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EDWARD SEWALL

Our model is hand-crafted from hard wood with planks on frame construction and ready for display.

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Specifications

Packing Volume

TS0084P 80L x 17W x 68H  (cm) 31.50L x 6.69W x 26.77H (inch) 0.231 m³ = 8.15768 ft³

Edwall Sewall Model Ship

Edwall Sewall Ship Model

Edwall Sewall

Edwall Sewall

Edwall Sewall Ship

Model Ship Edwall Sewall

Edwall Sewall Deck

 

HISTORY

A four-masted steel barque built in 1899 by Arthur Sewall & Co., Bath, ME, at a cost of $145.000.
Tonnage: 3206 GRT and 2916 NRT. Rigged with dubbel top- and topgallant sails and royal sails.

1899 October 3
Launched at the shipyard of Arthur Sewall & Co., Bath, ME. The first master was Captain Joseph Ellis Sewall.


1901 June - 1922
Captain Richard Quick.


1910 February 8
Caught fire 1400 miles from Honolulu on voyage Newport News to Honolulu with a cargo of coal.


1913 October 18 — 1914 August 5
Sailed from Philadelphia to Seattle in 293 days of which 67 days were required to round the Cape Horn. Said to have been the last west bound Cape Horn passage performed by an American square rigged ship.


1916 October 25
Sold to Texas Co., Port Arthur, TX.


1922
Sold to the Alaska Packers' Association, San Francisco, CA, and was renamed Star of Shetland.


1936 September 19
Left San Francisco for Osaka where she was broken up.

 

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Packing:

Model is packed fully assembled in wooden crate and put in the carton.

Model is ready for display.

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