From collection Ed Coffin Collection
BENJAMIN F. PACKARD
Ship BENJAMIN F. PACKARD - portside deck view in New York across the river from Palasades Amusement Part looking aft from midships. Originally built for transporting cargo between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans around Cape Horn, she was typical of the superbly designed “Cape Horners” of the late nineteenth century built to carry cargoes around Cape Horn between America’s Atlantic and Pacific ports. After twenty-odd years in the Cape Horn trade she was a “salmon packer,” carrying fisheries workers and equipment from Puget Sound up to the Alaskan fish canneries in the spring and returning in the fall with the workers and the fish. She was retired in 1927. After retirement, she was moved to Rye, New York, where she was an amusement park attraction, suffering serious damage during the hurricane of 1938 she had to be scuttled.
