"The St. Marys Boys Sailing"

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"The St. Marys Boys Sailing"

N.Y.N. SS "St. Marys" - The New York Nautical School Ship "St. Mary's"

Vessel Name – USS St. Marys
Class – sloop of war
Hull - wood
Masts - 3
Carried – 16 - 32 pound cannons, 6 - 8” guns
Designed by –
Build date - 1844
Built by –
Built at – U.S. Naval Yard, Washington, D.C.
Built for – U.S. Navy
Named for – the first colonial settlement in Maryland
Displacement 958 tons
Gross tons - 766
Length – 149’3”
Beam – 37'4"
Draught - 18'
Sail area –
Crew – 195
Number –
Disposition - Laid up at Mare Island September 1866
Recommissioned fall of 1870
Placed in ordinary at Norfolk, VA., 3 June 1873
Transferred to the Public Marine School at New York in 1875 - served as school ship until June 1908
Final Disposition - sold for scrapping in August 1908 to Thomas Butler and Co., Boston
November 1908 - dismasted and dismantled hull burned at Point of Pines, Massachusetts, for the purpose of getting the copper that was in her.

NY

USA

August 1890