page_title: Lyman D. Foster
hierarchical_section_title: Lyman D. Foster
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of the New-Zealand barquentine Lyman D. Foster taken some time between 1917 (when she was rigged as a barquentine) and 26 March 1919 when she was last seen. The photographer is Schutze, George. Shows a four masted barquentine (barkentine) at sea. Gift of Malcolm M. Brodie, 1946.
context_page_description: The Lyman D. Foster was an ocean-going, cargo-carrying, wooden sailing vessel. She was 184 feet long with a 39-feet beam and 15.4 feet depth, and 778 tons in weight.
  She had three separate incarnations.
  She was built at the Hall Brother's shipyard at Port Blakely, Washington, U.S.A. in 1892 as a four-masted schooner for the West Coast lumber trade. She was named Lyman D. Foster after the son of Samuel Foster, a provision merchant from San Francisco who invested in vessels.
  After many years in that trade, in April 1913, she was dismasted in a hurricane and abandoned.
  Her recovered hull was sold to the Government of Fiji and fitted out with machinery becoming the suction dredge, Lady Escott.
  In 1917, she was made seaworthy and re-rigged as a four-masted barquentine—once again as the Lyman D. Foster—for owners based in Auckland, New Zealand.
  The Lyman D. Foster was last seen leaving Nukuʻalofa, Tonga on 26 March 1919 bound for San Francisco, with cargo of copra. On 29 October 1919, the vessel was posted as 'missing' by Lloyds, and remains so a century after her disappearance.
context_section_description: The Lyman D. Foster was an ocean-going, cargo-carrying, wooden sailing vessel. She was 184 feet long with a 39-feet beam and 15.4 feet depth, and 778 tons in weight.
  She had three separate incarnations.
  She was built at the  Hall Brother's shipyard at Port Blakely, Washington (state), U.S.A. in 1892 as a four-masted schooner for the West Coast lumber trade. She was named Lyman D. Foster after the son of Samuel Foster, a provision merchant from San Francisco who invested in vessels.
  After many years in that trade, in April 1913, she was dismasted in a hurricane and abandoned.
  Her recovered hull was sold to the Government of Fiji and fitted out with machinery becoming the suction dredge, Lady Escott.
  In 1917, she was made seaworthy and re-rigged as a four-masted barquentine—once again as the Lyman D. Foster—for owners based in Auckland, New Zealand.
  
  The Lyman D. Foster was last seen leaving Nukuʻalofa, Tonga on 26 March 1919 bound for San Francisco, with cargo of copra. On 29 October 1919, the vessel was posted as 'missing' by Lloyds, and remains so a century after her disappearance.
caption: Lyman D. Foster as a barquentine, Brodie Collection, State Library of Victoria, Photographer George Schutze (1885-1946).[4]
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