The 5-masted Schooner EDNA HOYT

The 5-masted Schooner EDNA HOYT

The 5-masted schooner EDNA HOYT, out of Boston, is seen at Pier 11, near Wall Street, on the East River, Manhattan, New York. Built by Dunn & Elliot in 1920, the five-masted schooner EDNA HOYT, 1512 tons, was built at a cost of $280,000 and launched in Thomaston, Maine on December 11, 1920. At 284 feet long, she was one of the largest and the last of the old windjammers constructed in Thomaston, and perhaps, the last five-master of her kind to be launched in the world. Captain Elmer Beal was her first master. In her 17 years of voyages, the Hoyt had carried everything from fertilizer, molasses, coal and pilings to points all over the world. In August 1937 she sailed with a cargo of salt from Barbados to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she loaded lumber for England. From there she departed in November to carry Welsh coal back to Barbados but encountered a gale in the Bay of Biscay. After three weeks of battering, she suffered extensive damage and was towed into Lisbon, Portugal, where Captain George A. Hopkins was forced to sell her. She ended her days as a floating coal barge. https://www.mainememory.net/record/26389The building behind the mizzen mast is the 35 story art deco 120 Wall Street, built in 1929. The building behind the foremast is 70 Pine Street (formerly known as the 60 Wall Tower, Cities Service Building, and American International Building). It is a 67-story, 952-foot residential building in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan.