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15187Rosemont - Schooner Barge
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  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Cargo Vessel, Barge
Vessel Name - Rosemont Class – schooner-barge Hull - wood Masts - Designed by – Build date – 1895 Launch date - Built by – Kelley, Spear & Co. Built at – Bath, Maine. Built for – Staples Coal Company, Fall River, Massachusetts Named for – Power – meant for tow Gross tons - 708 Net tons – 951.84 Length – 174.3’ Beam – 35.4’ Depth – 14.2’ Crew – 2 Number – 111084 Disposition - Wrecked off Amagansett, Long Island, New York in 1903 while carrying coal on a tow by tug Eureka from Philadelphia to Boston. "Crew of Barge May Be Lost The Rosemont, with No One Aboard, Is Stranded Near Amagansett Life Saving Station Eastport, L.I., April 8 – In a heavy gale and a tremendous surf the barge Rosemont of Bath, Me., coal laden, bound from Fall River, Mass., stranded on a bar one and a half miles west of the Amagansett Life Saving Station early this morning. The life savers boarded the barge and found no one on the vessel. It is believed that the members of the crew were drowned. A watch is being kept for bodies along the beach. The vessel is rapidly going to pieces. The barge was noticed last night in tow of a tug opposite Montauk. She appeared to be manoeuvring [Sic] strangely. When darkness settled she was still moving westward." - New York Times, April 9, 1903. "The Rosemont A Total Wreck Fire Island, L.I., April 15 – Lone Hill Life Saving Station reports that the barge Rosemont, which, as before reported, went ashore at Amagansett, has gone to pieces. The Rosemont was coal laden, and left Philadelphia April 6, in tow of the tug Eureka, for Boston. The crew of the Rosemont was rescued by the tug." – The Brooklyn Eagle, April 15, 1903. "Schooner Barges The sailing vessels include craft built primarily to be towed, although equipped with sails which are used only to assist in steering. These craft, known as “schooner barges,” are thus described in the report of the Commissioner of Navigation for 1905: “A seagoing schooner barge is a vessel usually towed from port to port, but rigged with masts and furnished with sails, so that if in emergency she breaks adrift from the towing steamer, she may not be helpless at sea. Nearly all of the schooner barges before 1890 were square-rigged vessels or schooners which had outlived their usefulness as such and were dismantled and converted into barges. Shortly before 1890, and to a considerable extent since, such schooner barges have been specially constructed, some of them with steel hulls. The practice of cutting down square-rigged vessels and schooners into barges still continues.”…" – "Transportation by Water," United States Bureau of the Census, William Mott Steuart, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1908, p. 10.
Rosemont - Schooner Barge
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  • 15187   
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  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Cargo Vessel, Barge
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Vessel Name - Rosemont Class – schooner-barge Hull - wood Masts - Designed by – Build date – 1895 Launch date - Built by – Kelley, Spear & Co. Built at – Bath, Maine. Built for – Staples Coal Company, Fall River, Massachusetts Named for – Power – meant for tow Gross tons - 708 Net tons – 951.84 Length – 174.3’ Beam – 35.4’ Depth – 14.2’ Crew – 2 Number – 111084 Disposition - Wrecked off Amagansett, Long Island, New York in 1903 while carrying coal on a tow by tug Eureka from Philadelphia to Boston. "Crew of Barge May Be Lost The Rosemont, with No One Aboard, Is Stranded Near Amagansett Life Saving Station Eastport, L.I., April 8 – In a heavy gale and a tremendous surf the barge Rosemont of Bath, Me., coal laden, bound from Fall River, Mass., stranded on a bar one and a half miles west of the Amagansett Life Saving Station early this morning. The life savers boarded the barge and found no one on the vessel. It is believed that the members of the crew were drowned. A watch is being kept for bodies along the beach. The vessel is rapidly going to pieces. The barge was noticed last night in tow of a tug opposite Montauk. She appeared to be manoeuvring [Sic] strangely. When darkness settled she was still moving westward." - New York Times, April 9, 1903. "The Rosemont A Total Wreck Fire Island, L.I., April 15 – Lone Hill Life Saving Station reports that the barge Rosemont, which, as before reported, went ashore at Amagansett, has gone to pieces. The Rosemont was coal laden, and left Philadelphia April 6, in tow of the tug Eureka, for Boston. The crew of the Rosemont was rescued by the tug." – The Brooklyn Eagle, April 15, 1903. "Schooner Barges The sailing vessels include craft built primarily to be towed, although equipped with sails which are used only to assist in steering. These craft, known as “schooner barges,” are thus described in the report of the Commissioner of Navigation for 1905: “A seagoing schooner barge is a vessel usually towed from port to port, but rigged with masts and furnished with sails, so that if in emergency she breaks adrift from the towing steamer, she may not be helpless at sea. Nearly all of the schooner barges before 1890 were square-rigged vessels or schooners which had outlived their usefulness as such and were dismantled and converted into barges. Shortly before 1890, and to a considerable extent since, such schooner barges have been specially constructed, some of them with steel hulls. The practice of cutting down square-rigged vessels and schooners into barges still continues.”…" – "Transportation by Water," United States Bureau of the Census, William Mott Steuart, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1908, p. 10. [show more]
