Kelley Spear

Bath ME

Most recent update: April 13, 2016.

Kelley, Spear & Company was organized in 1886 by John R. Kelley, D. Howard Spear and Elijah F. Sawyer: it closed in 1923. After moving around a bit, they bought the yard on Front Street, immediately to the south of the Texas Steamship yard. It was essentially destroyed by fire in 1934, along with Texas Steamship.

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O/N Name Customer Type GT LOA Built Notes
Built in the William Rogers yard (1887-1888)
Silicon bark 1887
Massasoit W. & J. M. Phillips 4-masted schooner 1,317 1888
81194 William Lewis William Lewis steam bark 462 1888 wrecked 1891 off Point Barrow
157292 D. Howard Spear J. S. Winslow & Co. 3-masted schooner 547 1888 abandoned 1911 off USEC
Built in the Adams & Hitchcock yard (1889-1899)
Albertine Adoue Jacques Adoue 3-masted schooner 716 1890 wrecked 1894 in the Bahamas, rebuilt as a mailboat
157317 Daisy Farlin 3-masted schooner 466 1891 abandoned 1919 in mid-Atlantic
76998 J. Percy Bartram S. March & Sons 3-masted schooner 365 1891 wrecked 1910 near Porthgain
Floating Hotel Danforth cruise boat 1892
107193 Ardmore schooner barge 821 1895
157431 Devon schooner barge 724 1895
111086 Rosemont schooner barge 651 1895
81521 Wayne schooner barge 820 1895
86431 General Knox Maine Central RR ferry 427 1898 later Rye Cliffe 1910, burned 1918
Massachusetts 4-masted schooner 502 1898
Built in the former Moody yard (1899-1903)
136768 Edith Mystic Steamship schooner barge 859 1899 later Lawrence Howard
150815 Pemberton Staples Coal Co. schooner barge 839 1900 burned 1907 off Nobska Point
127420 Calumet John S. Emery & Co. 4-masted schooner 1,241 1900
100 93072 Medford John S. Emery & Co. 4-masted schooner 1,351 1900 stranded 1909
96510 Helena A. H. Bull & Co. 3-masted schooner 619 1900 stranded 1909
127398 Cohannet tugboat 69 1900
136780 Elk Garden Davis Coal & Coke schooner barge 847 1900
96490 Hampshire Davis Coal & Coke schooner barge 830 1900
121135 Flora Commercial Towing schooner barge 865 1900
86514 Grace Commercial Towing schooner barge 877 1900
96535 Havana schooner barge 1,617 1900 foundered 1922
130856 Norton Staples Coal Co. schooner barge 489 1900 later Scranton, Smith Line No. 1
116963 Sharon Samuel Cabot schooner barge 482 1900
127525 Cardenas schooner barge 1,576 1901 abandoned 1932
130930 Newport schooner barge 312 1901 abandoned 1922
111339 Rockland schooner barge 481 1901
121192 Frederick W. Day schooner 613 1901 sank off Cape Harreras 1914
141769 Lizzie M. Parsons schooner 655 1902
117180 Samuel P. Bowers schooner 626 1902
127633 Cienfuegos schooner barge 1,915 1902
130979 Norumbega Maine Central RR ferry 304 1902 burned 1934
77543 John G. Chandler Wood Towing tugboat 110 1902
127695 Charles K. Nichols schooner barge 820 1902
86679 George W. Truitt schooner 690 1903
116963 Sharon Staples Coal Co. schooner barge 482 1903
141868 Liberty schooner barge 1,587 1903 later Mary H. Keeler, foundered 1929
200023 Reliance steamer 251 1903
200233 Frank Huckins schooner 545 1903
200273 J. Carlton Hudson schooner barge 880 1903
200379 Quequechan Staples Coal Co. tugboat 76 1903
200426 Annie Metropolitan Coal schooner barge 1,098 1903
200505 Salisbury schooner 597 1903
Built in the former Rogers yard at Front and Cedar (1904-1923)
200628 Beattle Metropolitan Coal schooner barge 1,117 1904
200699 Frontenac schooner 1,704 1904
200718 Anthony D. Nichols Thorvald Peters schooner 680 1904
