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National Historic Landmark former cargo boat; oldest surviving sailing vessel built in Maine 2 masted gaff [50] Lily: 1978 Stuart, Florida: Tourism/charter vessel. Schooner rig with a scow hull. May have been the last boat purpose built to haul cargo commercially under sail power in the United States. Originally known as Lily of Tisbury. 2 ...
Wooden scow schooner 1869 1879 5 feet (1.5 m) On March 23, 1879, the two-masted scow schooner was blown ashore near Two Creeks, Wisconsin, during a gale. Extensive salvage efforts failed to make her seaworthy, and in June 1881 she was declared a total loss. Set adrift and abandoned, she came to rest on the coast of Wisconsin south of Rawley Point.
The Mayflower was a wooden hulled scow-schooner that sank on June 2, 1891, in Lake Superior near Duluth, Minnesota, United States, after capsizing with a load of sandstone blocks. In 2012 the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places .
Alma is a flat-bottomed scow schooner built in 1891 by Fred Siemer at his boatyard near Shipwright's Cottage at Hunters Point in San Francisco.Like the many other local scow schooners of that time, she was designed to haul goods on and around San Francisco Bay, but now hauls people.
Wrecks of three wooden ships commingled on the reef SW of the island: the 115-foot scow-schooner Forest built in 1857 and wrecked by a storm in October of 1891, the 147-foot schooner A.P. Nichols built in 1861 and wrecked by a storm in October of 1892, and the 138-foot canaller-schooner J.E. Gilmore, built in 1867 and wrecked by another storm ...
The scow schooner Alma of San Francisco, built in 1891, restored in the 1960s, and designated a National Historic Landmark (NHL) in 1988, was one of the last scow schooners in operation. She is a small example, 59 feet in length, 22.6 feet in beam, with a draft of 4 feet and a loaded displacement of 41 tons.
The Sunshine, which sank in 1869, lies in the same bay off Lake Michigan as the Boaz, which also was named to the national register last month.
The first owners of the ship were Otto A. Bjorkgnist and Ole Osmondson. Osmondson served as the first captain. Osmondson and Bjorkgnist owned the Tennie and Laura for nine years. On April 5, 1885, Osmondson bought Bjorgnist's share of the Tennie and Laura and then sold the ship to Lars Hansen and Rasmus Hansen. Lars Hansen sold his share to ...