Annie Larsen
{{Short description|American WWI-era three-masted schooner}}
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The Annie Larsen was a three-masted schooner that was involved in arms shipment in the so-called "Hindu German Conspiracy" during World War I.
Annie Larsen was built by the Hall Brothers in 1881. She was owned by James Tufts, of San Francisco, and later by Olson & Mahony and sailed in the coastwise lumber trade. In 1915, she was chartered to a shipbroker.{{Cite web
|title=Tacoma County Public Library, Ships and Shipping, Annie Larsen, "Maritime Events of 1915"
|access-date=2012-01-22
|url=http://search.tpl.lib.wa.us/ships/shipfulld.asp?1-9543
|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121224162313/http://search.tpl.lib.wa.us/ships/shipfulld.asp?1-9543
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|archive-date=2012-12-24
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The ship came into the spotlight when it was seized on 25 June 1915 by US customs officials at Grays Harbor and found to be carrying large quantities of small arms and ammunitions in violation of the Neutrality Acts.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} The arms were meant to be transferred to the SS Maverick at a rendezvous off the coast of Mexico. The Annie Larsen affair was one of the major setbacks to the pro-Indian independence Ghadar Party, and was one of the major charges in the trial, one of the largest and most expensive in American legal history.
In 1918, Annie Larsen stranded on Malden Island.{{Cite web
|title=Tacoma County Public Library, Ships and Shipping, Annie Larsen
|access-date=2012-01-22
|url=http://search.tpl.lib.wa.us/ships/shipfulld.asp?2-8239
|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121225092810/http://search.tpl.lib.wa.us/ships/shipfulld.asp?2-8239
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=2012-12-25
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See also
References
{{Reflist}}
- [http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=7753 U.S. Customs at Grays Harbor seizes the schooner Annie Larsen loaded with arms and ammunition on June 29, 1915], Historylink.org
Further reading
- {{Cite book
| publisher = Doubleday, Page & Co.
| last = Strother
| first = French
| title = Fighting Germany's spies
| location = New York
| access-date = 2012-01-22
| year = 1918
| url = https://archive.org/details/fightinggermany00strogoog
| page = [https://archive.org/details/fightinggermany00strogoog/page/n261 226]
| quote = annie larsen.
}} Includes a detailed account of the Annie Larsen affair by participant J.B. Starr-Hunt
Category:Hindu–German Conspiracy
Category:Maritime history of the United States
Category:Merchant ships of the United States
Category:Schooners of the United States
Category:Ships built in Bainbridge Island, Washington
Category:History of Grays Harbor County, Washington
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