From collection Ed Coffin Collection
The three-masted schooner NATHAN E. COBB wrecked and dismasted on beach at Ormond Beach, Florida in 1896.
The three-masted schooner NATHAN E. COBB, her rigging the victim of an offshore gale, drifted drifted onto the sandy beach at Ormond Beach, Florida, in 1896 only six years after she was launched in Rockland, Maine. Three women in the photograph had bicycled out to view the wreck. The photo was taken by Ida Crie of Rockland who ironically had also taken a photo of her launching. (Ida Crie Collection/ Rockland Historical Society) note: photo is adhered to backer page (LB2013.21.347 on reverse)
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[From the exhibit Voyaging Thru Time: Photographs from Penobscot Marine Museum, Part 2] Drifting Ashore, Ormond Beach, Florida. The three-masted schooner NATHAN F. COBB was both built and owned in Rockland. Launched in 1890, this 167-footer was only six years old when she came ashore at Ormond Beach, Florida—after drifting for four days. She’d departed Brunswick, Georgia, with a load of lumber and railroad ties, but a northeast storm laid her over on her beam ends, and to right her, the crew had to cut away her masts. [From the Cradle to the Grave exhibit] Nathan F. Cobb, her rig the victim of an offshore gale, drifted onto the sandy beach at Ormond Beach, Florida, in 1896-only six years after she was launched in Rockland. The photo was taken by Ida Crie of Rockland who ironically had also taken a photo of her launching. (Ida Crie Collection/ Rockland Historical Society)
