| Crescent (schooner) | The Crescent, a five-masted schooner of 1443 tons, was built at Fairhaven in 1904 for the Charles Nelson Co. by the Bendixsen Shipbuilding Co. She was the largest vessel built up to her time on the Pacific coast for the lumber trade, having a capacity of 1650 M feel. Capt. Theodore Olson had the Crescent during her entire life; his wife sailed with him, and they made their home on board . In 1918, the Crescent was bound from Sydney to San Francisco with a load of copra, and on June 1 the cargo caught fire in 361,27,N, 150 23'W-about 1400 miles west of San Francisco-and the schooner had to be abandoned. With his wife and the crew of 12, Capt. Olson sailed in the longboat to San Francisco, where they arrived at Meiggs' Wharf on June 16, a little hungry and stiff, but otherwise safe and sound. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850-1905, The Marine Digest. March 22, 1941, p.2 |
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| Crescent (schooner) | An American five-masted schooner, was baitered by huge seas off Cape Flattery, January 9, 1914, and entered the Strait of Juan de Fuca with deckload gone and upperworks stove. Repaired and refumed to sea. Jim Gibbs, Shipwrecks off Juan de Fuca, Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1968. |
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| Crescent (schooner) | The Crescent, a five-masted schooner of 1443 tons, was built at Fairhaven in 1904 for the Charles Nelson Co. by the Bendixsen Ship - building Co. She was the largest vessel built up to her time on the Pacific coast for the lumber trade, having a capacity of 1650 M feel. Capt. Theodore Olson had the Crescent during her entire life; his wife sailed with him, and they made their home on board . In 1918, the Crescent was bound from Sydney to San Francisco with a load of copra, and on June 1 the cargo caught fire in 361,27,N, 150 23'W-about 1400 miles west of San Francisco-and the schooner had to be abandoned. With his wife and the crew of 12, Capt. Olson sailed in the longboat to San Francisco, where they arrived at Meiggs' Wharf on June 16, a little hungry and stiff, but otherwise safe and sound. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850-1905, The Marine Digest. March 22, 1941, p.2 |
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