200961 Louis Bossert Louis Bossert & Sons schooner 605 1904 sunk by a u-boat 1917 off Spain
133 201154 Horace A. Allyn Westmoreland Coal schooner barge 859 1904
201265 Charles F. Prichard Westmoreland Coal schooner barge 861 1904 foundered 1937 off USEC
201420 Berkley schooner barge 650 1904
201520 George R. Stetson Westmoreland Coal schooner barge 675 1904
201535 George W. Truitt, Jr. John R. Eskridge schooner 779 1904
201579 John Bossert Louis Bossert & Sons schooner 601 1904 burned and sank off Sandy Hook 1916
201608 Bristol schooner barge 653 1904 collision and lost 1910
201688 Orleans R. R. Freeman schooner 751 1905
202426 Frances Hyde Benvenue Granite steamer 739 1905 later Mary Tamplin 1919, Ena 1925, Merituuli 1947, foundered 1947
162813 Hercules Boston Sand & Gravel scow 203 1906 steam barge 1908, to USN 1918 as ID-3190, YE-30 1920, sold 1923, abandoned 1940
204088 S. T. Co. No. 2 Sagadahoc Towing schooner barge 526 1907
204224 Smyrna Robert B. Wathen schooner barge 741 1907
204436 Cadosia Robert B. Wathen schooner barge 756 1907
204560 Sidney Robert B. Wathen schooner barge 745 1907
204654 S. T. Co. No. 4 Sagadahoc Towing schooner barge 526 1907
164 205188 Henry Endicott Cambridge Gas schooner barge 866 1908 foundered 1939 off Mass.
206633 Charles W Parker Jr tugboat 277 1909
206361 Virginia passenger steamer 71 1909
208451 Merida Atlantic & Carib. SN passenger steamer 628 1911 deleted 1937
209020 Helen schooner barge 1,285 1911
209403 Fall River Staples Transportation schooner barge 1,759 1911 foundered 1932
209563 Chatham Staples Transportation schooner barge 1,812 1912 later Deepwater No. 2
209721 Mount Hope Staples Transportation schooner barge 1,801 1912
209981 William C. May schooner 710 1912
210334 Eureka Rowe Bros steamer 471 1912 barge 1946, deleted 1956
210570 Rahn Lehigh Coal schooner barge 932 1912
210751 Maine P. Dougherty Co. schooner barge 1,110 1912 foundered off C&D Canal 1951
210838 John H. Winstead schooner barge 841 1912
211248 Irwin Westmoreland Coal schooner barge 1,304 1913
211651 Penn schooner barge 1,849 1913 wrecked 1923 off Block Island
211840 Irene Mystic Steamship schooner barge 1,206 1913 foundered 1934 off Barnegat Light
213435 Wollaston Staples Transportation schooner barge 1,378 1915
213708 Atlantic Staples Transportation schooner barge 1,900 1915
213806 Larimer schooner barge 1,584 1915
214344 Westmoreland Martin Barge Co. schooner barge 1,593 1916 foundered off Cape Henry 1939
214542 Northern No. 6 schooner barge 1,602 1916 later Orleans
214785 Northern No. 7 schooner barge 1,631 1917 later Truro, foundered 1934
215253 Manor Westmoreland Coal schooner barge 1,603 1917
215731 Samuel W. Fancher schooner barge 1,972 1917 later Southern
215952 Osceola Westmoreland Coal schooner barge 1,621 1918 scrapped 1951
217107 Columbine USSB steamer 2,551 1918 scrapped 1925
USSB #s 2335-2340 USSB 6 barges 1919 cancelled
196 218022 Falmouth Staples Transportation schooner barge 2,236 1919 later barge Catonsville, sank 1937 off USEC
218673 Winnegance Southern Transportation schooner barge 1,327 1919
218878 New Meadows Southern Transportation schooner barge 1,327 1919 later Chelsea
221348 Barnstable Staples Transportation schooner barge 1,626 1921 stranded 1934
221512 Bourne Staples Transportation schooner barge 1,626 1921 foundered 1934
201 222889 Winsor Westmoreland Coal schooner barge 1,034 1923 foundered 1946
202 222993 Hutchinson Westmoreland Coal schooner barge 1,034 1923 burned off Point Reading 1951

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