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 city | Gloucester, Massachusetts |
|---|---|
| Built | 1897 |
| Architect | Palmer, Nathaniel T.; New England Shipbuilding Company |
| NRHP reference No. | 06000107[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 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 (84 meters) in length, Frank A. Palmer may be the largest four-masted schooner ever built. Louise B. Crary was 267 feet (81 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 died. 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]
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ a b NOAA web site, accessed May 4, 2009
- ^ The Frank A. Palmer Floated, The New York Times, July 24, 1899, accessed May 4, 2009