Shore side view of Schooner ARTHUR SEITZ after tipping on ways when blocking was crushed during launch attempt on September 5, 1901.

Shore side view of Schooner ARTHUR SEITZ after tipping on ways when blocking was crushed during launch attempt on September 5, 1901.

Shore side view of the five-masted schooner ARTHUR SEITZ after tipping on the ways when blocking was crushed during a launch attempt on September 5, 1901. Coffin says succesful launch was September 13. Conflicts with caption of #854. It took only eight days following this pre-launching accident, for workers at the H.M. Bean yard to jack the schooner upright and rebuild the damaged launching ways. The second try was successful, despite it being Friday the 13th. But the SEITZ's luck ran out a year later on May 25, 1902 when she piled up on Tuckernuck Shoal off Nantucket along with the another four-master following astern. See also LB2013.21.855 & 854