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| 15698 | Equinox - Shoal Draft Schooner |
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| 15816 | Lizzie A. Tolles - Schooner Alice S. Wentworth - Schooner |
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| 15828 | Abraham Richardson - Schooner |
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| 15829 | Andrew Nebinger - Schooner |
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| Southwest Harbor Captain Adoniram Judson Robinson (1834-1912), great-grandfather of boat builder Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021), was Master of schooner "Andrew Nebinger," built at on the Mispillion River. For information about the vessels built on Mispillion Creek see "Mispillion-Built Sailing Vessels 1761-1917" by Betty Harrington Macdonald, published by the Milford Historical Society in 1990 - available for view at the Maritime Museum in Bath, Maine. See "Wood Shavings to Hot Sparks: The History of Shipbuilding in Milford, Delaware" – video produced for the Milford Museum by 302 Stories, Inc., Written, Directed and Edited by Michael Oates, Narrated by Don Wescott – 36 minutes.Early boat building at Milford, Delaware on the Mispillion River. | 
Description: Southwest Harbor Captain Adoniram Judson Robinson (1834-1912), great-grandfather of boat builder Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021), was Master of schooner "Andrew Nebinger," built at on the Mispillion River. For information about the vessels built on Mispillion Creek see "Mispillion-Built Sailing Vessels 1761-1917" by Betty Harrington Macdonald, published by the Milford Historical Society in 1990 - available for view at the Maritime Museum in Bath, Maine. See "Wood Shavings to Hot Sparks: The History of Shipbuilding in Milford, Delaware" – video produced for the Milford Museum by 302 Stories, Inc., Written, Directed and Edited by Michael Oates, Narrated by Don Wescott – 36 minutes.Early boat building at Milford, Delaware on the Mispillion River. [show more] | |||||
| 15834 | Caroline C - Schooner |
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| 15835 | Chromo - Schooner |
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| 15911 | Anna L. Sanborn - Coasting Schooner |
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| 15917 | C.B. Clark - Schooner |
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| 15946 | Yankee (I) - Schooner |
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| 15971 | Hesper - Pilot Schooner |
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| 14441 | Wm. Stevens - Schooner |
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| 14523 | Fannie Earl - Schooner |
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| 14551 | Coasting Schooner Model Made by Roger Clifton Rich |
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| 14605 | Caroline Gray - Coasting Schooner |
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| Brig “Caroline Gray,” 327 gross tons, was built in 1869. She had a long and varied career. Rerigged to sail as a coasting schooner With Jesse H. Pease as her master she carried sugar and molasses out of Portland, Maine in 1880 and is listed as arriving under Capt. Pease, in New York on March 16, 1880 with that or another of the same load. She also carried lime from Rockland to New York at this time. | 
Description: Brig “Caroline Gray,” 327 gross tons, was built in 1869. She had a long and varied career. Rerigged to sail as a coasting schooner With Jesse H. Pease as her master she carried sugar and molasses out of Portland, Maine in 1880 and is listed as arriving under Capt. Pease, in New York on March 16, 1880 with that or another of the same load. She also carried lime from Rockland to New York at this time. | |||||
| 3045 | El Placita - Schooner Steam Yacht |
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| El Placita was built for Abbott - John William Abbott (1834-1897) El Placita was owned at various times by: Abbott - John William Abbott (1834-1897) McCormick - Robert Hall McCormick Jr. (1878-1963) Jesup - Morris Ketchum Jesup (1830-1908) | 
Description: El Placita was built for Abbott - John William Abbott (1834-1897) El Placita was owned at various times by: Abbott - John William Abbott (1834-1897) McCormick - Robert Hall McCormick Jr. (1878-1963) Jesup - Morris Ketchum Jesup (1830-1908) | |||||
