Edna Hoyt

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Fetch?	Row ID	Media	Date	Vessel	Place	Related Places	Inscription/Marks	Subject	Notes	Archive Number
	1								NOTES: This painting appears to have been created from a photograph of the Edna Hoyt, the last of the five-masted schooners, as she sat on the marine railway at Cumberland Shipbuilding in South Portland, Maine in 1935. A copy of the photograph is in the South Portland Historical Society (catalog number 1976.028.13). NOTES: Bessie Barclay was the daughter of Charles Barkclay, a painter and jeweler who came to Newport News in 1896 and founded a jewelry store. The Barclay's had eight children. Charles and his family lived on the Boulevard in the 1890s but later bought land near Deep Creek in Warwick County, now part of Newport News. The house near Deep Creek was called "Barclay on the James." His daughter Bessie never married, was art supervisor for Newport News schools for 25 years and an accomplished oil painter. She painted in an art studio in the Deep Creek home. Bessie died in the 1950s. VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: EDNA HOYT VESSEL BUILT: 1920 BUILDER: Dunn & Elliot Shipyard BUILDER LOCATION: THOMASTON, MAINE VESSEL TYPE: FIVE MASTED SCHOONER DIMENSIONS: 284' length, 1,500 tons SHIP'S CAPTAIN: CAPTAIN RICKSON VESSEL HISTORY: Edna Hoyt was the last five-masted commercial schooner. FATE: In November 1937 Edna Hoyt set sail from Cardiff, Wales and ran into a storm in the Bay of Biscay. On the 22nd the crew sent out a distress signal which was received by the Norwegian steamship San Miguel. The steamer towed the schooner into Lisbon, Portugal where the vessel was sold for $3,500 and converted into a coal hulk.	CL3563
	2	No image URL.							Windjammers of the present time and bygone days. illus.	LB50699
	3						handwritten at bottom: 7588. Edna Hoyt. Copr. P.L. Sperr. on verso: DX-2205.		Starboard view of the vessel at anchor.	P0002.001/02-#153847
	4					New York (N.Y.).	written below image: 7591. Under the Bowsprit of Schr. Edna Hoyt. Copr. P.L. Sperr		With New York City in the background, a ferry crosses in the waters between the schooner's bow and the city.	P0002.001/02-003#007591
	5								SHORT DESCRIPTION: Pen and ink drawing of five-masted schooner. Starboard view with coastline in background. NOTES: Volume of pen and ink drawings by A.L. Van Name, Jr., M.D. depicting Chesapeake Bay vessels. LABEL COPY: EDNA HOYT A five masted schooner built in 1921, at Thomaston, Maine. 1,512 Tons Gross. The last American five master being damaged by storm and converted to a coal hulk in 1938.	CL6108
	6						handwritten below image:8179. Seamen's Institute under Bowsprit of Edna Hoyt (5-mast Schr). P.L. Sperr.		Looking at building in New York through the bowsprit and rigging of schooner Edna Hoyt. Several men are also in the frame, sitting or passing by. caption from book: The Seamens Church Institute, framed by the bowsprit of the Edna Hoyt, visible through the schooner's rigging, is the Institute's Ball Tower. For years, The ball would be lowered each day at noon Greenwich mean time, the Mariners standard. The Edna Hoyt was last of the five masted schooners to operate between North America and ports in Europe and Central America.	P0002.001/02-#153639