Photograph

Name/Title

Photograph

Entry/Object ID

2011.0004.222

Tags

Verify Paperwork, Update Storage Location, Review, Locate

Description

The "Walter Adams" was built in 1890 in Noank, CT for Seaboard Fisheries, NY. It was later owned by Rish Products Co., Wilmington NC. In 1894, she caught over a million fish in three days. She was chartered by the Navy in 1918, classified as a mine sweeper (SP 400), then returned to her owner in NC.

Collection

Menhaden Fishing Vessels