| 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] | |||||
| 13894 | Catherine - Schooner |
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| 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] | |||||
| 14062 | Natalie Todd - Schooner Virginia - Schooner Araho - Schooner |
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| Schooner "Araho" began life in 1941 as the two-masted wooden schooner, "Virginia," designed by Alan Woods and built at Muller Boat Works, Brooklyn, New York for the Virginia Corporation, Inc. "Virginia" was 129’ long, 21’ beam, 10’ draught, 199 gross tons and had a single screw propeller driven by a 150 HP diesel engine. She was built of white oak with a teak deck. She spent 40 years commercial fisher trawling the Grand and George’s Banks. | 
Description: Schooner "Araho" began life in 1941 as the two-masted wooden schooner, "Virginia," designed by Alan Woods and built at Muller Boat Works, Brooklyn, New York for the Virginia Corporation, Inc. "Virginia" was 129’ long, 21’ beam, 10’ draught, 199 gross tons and had a single screw propeller driven by a 150 HP diesel engine. She was built of white oak with a teak deck. She spent 40 years commercial fisher trawling the Grand and George’s Banks. [show more] | |||||
| 14063 | Janet May - Schooner |
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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] | |||||
| 14065 | Rebecca R. Douglas - Schooner |
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| Coasting Schooner “Rebecca R. Douglas” had a raised deck for carrying kiln dried lumber, and later coconuts, for the Baker Extract Company of Philadelphia. The vessel was built for Edwin DeForest Douglas (1845-1911), a packing box manufacturer from Philadelphia, and named for his second wife, Rebecca Rhodes (Ruedi) Douglas (1865-). The schooner was said to be a beautiful, a fine sailor and an easy ship to handle. "May 2, 1943 - Coastal yacht “Alabaster” (Pyc21), directed to the scene by blimp K4, rescues two survivors from the U.S. schooner “Rebecca R. Douglas,” which had gone down on 28 April while on route from New York to Brazil, at 38º17’N, 71º46’W [off of Cape May]. Coast Guard lighthouse tender “Laurel” (WAGL 291) finds only an overturned lifeboat. Remainder of search proves negative." - "The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II" by Robert Cressman, Naval Institute Press, 2000, p. 158. The marine chronometer from the vessel was removed from the ship before the ship sunk and is still preserved and in working condition. There was likely a second chronometer that was used on the ship for its last trip before sinking. The chronometer that has survived was made by Thomas Porthouse, ca. 1850 in London. When it was assigned to the Rebecca R. Douglas it was already close to a century old, and yet its accuracy could still be certified for ongoing service at sea. (Information from Andrew Baron, Santa Fe, NM.) Vessel Name – Rebecca R. Douglas Class – coasting schooner Hull - wood Masts –3 Rig – ketch rig Designed by – Build date - 1894 Built by – Kelly, Spear & Co. Built at – Bath, Maine Built for – Edwin DeForest Douglas (1845-1911), a packing box manufacturer Named for – Edwin’s 2nd wife, Rebecca Rhodes Ruedi (1865-) Power – engine – when rebuilt? Gross tons - 475 Net tons – Capacity - Length – 138.8’ Beam – 33.9’ Depth – 9.5’ Crew – 6 | 
Description: Coasting Schooner “Rebecca R. Douglas” had a raised deck for carrying kiln dried lumber, and later coconuts, for the Baker Extract Company of Philadelphia. The vessel was built for Edwin DeForest Douglas (1845-1911), a packing box manufacturer from Philadelphia, and named for his second wife, Rebecca Rhodes (Ruedi) Douglas (1865-). The schooner was said to be a beautiful, a fine sailor and an easy ship to handle. "May 2, 1943 - Coastal yacht “Alabaster” (Pyc21), directed to the scene by blimp K4, rescues two survivors from the U.S. schooner “Rebecca R. Douglas,” which had gone down on 28 April while on route from New York to Brazil, at 38º17’N, 71º46’W [off of Cape May]. Coast Guard lighthouse tender “Laurel” (WAGL 291) finds only an overturned lifeboat. Remainder of search proves negative." - "The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II" by Robert Cressman, Naval Institute Press, 2000, p. 158. The marine chronometer from the vessel was removed from the