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Title: The sloops of the Hudson; an historical sketch of the packet and market sloops of the last century, with a record of their names; together with personal reminiscences of certain of the notable North river sailing masters
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Verplanck, William Edward, 1856- Collyer, Moses Wakeman Woolsey, George Davis, 1829-1900
Subjects: Shipping -- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)
Publisher: New York and London : G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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of the larger ones were 38 Sloops of the Hudson changed to save expense of operation.Later, about 1865 there was built a newtype of schooner for the Hudson whichthough rigged the same was a wider andshallower boat thus giving her greatercarrying capacity and permitting all thecargo to be placed on deck for expeditionin loading and unloading. She was quitesharp forward, which—with other good pointsin her model—made her a good sailer. Ofthis type was the Robert A. Forsythe ofNewburgh, between which place and Albanyshe plied as a carrier of lumber. The Wm.A. Ripley of Low Point on Newburgh baywas another schooner of somewhat the samestyle and rig. The Ripley was built atNewark, N. J., in 1874 and was sixty-ninefeet in length and twenty-two feet beam.Her carrying capacity was one hundredand twenty-five tons. Her captain wasRobert S. Collyer. ^ The packets had virtually disappeared > The Uriah F. Washburn, built by Jacob Woolsey atTompkins Cove in 1866, was undoubtedly the best ex-
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The Packets 39 when the schooner began to be a favoriterig, and none of them so far as I know everran as a packet boat for passengers. The sloop in the early days was a sea-goer, making voyages to the West Indies;even the North River and Sound sloopsventured so far amain. A sea-going sloopof my early boyhood that joined the com-pany of North River vessels was the oldBenjamin Franklin. She had been builtin Huntington, Long Island, in 1836 forthe trade between New Bedford and theWest Indies, taking out cattle and fetchingmolasses back. Her length was sixty-fivefeet and her beam twenty-one and hercapacity eighty-five tons; a small vessel forsuch a trade we would account her to-day.She was owned at one time by John Van ample of these modern schooners. Her captain wasJames Monahan, who sailed her for 17 years, and isnow first pilot of the steamer City of Newburgh of theCentral Hudson Steamboat Co. This schooner wasbuilt for the Washburn Bros., brick-makers of Glasco-on-Hudson, and she now

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