Joanna & Lincoln Colcord

Joanna & Lincoln Colcord

The Colcord children Lincoln and Joanna, at play aboard their father's bark HARVARD, about 1890 in the doorway to Lincoln's stateroom looking forward through the two doors leading to the forward cabin where the family took its meals at a table under the skylight (a small portion of which is visible through the doorway on the right). Joanna recalls that because the system of watches often required that the children remain quiet. Lincioln and Joanna learned to adjust their play: "On our ship, we became quite ingenious in developing quiet games . With dominoes for ships, we would charter, load and sail them on a chart spread on the cabin floor. (See "Letters from Sea" page 29.) Searsport Captain Lincoln A. Colcord was part owner and master of the Newburyport, Massachusetts-built Bark HARVARD which traded along the same paths as many other Maine-built vessels. The furniture and other items of the bark were bought in China. The bark HARVARD was used to carry cargoes of timber and, at times in the ballast, nitrates from port to port. Captain Colcord, his wife and daughter made a voyage around the world on this vessel. He and his wife sailed on this vessel until 1903. The bark HARVARD registered a dimension of 1033 tons, 181.3 feet long, 36.5 feet beam and 21 feet depth