Wyoming (schooner)

The Wyoming [ waɪoʊmɪŋ ] was an American six- mast gaff schooner from Bath, Maine. She was the largest wooden schooner, the largest six- masted schooner and also to the longest wooden ship in the world ( LOA: 137.2 m / 450 ft).

Description

The hull of Wyoming was built in a composite made of pine wood and reinforced with 90 iron diagonal strips per page, as the keel by iron sheet segments. Your Klüverbaum measured to be about 30 m, 27 m Besanbaum her. The peripheral white railing was also made of wood. She was a real smooth Decker, ie their ultimate deck did not "jump" for Back and poop. Three Cabins, forward, amidships and aft were sunk into the upper deck, plus five major hatches with its own loading gear. As with all American three - and mehrmastigen schooners all gaff sails were down to the last equal. The Mizzen (american engl. Spanker sail ) was significantly larger than the other gaff sail, and the Besanbaum towered over even the transverse hinged at the rear of davits Kapitänsgig to 2 m. As a then modern equipment she was equipped with an on-board telephone system and radio, the antenna was between Tanzer and mizzen mast. The great sailor, was named in a modification of the widespread practice of naming after famous American people, according to the U.S. state of Wyoming, as the seventh Governor of Wyoming, Bryant B. Brooks, an investor of the ship was. After the governor himself master of the six could not be named because there was already a five-masted gaff schooner named Governor Brooks ( 2628 GRT) in 1907 also built by Percy & Small on their own account. The schooner was a maximum of 6,100 t load and ran for many years in the Delaware and Chesapeake coal ride (English: collier or " coal carrier " ) along the U.S. east coast. The crew was with officers only 13 to 14 man, since the ship had steam-powered auxiliaries. The Wyoming was a very nice and impressive ship with sleek lines, to be handled according to Captain McLeod despite the size of a good sailor and light as a yacht. Nevertheless suffered as with all large wooden schooners her wooden hull under the burden of the charge and swell: twisting, warping and bending of the trunk (English: " hogging " - bending of the ship's center up and "sagging " - bending down). The ship had to be bailed always continuously from the beginning and had because of its size and wood construction considerable problems outside the territorial waters on the high seas, which is why, if possible, was driving near the coast.

The naming of the pylons at the great sechsmastigen schooners was:

Fore, main, mizzen, jigger, driver, spanker ( mast ) - Before, wholesale, Cross, Tanzer, driver, mizzen (German name)

History

The Wyoming, baptized by the governor 's wife Lena Brooks with a bouquet of roses, expired on December 15, 1909 at approximately 12:45 clock in Bath, Maine, on the shores of Kennebecflusses at the shipyard of Percy & Small for its own account as the last of the nine wooden six- mast gaff schooner New England completely rigged from the stack, admired by a huge crowd, and stabbed on 21 December following the completion of equipment and supplies under Capt. Angus McLeod on her maiden voyage to sea. The company Percy & Small (451 Washington St., Bath ME, founded by Capt. Samuel Rogers Percy ( 1856-1940 ) and Frank Albion Small ( 1865-1917 ) 1894) was the largest Schonerbauwerft in New England and alone brought seven of the ten six- mast gaff schooner New England to water, of which they bereederte two to fifteen five-masted schooner, nineteen four-masted schooner and a number of smaller vessels. Sechsmastige savers were a relatively rare type of ship and made especially arriving in ports outside of New England always for spectators. In addition to the nine wooden Six masters of New England, there was also the only steel six- masted schooner ( William L. Douglas, shipping company sister of Thomas W. Lawson ) and some wood Six Masters from Oregon ( U.S. West Coast ) as the Oregon Fir, Oregon Pine, Fort Laramie and Dorothy H. sterling. Furthermore, there were four converted to six- mast schooners Viermastrahsegler (County of Linlithgow (1887 ), Kenilworth (1887 ), Daylight (1902 ), Hans (1904 )) and the Navahoe (1908 ), a tow anchor barge with six- masted schooner support rigging. She was with 7,718 GRT ( 9,250 tons cargo ) is the largest ever built sailor, but was always dragged. Throughout its 14-year existence at sea, the Wyoming moved three times their owners. By 1917, she went for Percy & Small in coastal coal ride it in the Charter for the International Paper Co. When the charter expired last year, the big schooner was to France & Canada Steamship Co., Montreal, sold (~ 350,000 U.S. dollars) and registered in New York. Under this shipowners they also made transatlantic voyages to France and later to Genoa and to Santos, Brazil. 1921 bought the shipowner Captain Frost ( A. W. Frost & Co.) the schooner, with Portland (Maine) home port, and put it back into the east coast trip to Canada.