15214Adelia - Schooner
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  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
Adelia - Schooner
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  • 15214   
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  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
15215Hattie J. Allen - Schooner
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  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
Hattie J. Allen - Schooner
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  • 15215   
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  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
15217Clytie - Schooner Yacht
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  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
Clytie - Schooner Yacht
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  • 15217   
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  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
15220Atlanta - Auxiliary Sail Steamer
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
Atlanta - Auxiliary Sail Steamer
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  • 15220   
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
15240Asticou - Passenger Boat
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  • Vessels, Boat
Asticou - Passenger Boat
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  • 15240   
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  • Vessels, Boat
15244Pusheen Gra - Catboat
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  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
Pusheen Gra - Catboat
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  • 15244   
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  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
15260Rebecca - Sailing Yacht
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  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
The Rebecca is a 139' aluminum yacht built in England. She is owned by Charles Butt of San Antonio, Texas and Northeast Harbor, Maine.
Rebecca - Sailing Yacht
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  • 15260   
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  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
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The Rebecca is a 139' aluminum yacht built in England. She is owned by Charles Butt of San Antonio, Texas and Northeast Harbor, Maine.
15263Florence - Passenger Launch
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  • Vessels, Boat
Florence - Passenger Launch
Item:
  • 15263   
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  • Vessels, Boat
15266Sandra & Jean - Dragger
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  • Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Net Fishing Vessel, Dragger
Built in 1945 by Southwest Boat Corporation. Power – 220 h.p. Gross tons - 39 Net tons - 26 Length – 62.6 Beam – 16.7 Draught – 17.4 Disposition - Sank
Sandra & Jean - Dragger
Item:
  • 15266   
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  • Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Net Fishing Vessel, Dragger
Description:
Built in 1945 by Southwest Boat Corporation. Power – 220 h.p. Gross tons - 39 Net tons - 26 Length – 62.6 Beam – 16.7 Draught – 17.4 Disposition - Sank
15292S.S. Cimbria - Steamship
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
"September 9, 1878 - Fine day with a nice breeze. The "Cimbria" is getting ready to leave Southwest Harbor where she has rode at her anchors 4 months and 12 days. Probably she will never enter it again." "At a quarter to 4 o'clock the big gun flashes from her bows, the anchor is away - 3 cheers are given. She turns and steams slowly out of the Eastern Way." - Day Book of Elizabeth Cook (Carroll) Lawler - In the collection of Robert Lindsay Smallidge, Jr.
S.S. Cimbria - Steamship
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  • 15292   
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
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"September 9, 1878 - Fine day with a nice breeze. The "Cimbria" is getting ready to leave Southwest Harbor where she has rode at her anchors 4 months and 12 days. Probably she will never enter it again." "At a quarter to 4 o'clock the big gun flashes from her bows, the anchor is away - 3 cheers are given. She turns and steams slowly out of the Eastern Way." - Day Book of Elizabeth Cook (Carroll) Lawler - In the collection of Robert Lindsay Smallidge, Jr. [show more]
15294Cimbria - Passenger Steamer
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
Cimbria - Passenger Steamer
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  • 15294   
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
15343Rhode Island - Dragger
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  • Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Net Fishing Vessel, Dragger
The "Rhode Island" was built in Waldoboro, Maine. She was owned by Bill Howell who used her to fish for redfish mostly. In 1953 a Photo-Electric Pilot, Model 52 automatic steerer, sold by The Harris Co., was installed in the “Rhode Island.”
Rhode Island - Dragger
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  • 15343   
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  • Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Net Fishing Vessel, Dragger
Description:
The "Rhode Island" was built in Waldoboro, Maine. She was owned by Bill Howell who used her to fish for redfish mostly. In 1953 a Photo-Electric Pilot, Model 52 automatic steerer, sold by The Harris Co., was installed in the “Rhode Island.”
15364Frenchman's Bay - Passenger Vessel
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  • Vessels, Boat
Frenchman's Bay - Passenger Vessel
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  • 15364   
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  • Vessels, Boat
15365S.S. Columbia - Auxiliary Sail Passenger Steamship
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
“It can be appropriately said of the new and magnificent steamship Columbia, of the Hamburg Line, that she is a "gem of the ocean." The accounts of her remarkably fast runs continue to be published in leading journals at home and abroad...” Source: Ocean: Magazine of Travel, Vol. III, No. 2, September 1889, Page 42 Information from various sources including Lloyd’s Register of British and Foreign Shipping.
S.S. Columbia - Auxiliary Sail Passenger Steamship
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  • 15365   
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
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“It can be appropriately said of the new and magnificent steamship Columbia, of the Hamburg Line, that she is a "gem of the ocean." The accounts of her remarkably fast runs continue to be published in leading journals at home and abroad...” Source: Ocean: Magazine of Travel, Vol. III, No. 2, September 1889, Page 42 Information from various sources including Lloyd’s Register of British and Foreign Shipping.
15411Gelouba - Custom 41’ Cutter
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  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Sloop
Gelouba - Custom 41’ Cutter
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  • 15411   
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  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Sloop
15490Rachel - Cruiser
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  • Vessels, Boat
Rachel - Cruiser
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  • 15490   
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  • Vessels, Boat
15501Valhalla - Yawl
Vega
Mai Tai
Currituck
Janie C
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  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
The following information, and the photographs attached to item 15388, were contributed in January 2018 by David Vieira of Lisbon Portugal. David is the current owner of Valhalla. He has embarked on a restoration project to bring Valhalla to her former shape and rigging plan. ### VALHALLA is a 65 foot yawl rigged ocean racer designed by John G. Alden in 1948 and built in 1949-1950 by Hinckley Yachts, Southwest Harbor, Maine, US. She was designed under the Cruising Club of America Rule (CCA) and has participated in major US regattas from 1950 to 1965 such as Bermuda, Transpacific / Honolulu, Annapolis to Newport races. In 1966 she was acquired by Dr. Manuel de Mello, a Portuguese yachtsman (very active sailor in the Star Class), for racing along Portugal's local and coastal regattas. Before shipping her to Portugal, Dr. Mello ordered a new rig and sailplan from Sparkmans & Stevens, because he favored the cutter rig (image 15388-14 shows the "new" sailplan by Sparkman & Stephens, from 1965. Item 15405 shows the original sailplan.) In 1973 Dr. Manuel de Mello decided to stop sailing and donated "VALHALLA" to the Portuguese Navy to be used has a sail training vessel for young officers. The Portuguese Navy renamed her "VEGA." She was the star of the Navy sailing fleet together with the tall ship "SAGRES." In 1976 she crossed the Atlantic again to participated in the U.S. Bicentennial celebrations (Operation Sail 1976) Regattas and Naval Parade in the Hudson river. From 1973 to 2007 she had a very intense and successful training and racing career, but she started to show her age and was in need of constant care. Sadly, in 2008 she was decommissioned. The Navy had just recently taken ownership of a bigger and more modern aluminum yacht built by Jachtwerf Jongert B.V. (Medemblik - Holand). Unfortunately, since 2009 she had been in the hard (but under a tent). The Navy itself has a very deep connection with "VEGA" and wanted her to be taken care of properly. However, the process of selling any item from the Navy is complicated, in particular when it comes to such a vessel that triggers so many emotions for so many high ranking Navy officers. Finally in the beginning of 2017, after many appeals, David Vieira was able to buy and rescue VALHALLA from an uncertain future!
