Contributed by Brick Store Museum
Description
The 719-ton, four-masted schooner Kennebunk was built by Charles Ward in his Kennebunk Lower Village shipyard in 1918.
Her homeport was Calais, Maine. She was sold to British owners at Nassau, the Bahamas, in 1925.
The Kennebunk was the last large large sailing vessel built on the Kennebunk River, ending almost 200 years of shipbuildig on the river.
About This Item
- Title: The schooner Kennebunk, 1918
- Creator: The Brick Store Museum
- Creation Date: 1918
- Subject Date: 1918
- Location: Lower Village, Kennebunk, York County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 13 cm x 18 cm
- Local Code: 84.L.325
- Object Type: Image
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- Schooners
- Kennebunk (Sailing Ship)
- Ships
- Shipbuiding--Maine--Kennebunk
- Shipyards--Maine--Kennebunk
- Charles Ward Shipyard (Kennebunk, Me.)
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Brick Store Museum117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME 04043
(207) 985-4802
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