The Maine Maritime Museum in Bath was able to salvage some of the hardware and woodwork from these schooners over the years. Other "self-help" salvagers did their part as well. I wonder who got the fancy scrolled trim boards from the bows?

The trim boards from the "Cora Cressy," another 5-masted schooner which rotted away in Maine, are on prominent display in the entrance hall of the Maine Maritime Museum. The "Cressey" had the usual commercial career before being converted into "Levaggi's Show Boat" in the 1920's. She somehow ended up permanently moored in Keene's Neck, Muscongus Bay, Maine, serving as a lobster pound. Some of her murals of nude dancing girls were salvaged by, I believe, the Penobscot Marine Museum.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble