Potomac Sailing
Vessels
partial listing
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Vessels
Built in Westmoreland County |
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Master |
Home Port/Sailed From |
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Addie |
106603 |
11 |
Sloop |
37 |
1888 |
Bernard Thompson |
St. George Island, MD |
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Tappahannock, VA |
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Lola Taylor |
140844 |
10 |
Bugeye |
56 |
1856 |
Randolph Thomas |
St. Georges Island, MD |
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Square Sail, abandoned at Cross Roads, VA September 29,
1939. |
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Robert E. Lee |
111047 |
9 |
Sloop |
42 |
1893 |
T. W. Bryant |
Westmoreland County |
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Wm J. & John J. Foxhall |
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Abandoned at Alexandria, VA on September 27, 1906 |
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Harp |
96390 |
39 |
Schooner |
67.5 |
1895 |
George H. Shelton |
Washington, D.C. |
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R. H. Stuart |
111158 |
17 |
Schooner |
56.3 |
1897 |
T.W. Bryant |
Alexandria, VA |
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R. H. Stuart |
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Changed to gasoline screw on 1911 and converted to a
houseboat in 1917. |
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Vessels
Docked in Westmoreland County |
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Name |
Ship # |
Ton |
Type |
Length |
Yr. |
Master |
Home Port/Sailed From |
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Majestic |
93182 |
26 |
Bugeye |
67.3 |
1901 |
Richard C. Miller |
Colonial Beach |
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William J. Sanford |
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Rigging
changed to oil screw Oct. 13, 1938. Sunk near Key West, FL
January 7, 1943. |
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Henry Disston |
95644 |
41 |
Schooner |
73 |
1881 |
Ed Cox |
Colonial Beach |
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Abandoned in 1945. |
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Earl Biscoe |
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Sloop |
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Llewellyn Taylor Reed |
Kinsale, Virginia |
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Owner Unknown |
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Elizabeth Ann |
135425 |
68 |
Sloop |
802 |
1880 |
W. H. Douglas |
Kinsale, Virginia |
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Gladys L.* |
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Bugeye |
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James A. Whiting* |
75326 |
35 |
Pungy |
61 |
1871 |
- |
Somerset Cty., MD |
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Lucy Mae* |
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Schooner |
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Hunter Barfield Lodge |
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Matilda* |
91951 |
37 |
Schooner |
60.6 |
1883 |
- |
Marion, MD |
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J. W. Knowles |
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B. S. Thrift |
Kinsale, Virginia |
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Mattie F. Dean |
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Garnet Belfield |
Coles Point, Virginia |
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* Owned by Andrew J. Lewis of Walnut Point, Virginia |
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Vessels
Owned by Westmoreland County
citizens |
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Name |
Ship # |
Ton |
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Length |
Yr. |
Master |
Home Port/Sailed From |
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Maria |
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68 |
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54 |
1796 |
Henry Bowcock |
Alexandria |
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Christopher Edrington |
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Built in Alexandria in 1796, with
"one deck and two masts".
The Maria was registered to H. Bowcock of
Alexandria and C. Edrington of
Westmoreland County, Virginia on May 24,
1796. An advertisement was placed
in the Alexandria Gazette &
Columbian Mirror on May 24, 1796
offering the Maria "for Freight
or Charter to Philadelphia or New York".
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