Schooner-4 SAM C. MENGEL

Schooner-4 SAM C. MENGEL

Schooner-4 SAM C. MENGEL just prior to lauch, fully rigged The Lieut. Sam Mengel was completed on September 5, 1918 and launched in Bath, Maine. It was a 905 GT, 4-masted wooden schooner built by Percy and Small for the Mengel Box Co. It was used in the West African mahogany trade. She was rigged as a four-masted schooner with a yard and a course on her foremast. In 1933 she was converted to barge and subsequently foundered in a storm off Boston, Massachusetts on October 16, 1935.