ship before the ship sunk and is still preserved and in working condition. There was likely a second chronometer that was used on the ship for its last trip before sinking. The chronometer that has survived was made by Thomas Porthouse, ca. 1850 in London. When it was assigned to the Rebecca R. Douglas it was already close to a century old, and yet its accuracy could still be certified for ongoing service at sea. (Information from Andrew Baron, Santa Fe, NM.) Vessel Name – Rebecca R. Douglas Class – coasting schooner Hull - wood Masts –3 Rig – ketch rig Designed by – Build date - 1894 Built by – Kelly, Spear & Co. Built at – Bath, Maine Built for – Edwin DeForest Douglas (1845-1911), a packing box manufacturer Named for – Edwin’s 2nd wife, Rebecca Rhodes Ruedi (1865-) Power – engine – when rebuilt? Gross tons - 475 Net tons – Capacity - Length – 138.8’ Beam – 33.9’ Depth – 9.5’ Crew – 6 [show more] | |||||
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| 14170 | Theoline - Schooner |
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| Vessel Name - Theoline Class – schooner Hull - wood Masts - 4 Build date - 1917 Built by – Francis Cobb Shipbuilding Company Built at – Rockland, Maine Built for – Crowell and Thurlow Home Port 1943 - New York, N. Y. Owner 1943 - Intercontinental S. S. Lines (N. Y.) Gross tons - 594 Net tons – 509 Length – 172’ Beam – 34.8’ Depth of hold – 13’ Crew - 7 She was a much-photographed vessel. In 1936, when Berenice Abbott photographed the Theoline, she was the last cargo schooner to unload at the South Street Seaport in New York. ”It has been said that when Capt. John Latty brought coal to the Underwood factory at Bass Harbor in the four mast schooner Theoline, that while approaching the harbor with a Southwest wind, he would reduce sail, and while still making headway drop his anchor. When the anchor fetched up he would pay out chain and as the vessel swung around she would lay right abreast the head of the dock. Capt. Latty also brought cans to the factory from Lubec, where the cans were manufactured. Capt. Latty kept the Theoline anchored with two anchors at Norwood's Cove when he would lay her up for the winter. During the winter with the tide and wind, the vessel would swing around and twist up the anchor chains. On getting her ready in the spring he would hire Cliff Robbins with his lobster boat to tow the vessel around to clear the twists. One year she had twenty-seven turns. It took all day to clear the chains. When I was a small boy I would get some one to walk up the road with me to where I could look out across the cove and see the schooner anchored there. At that time there was still a wooden sidewalk on the right hand side of the road out of town at Norwood's Cove. Capt. Latty started out as cabin boy on my great grandfather, Capt. A. J. Robinson's three mast schooner, the Andrew Nebinger. In 1918 Capt. Latty was Master of the Andrew Nebinger for a short time. Stories and information from Ralph W. Stanley - 2007 “Probably the last active four-mast schooner to carry ‘Boston’ on her stern was the fine “Theoline,” a vessel of 594 gross tons and 172 feet long. Built in 1917 by F. Cobb at Rockland, Maine, for Crowell and Thurlow, she should not be confused with two earlier vessels of the same name. The first was launched in 1900 in Belfast, and was 587 tons; the second took to the water in 1905, also at Belfast, and was the largest of the three, being 981 tons. The first two did not remain long in the registry. The maiden voyage of the third “Theoline” took her from Rockland to New York where she loaded coal for Calais, Maine. She then crossed the Atlantic to England with a lumber cargo. At the end of the first World War, the “Theoline” carried on in the coastal trade, from Florida and Georgia to Boston at first, and later to New England ports from the British provinces. In 1928 she was sold to F.B. McQueston who had also owned the first “Theoline.” However, he did not keep her long for less than a year later she was taken over by C.A.