Count the Masts

Archive

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Historic Stonington

Name/Title

"Count the Masts"

Entry/Object ID

2002.0613.530

Scope and Content

Newspaper photo from Boston Sunday Herald Feb. 12, 1956 of six-masted "William L. Douglas" Caption reads: G. H. Banks of Cambridge wrote The Herald questioning a statement that the Thomas W. Lawson was the only seven-masted vessel on the seas and suggested the William L. Douglas, shown above, was also a seven-master. Frank Leahy of Bethlehem Steel's Quincy Yard, which built both ships, sent this picture of the Douglas showing only six masts."

Collection

Dorothea Hewitt Gould Collection