Goss & Sawyer
Bath ME
Most recent update: May 12, 2016.
The northern half of this shipyard was originally developed in 1866 by Guy C. Goss & Elijah F. Sawyer, operating as Goss & Sawyer. In 1873, they were joined by Benjamin F. Packard to form Goss, Sawyer & Packard, operating in the southern half of the Goss & Sawyer property. This strange arrangement lasted until 1884, when the two operations were combined as New England Shipbuilding Co. This yard was on Bowery Street, north of its juncture with Front Street. It closed in 1906. The southern half of the property was originally developed in the early 19th century by Freeman Clark and William D. Sewall as Clark, Sewall & Co. In 1854, the company was taken over by Sewall's sons, Edward and Arthur, and became E. & A. Sewall: then in 1879 Edward died and it became Arthur Sewall & Co. This yard was on Front Street, between Cedar and Bowery. It closed in 1903 but was revived in 1916 as Texas Steamship. See it from the air on Google here - it's the stretch between the abandoned foundation and that oblique t-shaped pier: the stubs of the pilings of the building ways and piers are clearly visible.
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Yard | O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | LOA | Delivered | Notes |
Built either by Goss & Sawyer (GS) or by Goss, Sawyer & Packard (GSP) | ||||||||
GS | 15429 | Lizzie H | bark | 896 | 1868 | |||
GS | 75329 | James Ford | schooner | 628 | 1871 | |||
GS | Besse | bark | 842 | 1871 | ||||
GS | 125031 | Charles H. Lawrence | schooner | 621 | 1872 | |||
GS | John H. Kimball | ship | 1,266 | 1873 | ||||
GS | 105284 | Alfred Brabrook | schooner | 562 | 1873 | |||
GS | B. B. Church | schooner | 513 | 1873 | ||||
GS | 125200 | Charles F. Sampson | schooner | 534 | 1873 | |||
GS | Ralph M. Hayward | schooner | 487 | 1873 | ||||
GS | 80359 | William H. Jourdain | schooner | 497 | 1873 | |||
GS | 2901 | B. P. Cheney | Naknek Packing | ship | 1,322 | 1874 | later bark | |
GS | E. H. Kingsman | bark | 1,112 | 1874 | ||||
GS | 27009 | Xenia | bark | 1,174 | 1874 | later barge Bradley | ||
125391 | City of Philadelphia | W. F. Hagar & Co. | full-rigged ship | 1,457 | 1875 | wrecked in the Falklands 1896 | ||
Alameda | 1,474 | 1876 | ||||||
Belle of Oregon | William H. Besse | 1,110 | 1876 | |||||
GS | 159956 | Palmyra | ship | 1,359 | 1876 | later barge | ||
75841 | John & Winthrop | Union Steamship Co. | whaler | 338 | 1876 | scuttled | ||
95486 | Hecla | Red Salmon Canning | barkentine | 1,529 | 1877 | scrapped 1928 | ||
GS | Florence | 3-masted ship | 1,684 | 1877 | inactive 1902 | |||
125691 | Charles B. Kenney | bark | 1,128 | 1878 | missing 1886 | |||
GSP | 85542 | Gerard C. Tobey | Welch & Co. | bark | 1,459 | 1878 | wrecked 1914 | |
GS | 91128 | Mount Desert | Boston & Bangor SS | passenger | 457 | 1879 | later Arion 1911, scrapped 1914 | |
85602 | Guy C. Goss | bark Guy C. Goss Inc. | bark | 1,572 | 1879 | |||
GSP | 91165 | Mary and Helen | whaler | 420 | 1879 | exploded and burned 1881 | ||
GS | 125710 | Charles A. Briggs | Jacob B. Phillips | 3-masted schooner | 757 | 1879 | sank off Nahant 1898 | |
3126 | Belvedere | W. Lewis | whaler | 440 | 1880 | wrecked off Cape Serdge 1919 | ||
GSP | 80770 | William L. White | Jacob B. Phillips | 4-masted schooner | 996 | 1880 | the first true 4-masted schooner, sank 1882 | |
GSP | 115856 | State of Maine | W. N. Kilby | passenger | 1,410 | 1881 | later Edgemont 1904, Cape May 1915, burned 1925 | |
GS | 145257 | Tacoma | 3-masted ship | 1,738 | 1881 | foundered 1918 | ||
80944 | Walker Armington | steamer | 913 | 1882 | wrecked in Chesapeake Bay 1897 | |||
91465 | Mary & Helen | whaler | 508 | 1882 | later Beluga 1886, sunk by gunfire 1917 | |||
120509 | Fanny E. Wolston | F. C. Curtis | 3-masted schooner | 295 | 1882 | abandoned off Cape Hatteras 1891; last seen drifting off USEC 1894 | ||
GSP | 85751 | George S. Homer | aux. Bark | 1,334 | 1882 | |||
GS | Charles E. Moody | ship | 2,203 | 1882 | ||||
76389 | Jeanie | passenger | 1,072 | 1883 | wrecked in the Calvert Islands 1913 | |||
145343 | Thrasher | whaler | 512 | 1883 | later barkentine Kamchatka 1920, burned 1921 | |||
76395 | Jesse H. Freeman | Boston Fruit Co. | freighter | 516 | 1883 | later a whaler, crushed in Arctic ice 1897 | ||
GSP | 80954 | William H. Smith | 3-masted schooner | 2,004 | 1883 | wrecked 1933 in Monterey CA | ||
GS | 76452 | John R. Kelley | John R. Kelley | full-rigged ship | 2,364 | 1883 | wrecked 1899 | |
140696 | Lorenzo D. Baker | steamer | 966 | 1884 | burned 1889 | |||
GSP | 3270 | Benjamin F. Packard | John R. Kelley | full-rigged ship | 2,130 | 1884 | scuttled 1939 | |
Built by New England Shipbuilding Co. | ||||||||
106260 | Al-Ki | Border Line Transportation | passenger | 1,259 | 1884 | wrecked off Point Augusta, 1917 | ||
91705 | Morning Star | passenger | 471 | 1884 | later Herman 1903, Chapultepec 1926, burned 1927 off Manzanillo | |||
126230 | Charles W. Church | 3-masted schooner | 844 | 1884 | ||||
126239 | C. A. White | 3-masted schooner | 832 | 1884 | ||||
Hotspur | 3-masted ship | 1,309 | 1885 | no longer operating 1887 | ||||
95844 | Haytian Republic | passenger | 1,421 | 1885 | later Portland 1894, wrecked 1910 off Katalla I. AK | |||
126281 | Cumberland | passenger | 1,606 | 1885 | later Larchmont 1902, in collision and sank off Block Island 1907 | |||
81128 | William Baylies | William Lewis & Son | whaler | 380 | 1886 | crushed in ice 1908 off Anadyr Bay, Siberia | ||
116098 | Sappho | Maine Central Railroad | ferry | 275 | 1886 | later Pawtucket 1920, hulked 1942 | ||
91850 | Mount Waldo | New York & Maine Granite | freighter | 324 | 1886 | foundered 1895 off Mexico | ||
126396 | Childe Harold | schooner | 781 | 1886 | sunk by u-boat 1917 off Ushant | |||
81141 | Winthrop | New York, Maine & NB S.S. Co | passenger | 1,433 | 1887 | burned 1893 off Eastport ME | ||
116211 | Sagamore | J. W. Slater | yacht | 323 | 1888 | burned 1925 off Halifax NS | ||
92139 | Marguerite | William Chase, Jr. | 4-masted schooner | 1,553 | 1888 | sunk by u-boat 1917 off Sardinia | ||
116212 | S. C. Allen | bark | 690 | 1888 | wrecked 1913 on Diamond Head | |||
85995 | Gracie D. Buchanan | schooner | 1,140 | 1888 | stranded 1910 | |||
96010 | Henry S. Little | 4-masted schooner | 1,098 | 1889 | later Monte Rosa, foundered 1920 off Cape Verde I. | |||
14484 | Kennebec | Kennebec Steam Boat Co | passenger | 1,652 | 1889 | later Iroquois 1912, Iro 1919, burned 1924 | ||
150488 | Portland | Portland S.P. Co | passenger | 2,284 | 1890 | foundered 1898 off Truro MA | ||
106780 | Addie M. Anderson | 4-masted schooner | 934 | 1890 | ||||
141106 | Laura C. Anderson | 4-masted schooner | 1,960 | 1890 | sunk by u-boat 1917 off Barfleur | |||
136117 | Edith Olcott | Pendleton Bros. | 4-masted schooner | 1,194 | 1890 | sunk 1910 | ||
126613 | Cottage City | Maine S.S. Co | passenger | 1,885 | 1890 | hull built for BIW, wrecked 1911 off Willow Point BC | ||
92280 | Manhattan | Maine S.S. Co | passenger | 1,892 | 1891 | hull built for BIW, burned 1910 off Portland ME | ||
120903 | Frank Jones | Portland, Mt Desert & Machias Co | passenger | 1,634 | 1892 | hull built for BIW, Fenimore 1916, to USN 1918 as ID-2681, burned 1918 off York VA | ||
3645 | Bay State | J. B. Coyle | passenger | 2,211 | 1894 | wrecked 1916 off Portland ME | ||
3662 | Bayard Hopkins | schooner | 269 | 1895 | ||||
86359 | Goodwin Stoddard | Charles G. Sanford | 4-masted schooner | 887 | 1895 | later Dorothy, abandoned 1930 in Shackford Cove | ||
116683 | Salacia | Maine Coast Navigation | passenger | 322 | 1895 | hull built for BIW, Norfolk-on-the-Roads | ||
116698 | St. Croix | International S.S. Co | passenger | 1,994 | 1895 | burned 1909 off Santa Barbara CA | ||
141499 | Lincoln | Kennebec Steamboat Co | passenger freighter | 966 | 1897 | later Martinique 1900, Kentucky 1906, foundered 1910 | ||
111199 | Rachel W. Stevens | schooner | 1,211 | 1898 | foundered 1924 | |||
3803 | Bath | Bee Line Transportation | schooner barge | 926 | 1899 | later 780 | ||
3806 | Bangor | Bee Line Transportation | schooner barge | 931 | 1899 | later 781 | ||
3827 | Benavides/Beverly | Bee Line Transportation | schooner barge | 923 | 1900 | later 782, sank 1917 off Shinnecock Light | ||
3832 | Black Diamond | Bee Line Transportation | schooner barge | 923 | 1900 | later 783, A. Barnes 35, Cullen No. 18, burned 1938 off Searsport ME | ||
3838 | Bee | Bee Line Transportation | schooner barge | 919 | 1900 | later 784 | ||
86500 | Georgia | Coastwise SS Co. | schooner barge | 1,609 | 1900 | |||
100696 | Iowa | Coastwise SS Co. | schooner barge | 1,606 | 1900 | |||
100710 | Indiana | Coastwise SS Co. | schooner barge | 1,626 | 1900 | |||
127485 | Clifford N. Carver | 4-masted schooner | 1,101 | 1900 | ||||
77433 | J. Edward Drake | James B. Drake & Sons | 4-masted schooner | 910 | 1900 | foundered 1922 | ||
141686 | Louise B. Crary | T. B. Crary | 5-masted schooner | 2,231 | 1900 | collision 1902 and sank off Gloucester MA | ||
93000 | Mary W. Bowen | Joseph A. Bowen | 5-masted schooner | 2,153 | 1900 | sunk 1917 by u-boat in mid-Atlantic | ||
117040 | Springfield | 4-masted schooner | 633 | 1901 | ||||
155427 | Orlando V. Wootten | schooner | 677 | 1901 | ||||
150930 | Prescott Palmer | William F. Palmer | 5-masted schooner | 2,811 | 1902 | lost 1914 off Georges Bank. | ||
111430 | Ransom B. Fuller | Eastern S.S. Co | passenger | 1,862 | 1902 | later Broadway 1931, scrapped 1935 | ||
121239 | Frank W. Benedict | Benedict-Manson Marine | 3-masted schooner | 534 | 1902 | |||
121266 | Frederic A. Duggan | schooner | 1,137 | 1903 | ||||
200599 | James B. Drake | James B. Drake & Sons | 4-masted schooner | 1,153 | 1904 | |||
201533 | Judge Boyce | James Hughes | 4-masted schooner | 698 | 1904 | wrecked 1920 off Portugal | ||
200778 | Magnus Manson | Frank W. Benedict | 4-masted schooner | 1,751 | 1904 | sunk 1917 by u-boat off France | ||
200921 | William E. Bowen, Jr. | Fred. J. Hinckley | 4-masted schooner | 656 | 1904 | collision and sank 1910 off Cape Hatteras | ||
201118 | William J. Quillin | Roland F. Quillin | 4-masted schooner | 695 | 1904 | collision and sank 1915 off Cape Hatteras | ||
201655 | Alice May Davenport | James B. Drake & Sons | 4-masted schooner | 1,141 | 1905 | later General Leon Jurado, wrecked 1906 off Dennis MA | ||
202593 | Herbert D. Maxwell | 4-masted schooner | 772 | 1905 | collision and sank 1912 off Sandy Point NC | |||
202848 | Isabel B. Wiley | James B. Drake & Sons | 4-masted schooner | 776 | 1906 | sunk by u-boat off NJ 1918 | ||
Built by Clark, Sewall & Co. | ||||||||
Erie | Clark & Sewell | ship | 514 | 1851 | later Argentina | |||
Built by E. & A. Sewall & Co. | ||||||||
Vancouver | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 909 | 1862 | ||||
25520 | Vicksburg | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 153 | 1865 | |||
Glendale | E. & A. Sewall | brig | 454 | 1863 | ||||
Intrepid | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 1,073 | 1864 | ||||
Volant | E. & A. Sewall | bark | 496 | 1864 | ||||
Ocean Signal | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 1,215 | 1864 | ||||
9086 | Freeman Clark | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 1,336 | 1865 | wrecked 1883 | ||
Frank Marion | E. & A. Sewall | bark | 678 | 1865 | ||||
16191 | Matterhorn | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 1,328 | 1866 | wrecked 1878 in Australia | ||
Wetterhorn | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 698 | 1866 | ||||
Hermon | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 1,317 | 1868 | ||||
24766 | Tabor | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 1,339 | 1869 | later Carl, Samhold, barge Tabor | ||
25179 | Undaunted | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 1,764 | 1869 | |||
8745 | Eric the Red | E. & A. Sewall | 3-masted ship | 1,580 | 1871 | wrecked 1880 on Otway Reef | ||
Humboldt | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 1,018 | 1872 | ||||
125075 | Carrollton | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 1,450 | 1872 | stranded 1906 | ||
115155 | Sterling | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 1,731 | 1873 | |||
8949 | El Capitan | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 1,493 | 1873 | |||
Salilla | E. & A. Sewall | schooner | 312 | 1873 | ||||
85298 | Granger | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 1,526 | 1873 | |||
19410 | Occidental | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 1,532 | 1874 | |||
19418 | Oriental | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 1,688 | 1874 | |||
Continental | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 1,712 | 1875 | ||||
95385 | Harvester | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 1,494 | 1875 | wrecked 1900 off Black Head | ||
110270 | Reaper | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 1,468 | 1876 | |||
Thrasher | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 1,512 | 1876 | ||||
