional gunboat-type duties. "On July 24, 1892, with Assistant Secretary of the Navy James Soley aboard, the "Dolphin" participated in a practice cruise of New York's First Naval Battalion. At about this time, work began converting the "Dolphin" to a presidential yacht…" - “Special Fleet: The History of the Presidential Yachts” by Fred Eugene Crockett, published by Down East Books, 1985, p. 28-36. See these pages for a description of her conversion and the presidents who sailed in her. Dolphin was decommissioned in October 1921 and sold in February 1922. | 
Description: USS Dolphin, a 1486-ton steel unarmed dispatch vessel, was built at Chester, Pennsylvania, as one of the first ships of the "New Navy". Dolphin - Length 240 feet. Breadth 32 feet. Mean draft 141/4 feet. Displacement 1,486 tons. Speed 15.50 knots per hour. Personnel 7 officers. 110 men. Cost $315,000. Commissioned in December 1885, she steamed around the World during her first three years' service, and then served off the U.S. east coast and in the West Indies area for the next three decades. For much of this time, Dolphin was employed in support of high-ranking Government officials, as well as on more conventional gunboat-type duties. "On July 24, 1892, with Assistant Secretary of the Navy James Soley aboard, the "Dolphin" participated in a practice cruise of New York's First Naval Battalion. At about this time, work began converting the "Dolphin" to a presidential yacht…" - “Special Fleet: The History of the Presidential Yachts” by Fred Eugene Crockett, published by Down East Books, 1985, p. 28-36. See these pages for a description of her conversion and the presidents who sailed in her. Dolphin was decommissioned in October 1921 and sold in February 1922. [show more] | |||||
| 14015 | USS Concord |
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| USS Concord, a Yorktown Class Gunboat was laid down in May 1888 by the Delaware River Iron Works, Chester, Pennsylvania; Launched 8 March 1890; Commissioned USS Concord, Gunboat No. 3, 14 February 1891. USS Concord - Displacement 1,710 t; Length 245'; Beam 36'; Draft 14'; Speed 16.8 kts; Complement 195; Armament six 6" breech-loading rifles, two 6-pounders and two 3-pounder rapid firing guns, two Hotchkiss revolving cannon, two Gatling guns - (1910) six 6"mounts and four 3-pounders; Propulsion four cylindrical boilers, two 3,405ihp horizontal triple-expansion engines, two shafts. With the declaration of war between Spain and the United States in April 1898, Concord joined Admiral George Dewey's squadron at Mirs Bay near Hong Kong on the 24th and sailed for the Philippines. On 1 May the squadron entered Manila Bay and won the victory that resulted in American control of the Philippines. Concord was sold 28 June 1929. | 
Description: USS Concord, a Yorktown Class Gunboat was laid down in May 1888 by the Delaware River Iron Works, Chester, Pennsylvania; Launched 8 March 1890; Commissioned USS Concord, Gunboat No. 3, 14 February 1891. USS Concord - Displacement 1,710 t; Length 245'; Beam 36'; Draft 14'; Speed 16.8 kts; Complement 195; Armament six 6" breech-loading rifles, two 6-pounders and two 3-pounder rapid firing guns, two Hotchkiss revolving cannon, two Gatling guns - (1910) six 6"mounts and four 3-pounders; Propulsion four cylindrical boilers, two 3,405ihp horizontal triple-expansion engines, two shafts. With the declaration of war between Spain and the United States in April 1898, Concord joined Admiral George Dewey's squadron at Mirs Bay near Hong Kong on the 24th and sailed for the Philippines. On 1 May the squadron entered Manila Bay and won the victory that resulted in American control of the Philippines. Concord was sold 28 June 1929. [show more] | |||||
| 14012 | USS Vesuvius |
