Clemmie Travers

Mariners' Museum, Uncurated Search Results

Type: Schooner

Year: 1885

Builder: F. R. Hayes

Location:

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Fetch?	Row ID	Media	Date	Vessel	Place	Related Places	Inscription/Marks	Subject	Notes	Archive Number
	1								NOTES: Sailor made model of the two-masted Chesapeake Bay schooner, made by father of the donor. Captain Travers started building the model in 1887 and completed 12 years later. NOTES: Crockford, Hamilton "Cap'n Travers Steers His Ship From Sea to Shore". Times Dispatch. information on model maker. (copy in object file) VESSEL INFORMATION-- VESSEL NAME: CLEMMIE TRAVERS OFFICIAL NUMBER: 126314 VESSEL TYPE: Schooner SERVICE DATES: 1885-1936 BUILDER LOCATION: Virginia, Mathews County, Cobbs Creek TRADE ROUTE: WEST INDIES, BALTIMORE VESSEL HISTORY: The vessel was used in general Bay freighting, in the New Jersey oyster planting trade, and in the pineapple trade between the West Indies and Baltimore. Stranded on September 18, 1936, against a stone breakwater at Norfolk, Virginia. VESSEL DIMENSIONS: 85 gross tons, 81 net tons; 85.9 X 23.8 X 7.0	CL14148