From collection National Fisherman Collection
LB2012.15.10
2-masted wooden Grand Banks fishing schooner ADVENTURE under sail, wooded shore in background, other small sailboats in background "ADVENTURE Built at Essex, Mass. in 1926 ... Rig--2M Schooner ... Tonnage--134 ... Length--107 ... Beam--24.5 ... Depth--11 ... Home port Rockland, Maine--official # 226070--signal letters W.A. 2062" [sticker on back reads: "Publication: N.F.-Service Pages First Word of Cutline or Advertiser: PHOTOS FOR SALE"] ADVENTURE is a Grand Banks schooner, one of the few surviving today [2016]. These were fishing schooners originating in Gloucester, MA. She is a knockabout (no bowsprit). Following Captain Jim Sharp's ownership and operation of ADVENTURE out of Camden, ME as a windjammer/ passenger schooner for over two decades, Sharp donated her to the city of Gloucester, where she was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 and declared a National Landmark in 1994. A non-profit, Gloucester Adventure, Inc.was formed at the time of the donation, and persists today [2016] as the entity dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the vessel as an embodiment of local maritime history. ["FROM THE COLLECTION OF Frank E. Claes [stamp at bottom]" [No NF ref.]
