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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., How a Medford Ship was built. (search)
f Medford. Representative of a vanished industry, it is a witness of the careful and thorough work done on the banks of the Mystic in days agone. We call attention to the group of Medford ship builders shown in our frontispiece, especially Mr. Cudworth, the builder of the Horsburgh. Description of Ship Horsburgh. All the frame white oak and Hackmetack, Hackmetack used for all the [k]night-heads, except one next to Stem and some timbers in bow cants and top timbers & upper deck knees anr wales to flush out. The 5 lower wales & the upper wale, making six, white oak—the rest yellow pine 7 inches wide. Upper streks 5 1/2 inches wide & 3 1/2 inches thick each butt fastened with a copper spike Ship Horsburgh built by Hayden & Cudworth at Medford for Danl. C. Bacon of Boston, Mass. launched May 1 1847, Carpenters tonnage 577 72/95 Tons Government tonnage about 550 Tons. Dimensions Carpenter's Measurement Length on deck 142 feet Breadth of beam-Carpenters' measur
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Medford Ship building Notes (search)
ipLuecothea950 tons 1856ShipAddie Snow1000 tons 1856ShipHesperus1020 tons 1858ShipTemplar800 tons 1859ShipMogule800 tons 1860ShipMatilda875 tons 1860ShipPunjaub760 tons 1860BarqueMogul500 tons 1861ShipQuisnell1012 tons 1862ShipAgra875 tons 1862ShipTangore916 tons 1863ShipNepaul935 tons 1863ShipCosamundal600 tons 1863ShipEastern Belle1030 tons 1867ShipMistic Belle755 tons 1868ShipDon Quixote1174 tons 1869ShipJ. T. Foster1207 tons 1873ShipPilgrim650 tons Built by Hayden & Cudworth:— 1855ZZBarqueZephyr40 tons 1855ShipRival 1855ShipElectric Spark1200 tons 1855ShipGoddess280 tons 18ZZZShipThatcher Magoun1200 tons 18ZZZShipGoodspeed280 tons 18ZZZBarqueCaptain Paine512 tons 1866ShipHenry Hastings Enumerated in the earlier list of five hundred and thirteen was one not named and not sold. Adding the fifty-five above listed gives a total of five hundred and sixty-eight, or four more than the total given by Usher (page 427). The queries arise, what was the name
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Old ships and ship-building days of Medford. (search)
er which later had ten ship yards within a mile's distance, and where one to three vessels could often be seen at one time on the stocks. Brooks. History of Medford. Following Mr. Magoun the next year Calvin Turner of Pembroke and Enos Briggs of the Essex county family of that name built the ship Medford of two hundred and thirty-eight tons for John C. Jones of Boston. After them came Sprague & James, Lapham, Fuller, Rogers, Stetson, Waterman, Ewell, Curtis, Foster, Taylor, Hayden & Cudworth and others who have built vessels here. After the Revolution the New England states in particular found themselves in desperate straits from the cutting off of their trade with the West Indies and Great Britain, through the operation of the British navigation laws. While the southern states could send their tobacco and cotton to Europe to pay for the manufactures that they required, there was nothing which could be exported from New England. In July, 1783, an order in council required
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Old ships and Ship-building days of Medford. (search)
tender's house, although the drawtender and his family, who were in bed at the time, escaped without injury. The ship was in charge of the mate, who, finding that the vessel was adrift, took the wheel and steered her, and she would probably have gone through the Warren bridge had he not luffed her in time. Loss of property in the three storms was nearly $1,000,000. Passing of the Ringleader. The Ringleader was one of the fastest of the California clipper ships. Built by Hayden & Cudworth for Howes & Crowell of Boston in 1853, she was used in the California trade while the gold rush lasted. After the gold rush was over, the clipper ships of the extreme type ceased to be built. For a time they were used in the trade with the Orient, in the tea trade to Europe and America. As tea deteriorates very fast at sea, the early American ships, on account of their speed, had the business all to themselves for a time. But the British soon constructed tea clippers which averaged near
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Old ships and Ship-building days of Medford. (search)
ntil after about 1830. This may have been because a merchant ship still had to be equipped for fighting pirates. Plate II shows the lines of a vessel of this type, the ship Australia, Owned by the Peabody Museum, Salem. (built by Hayden & Cudworth for Silsbee & Stone of Salem) of 557 tons. Although she was not built until 1849, her lines were very similar to vessels built during the two previous decades, See Model of Brig Mexican, 1824, Peabody Museum, Salem. except that the bow was hrise at half floor, on the mid-ship section. Plate III shows the lines of a California clipper ship of 1852, The Golden Eagle. Owned by Marine Society, Boston. Several vessels of different proportions were built from this model by Hayden & Cudworth, it is said. The proportion of water line length to greatest breadth, which was at the centre, was approximately five and a quarter to one. She shows eighteen inches of dead-rise at half floor on the midsection. Her water line length was eigh
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