Grace Bailey (schooner)
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Grace Bailey, also known for many years as Mattie, is a two-masted schooner whose home port is Camden Harbor, Camden, Maine. Built in 1882 in Patchogue, New York, she is one of four surviving two-masted wooden-hulled schooners, once the most common vessel in the American coasting trade.[1] She was one of the first ships in the fleet of historic vessels known as "Maine windjammers", which offer cruises in Penobscot Bay and the Maine coast, entering that service in 1939. She last underwent major restoration in 1989–90.[2] She was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1992.[3]
Description and history
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Grace Bailey was built in 1882 in Patchogue, New York by Gilbert Smith[4] for owner Edwin Bailey, who named her after his daughter who was born in that year. She was rebuilt in 1906, at which time she was renamed Mattie, a name she sailed under until her restoration in 1989–90. She served in the coasting trade until 1939, the last twenty of those years on the Maine coastline. Relatively small ships like this were the workhorse of the coasting fleet, carrying goods and supplies to areas where road access at the time was difficult or impossible.[1]
In 1939 she was chartered by Frank Swift, who had just two years earlier seized on the idea of using schooners for passenger excursions, since they had become financially unviable in the coasting freight trade. Meeting with financial success, he purchased her outright the following year. She has since then served in the "windjammer" fleet, providing sailing cruises to paying customers.[1]
On October 9, 2023, her main mast snapped while under sail just outside the breakwater in Rockland, Maine. Initial reports were that one passenger was deceased and three were injured.
See also
- List of schooners
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Maine
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Knox County, Maine
References
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- National Historic Landmarks in Maine
- Ships on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine
- Camden, Maine
- Schooners of the United States
- National Register of Historic Places in Knox County, Maine
- 1882 ships
- Ships built in New York (state)