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| USS Vesuvius, the third ship of the United States Navy named for the Italian volcano, was a unique vessel in the Navy inventory which marked a departure from more conventional forms of main battery armament. She is considered a dynamite gun cruiser. Vesuvius was laid down in September 1887 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by William Cramp and Sons Ships and Engine Building Company, subcontracted from the Pneumatic Dynamite Gun Company of New York, New York. Vesuvius was 929 tons. She was launched on 28 April 1888 sponsored by Miss Eleanor Breckinridge and commissioned on 2 June 1890 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard with Lieutenant Seaton Schroeder in command. Vesuvius carried three 15-inch pneumatic guns, mounted forward side-by-side. In order to train these weapons, the ship had to be aimed, like a gun, at its target. Compressed air projected the shells from the "dynamite guns." The explosive used in the shells themselves was actually a "desensitized blasting gelatin" composed of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine. It was less sensitive to shock than regular dynamite but still sensitive enough that compressed air, rather than powder, had to be utilized as the propellant. Vesuvius sailed for New York shortly after commissioning and then joined the Fleet at Gardiner's Bay, New York, on 1 October 1890. She operated off the east coast with the North Atlantic Squadron into 1895. She served in the Spanish American War. Originally a dynamite gun cruiser she became an experimental torpedo boat. She was decommissioned and ordered appraised for sale on 21 April 1922 to J. Lipsitz and Company of Chelsea, Massachusetts. | 
Description: USS Vesuvius, the third ship of the United States Navy named for the Italian volcano, was a unique vessel in the Navy inventory which marked a departure from more conventional forms of main battery armament. She is considered a dynamite gun cruiser. Vesuvius was laid down in September 1887 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by William Cramp and Sons Ships and Engine Building Company, subcontracted from the Pneumatic Dynamite Gun Company of New York, New York. Vesuvius was 929 tons. She was launched on 28 April 1888 sponsored by Miss Eleanor Breckinridge and commissioned on 2 June 1890 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard with Lieutenant Seaton Schroeder in command. Vesuvius carried three 15-inch pneumatic guns, mounted forward side-by-side. In order to train these weapons, the ship had to be aimed, like a gun, at its target. Compressed air projected the shells from the "dynamite guns." The explosive used in the shells themselves was actually a "desensitized blasting gelatin" composed of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine. It was less sensitive to shock than regular dynamite but still sensitive enough that compressed air, rather than powder, had to be utilized as the propellant. Vesuvius sailed for New York shortly after commissioning and then joined the Fleet at Gardiner's Bay, New York, on 1 October 1890. She operated off the east coast with the North Atlantic Squadron into 1895. She served in the Spanish American War. Originally a dynamite gun cruiser she became an experimental torpedo boat. She was decommissioned and ordered appraised for sale on 21 April 1922 to J. Lipsitz and Company of Chelsea, Massachusetts. [show more] | |||||
| 14013 | USS Philadelphia |
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| The USS Philadelphia (Philadelphia IV), a cruiser, was laid down 22 March 1888 by Wm. Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; launched 7 September 1889; sponsored by Miss Minnie Wanamaker, daughter of merchant and philanthropist John Wanamaker; and commissioned 28 July 1890, Capt. B. F. Bradford in command. While fitting out at the New York Navy Yard, Philadelphia was designated on 18 August as flagship of Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi, commanding the North Atlantic Squadron. Philadelphia - C 4: dp. 4,324: 1. 335'; b. 48'6", dr. 19'2"; s. 19 k., cpl. 384; a. 12 6", 4 6-pdrs., 4 3-pdrs., 2 1-pdrs., 3 37mm. Cruiser Philadelphia arrived San Francisco 22 August 1893. As the flaghip of the Commander-in-ehief, Pacific Station, she cruised with the squadron, engaging in drills and maneuvers, and visiting various ports on the west coast of the United States. She was struck from the Navy List 24 November 1926. Cruiser Philadelphia was sold at public auction at the Puget Sound Navy Yard in 1927 to Louis Rotherberg | 
