Thomas W. Lawson7 Masted Schooner |
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| Length 395ft 4in |  |
| Beam 49 ft 3in | |
| Sail 43,055 sq ft | |
| Disp 5218 tons | |
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Thomas W. Lawson was built of steel by the Fore River Ship & Engine Building Co., Quincy, MA in 1902 for Coastwise Transportation Co., Boston. at a cost of $258,000 She was the only seven-masted and largest schooner ever built. The masts were called fore mast, main mast, mizzen mast, number 4, number 5, number 6, and spanker mast, although number 4,5,6 might also have been called jigger mast, driver mast and pusher mast. The americans sailing her prefered the days of the weeks for the masts with the Fore be Sunday and the pusher be Saturday
She was built for the coal trade and could carry 11,000 tons, was rebuilt in 1906 to be used for carrying oil in bulk.
On December 13th 1907 she sunk on Hellweather Reef, Scilly Islands (South of England) in a storm with a loss of 15 of the crew of 17
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