Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1886-11-04
Old Rigs and New.
SQUARE -RIGGED VESSELS GOING OUT OF
DATE.
ADVANTAGES OF THE EASILY HANDLED
SCHOONER.
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ADVANTAGES OF THE EASILY HANDLED
SCHOONER.
Bangor Industrial Journal
There has been lying off the City Point,
foot of Exchange street, the past week,
vessel which, as far as her rig is concerned,
is something of a curiosity. This IS the
topsail schooner, Anna Elizabeth, Of Ban
gor, probably the last of her class in these
waters, at least the only one which we have
seen for years or of which we can learn by
inquiry among old masters and other sea-
farers. She was built at Hampden in 1853,
and is 9l.S feet keel, 26.6 beam, S.5 hold,
and measures l44.ll tons, net. She carries
square foresail, fore-and-aft foresail, fore
topsail and foretopgallant, otherwise being
rigged fore-and-aft, and Is quite handy
coaster, while in her younger days she was
a good deep waterman. She serves as re-
mnder of the fact tina, square rigs, especial
ly here on the coast, are fast disappearing,
and that fore-and- aft rigs are all the fashion
nowadays.
Schooners are handler for coastng, es-
pecially in American waters, but it is not al
together on this account that yards have
given place to booms and gaffs. The
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