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Photo Title:	"Herbert L. Rawding" (Schooner)
Image No.:	PF-013.002a
Image Location:	Box10/pf013_002a.jpeg
Date of Creation:	[ca. 1947]
Physical Description:	1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm
Biography/Admin History:	Built at Stockton Springs, Maine, 1919, 1109 gross tons, official number 177035, schooner, registered at St. John's, Newfoundland and owned by Alberto Wareham Ltd. of Spencer's Cove, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland in 1947. In June of 1947, under the command of Capt. Alec Rodway, on a voyage from Gibraltar with salt for Newfoundland she ran into a heavy gale and sank about 500 miles off Cape St. Vincent.
Source Donor:	Heather Wareham
Collection Title:	Alberto Wareham Ltd., Spencer's Cove, Photograph Collection
Restrictions on Access:	Copyright expired.
Copyright:	p
Physical Condition:	Good
Notes:	See also PF-013.003. See "Atlantic Four-master: the story of the schooner Herbert L. Rawding, 1919-1947", by Francis E. Bowker,1986.
Subjects:	Herbert L. Rawding (Schooner).