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Wednesday 27 March 2024

American 5-mast schooner Davis Palmer 1905-1909

Built by William F. Palmer of Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA at Bath, Maine in 1905 and foundered in 1909, no survivors. Gross tonnage 2,965 tons, net tonnage 2,287 tons and dimensions 305 x 48 feet. ELsewhere gross tonnage 2,966 tons and a crew numbering 10 men. Lloyd’s wood built by Percy&Small for W.F. Palmer, homeport Boston, under deck 2,907 tons, call sign KVDG, dimensions 305.4 x 48.4 x 27.2 feet.

Sources

William Armstrong Fairburn, Merchant Sail vol. 4, [1945-1955].

Lloyd’s Register of Shipping 1907 Sailing Vessels. 

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