Launching of Schooner at Stonington Ship Yard, Stonington CT

Archive

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Historic Stonington

Name/Title

Launching of Schooner at Stonington Ship Yard, Stonington CT

Entry/Object ID

2002.0613.500

Scope and Content

Colored postcard of Launching of schooner at Stonington shipyard. Written in "Fannie Prescott" Note on back: May 29, 1906 Fannie Prescott launched from Nat's Pt. Stonington (near present location of Wadawanuck Club), 1st cargo vessel built in Boro since "James J. Day" in the 1850s. Stuck on the ways and wasan't floated for a week. Copy on slide 103-2 taken by Ingrid Feddeson, 1991 Index card done by Jack Fix

Collection

Dorothea Hewitt Gould Collection