Five-Masted Schooner Martha P. Small

Five-Masted Schooner Martha P. Small

Launched in Bath at the Percy & Small shipyard in 1901, the Martha P. Small carried coal for her Bath owners, then went into the South American trade during the First World War carrying case oil (kerosene). She was sold to Canadian owners in the spring of 1917 and continued sailing to South America, and was finally broken up in Montevideo in 1923.

Database ID: 
LB1980.223.704 B
Year: 
1901
Geographic Location: 
Maine Coast
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