Cobb, Butler
Rockland ME
Most recent update: March 23, 2017.
This shipyard, which was noted for its construction of large schooners, was at the east end of Mechanic Street in Rockland, close to the Snow shipyard. It was started by Francis Cobb in 1845, became Cobb, Butler & Co. In 1889, when Cobb was joined by A. W. Butler, and closed in 1921.
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O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | Delivered | Notes | ||
17371 | Mary Langdon | schooner | 116 | 1845 | ||||
91196 | M. A. Achorn | schooner | 308 | 1879 | ||||
92245 | Morris and Cliff | schooner | 132 | 1890 | sank off Bear I. 1926 | |||
145639 | Thelma | schooner | 525 | 1893 | ||||
141257 | Lavinia M. Snow | schooner | 354 | 1893 | wrecked on Cape Hatteras 1930 | |||
111328 | Rebecca Palmer | William F. Palmer | 6-m schooner | 2,556 | 1901 | |||
93239 | Marion N. Cobb | 3-m schooner | 459 | 1902 | foundered off Pensacola 1925 | |||
93395 | Monhegan | I. E. Archibald | steamer | 367 | 1903 | capsized off Providence RI 1938 and hulked | ||
200416 | Robert H. McCurdy | 4-m schooner | 735 | 1903 | to USN 1917 as SP-3157, returned 1919 | |||
201394 | Ellen Little | 4-m schooner | 999 | 1904 | ||||
201735 | Governor Powers | 4-m schooner | 1,962 | 1905 | ||||
202500 | Ruth B. Cobb | 4-m schooner | 620 | 1905 | ||||
203149 | John D. Colwell | 4-m schooner | 1,042 | 1906 | later Florence Thurlow, in collision off NY 1920 and lost | |||
203190 | May Archer | Salem Bay Line | steamer | 125 | 1906 | |||
203616 | Northland | Northern Marine Pwr | steamer | 2,047 | 1906 | foundered Rio de Janeiro 1921 | ||
204438 | Mertie B. Crowley | 6-m schooner | 2,824 | 1907 | wrecked on Martha's Vineyard 1910 | |||
204658 | Dean E. Brown | 4-m schooner | 719 | 1907 | missing off Mobile 1917 | |||
205405 | Jessie A. Bishop | 4-m schooner | 754 | 1908 | stranded in Nassau inlet 1912 | |||
205707 | Frank Brainerd | 3-m schooner | 254 | 1908 | abandoned off the Cape Verde I. 1937 | |||
205708 | Lewiston | 4-m schooner | 814 | 1908 | ||||
205923 | Stanley M. Seaman | 4-m schooner | 1,060 | 1908 | torpedoed and lost off Cape Hatteras 1918 | |||
206992 | William E. Burnham | 4-m schooner | 772 | 1909 | ||||
208698 | Martin J. Marran | Atlantic Fertilizer | trawler | 308 | 1911 | abandoned 1939 | ||
208887 | Herbert N. Edwards | Atlantic Fertilizer | trawler | 323 | 1911 | wrecked New London CT 1938 | ||
209859 | William B. Murray | C. A. Sickles & Bros | trawler | 390 | 1912 | deleted 1939 | ||
209976 | Amagansett | C. A. Sickler & Bros | trawler | 390 | 1912 | abandoned 1957 | ||
210190 | Long Island | Atlantic Fertilizer | trawler | 390 | 1912 | to USN 1917 as SP-572, sold 1919, foundered Delaware Bay 1936 | ||
211424 | East Hampton | Atlantic Fertilizer | trawler | 390 | 1913 | to USN 1917 as SP-573, sold 1919 | ||
212877 | Islesboro | steamer | 119 | 1914 | ||||
214579 | Noble Maxwell | Boston Sand & Gravel | steamer | 578 | 1916 | reduced to a barge 1944 | ||
214969 | Frank A. Morey | 4-m schooner | 574 | 1917 | ||||
215474 | Theoline | 4-m schooner | 594 | 1917 | lost in the West Indies 1942 | |||
216015 | Ella Pierce Thurlow | 4-m schooner | 1,505 | 1918 | foundered off Frying Pan LV 1932 | |||
216809 | Paul E. Thurlow | 4-m schooner | 1,590 | 1918 | scuttled in Kill Van Kull late-1940s | |||
217683 | Freeman | 4-m schooner | 1,070 | 1919 | scuttled off Halifax 1947 | |||
218623 | Ripogenus | Great Northern Paper | steamer | 2,278 | 1919 | |||
218777 | Lucia P. Dow | 4-m schooner | 998 | 1919 | scuttled off Halifax 1960 | |||
219059 | Whitehead | Eastern Transportation | barge | 1,253 | 1919 | |||
220848 | Josephine A. McQuesten | 4-m schooner | 1,607 | 1920 | wrecked in the Hebrides 1936 |