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Search mode: Type+Name and Schooner+Name. Search phrase(s): "Bugeye Frank"; "Schooner Frank". Results returned: 3. Results displayed in this table: 3.
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| Fetch? | Row ID | Media | Date | Vessel | Place | Related Places | Inscription/Marks | Subject | Notes | Archive Number |
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| 1 | NOTES: The chainplate was found in the James River, near Blount Point, where the bugeye's main rigging was taken off. This vessel disappears from the 1920 register. VESSEL INFORMATION-- VESSEL NAME: FRANK VESSEL TYPE: bugeye SERVICE DATES: 1885 - 1915 SHIP BUILDER: J.R. James BUILDER LOCATION: Maryland, Cambridge VESSEL HISTORY: It was converted into a power boat about 1910 and burned at Norfolk in 1915. VESSEL DIMENSIONS: 54.3 x 15.6 x 2.4 | CL2839 | ||||||||
| 2 | ![]() | 11/16/1894 | Frank T. Stinson (Schooner : 1887).; Sallie P. Linderman (Steamboat : 1879). | Frank T. Stenson - (4 M. sch); 938 | Sailing ships–United States.; Schooners–United States.; Tugboats–United States. | Shows a port side view of a four masted schooner moored in the water. A tugboat has pulled alongside her. Stanton's notebooks contain the following information about this item: "Fri Nov 16, 1894" | MS0094/01-#0938 | |||
| 3 | ![]() | USA; MASSACHUSETTS; GLOUCESTER | LABEL: TYPED LABEL ON BACK OF MOUNT, MACKEREL SCHOONER-VIEW OF SCHOONER FRANK FOSTER, OF GLOUCESTER, LYING AT A WHARF AT EAST GLOUCESTER; SEINE BOATS ASTERN. DECK FILLED WITH MACKEREL IN BARRELS;CREW AT WORK DRESSING FISH. (PHOTO NO. 19768) U.S. FISH COMMISSION, BULLETIN 27, p.712, U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM. | docks | CURATOR NOTES: Looking down at FRANK FOSTER showing deck crowded with barrels and crew. Barrels filled with fish. Two seine boats tied up at stern. Gloucester seen in the background. ALBERT BARNES COLLECTION | MS0198/01-06.04#19 |
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