Ruby A. Cousins (schooner)

The Ruby A.Cousins, a three-masted schooner of 192 tons and 250 M lumber capacity, was built at Eureka in 1882 by E. Cousins for E. J. Dodge of that port. In 1905 she was bought by the King and Wing Codfish Company of Seattle and renamed the Harold Blekum, and in 1916 was sold to the Northern Fisheries Company of Anacortes. At San Francisco she loaded a cargo of material to build a build a new codfish station on Kodiak I., and sailed on November 7, 1916, for Kodiak. On December 24 she put into Seattle with loss of sails, departing again on January 20, 1917, in tow of the gas vessel Progress. After discharging at Kodiak, she sailed for Seattle on February 27; on March 3, 1917, after losing both anchors, she drove ashore on Eagle Harbor, Kodiak I., and became a total loss. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850-1895, The Marine Digest. August 9, 1941. p. 2

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Ruby A. Cousins (schooner)

The Ruby A.Cousins, a three-masted schooner of 192 tons and 250 M lumber capacity, was built at Eureka in 1882 by E. Cousins for E. J. Dodge of that port. In 1905 she was bought by the King and Wing Codfish Company of Seattle and renamed the Harold Blekum, and in 1916 was sold to the Northern Fisheries Company of Anacortes. At San Francisco she loaded a cargo of material to build a build a new codfish station on Kodiak I., and sailed on November 7, 1916, for Kodiak. On December 24 she put into Seattle with loss of sails, departing again on January 20, 1917, in tow of the gas vessel Progress. After discharging at Kodiak, she sailed for Seattle on February 27; on March 3, 1917, after losing both anchors, she drove ashore on Eagle Harbor, Kodiak I., and became a total loss. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850-1895, The Marine Digest. August 9, 1941. p. 2

Citation: Tacoma Public Library