Eric (schooner)

Eric, four-masted schooner of 574 tons and 750 M capacity, was built by Hall Bros. for their own account, and was managed after 1900, like all their fleet, by G. E. Billings of San Francisco, who had married a Hall niece. In 1917, the Eric was sold for $65,000 to Burns Philp Co., the Australian copra merchants, but retained U. S. registry. In December, 1923, she put into Honolulu, waterlogged, on a voyage from Clallam Bay, B. C., to Brisbane, Australia; but was repaired and completed the voyage. On her return to San Francisco, the Eric was sold to J. E. Shields of Seattle, and in January, 1925, was towed to that port. There she was sold to Sir Guy Gaunt, and went under British registry for a world cruise; but what became of her after that is unknown to me. John Lyman, Pacific Coast-Built Sailers, 1850-1950, The Marine Digest. April 5, 1941, p. 2.

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Eric (schooner)

Eric, four-masted schooner of 574 tons and 750 M capacity, was built by Hall Bros. for their own account, and was managed after 1900, like all their fleet, by G. E. Billings of San Francisco, who had married a Hall niece. In 1917, the Eric was sold for $65,000 to Burns- Philp Co., the Australian copra merchants, but retained U. S. reg- istry. In December, 1923, she put into Honolulu, waterlogged, on a voyage from Clallam Bay, B. C., to Brisbane, Australia; but was repaired and completed the voyage. On her return to San Francisco, the Eric was sold to J. E. Shields of Seattle, and in January, 1925, was towed to that port. There she was sold to Sir Guy Gaunt, and went under British registry for a world cruise; but what became of her after that is unknown to me. John Lyman, Pacific Coast-Built Sailers, 1850-1950, The Marine Digest. April 5, 1941, p. 2.

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Eric (schooner)

Following the purchase of three sailing vessels Captain Shields disposed of his schooner Eric to Rear Adm. Sir Guy Gaunt, former British Naval Attache at Washington, D. C. Following the transfer of ownership the old Hall-built lumber carrier was taken to Yarrows at Esquimalt, where she was rifted with twin Fairbanks -Morse diesel engines and luxurious accommodations, emerging as the glamorous yacht Four Winds, upon which Sir Guy and a select party embarked for a criuse to Europe via the Orient. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1925, H. W. McCurdy Maritime History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 363.

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