LB2016.15.958

LB2016.15.958

View of the schooners LOUIS A. THEBAUD and BENJAMIN THOMPSON alongside the pier at Rockland, Maine. Beyond them, the steamship W.S. WHITE is tied up at an adjacent wharf. wharf. LOUIS A. THEBAUD MVUS: 1937 - 229546; Oil screw, tons 55/37; 70.0 LOA x 18.4 beam x 8.9 draft, 95 horsepower, Built in Essex, Massachusetts in 1930 for fishing, crew: 10; Owner: Sumner P. Whitney, she hailed from Rockland, Maine BENJAMIN THOMPSON MVUS: 1937 - 223044; Oil screw; Tons: 47/18; 65.5 LOA x 19.5 beam x 8.8 draft, 80 horsepower; Built in Essex, Massachusetts in 1923 for fishing, crew of 14; The owner was Benjamin Thompson, She hailed from: Portland, Maine The W. S. WHITE of the Vinalhaven Line was built in 1906 as the GOSWOLD in Noank, Connecticut. She was 103' LOA x 24.3' beam x 9.4' draft. She was 181 gross tons and 99 net tons. She served Cuttyhunk Harbor, Buzzard's Bay, Masachuesetts (6 miles from New Bedford). with mail, supplies and summer excursionists. She was operated by the U. S. Army from 1917 to 1918 then sold in 1921 by the government to Atkins & Wagner of New York and renamed MIRAMAR and used for charters and excursions. She operated under charter to the New Bedfored, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket Line for the winter of 1921-1922. Forf the next 11 years the MIRAMAR remained under the same ownership In 1934 Cora Atkins sold her to the Vinalhaveen & Rockland Stemboat Co. Her name was changed to the W. S. WHITE after the father of the last owner of the fleet. Her tonnage increased to 221 gross and her main deck saw a number of alterations. She operated in Penobscot Bay until 1942 when she was sold to the Army Corps of Engineers. She was remodeled at Snow Shipyard in Rockland and converted to burn oil as a fuel.. During the war she operated as a dispatch boat in Port of Spain, Trinidad where last reports had her in private service. "271"