Description: The USS Philadelphia (Philadelphia IV), a cruiser, was laid down 22 March 1888 by Wm. Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; launched 7 September 1889; sponsored by Miss Minnie Wanamaker, daughter of merchant and philanthropist John Wanamaker; and commissioned 28 July 1890, Capt. B. F. Bradford in command. While fitting out at the New York Navy Yard, Philadelphia was designated on 18 August as flagship of Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi, commanding the North Atlantic Squadron. Philadelphia - C 4: dp. 4,324: 1. 335'; b. 48'6", dr. 19'2"; s. 19 k., cpl. 384; a. 12 6", 4 6-pdrs., 4 3-pdrs., 2 1-pdrs., 3 37mm. Cruiser Philadelphia arrived San Francisco 22 August 1893. As the flaghip of the Commander-in-ehief, Pacific Station, she cruised with the squadron, engaging in drills and maneuvers, and visiting various ports on the west coast of the United States. She was struck from the Navy List 24 November 1926. Cruiser Philadelphia was sold at public auction at the Puget Sound Navy Yard in 1927 to Louis Rotherberg [show more] | |||||
| 13930 | Miantonomah - Schooner |
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| MIANTONOMAH, official # 113022, a 76 ton Schooner, built 1872 at Newbury (Port), Massachusetts, USA. Owner #1: Duncan Finlayson, Professional of Arachat, NS., registered the vessel in 1900 (Registration # S900139) at St. John's, NF., registry closed 1906 - Transfered to a New Port. Owner # 2: William Moffat, Farmer/Planter of Mayfield, PEI., registered the vessel in 1903 (Registration # I903012) at PEI., registry closed 1915 - Wrecked - River Bourgeois, NS. "There's an obvious error in closure and registration dates on the record. This is likely a transcription error. The other possibility is that the vessel may have been registered at two different ports at the same time, although this would be unusual." Schooner “Miantonomah” was reported as producing 1,400 inspected barrels for a value of $8,000.00 in 1880 – “Compilation of reports of Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, 1789-1901, First Congress, First Session, to Fifty-sixth Congress, Second Session, Trade and Commerce with Foreign Nations – Foreign Tariffs – Boundary and Fishery Disputes” Vol. V, ‘Large catches and “stocks” by the mackerel fleet in New England waters, season of 1880,’ p. 839, Published by Government Printing Office, 1901. | 
Description: MIANTONOMAH, official # 113022, a 76 ton Schooner, built 1872 at Newbury (Port), Massachusetts, USA. Owner #1: Duncan Finlayson, Professional of Arachat, NS., registered the vessel in 1900 (Registration # S900139) at St. John's, NF., registry closed 1906 - Transfered to a New Port. Owner # 2: William Moffat, Farmer/Planter of Mayfield, PEI., registered the vessel in 1903 (Registration # I903012) at PEI., registry closed 1915 - Wrecked - River Bourgeois, NS. "There's an obvious error in closure and registration dates on the record. This is likely a transcription error. The other possibility is that the vessel may have been registered at two different ports at the same time, although this would be unusual." Schooner “Miantonomah” was reported as producing 1,400 inspected barrels for a value of $8,000.00 in 1880 – “Compilation of reports of Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, 1789-1901, First Congress, First Session, to Fifty-sixth Congress, Second Session, Trade and Commerce with Foreign Nations – Foreign Tariffs – Boundary and Fishery Disputes” Vol. V, ‘Large catches and “stocks” by the mackerel fleet in New England waters, season of 1880,’ p. 839, Published by Government Printing Office, 1901. [show more] | |||||
| 13894 | Catherine - Schooner |
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| 13786 | Byron's Model Ships |
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| 13752 | Palestine - Schooner |
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| 13649 | Salvage III |
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| “Salvage III” was originally built at 82 tons, 66’ long, 4.5’ draft (light) and 24.5’ wide. Douglas lengthened her using the facilities at the Hinckley yard in Manset at the same time that he built their large self-powered steer able boat trailer in 1993-1994. “Salvage III” was lengthened by 16’ to 82’ and was 102 tons after lengthening. She carries 3 engines - all Detroit Diesels – two 871s and one 671 for operating the hydraulics and the generator. She carries a hydraulic derrick, and, among other things, uses the derrick to drive a “spud” (steel post) through a casing on the corner of the vessel to moor “Salvage III.” Douglas started building “Salvage III” at Southwest Boat Corporation on Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor, in late October 1989 and launched her in August 1990. “Salvage III” was one of the last vessels built there as Southwest Boat closed in February 1990. | 
Description: “Salvage III” was originally built at 82 tons, 66’ long, 4.5’ draft (light) and 24.5’ wide. Douglas lengthened her using the facilities at the Hinckley yard in Manset at the same time that he built their large self-powered steer able boat trailer in 1993-1994. “Salvage III” was lengthened by 16’ to 82’ and was 102 tons after lengthening. She carries 3 engines - all Detroit Diesels – two 871s and one 671 for operating the hydraulics and the generator. She carries a hydraulic derrick, and, among other things, uses the derrick to drive a “spud” (steel post) through a casing on the corner of the vessel to moor “Salvage III.” Douglas started building “Salvage III” at Southwest Boat Corporation on Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor, in late October 1989 and launched her in August 1990. “Salvage III” was one of the last vessels built there as Southwest Boat closed in February 1990. [show more] | |||||
| 13651 | Salvage II |
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| Built by Douglas Beal. His second vessel, “Salvage II” is now owned by Jeff Berzinis at Southwest Boat Marine Services on Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor. “Salvage II” is now “Triton.” | 
Description: Built by Douglas Beal. His second vessel, “Salvage II” is now owned by Jeff Berzinis at Southwest Boat Marine Services on Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor. “Salvage II” is now “Triton.” | |||||
| 13366 | Marion E. Turner - Schooner |
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| 13135 | Levi Woodbury - U.S. Revenue Cutter |
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| Vessel Name – Mahoning – renamed Levi Woodbury “Woodbury” April 1898 – renamed Laksco after 1915 Class – Topsail Schooner / Steamer – Pawtuxet-class tender Hull – wood – oak, locust and white oak w. iron diagonal bracing Masts - 2 Rig – topsail schooner Build date – 1863 Commissioned – July 18, 1864 Built by – J.W. Lynn & Sons Built at – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Built for – U.S. Revenue Service Named for – Mahoning creek and valley, Pennsylvania – 1898 for Levi Woodbury (1789-1851), U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, Supreme Court Justice Power – steam engine with 2 oscillating cylinders; single 8’ screw Displacement – 350 tons Length – 138’ Beam – 26’6” Draft – 11’ Crew – 7 officers, 34 enlisted Armament – 1 x 30-pound Parrott rifle; 5 x 24-pound howitzers Number – Disposition – By 1913, Woodbury was not only the Coast Guard's oldest cutter, she was the oldest active-duty vessel in U.S. government service, as well as being the only ship to have seen active service in both the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War. Decommissioned by Coast Guard, July 19, 1915, Portland, Maine. Sold to Thomas Butler & Co., Boston, Massachusetts August 10, 1915. Woodbury's decommission ended 51 years with the Revenue Cutter Service, making her one of the longest serving cutters in the organization's history. After her final decommission in 1915, Levi Woodbury was placed into service as the merchant Laksco. She disappears from shipping records in 1932. “For more than fifty years the cutter “Levi Woodbury” was stationed on the coast of Maine, ranging between Portland and Eastport with regular calls at Rockland, Castine, and Machiasport. At first her hull was black, but later was painted white. She served from 1864 until 1916, when she was condemned by the government and sold. She finished her days enacting shipwreck scenes in silent movies.” - “Penobscot Bay, Mount Desert and Eastport Steamboat Album” by Allie Ryan, p. 68-69 – 1972 A revenue cutter did customs work, survey work and smuggling patrol. It functioned as the Coast Guard does today. - Ralph Stanley - 09/26/2007 In 1790, Alexander Hamilton proposed armed shipping vessels to enforce customs duties in the nations shipping ports. Congress appropriated $10,000 to maintain 10 revenue cutters to be placed under the charge of customs collectors. | 
