Grandes veleros de la Marina Civil (2)
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The ‘Majestic Monarch’s Of Sail;’ The Amercian, Thomas W. Lawson & Her German Sister, The Preußen!
Thomas W. Lawson
The Thomas W. Lawson was a seven-masted, steel-hulled schooner originally planned for the Pacific trade, but then used primarily to haul coal and oil along the East Coast of the United States. Built in 1902, the ship holds the distinction of being the largest schooner and the largest pure sailing vessel, without an auxiliary engine ever built. Larger sailing vessels with auxiliary engines for propulsion were the French France II (1911) and German R. C. Rickmers (1906), both five-masted barques.
The Thomas W. Lawson was destroyed off the uninhabited island of Annet, in the Scilly Isles, in a storm on December 14, 1907, killing all but two of her 18 crew including the pilot who was already aboard ship.
Name: Thomas W. Lawson
Owner: Coastwise Transportation Co. (John G. Crowley), Boston
Route: US East coast coal trade; in 1907: transatlantic voyage to London
Ordered: June 25, 1901
Builder: Fore River Ship & Engine Building Co., Quincy, MA;
Naval architect: Bowdoin B. Crowninshield
Cost: $248,000 construction, total costs with oil cargo in 1907: ~$400,000
Yard number: 110
Laid down: November, 1901
Launched: July 10, 1902
Christened: July 10, 1902
Completed: August 1902
Maiden voyage:
September 1902 via Philadelphia to Newport News, VA
Reinstated: 1906 as a tanker for oil in bulk
Homeport: Boston, MA
Fate: Sunk in a storm within the Isles of Scilly on Friday, December 13, 1907 with the loss of 17 men out of 19 including pilot
Status: Wreck
Badge: None; no figurehead
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