A Rockland schooner
January 22, 2022
National, New England, South Atlantic
One of the first vessels produced by Cobb and Butler was the 1890 three-mast, square rigged schooner Nathan F. Cobb. In December 1896, the Nathan F. Cobb departed Brunswick, Georgia, for New York with a load of timber and crossties. Winter weather in the Atlantic can be difficult and this proved true for the schooner. For four days the weather stayed bad, and the vessel drifted 375 miles southward. On the morning of Dec. 5, 1896, the Nathan F. Cobb grounded on a near shore sandbar, roughly 1,000 feet off Ormond Beach, Florida. This is a good story! photos, >click to read< 14:52
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A Rockland schooner, A.W. Butler, Butler & Co., by Charles Lagerbom, Capt. Cookson, Cobb, Cobb Cottage, Freed Waterhouse, gale force winds, grounded on sandbar, Henry Shaffer, J. Trott, J.D. Price, maine, merchant service, Nathan F. Cobb, off Ormond Beach Florida, Rockland Maine, Superintendent Hiram B. Shaw, Tom Fagen, U.S. Life-Saving Service’s Seventh District
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