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Description
The four-masted barkentine Cecil P. Stewart, 1216 tons, was one of last two square-riggers built in Maine. She was a sister ship of the Reine Marie Stewart, also built in Thomaston by Dunn and Elliot in 1919. The vessel was later rigged as a schooner with fore and aft rig on all masts.
The vessel was lost off Barnegat on the New Jersey coast with a cargo of railroad ties when she went aground and broke up on Feb 17, 1927.
About This Item
- Title: Barkentine Cecil P. Stewart, Thomaston, ca. 1918
- Creation Date: circa 1918
- Subject Date: circa 1918
- Location: Thomaston, Knox County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 13 cm x 23.5 cm
- Local Code: PhotographsBoxShips
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Ships--Maine
- Cecil P. Stewart (Ship)
- Merchant ships--Maine
- Shipbuilding--Maine--Thomaston
- Barks (Sailing ships)--Maine
- Dunn & Elliot (Thomaston, Me.)
- Construction--Maine--Thomaston
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- 4-masted barkentine
- Barnegat, NJ
- Dunn & Elliot
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- Reine Marie Stewart
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Thomaston Historical SocietyPO Box 384, Thomaston, ME 04861
(207) 354 2295
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