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Pilot Schooner "Alabama", Moored in harbor at Vineyard Haven, Vineyard Haven, Dukes County, MA

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Pilot Schooner "Alabama", Moored in harbor at Vineyard Haven, Vineyard Haven, Dukes County, MA

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Summary

Significance: ALABAMA was designed by Thomas F. McManus, a noted fishing schooner and yacht designer from Boston, Massachusetts. She was built during the final throes of the age of commercial sailing vessels in the United States and is one of a handful of McManus vessels known to survive.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-10
Survey number: HAER MA-64
Building/structure dates: 1926 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1935 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1945 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1950 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1977 Subsequent Work

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Date

1945
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
McManus, Thomas F
Pensacola Shipbuilding Company
Mobile Bay Bar Pilots Association
Douglas, Robert S
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Location

dukes county41.45428, -70.60364
Google Map of 41.4542786, -70.6036395
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Source

Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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