Kelley Spear
Bath ME
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.
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 |