Shipwreck · Pemaquid, Maine
Cora F. Cressey
A five-masted wooden schooner, 273 ft long, built in 1902 at the Percy and Small yard in Bath, Maine, and one of the largest wooden hulls still standing in the United States. She carried coal up the East Coast until 1928, her high bow credited with carrying her through the 1924 gale that sank the Wyoming, then served as a floating nightclub at Boston, Gloucester and Providence. In 1938 a Bremen lobsterman bought her, stripped her masts, towed her into Keene Narrows between the mainland and Oar Island and part-filled her with sand as a lobster pound; when that failed she became the breakwater for his lobster pens, and there the badly deteriorating hulk still lies, a 40 ft section of the hull lost in 1988. On the National Register of Historic Places since 1990. Seen from the shore and the water of the narrows; private land on both sides.
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Quick facts
| Type | Shipwreck, five-masted wooden schooner |
|---|---|
| Lost | 1938 |
| Built | 1902 |
| Position | 43.9844°N, 69.4150°W (approximate, ±100 m) |
| Position known from | One rough record: approximate |
| From Marshall Point Lighthouse, Port Clyde | 14 km (8.9 mi), bearing 301° WNW |
| Source | Wikipedia; National Register of Historic Places; Wikidata |
How to see it
Above water and inside the horizon from Marshall Point Lighthouse, Port Clyde, 14 km (8.9 mi) away, so on a clear day it can be seen from there, and CoastFinder puts a label on it.
Further reading: Cora F. Cressey on Wikipedia.
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Nearby
- Bremen Long IslandIsland · 2.2 km
- Louds IslandIsland · 6.1 km
- Friendship Long IslandIsland · 6.3 km
- Franklin Island LighthouseLighthouse · 11 km
- Marshall Point LighthouseLighthouse · more than 7.3 m · 14 km
- Pollock RockReef · 8.2 m · 16 km
Not for navigation. Positions and depths come from public charts and records, with their sources named above; they are for looking, not for piloting a boat.