From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
LB2016.13.403
Image of the Gloucester fishing schooner ADVENTURE, one of the last wooden sailing vessels of her kind, under sail off midcoast Maine. The ship was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1994. According to the website Schoooner-Adventure.org, the vessel "...was built in 1926 and launched on September 16 at the John F. James and Son Yard in Essex, MA. She was designed by Thomas McManus as a “knockabout”—having no bowsprit which were known as “widow makers” due to the dangerousness of working on the jib. She spent 27 years fishing cod, haddock and halibut off Georges Bank. As a dory trawler, she carried 14 dories and a crew of 27."
