From collection Ed Coffin Collection
Schooner-4 ALICE E. CLARK wrecked on Long Island Ledge, Penobscot Bay, off Islesboro, Maine.
The four-masted schooner ALICE E. CLARK wrecked on Long Island Ledge, Penobscot Bay, off Islesboro, Maine. The bow is above water and she is listed over to starboard. The ALICE E. CLARK was an American 4-masted Schooner of 1,621 tons built in 1898 by Percy & Small, Bath, Maine for the Winslow & Company, Portland, Maine. She was 227' in length with a 43' beam and a 21' draft. On the 1st July 1909 when carrying a cargo of coal from Norfolk for Bangor, Maine she struck the Islesboro Ledge, off Islesboro, Penobscot Bay, Maine in thick fog and sank. ALICE E. CLARK was in route to Bangor with 2,717 tons of coal on July 1, 1909, when she went to the wrong side of the buoy marking Coombs ledge off Islesboro. Captain McDonald blamed a low-lying haze. Had she been a half a boat length's away in any direction, she would have cleared the ledge. An unceremonious end after a dozen years of good work. See also LB2013.21.1383 & 1393, and LB2014.11.39