Description: Vessel Name – Mahoning – renamed Levi Woodbury “Woodbury” April 1898 – renamed Laksco after 1915 Class – Topsail Schooner / Steamer – Pawtuxet-class tender Hull – wood – oak, locust and white oak w. iron diagonal bracing Masts - 2 Rig – topsail schooner Build date – 1863 Commissioned – July 18, 1864 Built by – J.W. Lynn & Sons Built at – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Built for – U.S. Revenue Service Named for – Mahoning creek and valley, Pennsylvania – 1898 for Levi Woodbury (1789-1851), U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, Supreme Court Justice Power – steam engine with 2 oscillating cylinders; single 8’ screw Displacement – 350 tons Length – 138’ Beam – 26’6” Draft – 11’ Crew – 7 officers, 34 enlisted Armament – 1 x 30-pound Parrott rifle; 5 x 24-pound howitzers Number – Disposition – By 1913, Woodbury was not only the Coast Guard's oldest cutter, she was the oldest active-duty vessel in U.S. government service, as well as being the only ship to have seen active service in both the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War. Decommissioned by Coast Guard, July 19, 1915, Portland, Maine. Sold to Thomas Butler & Co., Boston, Massachusetts August 10, 1915. Woodbury's decommission ended 51 years with the Revenue Cutter Service, making her one of the longest serving cutters in the organization's history. After her final decommission in 1915, Levi Woodbury was placed into service as the merchant Laksco. She disappears from shipping records in 1932. “For more than fifty years the cutter “Levi Woodbury” was stationed on the coast of Maine, ranging between Portland and Eastport with regular calls at Rockland, Castine, and Machiasport. At first her hull was black, but later was painted white. She served from 1864 until 1916, when she was condemned by the government and sold. She finished her days enacting shipwreck scenes in silent movies.” - “Penobscot Bay, Mount Desert and Eastport Steamboat Album” by Allie Ryan, p. 68-69 – 1972 A revenue cutter did customs work, survey work and smuggling patrol. It functioned as the Coast Guard does today. - Ralph Stanley - 09/26/2007 In 1790, Alexander Hamilton proposed armed shipping vessels to enforce customs duties in the nations shipping ports. Congress appropriated $10,000 to maintain 10 revenue cutters to be placed under the charge of customs collectors. [show more] | |||||
| 13057 | E. T. Hamor - Schooner |
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| 13058 | Federal of Mt. Desert - Schooner |
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| 13059 | Kate L. Pray - Schooner |
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| 3700 | Pendleton Sisters - Schooner |
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| 3649 | Ligure - Schooner |
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| The Schooner Ligure was built in 1853 at Mt. Desert. It wrecked on March 29, 1879 on the Nantucket Shoals. James Granville Thurston, brother of Captain John B. Thurston, perished in the wreck. The crew included: Captain John Benjamin Thurston (1848 - Jan. 22, 1936) James Granville Thurston (Dec. 7, 1845 - March 29, 1879) Charles Benjamin Mitchell (1857-1927) Daniel G. Benson (1858-1931) Charles Leon Lawson (Jan. 1, 1863-1943) "Ligure" means precious stone | 
Description: The Schooner Ligure was built in 1853 at Mt. Desert. It wrecked on March 29, 1879 on the Nantucket Shoals. James Granville Thurston, brother of Captain John B. Thurston, perished in the wreck. The crew included: Captain John Benjamin Thurston (1848 - Jan. 22, 1936) James Granville Thurston (Dec. 7, 1845 - March 29, 1879) Charles Benjamin Mitchell (1857-1927) Daniel G. Benson (1858-1931) Charles Leon Lawson (Jan. 1, 1863-1943) "Ligure" means precious stone [show more] | |||||
| 3648 | Frederick J. Lovatt - Schooner |
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| 3616 | William Keene - Schooner |