On March 11, 1924, the large schooner sank with coal unloaded low on the drive from Norfolk, Virginia, to St. John, New Brunswick, when Abwettern a Northeast storm in Nantucket Sound near Chatham, Massachusetts, south of Cape Cod All thirteen sailors including Captain Charles Glaesel died. A rare coincidence was given is that the sponsor of the schooner, ex- Governor Bryant B. Brooks and his wife from a trip to Europe via Halifax coming, was not far away from the sinking site and heard about the disaster on arrival in New York. The wreck was first found, despite intensive search projects (since 1978 ) does not. Meanwhile, the wreck of the schooner said to have been located by sonar be (3 November 2003). It is now believed that the deep keel of the unloaded glider broke in a storm with a grounding in the shallow lake and the ship sank then. Another Percy & Small - saver, the five master Cora F. Cressy (1902, 2499 GRT ), two days was next to the State of Wyoming, also waiting for better weather. Your Captain Charles N. Publicover was when the storm was harder, weigh anchor, and sought with Sturmbeseglung the open sea. Ship and crew survived the storm.

Ship data

Construction: Wood - hull as smooth Decker ( without baking and poop ) in composite construction of 17 cm planks ( 6 inches) with 90 iron diagonal bands per side of the ship to gain
Rigg: Standardrigg Six mast gaff schooner: poles with lower mast, topmast, gaff and gaff tree
Mast result: Fock, wholesale, Cross, Tanzer, driver and mizzen ( German standard naming, see above)
Number of decks: 3, no back- and poop deck
Keel laid: April 5, 1909
Launched: December 15, 1909
Maiden voyage: December 21, 1909 by Newport News ( Virginia)
Built by: Percy & Small, Bath, ME, USA
Designer: Bant Hanson
Cruise Line: Percy & Small, Bath, ME, USA
Other shipping companies: France & Canada Steamship Co., Montreal (1917 ); Capt. A. W. Frost & Co., Portland, ME ( 1921)
Home port: Bath ( 1909); New York ( 1917); Portland ( Maine) (1921 );
Length Overall ( LOA): 137.2 m (450 ft)
Length Galion rear (trunk length): 108 m
Length on Deck ( LaD ): 106.5 m (350 ft)
Length in the KWL: 102.5 m ( 336 ft)
Length between perpendiculars ( VAS, Lpp ): 100.4 m ( 329.5 ft)
Width: 15.2 m ( 50.1 ft)
Depth: 10 m (33 ft)
Side height: 11 m (36 ft)
Draught: 9.3 m ( 30.4 ft)
Survey: 3730.54 GRT / NRT 3036.21
Displacement: 10,164 t ( ship mass ( 4,064 t) including charge )
Load Capacity / Load capacity: 6,100 t
Sail area: ~ 3,700 m² (22 sail: 5 gaff mainsail, mizzen ( gaff ) sail, 6 gaff topsail, staysail 5 Vorstengestagsegel, 4 jib )
Mast height: 54 m ( the keel flag button)
Auxiliary drive: none; Steam engine for the Hyde - winds and the generator
Cost: U.S. $ 175,000.00 ( U.S. $ 190,000.00 ); Value 1917: U.S. $ 350,000.00; Value 1921: U.S. $ 320,000.00
Classification: Lloyd's / Bureau Véritas 100 A
First skipper: Angus McLeod
Other captains: Charles Glaesel ( last departure)
Crew: 13-14 man (captain, engineer, two navigators, Steward, 8-9 sailors )
Maximum speed: 16 kn
Special Features: On-board telephone, generator, radio system

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