&B.F Small of Machias: they operated her for eleven years. With Captain Latty in command, she ran around from St. John to Halifax where she took on laths for Philadelphia. From there she proceeded to Norfolk, loading coal for Jonesport. Next she entered the Bay of Fundy to pick up pile wood at Apple River, taking it to New York City. Thus she tramped up and down the coast, loading when and where she could find cargoes. When she ad the right wind, she showed that she had a good turn of speed, but more times than not, she fought head winds or calms, adding days to her passages… …In 1940 Captain Edward Long took over the “Theoline.” By now she was badly run-down; there had been no money for repairs. Steamers had taken over most of her trades, and she had been lucky to get an occasional coal charter, remaining at anchor at Jonesport the rest of the time. Captain Long did what he could for the ship. Not only did he work on her hull, but when he noticed a rotten mainmast, he dug it out, put in new wood, and bound the patch with a steel sleeve. He de-loused the ship so she was perfectly clean; that, in itself was a big undertaking.” “Captain Edward Long was active up to the end of sail in New England waters. He took the “Theoline” into Quincy in 1941. the last of her type to visit that old port. One winter when the “Theoline” was laid up in Jonesport, Captain Long and his wife together overhauled the four-master’ stern which had taken a decided sag. Putting in two huge turnbuckles, they were able to pull her back into position, correcting the weakening timbers.” - “The Last Sail Downeast” by Giles M.S. Tod, published by Barre Publishers, Barre, Massachusetts, 1965, p. 7 The schooner was sent south to work, but ran into problem after problem, ending up at New Brunswick. “When finally loaded with 592,000 square feet of wood, the “Theoline” departed for Boston on July 26th. A fresh, fair breeze took her rapidly down the Bay of Fundy, passing Petit Manan 24 hours out. From then on the winds were light. The third and fourth day were spent off Portland. On the fifth day Cape Ann was sighted before the fog closed in. On August 1st the four-master came to Boston, two tugs towing her up the river to Quincy where she was to discharge. She had been six days, five hours and forty-five minutes from Alma. This was to be the last time the “Theoline” came to her home port…” Some time in 1942 or later, “deeply loaded, she set out on the long voyage [to Africa.] It was reported that she bumped bottom near Cape Hatteras, but she got off undamaged. However, some weeks later word came from the West Indies that the fine schooner had struck a reef; it was the end of the “Theoline” as she smashed up before aid could come to her.” - “The Last Sail Downeast” by Giles M.S. Tod, published by Barre Publishers, Barre, Massachusetts, 1965, p. 53, 54, 55, 56. The complete story of “Theoline” can be found on these pages – far more than the parts quoted here. | 
Description: Vessel Name - Theoline Class – schooner Hull - wood Masts - 4 Build date - 1917 Built by – Francis Cobb Shipbuilding Company Built at – Rockland, Maine Built for – Crowell and Thurlow Home Port 1943 - New York, N. Y. Owner 1943 - Intercontinental S. S. Lines (N. Y.) Gross tons - 594 Net tons – 509 Length – 172’ Beam – 34.8’ Depth of hold – 13’ Crew - 7 She was a much-photographed vessel. In 1936, when Berenice Abbott photographed the Theoline, she was the last cargo schooner to unload at the South Street Seaport in New York. ”It has been said that when Capt. John Latty brought coal to the Underwood factory at Bass Harbor in the four mast schooner Theoline, that while approaching the harbor with a Southwest wind, he would reduce sail, and while still making headway drop his anchor. When the anchor fetched up he would pay out chain and as the vessel swung around she would lay right abreast the head of the dock. Capt. Latty also brought cans to the factory from Lubec, where the cans were manufactured. Capt. Latty kept the Theoline anchored with two anchors at Norwood's Cove when he would lay her up for the winter. During the winter with the tide and wind, the vessel would swing around and twist up the anchor chains. On getting her ready in the spring he would hire Cliff Robbins with his lobster boat to tow the vessel around to clear the twists. One year she had twenty-seven turns. It took all day to clear the chains. When I was a small boy I would get some one to walk up the road with me to where I could look out across the cove and see the schooner anchored there. At that time there was still a wooden sidewalk on the right hand side of the road out of town at Norwood's Cove. Capt. Latty started out as cabin boy on my great