Jabez Howes

Three masted cannery supply ship. This vessel was built in 1877 at Newburyport, Massachusetts. Jim Gibbs, Pacific Square-riggers., p. 39. Drive ashore at Chignik, Alaska, in 1911, Jim Gibbs, Pacific Square-riggers., p. 156.

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Jabez Howes (cannery Tender)

The fast sailing three-skysail-yarder Jabez Howes, 1,648 tons, a Downeaster of 1877, oak-built by Currier of Newburyport, having been laid up at Winslow since 1908, was sold by C. Boudrow for the California Shipping Co. of San Francisco to the Columbia River Packers' Association (for $12,000) for use as a tender to a new cannery opened by that firm at Unga. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1910, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 175.

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Jabez Howes (full Rigged Ship)

The wooden full -rigged ship Jabez Howes, owned by the Columbia River Packers' Association and used as a cannery tender, sprang a leak in a violent gale off Chignik on the night of April 17, 1911 and was beached to save her cargo. The cannery ships Star of Alaska and Benj. F. Packard, at anchor with the Howes, were also blown ashore, but were later refloated. The Howes was a total loss. The old Downeast ship Reuce 14 of 1881 vintage was purchased from the California Shipping Co. to replace the Jabez Howes, the purchase price being about $ 15,000. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1911, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 196-97.

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Jabez Howes (full Rigged Ship)

The wooden fullrigged ship Jabez Howes, 1,648 tons, built by J. Currier, Jr. at Newburyport, Me. in 1877, was purchased for the salmon trade by the Columbia River Packers Association, from W. A. Mighell of San Francisco. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1907, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 142.

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