Name/Title
Newell Post, c.1855 | American Civil War U.S. Navy steam screw frigate, U.S.S. WabashDescription
Classification: Furniture
Old Accession Number 2249
Description:
Newell Post from Civil War ship, Wabash. The newell post came from the Civil War ship, Wabash, that was burned at Broad Cove, Eastport, Maine on June 26, 1913.
Gift of Wayne Wilcox, Eastport, Maine.
• From Eastport Sentinel, June 11, 1913, p.2:
Battle ship Wabash to be Burned on
Coney’s Beach.
Following the fate of the old-time warships Vermont and Minnesota that were towed here from the Charlestown navy yard several years ago and burned to recover the copper and other metal contained in their oaken hulls, a sister ship of the Minnesota has now been brought here.
The old wooden battleship, the U.S.S. Wabash, one of the few remaining specimens of the type of frigate that made America supreme on the seas, was towed out of Boston harbor last Thursday bound for Eastport. She arrived here Sunday forenoon in tow of the Lehigh Valley tug Perth Amboy and was grounded at extreme high water on Coney’s beach, Broad Cove, to be burned for her junk. The great rise and fall of the tide at this place, leaving the hulk high and dry on the beach during a part of each day, prompts the owners to bring these old craft way down here and incurring the expense of tonnage for some three hundred miles. The Wabash’s only passengers on her final voyage were “Indian Charlie,” steward on the vessel when it was a training ship, and Charlie’s dog Swea. The Wabash went out of commission at the Charlestown navy yard April 20, 1912, after having served as receiving ship there for 36 years. She was succeeded by the scout cruiser Salem.