Valhalla - Yawl
Vega
Mai Tai
Currituck
Janie C
Item:
  • 15501   
Type:
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Subject:
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
Source:
  • Vieira - David Vieira
Description:
The following information, and the photographs attached to item 15388, were contributed in January 2018 by David Vieira of Lisbon Portugal. David is the current owner of Valhalla. He has embarked on a restoration project to bring Valhalla to her former shape and rigging plan. ### VALHALLA is a 65 foot yawl rigged ocean racer designed by John G. Alden in 1948 and built in 1949-1950 by Hinckley Yachts, Southwest Harbor, Maine, US. She was designed under the Cruising Club of America Rule (CCA) and has participated in major US regattas from 1950 to 1965 such as Bermuda, Transpacific / Honolulu, Annapolis to Newport races. In 1966 she was acquired by Dr. Manuel de Mello, a Portuguese yachtsman (very active sailor in the Star Class), for racing along Portugal's local and coastal regattas. Before shipping her to Portugal, Dr. Mello ordered a new rig and sailplan from Sparkmans & Stevens, because he favored the cutter rig (image 15388-14 shows the "new" sailplan by Sparkman & Stephens, from 1965. Item 15405 shows the original sailplan.) In 1973 Dr. Manuel de Mello decided to stop sailing and donated "VALHALLA" to the Portuguese Navy to be used has a sail training vessel for young officers. The Portuguese Navy renamed her "VEGA." She was the star of the Navy sailing fleet together with the tall ship "SAGRES." In 1976 she crossed the Atlantic again to participated in the U.S. Bicentennial celebrations (Operation Sail 1976) Regattas and Naval Parade in the Hudson river. From 1973 to 2007 she had a very intense and successful training and racing career, but she started to show her age and was in need of constant care. Sadly, in 2008 she was decommissioned. The Navy had just recently taken ownership of a bigger and more modern aluminum yacht built by Jachtwerf Jongert B.V. (Medemblik - Holand). Unfortunately, since 2009 she had been in the hard (but under a tent). The Navy itself has a very deep connection with "VEGA" and wanted her to be taken care of properly. However, the process of selling any item from the Navy is complicated, in particular when it comes to such a vessel that triggers so many emotions for so many high ranking Navy officers. Finally in the beginning of 2017, after many appeals, David Vieira was able to buy and rescue VALHALLA from an uncertain future! [show more]
15523Evans Islander Heeling
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  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
Evans Islander Heeling
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  • 15523   
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  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
State:
  • ME
15538Wandabob - Lobster Boat
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  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
Built by Ralph Stanley Inc. for Shirley Moore Phippen. There is a photograph of "Wandabob" on the cover of “Maine Lobsterboats: Builders and Lobstermen Speak of Their Craft” by Virginia L. Thorndike, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine, 1998, “Ralph Stanley: Continuing a Southwest Harbor Tradition,” p. 37-40.
Wandabob - Lobster Boat
Item:
  • 15538   
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  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
State:
  • ME
Description:
Built by Ralph Stanley Inc. for Shirley Moore Phippen. There is a photograph of "Wandabob" on the cover of “Maine Lobsterboats: Builders and Lobstermen Speak of Their Craft” by Virginia L. Thorndike, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine, 1998, “Ralph Stanley: Continuing a Southwest Harbor Tradition,” p. 37-40.
15539Lida Mae II - Lobster Boat
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  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
Lida Mae II - Lobster Boat
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  • 15539   
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  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
State:
  • ME
3045El Placita - Schooner Steam Yacht
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  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
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)
El Placita - Schooner Steam Yacht
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  • 3045   
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  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
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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)
3041Endeavor - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat
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  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Friendship Sloop
Ralph Stanley built the 25 foot open-cockpit Maine Sloop Boat “Endeavor” on speculation in 1979 at his boat shop on Clark Point Road. She originally had beach rocks as movable internal stone ballast, later replaced by lead. "The Friendship Sloop" videorecording, DVD, produced by The New Film Company, Inc. in 1986, featured Ralph Stanley building "Endeavor". Ralph sold the vessel to Shaw Mudge of Harrington, Maine in 1981 who later sold it to Ralph’s friend, Betsy Holtzmann of Southwest Harbor.
Endeavor - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat
Item:
  • 3041   
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  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Friendship Sloop
Description:
Ralph Stanley built the 25 foot open-cockpit Maine Sloop Boat “Endeavor” on speculation in 1979 at his boat shop on Clark Point Road. She originally had beach rocks as movable internal stone ballast, later replaced by lead. "The Friendship Sloop" videorecording, DVD, produced by The New Film Company, Inc. in 1986, featured Ralph Stanley building "Endeavor". Ralph sold the vessel to Shaw Mudge of Harrington, Maine in 1981 who later sold it to Ralph’s friend, Betsy Holtzmann of Southwest Harbor. [show more]
3465Three Brothers - Lobster Boat
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  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
Three Brothers - Lobster Boat
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  • 3465   
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  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
3466George E. Klinck - Schooner
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  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
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.”
George E. Klinck - Schooner
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  • 3466   
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  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, 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.” [show more]