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This bark was built in 1879 by Goss, Swayer & Packard in Bath, ME.
Historical Notes
After a period in the timber trade this vessel was actively engaged in salmon fishing in Alaskan waters for over 20 years.
In 1926 this vessel was towed from Seattle WA to Vancouver BC where this vessel was loaded with lumber for New Zealand. With the arrival of the steamship Eastern Gale purchased by the Northwestern Fisheries Company of Seattle the ships St. Paul and Benjamin F. Packard and the bark Guy C. Goss were retired from the service of the packing company. The Guy C. Goss was sold to M. W. Vandercook, A. G. Carey and Adam Beeler of Seattle and later in the year was towed to Vancouver, B. C. where this vesselloaded lumber for New Zealand. The Packard was sold to the Hansen & Nieder Lumber Co. of Seattle and dispatched to the East Coast, where it was planned to use her as a coal barge. This vessel was, however, taken over by Theodore Roosevelt Pell of New York, who hoped to keep her afloat as a museum, and for a time was moored at the foot of 129th Street, New York. This vessel is a wreck on the beach at Kaiaua New Zealand.
Owners & Masters
In 1879 she was owned by Wm H. Bessie.
In 1925 she was retired from service with the Northwestern Fisheries Co., Seattle WA.
In 1925 she was owned by M.W. Vandercook, A,G, Carey and Adam Beeler, Seattle WA USA. In July, 1926, she was sold at public auction for £380 to Messrs. Carr, Pountney and Company Ltd.
In 1926-1927 she was owned by Bark Guy C. Goss Co., Seattle WA USA. After being partly dismantled she was towed to Wharekawa and run ashore on a very high tide in a bed prepared for her by the Wharekawa Shingle Company and used in connection with the company's shingle business and as a store ship, and residence for the shingle workers.
She was owned by the Wharekawa Shingle Company. In the early 1950s the property was brought by the Parry Brothers who operated it on a large scale.
Masters
Abel Reynolds, Jr. ( 1880, 1881, 188); John Freeman, Jr. ( 1883, 1884, 185);Reynolds ( 1886, 1887, 1888); Walter Mallett ( 1889, 190 Captain H. Buhne (1926-1927);
References
- The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Page 363)
- Merchant Vessels of the United States (1910)
- freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com ↗
- Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1925, H. W. McCurdy Maritime History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 363
- Lloyd's Register Vol. 1 1926-1927