grandfather, Capt. A. J. Robinson's three mast schooner, the Andrew Nebinger. In 1918 Capt. Latty was Master of the Andrew Nebinger for a short time. Stories and information from Ralph W. Stanley - 2007 “Probably the last active four-mast schooner to carry ‘Boston’ on her stern was the fine “Theoline,” a vessel of 594 gross tons and 172 feet long. Built in 1917 by F. Cobb at Rockland, Maine, for Crowell and Thurlow, she should not be confused with two earlier vessels of the same name. The first was launched in 1900 in Belfast, and was 587 tons; the second took to the water in 1905, also at Belfast, and was the largest of the three, being 981 tons. The first two did not remain long in the registry. The maiden voyage of the third “Theoline” took her from Rockland to New York where she loaded coal for Calais, Maine. She then crossed the Atlantic to England with a lumber cargo. At the end of the first World War, the “Theoline” carried on in the coastal trade, from Florida and Georgia to Boston at first, and later to New England ports from the British provinces. In 1928 she was sold to F.B. McQueston who had also owned the first “Theoline.” However, he did not keep her long for less than a year later she was taken over by C.A.&B.F Small of Machias: they operated her for eleven years. With Captain Latty in command, she ran around from St. John to Halifax where she took on laths for Philadelphia. From there she proceeded to Norfolk, loading coal for Jonesport. Next she entered the Bay of Fundy to pick up pile wood at Apple River, taking it to New York City. Thus she tramped up and down the coast, loading when and where she could find cargoes. When she ad the right wind, she showed that she had a good turn of speed, but more times than not, she fought head winds or calms, adding days to her passages… …In 1940 Captain Edward Long took over the “Theoline.” By now she was badly run-down; there had been no money for repairs. Steamers had taken over most of her trades, and she had been lucky to get an occasional coal charter, remaining at anchor at Jonesport the rest of the time. Captain Long did what he could for the ship. Not only did he work on her hull, but when he noticed a rotten mainmast, he dug it out, put in new wood, and bound the patch with a steel sleeve. He de-loused the ship so she was perfectly clean; that, in itself was a big undertaking.” “Captain Edward Long was active up to the end of sail in New England waters. He took the “Theoline” into Quincy in 1941. the last of her type to visit that old port. One winter when the “Theoline” was laid up in Jonesport, Captain Long and his wife together overhauled the four-master’ stern which had taken a decided sag. Putting in two huge turnbuckles, they were able to pull her back into position, correcting the weakening timbers.” - “The Last Sail Downeast” by Giles M.S. Tod, published by Barre Publishers, Barre, Massachusetts, 1965, p. 7 The schooner was sent south to work, but ran into problem after problem, ending up at New Brunswick. “When finally loaded with 592,000 square feet of wood, the “Theoline” departed for Boston on July 26th. A fresh, fair breeze took her rapidly down the Bay of Fundy, passing Petit Manan 24 hours out. From then on the winds were light. The third and fourth day were spent off Portland. On the fifth day Cape Ann was sighted before the fog closed in. On August 1st the four-master came to Boston, two tugs towing her up the river to Quincy where she was to discharge. She had been six days, five hours and forty-five minutes from Alma. This was to be the last time the “Theoline” came to her home port…” Some time in 1942 or later, “deeply loaded, she set out on the long voyage [to Africa.] It was reported that she bumped bottom near Cape Hatteras, but she got off undamaged. However, some weeks later word came from the West Indies that the fine schooner had struck a reef; it was the end of the “Theoline” as she smashed up before aid could come to her.” - “The Last Sail Downeast” by Giles M.S. Tod, published by Barre Publishers, Barre, Massachusetts, 1965, p. 53, 54, 55, 56. The complete story of “Theoline” can be found on these pages – far more than the parts quoted here. [show more] | |||||
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| The vessel was originally built as a commercial schooner. | 
Description: The vessel was originally built as a commercial schooner. |
