Lottie L. Thomas
Vessel Report
Type: Bugeye
Year: 1883
Builder: Joseph W. Brooks
Location: Madison
Narrative History
Note: This narrative was written by an automated research assist, based on source materials which are generally not available to web search and normal AI processes. These include documents and photos I've collected into my local archives, and results from digital catalogs of maritime museums and periodicals shown in the tables below. Send your questions and comments to editor@sailingworkboats.es.
The bugeye Lottie L. Thomas was built at Madison in 1883 by Joseph W. Brooks. The selected newspaper record places her in the ordinary Chesapeake and coastal trading world soon after construction, with notices in Baltimore and Norfolk papers between 1884 and 1889. The surviving entries are brief, but they show the vessel being reported as a schooner in daily shipping columns as well as by her local bugeye type.
The earliest selected notice is from February 1884 in The Baltimore Sun, followed by a tight January 1885 cluster in Baltimore and Norfolk. Those entries place Lottie L. Thomas in the active port-movement record within roughly two years of her build date. Later Baltimore notices in 1888 and 1889 continue the vessel's paper trail. A much later 1924 Baltimore item preserves a final selected newspaper reference, though the vessel-specific context should be checked against the page image before drawing a strong conclusion from that late appearance.
Timeline
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1883 | Built at Madison by Joseph W. Brooks. |
| February 19, 1884 | Listed in a Baltimore newspaper shipping notice. |
| January 9-15, 1885 | Appears in selected Baltimore and Norfolk newspaper notices under the phrase "Schooner Lottie L. Thomas." |
| June 7, 1888 | Appears in a Baltimore newspaper shipping notice. |
| January 1, 1889 | Appears in a Baltimore newspaper notice found with the phrase "Bugeye Lottie L. Thomas." |
| February 16, 1924 | Appears in a later Baltimore newspaper result; the page image should be reviewed before treating this as a firm late-life event. |
Footnotes
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- Database vessel row DSPV-01161, Lottie L. Thomas.
- Curated newspaper rows for Lottie L. Thomas, including The Baltimore Sun, February 19, 1884; January 9, 1885; June 7, 1888; January 1, 1889; February 16, 1924, and The Norfolk Virginian, January 10 and 15, 1885.
Newspapers, Curated Search Results
| State | Newspaper | Date | Location | Full-page PDF | Thumbnail | Article Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | The Baltimore Sun | 1889-01-01 | Baltimore, Maryland | Open PDF |  | Full-page PDF text was extracted, but no reliable Lottie L. Thomas-specific text was detected. |
| Virginia | The Norfolk Virginian | 1885-01-15 | Norfolk, Virginia | Open PDF |  | Full-page PDF text was extracted, but no reliable Lottie L. Thomas-specific text was detected. |
| Maryland | The Baltimore Sun | 1885-01-09 | Baltimore, Maryland | Open PDF |  | Full-page PDF text was extracted, but no reliable Lottie L. Thomas-specific text was detected. |
| Virginia | The Norfolk Virginian | 1885-01-10 | Norfolk, Virginia |  | No full-page PDF has been matched to this row yet. | |
| Maryland | The Baltimore Sun | 1924-02-16 | Baltimore, Maryland | Open PDF |  | Full-page PDF text was extracted, but no reliable Lottie L. Thomas-specific text was detected. |
| Maryland | The Baltimore Sun | 1884-02-19 | Baltimore, Maryland | Open PDF |  | Full-page PDF text was extracted, but no reliable Lottie L. Thomas-specific text was detected. |
| Maryland | The Baltimore Sun | 1888-06-07 | Baltimore, Maryland | Open PDF |  | Full-page PDF text was extracted, but no reliable Lottie L. Thomas-specific text was detected. |