Coal Schooner MERTIE B. CROWLEY
A six masted coal schooner built in Rockland ME in 1907 by Cobb Butler for the Coastwise Transportation Company of Boston, Mass. She was wrecked on the west side of Skiff’s Island Shoal on January 23, 1910. In this painting she is heading south to pick up a coal shipment, hence she is riding high in the water and having trouble holding her course....