page_title: Bowdoin B. Crowninshield
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Bowdoin B. Crowninshield / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: the 90 footer sloop Independence (Bowdoin B. Crowninshield, 1901) was Thomas W. Lawson's candidate for the 1901 America's Cup defence.
context_page_description: Bowdoin Bradlee Crowninshield was an American naval architect who specialized in the design of racing yachts.
context_section_description: After graduating from Harvard, he speculated in real estate before signing on as a draftsman with John R. Purdon, a respected yacht designer in Boston with several knockabout designs to his credit.  Crowninshield struck out on his own 18 months later, starting a yacht design and brokerage firm which quickly prospered. He would rise to become one of America's most respected yacht designers during a period which is now regarded as the golden age of American wooden yacht design.
  He designed the schooner Adventuress, which was launched in 1913 and has been named a National Historic Landmark. 
  Crowninshield is now best remembered for his working schooners and his America's Cup contender Independence (George Lawley & Son shipyard, 1901) for Thomas W. Lawson.  He was also responsible for designing the iconic Dark Harbor 12 1/2 and 17 1/2 sloops.
  He designed the unique seven masted schooner Thomas W. Lawson, named for his patron.
caption: Sloop Independence, 1901
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