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| 3466 | George E. Klinck - Schooner |
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| George E. Klinck was a three masted schooner built at the Michael B. McDonald Shipyard in Mystic, Connecticut in 1904. She was a 152.6' centerboarder weighing 560 gross tons. "George E. Klinck" was a three masted [152.6' centerboarder, 560 gross tons] schooner built at [the Michael B. McDonald Shipyard in] Mystic, Connecticut in 1904. Lennox Ledyard "Bink" Sargent (1916-1989) [and Jay Bushway of Marblehead] acquired her circa 1937 when he found her laid up in Rockland. He brought her up to the coal dock on Clark Point in Southwest Harbor and restored her. They worked on her from a float in the water and replaced her transom, among other things. Ralph Merrill Grindle (1915-2005) spliced her rigging. [Ralph Merrill Grindle was later a partner with Roger C. Rich in the Rich & Grindle boat shop where he specialized in rigging.] Captain Lewis McFarland of Trenton took her down to Camden and from there she went south to pick up a load of hard pine. On her return north she took a pounding and a beating around Cape Hatteras in North Carolina and broke up. Her crew was rescued by the aircraft carrier "Wasp." - Ralph Warren Stanley 10/26/10 "George E. Klinck" had been in difficulties before "Bink" brought her back to life. “On April 15th, 1915 two three-masted vessels, the "George E. Klinck," bound from Long Cove, Me., for New York, with a cargo of stone, and the "Roger Drury," bound from St. John, N. B., for City Island and, with a cargo of laths, struck on Hawes shoal, in Nantucket sound, during heavy weather in the night, the latter being ashore only a short distance outside of Cape Poge. The crew from Muskeget station boarded both vessels early in the morning and later the coast guard cutter “Acushnet” came down and succeeded in floating the "Klinck." The "Drury" remained fast until the 17th, when a wrecking outfit from New London succeeded in floating her, after lightering several hundred bundles of laths.” – “Wrecks Around Nantucket Since The Settlement Of The Island, And The Incidents Connected Therewith, Embracing Over Seven Hundred Vessels” compiled by Arthur H. Gardner, published by the [Nantucket] Inquirer and Mirror Press, c. 1915 - First published in 1877 under the title: “A List Of The Wrecks Around Nantucket” This is the rescue Ralph Stanley describes: “During “USS Wasp’s” passage to Norfolk [Virginia] in 1941, heavy weather sprang up on the evening of 7 March. “Wasp” was steaming at standard speed, 17 knots. Off Cape Hatteras, a lookout spotted a red flare at 2245, then a second set of flares at 2259. At 2329, with the aid of her searchlights, “Wasp” located the stranger in trouble. She was the lumber schooner “George E. Klinck,” bound from Jacksonville, Florida, to Southwest Harbor, Maine. The sea, in the meantime, worsened from a state 5 to a state 7. “Wasp” lay to, maneuvering alongside at 0007 on 8 March. At that time, four men from the schooner clambered up a swaying “jacobs ladder” buffeted by gusts of wind. Then, despite the raging tempest, “Wasp” lowered a boat, at 0016, and brought the remaining four men aboard from the foundering 152-foot schooner. Later that day, “Wasp” disembarked her rescued mariners and immediately went into dry-dock at the Norfolk Navy Yard. The ship received vital repairs to her turbines. Port holes on the third deck were welded over to provide better watertight integrity, and steel splinter shielding around her 5-inch and 1.1-inch batteries was added.” - “USS Wasp (CV-7) – Definition”, WordiQ site, 2010, Accessed online 10/16/10; http://www.wordiq.com/definition/USS_Wasp_(CV-7) “A Jacobs ladder is a portable ladder used on ships and having, typically, wooden rungs and rope or wire sides” – YourDictionary.com 10/26/10. The ships plans for "George E. Klinck" are Mystic Seaport in the Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library, Miscellaneous Commercial Sail Collection. See Look Magazine, May 20, 1941 for a contemporary account of the rescue of the crew of "George E. Klinck." See page 93-96 “The Last Sail Downeast” by Giles M.S. Tod, published by Barre Publishers, Barre, Massachusetts, 1965 for more about “George E. Klinck.” | 
