The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-02

master on the stocks alongside looks
short and chunky compared whit the six
master. mere statement of her dinnen-
s4ons conveys to the landsman but a
faint idea Of her size. Some comparisons
will assist. Few full-rigged ships, either
or wood or metal, are as large as this
schooner, and the next largest schooners
now afloat, the John B. Prescott and
Nathaniel T. Palmer, are about 500 tons
smaller than she. The largest steamer
running to Bangor is ffty-eight feet
shorter on top than the six-master;
twelve vessels like her, ranged in line,
would occupy g mile Of pier frontage for,
from tip Of her driver boom to the tip
OF her jsbboom, this vessel Is about 425
feet long She can carry as much coal
at one load as three of the Philadelphia
q Reading railroad steam GOLFERS, and
about twice as much as the first five
masted schooner ever built. the Gov
Ames. A schooner that would have been
called large twenty years ago could not
carry enough coal to ballast this big fell
low of the Camden yard
There is no reason why this big schoon-
er should not be a great money-maker.
as she can carry more than 5000 tons of
coal on a draft of twenty-four feet, with
only fourteen men. all told, for crew She
can carry 500 tons more than the five
master John B. Prescott, the biggest
+ schooner now af1oat, with only one more
man for crew. Her managing owner
Capt. John G. Crowley, thinks that she
can cas- ly beat the barges at coal car
ryfngy even when freights are low. A full
rugged ship of equal size would carry at
leaSf thlrtV-one men as crew
capt. John G. Crowley, for whom the
vessel has been built, is the most promi-
nent master in he American coasting
trade He was born in Plymouth Mass.
and ~, To
forty-four years old, but looks younger,
for. the sea has not aged him. At ten
years of age he went as cook in the
schooner Caroline Cornelia, of Somerset
Mass, and has followed the sea ever
since With great and growing. success. The
/ first vessel of which he was master was
the schooner Florence Dean, of about 500
tons. The last vessel built for him was
the .sehoonerr Henry S. Culver at Alex
andria, Va, of about $50 tons, and his first
big vessel was the four-master Mount
Hope, 9S9 tons, built at Camden, in 1887.
Other big schooners built for Capt Crow
ley have been the Sycamore, at Kenne-
bunk, Me, and the Henry w. Cramp and
John B. Prescott, at Camden Now comes
the George w Wells. the king of all
schooners, and he is also having built at
Camden a five-master of 2,150 tons net
register, to be named the Van Allen
Boughton, after an old and famous New
York firm. He will go one trip in the
George w. Wells, and then turn her over
to his brother, Capt Arthur Crowley,
now master of the John B. Prescott.
Capt. Arthur Crowley is only thirty years
old, but, like his brother, he is a thorough
sailor, having been at sea since early
boyhood.
Capt. John c. Crowley denies the report
that he is to have a seven-master built
He says the six-master is the limit He
thinks six masts better than five in
vessel of this size, for the extra mast
makes the booms shorter and conse-
quently, the sails smaller and lighter. In
a five-master of the Wells size the
boons. except the driver, would be fifty
feet long, whereas in the Wells they are
only forty-two feet long.
At Bath a six-masted schooner Of near
ly the same dimensions as those of the
Wells will be launched in October, and
she Is TO be commanded by Capt "Linc"
Jewett, the famous skipper of the Charles
P. hoffman, which recently was sunk by
the Mallory steamer Colorado. There has
been some rivalry between Bath and
Camden as to which should produce the
largest schooner and Camden appears to
have beaten the Kennebec port by few
feet and few tons. The career of these
two giant schooners VIII be watched with
interest by the shipping world.