| Date of launch | 1902 |
|---|---|
| Place of launch | Quincy |
| Type | 7-masted steel schooner |
| GRT | 5218 |
| NRT | 4914 |
| DWT | - |
| Length | 112.6 m (369.5 ft) |
| Beam | 15.3 m (50.0 ft) |
| Draft | 10.7 m (35.1 ft) |
- 1902
Built of steel by the Fore River Ship & Engine Building Co., Quincy, MA for Coastwise Transportation Co., Boston. She was rigged as a seven-masted fore-and-aft schooner, the only seven-masted vessel ever built. According to a letter from her first master Captain Crowley the masts were called fore mast, main mast, mizzen mast, number 4, number 5, number 6, and spanker mast, although number 4,5,6 might later have been called jigger mast, driver mast and pusher mast. She was used to carry coal. - 1906
Rebuilt to carry oil in bulk. - 1907
Stranded on the Scilly Islands in a storm.
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