Roseway
{{Short description|1925 schooner}}
{{other uses}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}}
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|+Roseway {{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Rosewayfirehose.jpg |Ship caption=Roseway under partial sail }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|USA}} |Ship name=Roseway |Ship builder=John F. James & Son |Ship owner=*Harold Hathaway (1925–1941)
|Ship operator= World Ocean School |Ship original cost= |Ship laid down= |Ship homeport=Boston, MA and Christiansted, St Croix, USVI |Ship launched=24 November 1925 |Ship acquired= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship identification=*{{MMSI Number|366866000}}
|Ship fate= |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header=title |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United States|coast guard}} |Ship name=CGR-812 |Ship acquired=May 1942 |Ship commissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship struck= |Ship fate= Returned to Boston Pilots November 1945 |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Ship length=*{{convert|137|ft|abbr=on}} LOA
|Ship beam={{convert|25|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship draft={{convert|13|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship sail plan=Gaff-rigged schooner, {{convert|5600|sqft|abbr=on}} total sail |Ship propulsion=Sail, {{convert|400|hp|abbr=on}} diesel engine |Ship complement= |Ship notes=Hull material: Wood (white oak, native pine, Douglas fir) }} {{Infobox nrhp | embed = yes | name = | nrhp_type = nhl | image = | caption = | location = Seasonally Boston, Massachusetts or St. Croix, USVI | built = 1925 | architect = John F. James & Son | architecture = Gaff-rigged wooden schooner | designated_nrhp_type = 25 September 1997 {{cite web |url = http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=921373059&ResourceType=Structure |title = Roseway (schooner) |access-date = 2008-03-25 |work = National Historic Landmark summary listing |publisher = National Park Service |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100923160826/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=921373059&ResourceType=Structure |archive-date = 23 September 2010 }} | added = 25 September 1997 | refnum = 97001278 }} |
Roseway is a wooden gaff-rigged schooner launched on 24 November 1925 in Essex, Massachusetts. She is currently operated by World Ocean School, a non-profit educational organization based in Boston, Massachusetts, and is normally operated out of Boston, Massachusetts and Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. She was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1997 as the only known surviving example of a fishing schooner built specifically with racing competition as an objective.{{cite web|url={{NHLS url|id=97001278}}|title=NHL nomination for Roseway (schooner)|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=2015-02-23}} In 1941, Roseway was purchased by the Boston Pilot's Association to serve as a pilot boat for Boston Harbor, as a replacement for the pilot-boat Northern Light, which was sold to the United States Army for war service.
History
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Roseway was built in 1925 for Harold Hathaway of Taunton, Massachusetts at the John F. James & Son shipyard in Essex. Hathaway's intention was to build a boat that might beat the Canadians in the international fisherman's races popular at that time; to that end, Roseway was impeccably maintained and used only occasionally as a fishing boat.{{cite web |url=http://www.worldoceanschool.org/all-about-roseway/roseway-history |title=History of the Schooner Roseway |access-date=2012-09-11}}
Roseway sank at Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, on 14 September 1926,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=15 September 1926 |page=23 |issue=44377 |column=B }} but she was raised and repaired.
In 1941, Roseway was purchased by the Boston Pilot's Association to serve as a pilot boat for Boston Harbor, as a replacement for the pilot-boat Northern Light, No. 3, which was sold to the United States Army for war service.
{{cite book|last=Eastman|first=Ralph M.|date=1956|title=Pilots and pilot boats of Boston Harbor|url=https://archive.org/details/pilotspilotboats00east/page/32/mode/2up?q=Northern+Light
|location=Boston, Massachusetts|publisher=Second Bank-State Street Trust Company|page=78}}
{{cite web|title=Roseway (Schooner) - NPGallery - National Park Service|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/9fb31d08-fb80-4b88-9227-b54c463ece2f|publisher=United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service|page=10|access-date=2020-12-17}} Following the attack on Pearl Harbor later that year, mines and anti-submarine netting were installed to protect the Port of Boston, and all lighted navigational aids were extinguished. Roseway was fitted with a .50 caliber machine gun for service with the Coast Guard Reserve as patrol vessel as CGR-812. She continued her piloting duties in this challenging environment, for which service her pilots were awarded a bronze plaque from the Coast Guard at the end of the war.
Roseway continued to serve as a pilot vessel until the early 1970s, at which point she and San Francisco's Zodiac were the only pilot schooners still in service in the United States.
{{cite book
|first=Tom
|last=Cunliffe
|first2=Adrian
|last2=Osler
|year=2001
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VNsGi3nmuaQC
|title=Pilots. The World of Pilotage under Sail and Oar. Vol. 1. Pilot Schooners of North America and Great Britain
|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=VNsGi3nmuaQC&pg=PA137 137], [https://books.google.com/books?id=VNsGi3nmuaQC&pg=PA240 240]
|publisher=Wooden Boat Publications
|isbn=978-0-937822-69-2
}} She was then sold and converted into a passenger vessel for the tourist trade. Roseway changed hands several times in the ensuing decades, operating primarily out of Camden, Maine and the US Virgin Islands. In 1997, she was listed as a National Historic Landmark. Roseway, at that time, retained between eighty and ninety percent of her original hull fabric and was badly in need of repairs. In 1998 she took one group of Hurricane Island Outward Bound School students aboard, and sailed from Hurricane Island, ME to Gloucester, MA and back, as a trial for potentially becoming part of the sailing program, which never came to fruition, and then she remained docked in Rockland, Maine until she was repossessed by the First National Bank of Damariscotta, which in 2002 donated the vessel to the newly founded World Ocean School.
Following two years of restoration in Boothbay Harbor, Roseway again set sail in 2005. She currently serves as the platform for the World Ocean School, which offers various educational programs in St. Croix and the northeastern United States.
See also
Citations
{{Reflist}}
References
- {{cite web
|url={{NHLS url|id=97001278}}
|title=National Historic Landmark Nomination / Schooner Roseway
|last=Foster
|first=Kevin J.
|publisher=National Park Service
|date=30 January 1997
|access-date=2012-09-11
}}
- {{cite web
|url={{NHLS url|id=97001278|photos=y}}
|title=Accompanying Photos
|publisher=National Park Service
|access-date=2012-09-11
}}
External links
- [http://www.worldoceanschool.org World Ocean School]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100923160826/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=921373059&ResourceType=Structure National Historic Landmark listing for the schooner Roseway]
- [http://www.bostonpilots.com/ Boston Pilots' Association]
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{{National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts}}
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Category:Individual sailing vessels
Category:National Historic Landmarks in Boston
Category:Schooners of the United States
Category:Ships built in Essex, Massachusetts
Category:Ships on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Category:Maritime incidents in 1926