Paul Palmer (schooner)
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Image:Paul Palmer.jpg |Ship caption=Paul Palmer at coal docks }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United States |Ship name= |Ship namesake=Paul Palmer |Ship owner=*William H. Palmer (1902-1911)
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The Paul Palmer was a five-masted schooner built in 1902 by George F. Welt in Waldoboro, Maine.{{cite web
|url = http://stellwagen.noaa.gov/maritime/paulpalmer.html
|title = Paul Palmer
|work = Maritime Heritage: Shipwrecks
|author = Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
|accessdate = 2007-11-03
}}
It was part of William F. Palmer's fleet of white-hulled vessels active in the New England coal trade. The fleet was sold to J. S. Winslow and Company in 1911.{{cite web | url=http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/maritime/expeditions/palmer.html | title=Maritime Heritage Program: Expeditions | publisher=NOAA | work=National Marine Sanctuaries | year=2005 | accessdate=September 13, 2011}}
After departing Rockport, Maine on Friday, June 13, 1913 under the command of Capt. Howard B. Allen and destined for Newport News, VA where she would pick up a load of coal {{cite web | url=http://www.uri.edu/artsci/his/mua/in_the_field/noaa_coal.shtml | title=Fueling the Northeast: Schooners of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary | publisher=The Museum of Underwater Archaeology | date=April 26, 2011 | accessdate=September 13, 2011 | author=Marx, Deborah}} for the return voyage, Paul Palmer caught fire on 15 June 1913 for unknown reasons. Attempts to douse the flames with the vessel's own pumps were not successful, and the crew abandoned ship. The Paul Palmer burned down to the waterline and then sank. There were 11 passengers and crew on board, including the captain's wife and a female guest. The passengers of the Palmer took to lifeboats and were picked up later on by the fishing schooner Rose Dorothea, bringing them to Provincetown, Massachusetts. The cutter Androscoggin was dispatched from Portland, Maine to destroy the remnants of the wreck so as to avoid a hazard to other ships.
In 2000, researchers at the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary discovered the wreck and documented it, locating artifacts that proved the ship's identity in 2002.{{cite web | url=http://www.seadiscovery.com/mt/mtStories.aspx?ShowStrory=1011362067 | title=Shipwreck Makes National Register of Historic Places | publisher=Seadiscovery.com | date=2007-06-19 | accessdate=September 13, 2011}} The wreck was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20121007072811/http://www.uri.edu/artsci/his/mua/in_the_field/images/coal8_lg.jpg Launching of the Paul Palmer]
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Category:Schooners of the United States
Category:Maritime incidents in 1913
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Category:Buildings and structures in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Category:Shipwrecks on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts