Effie M. Morrissey 



A 93-foot schooner built in 1894 by James and Tarr of Essex, 

 Mass. for Robert Bartlett. The Effie M. Morrissey was loaned to 

 the Navy during World War II and used briefly for Greenland 

 survey operations. Returned to her owner by the Navy after her 

 military service, she was sold in the 1960s to Portuguese 

 interests. She is shown here in drydock being sheathed with 

 Greenheart. 



Photograph courtesy of the Marine Historical Association. Incorporated. 



Buwdoin 



An auxiliary knockabout schooner designed by William H. Hand 

 and built in 1921 by Hodgdon Brothers of Fast Boothbay, 

 Maine. She was built to the order of Admiral Donald D. 

 MacMillan who had been a member of the Peary polar 

 expedition and who later undertook a scries of scientific 

 expeditions in the Bowdoin to Greenland and the Far North. In 

 1941, she was purchased by the Navy for $35,000, given the hull 



designation IX-50, and assigned to the South Greenland Patrol 

 where one of her duties was conducting hydrographic surveys. 

 She was disposed of in 1945 after being declared unfit for 

 further Naval service. Still in existence the schooner Bowdoin is 

 show n here as she appeared as an exhibit vessel at Mystic Seaport 

 from 1959 to 1968. 

 Length: 87' Displacement: 1 10 tons 



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