Frank A. Palmer and Louise B. Crary (shipwreck)

Frank A. Palmer and Louise B. Crary are a historic dual shipwreck site in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, off Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Frank A. Palmer and Louise B. Crary (shipwreck)
Louise B. Crary
Nearest cityGloucester, Massachusetts
Built1897
ArchitectPalmer, Nathaniel T.,; New England Shipbuilding Company
NRHP reference No.06000107[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 8, 2006

Nathaniel T. Palmer and the New England Shipbuilding Company built Frank A. Palmer in 1897. Louise B. Crary was launched in 1900. Both were wooden-hulled coal-carrying schooners. At 274 feet (83.5 meters) in length, Frank A. Palmer may be the largest four-masted schooner ever built. Louise B. Crary was 267 feet (81.4 meters) long and had five masts.[2]

In 1899, Frank A. Palmer grounded near Tathem's life-saving station in New Jersey, but was refloated on July 23.[3]

The ships were each carrying 3,000 tons of coal from Newport News, Virginia, to Boston, Massachusetts, when they collided on 17 December 1902 during a gale and sank together off Gloucester. Eleven of the 21 sailors aboard the two ships lost their lives. The wrecks were located in 2002 in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.[2] The shipwreck was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.[1]

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. NOAA web site, accessed May 4, 2009
  3. The Frank A. Palmer Floated, The New York Times, July 24, 1899, accessed May 4, 2009


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