The North American schooner Bertha L. Downs was one of many large four-, five-, and six-masted schooners which were built on the banks of the Kennebec River in Maine around the turn of the century. These huge wooden vessels were almost universally employed in the coastal trade and the principal part of this was coal from Virginia to New England. The Bertha L. Downs was launched in 1908 and after some ten years in the lumber and coal trade was sold to Danish owners
and renamed Atlas, and, like a number of her contemporaries, was able to make a profitable living through the 1920s and '30s. She was finally broken up in 1950, in Germany, after forty-two years' work under five flags.
Название: The Schooner Bertha L. Downs
Издательство: Conway Maritime Press
Автор: Author Greenhill, Basil & Sam Manning
Серия: Anatomy of the Ship
Год издания: Date 1995
Язык: английский
ISBN 1557507902
ISBN13 9781557507907
страниц: 81 pages
Формат: pdf
Объём: 51.2 Мб
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