Subject Type: Merchant

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One of the last full-rigged schooners to operate on the Great Lakes

The hermaphrodite brig George Latimer was employed in the West Indies sugar trade.

Ship model book author Charles G. Davis served as able-bodied seaman on this vessel.

Susan Constant, captained by Christopher Newport, was the largest of three ships of the English Virginia Company (the others being Discovery and Godspeed) on the 1606 – 1607 voyage that resulted in the founding of Jamestown in the new Colony of Virginia.

A large ocean-going, side-wheel, paddle steamer. Built in 1889 for passenger service between Boston, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine. Sank off Cape Ann during the Portland Gale of 1898 with all hands.

1850’s American brigantine