100189 | Indiana | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 1,487 | 1876 | later bought by Cecil B. DeMille Pictures, used in "The Splendid Road", "The Blood Ship", "The Wreck of the Hesperus" and "The Yankee Clipper", ceremonially burned 1936 in Long Beach CA | ||
125591 | Challenger | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 1,456 | 1877 | |||
Carrie S. Bailey | E. & A. Sewall | schooner | 396 | 1878 | ||||
Chesebrough | E. & A. Sewall | ship | 1,507 | 1878 | ||||
Built by Arthur Sewell & Co. | ||||||||
115654 | Solitaire | Arthur Sewall & Co. | ship | 1,531 | 1879 | later schooner barge, to USN 1917 as ID-3026, sold 1919 | ||
Thomas M. Reed | Arthur Sewall & Co. | ship | 1,987 | 1880 | ||||
Belle Higgins | Arthur Sewall & Co. | schooner | 412 | 1880 | ||||
Kate Markee | Arthur Sewall & Co. | schooner | 503 | 1880 | ||||
S. M. Thomas | Arthur Sewall & Co. | schooner | 761 | 1881 | ||||
100296 | Iroquois | Arthur Sewall & Co. | ship | 2,121 | 1881 | wrecked 1902 | ||
R. L. Lunt | Arthur Sewall & Co. | schooner | 756 | 1881 | ||||
95688 | Henry Villard | Arthur Sewall & Co. | ship | 1,553 | 1882 | burned 1929 at Richmond Beach | ||
Nora Bailey | Arthur Sewall & Co. | schooner | 448 | 1882 | ||||
80935 | W. F. Babcock | Arthur Sewall & Co. | ship | 2,029 | 1882 | |||
81087 | Willie Rosenfeld | Arthur Sewall & Co. | 3-masted ship | 2,445 | 1885 | sank off Brazil 1896 | ||
Kenilworth | Arthur Sewall & Co. | |||||||
116152 | Shrewsbury | Arthur Sewall & Co. | passenger | 326 | 1887 | later New York, abandoned 1911 | ||
116370 | Shenandoah | Arthur Sewall & Co. | 4-masted ship | 3,154 | 1890 | foundered 1890 off Fire Island | ||
110849 | Rappahannock | Arthur Sewall & Co. | 4-masted ship | 3,185 | 1890 | |||
116445 | Susquehanna | Arthur Sewall & Co. | 4-masted ship | 2,745 | 1891 | sank 1905 in the Pacific | ||
110991 | Roanoke | Arthur Sewall & Co. | 4-masted ship | 3,539 | 1892 | said to be the largest US-built wooden ship, burned 1905 | ||
40 | 157395 | Dirigo | Arthur Sewall & Co. | 4-masted Bark | 3,004 | Mar 1894 | first steel-hulled sailing ship, sunk by u-boat 1917 | |
41 | 136697 | Erskine M. Phelps | Arthur Sewall & Co. | 4-masted Bark | 2,998 | Aug 1898 | steel hull, to USN 1942 as YO-147, deleted 1945 | |
42 | 107434 | Arthur Sewall | Arthur Sewall & Co. | 4-masted Bark | 3,209 | Mar 1899 | steel hull, missing off Cape Horn 1907 | |
43 | 136762 | Edward Sewall | Arthur Sewall & Co. | 4-masted Bark | 3,206 | Oct 1899 | steel hull, Star of Shetland 1925, scrapped 1937 | |
44 | 161135 | Kaiulani | Williams, Dimond | 3-masted Bark | 1,570 | Dec 1899 | later Star of Finland 1910, Kaiulani 1941, preserved in San Francisco 1960 | |
45 | 107612 | Astral | Standard Oil of NY | 4-masted Bark | 3,292 | Dec 1900 | later Star of Zealand 1910, scrapped 1935 | |
46 | 107655 | Acme | Standard Oil of NY | 4-masted Bark | 3,288 | June 1901 | later Star of Poland 1915, wrecked 1918 | |
47 | 81792 | William P. Frye | Arthur Sewall & Co. | 4-masted Bark | 3,374 | Oct 1901 | steel hull, captured 1915 and scuttled | |
48 | 107724 | Atlas | Standard Oil of NY | 4-masted Bark | 3,381 | Feb 1902 | later Star of Lapland 1910, scrapped 1937 | |
49 | 117195 | S. O. Co. No. 93 | Standard Oil of NY | schooner | 2,473 | 1902 | ||
50 | 161227 | Kineo | Arthur Sewall & Co. | 5-masted schooner | 2,128 | May 1903 | later Maryland 1916, Aramar 1947, wrecked 1963 off Tamandare, Brazil |