| Pitcairn (schooner) | This two masted schooner of 121 tons was built at Benicia by Captain Turner in 1890 for the Seventh Day Adventist Church as a missionay vessel to the South Pacific. She cost $7400 for the hulls, spars and iron work of which the builder donated five hundred dollars and a unique feature of the contract provided that no work should be done on Saturday. She was also launched without the genefit of alcholic beverages at the shipyard celebration, quite in contrast to the usual custom. After her first voyage to New Zealand and back, the Pitcairn was rerigged as a brigantine, and additional deckhouses raised her tonnage to 171. The Pitcairn was wrecked without loss of life at Mindoro, Philippine Islands, October 17, 1912. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850-1905, The Marine Digest.July 26, 1941, p. 2. |
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| Pitcairn (schooner) | From Capt. John F. Blain, Northern Pacific district director of the Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation in the first World War period, additional data has been obtained on the two-masted schooner Pitcairn. As told in The Marine Digest of July 26, last, she was built by the Turner yard at Benicia, California, in 1890 for the Seventh Day Adventist Church as a South Sea missionary boat. After her first voyage she was rerigged as a brigantine. Later she was bought from the missionary organization by the Arnold firm of San Francisco for the Mexican trade, Captain Blain recalls, and still later Arnold sold her to the Clark and Spencer interests of Manila. Capt. Blain, then 22 1/2 years old, was appointed master by the Manila owners, the Pitcairn being his first command. He was probably the youngest master on the Coast at that time. He took command in San Francisco, and loaded with Sperry flour for Manila, the Pitcairn was towed out at the Golden Gate in a heavy fog on the fateful day of February 22, 1901. In |
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| Pitcairn (schooner) | This two masted schooner of 121 tons was built at Benicia by Captain Turner in 1890 for the Seventh Day Adventist Church as a missionay vessel to the South Pacific. She cost $7400 for the hulls, spars and iron work of which the builder donated five hundred dollars and a unique feature of the contract provided that no work should be done on Saturday. She was also launched without the genefit of alcholic beverages at the shipyard celebration, quite in contrast to the usual custom. After her first voyage to New Zealand and back, the Pitcairn was rerigged as a brigantine, and additional deckhouses raised her tonnage to 171. The Pitcairn was wrecked without loss of life at Mindoro, Philippine Islands, October 17, 1912. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850-1905, The Marine Digest.July 26, 1941, p. 2. |
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| Pitcairn (schooner) | From Capt. John F. Blain, Northern Pacific district director of the Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation in the first World War period, additional data has been obtained on the two-masted schooner Pitcairn. As told in The Marine Digest of July 26, last, she was built by the Turner yard at Benicia, California, in 1890 for the Seventh Day Adventist Church as a South Sea missionary boat. After her first voyage she was rerigged as a brigantine. Later she was bought from the missionary organization by the Arnold firm of San Francisco for the Mexican trade, Captain Blain recalls, and still later Arnold sold her to the Clark and Spencer interests of Manila. Capt. Blain, then 22 1/2 years old, was appointed master by the Manila owners, the Pitcairn being his first command. He was probably the youngest master on the Coast at that time. He took command in San Francisco, and loaded with Sperry flour for Manila, the Pitcairn was towed out at the Golden Gate in a heavy fog on the fateful day of February 22, 1901. In |
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