Description: George E. Klinck was a three masted schooner built at the Michael B. McDonald Shipyard in Mystic, Connecticut in 1904. She was a 152.6' centerboarder weighing 560 gross tons. "George E. Klinck" was a three masted [152.6' centerboarder, 560 gross tons] schooner built at [the Michael B. McDonald Shipyard in] Mystic, Connecticut in 1904. Lennox Ledyard "Bink" Sargent (1916-1989) [and Jay Bushway of Marblehead] acquired her circa 1937 when he found her laid up in Rockland. He brought her up to the coal dock on Clark Point in Southwest Harbor and restored her. They worked on her from a float in the water and replaced her transom, among other things. Ralph Merrill Grindle (1915-2005) spliced her rigging. [Ralph Merrill Grindle was later a partner with Roger C. Rich in the Rich & Grindle boat shop where he specialized in rigging.] Captain Lewis McFarland of Trenton took her down to Camden and from there she went south to pick up a load of hard pine. On her return north she took a pounding and a beating around Cape Hatteras in North Carolina and broke up. Her crew was rescued by the aircraft carrier "Wasp." - Ralph Warren Stanley 10/26/10 "George E. Klinck" had been in difficulties before "Bink" brought her back to life. “On April 15th, 1915 two three-masted vessels, the "George E. Klinck," bound from Long Cove, Me., for New York, with a cargo of stone, and the "Roger Drury," bound from St. John, N. B., for City Island and, with a cargo of laths, struck on Hawes shoal, in Nantucket sound, during heavy weather in the night, the latter being ashore only a short distance outside of Cape Poge. The crew from Muskeget station boarded both vessels early in the morning and later the coast guard cutter “Acushnet” came down and succeeded in floating the "Klinck." The "Drury" remained fast until the 17th, when a wrecking outfit from New London succeeded in floating her, after lightering several hundred bundles of laths.” – “Wrecks Around Nantucket Since The Settlement Of The Island, And The Incidents Connected Therewith, Embracing Over Seven Hundred Vessels” compiled by Arthur H. Gardner, published by the [Nantucket] Inquirer and Mirror Press, c. 1915 - First published in 1877 under the title: “A List Of The Wrecks Around Nantucket” This is the rescue Ralph Stanley describes: “During “USS Wasp’s” passage to Norfolk [Virginia] in 1941, heavy weather sprang up on the evening of 7 March. “Wasp” was steaming at standard speed, 17 knots. Off Cape Hatteras, a lookout spotted a red flare at 2245, then a second set of flares at 2259. At 2329, with the aid of her searchlights, “Wasp” located the stranger in trouble. She was the lumber schooner “George E. Klinck,” bound from Jacksonville, Florida, to Southwest Harbor, Maine. The sea, in the meantime, worsened from a state 5 to a state 7. “Wasp” lay to, maneuvering alongside at 0007 on 8 March. At that time, four men from the schooner clambered up a swaying “jacobs ladder” buffeted by gusts of wind. Then, despite the raging tempest, “Wasp” lowered a boat, at 0016, and brought the remaining four men aboard from the foundering 152-foot schooner. Later that day, “Wasp” disembarked her rescued mariners and immediately went into dry-dock at the Norfolk Navy Yard. The ship received vital repairs to her turbines. Port holes on the third deck were welded over to provide better watertight integrity, and steel splinter shielding around her 5-inch and 1.1-inch batteries was added.” - “USS Wasp (CV-7) – Definition”, WordiQ site, 2010, Accessed online 10/16/10; http://www.wordiq.com/definition/USS_Wasp_(CV-7) “A Jacobs ladder is a portable ladder used on ships and having, typically, wooden rungs and rope or wire sides” – YourDictionary.com 10/26/10. The ships plans for "George E. Klinck" are Mystic Seaport in the Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library, Miscellaneous Commercial Sail Collection. See Look Magazine, May 20, 1941 for a contemporary account of the rescue of the crew of "George E. Klinck." See page 93-96 “The Last Sail Downeast” by Giles M.S. Tod, published by Barre Publishers, Barre, Massachusetts, 1965 for more about “George E. Klinck.” [show more] |
