Built by William F. Palmer of Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA at Bath, Maine in 1904 and lost at sea in 1920. The Dutch newspaper De Maasbode dated 9 November 1921 reported in an item dated New York 7 November that she was abandoned after a collision with the American steam ship Apache and with one men drowned (the other 10 men saved), wood-built 5-master, homeport New York. The Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant dated 12 November reported that she was under tow of salvage vessels off Delaware Capes and sunk in 17 fathoms deep water and probably to be blown up as she was an obstacle for the shipping. Gross tonnage 2,859 tons, net tonnage 2,357 tons and dimensions 269 x 45 feet. Lloyds’s wood built by G.L. Weldt, Waldoboro, dimensions 294.9 x 45.4 x 28.2 feet., homeport Boston.
Sources
William Armstrong Fairburn, Merchant Sail vol. 4, [1945-1955].
Lloyd’s Register of Shipping 1907 Sailing Vessels.
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