Governor Ames (schooner)

The Governor Ames, the first five-masted schooner in the United States, arrived at Nanaimo, April 19, 1891. She was built at Waldboro, Me., in 1888, was two hundred and forty-five feet six inches long, fifty feet beam, twenty-one feet hold, and registered 1,689 tons. E. W. Wright, Retirement of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company from Puget Sound, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Puget Sound. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961 [This book was written in 1895 and the years covered in this chapter are 1891 and 1892., p.392.

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