Wyoming (schooner)
Schooner Wyoming in 1917
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History | |
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Namesake | Wyoming |
Launched | 15 December 1909[1] |
Fate | Foundered on 11 March 1924 |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | |
Displacement | 10,000 short tons (9,100 metric tons) approx. |
Length |
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Beam | 50.1 ft (15.3 m) |
Draught | 30.4 ft (9.3 m) |
Depth of hold | 33 ft (10 m) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Sail plan | six-masted with 39,826.8 sq ft (3,700 m²) sail area |
Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
Complement | 13 abs ) |
Wyoming was an American wooden
Because of her extreme length and wood construction, Wyoming tended to flex in heavy seas, which would cause the long planks to twist and buckle, thereby allowing sea water to intrude into the hold. Wyoming had to use pumps to keep her hold relatively free of water. In March 1924, she foundered in heavy seas and sank with the loss of all hands.
Description
Wyoming was designed by Bant Hanson with Miles M. Merry, the master builder for the Atlantic coastal trade, under the Percy and Small house flag with intended cargo being coal.[5]
Wyoming was 450 ft (140 m) overall, 350 ft (110 m) on deck, and 329.5 feet (100.4 m) between perpendiculars. She was 50 ft 1 in (15.27 m) wide, and had a draft of 30 ft 5 in (9.27 m). Her
Wyoming was equipped with a Hyde
History
- 1909 – 15 December. Launched at the Percy and Small Shipyard with its masts stepped. First master: Captain Angus McLeod of Somerville, Massachusetts.[1]
- 1909 – 21 December. Maiden voyage to Newport News, Virginia[6]
- 1916 – In charter of International Paper Company
- 1917 – April. Sold to France & Canada Steamship Co. for about $350,000 (probably about $420,000). By 1 October 1919, it had earned more than twice that amount, and its owners chartered it to load coal at Norfolk for Genoa at $23.50 per ton.
- 1921 – Sold to Captain A. W. Frost & Co., Portland, Maine.
- 1924 – Left Norfolk, Virginia, under command of Captain Charles Glaesel, for Saint John, New Brunswick, with a cargo of coal.
- 1924 – 11 March. In order to ride out a nor'easter, it anchored off Chatham, Massachusetts, in the Nantucket Sound, together with the five-masted schooner Cora F. Cressey which had left Norfolk at the same time as Wyoming. Captain H. Publicover on the Cora F. Cressey weighed anchor at dusk and stood out to sea. Wyoming is believed to have foundered east of the Pollock Rip Lightship and the crew of 14 was lost.[7][8][9]
- 2003 - Wyoming wreck located near Monomoy Island by American Underwater Search and Survey Ltd.[10][11]
References
- ^ a b c "Big Schooner is Launched" (PDF). The New York Times. 16 December 1909. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ^ WYOMING on shipmodelersassociation.org
- ^ WYOMING on schoonerwyoming.com
- ^ Leinhard, John H. "The Schooner Wyoming". The Engines of Our Ingenuity. Episode 2492. KUHF-FM. University of Houston, College of Engineering.
- ^ "The Six-Masted Schooner Wyoming". International Marine Engineering. 15 (1). New York: Marine Engineering: 1–2. January 1910. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ "Six-mast schooner WYOMING setting sail off the mouth of the Kennebec River, 1909". Maine Memory Network. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ^ "Location of Wyoming Wreck". Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ^ "American Underwater Search and Survey finds 'Wyoming', six-masted wooden giant of the sea". Archived from the original on November 21, 2003.
- ^ "The Lightships of Nantucket Sound". Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ^ "Wreck of Wyoming found off Cape Cod; Largest wooden cargo ship sank in 1924". Bangor Daily News. The Associated Press. Retrieved 2003-11-10.
- ^ "Wooden giant of sea is found". Cape Cod Times. Retrieved 2003-11-08.