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Default About the 'Snow & Burgess'

Squeegee's Ps_10 shows this ship. Some info from several sources:

On 5 Sept. 1902, Capt. A. H. Sorensen of the five-masted schooner Snow &
Burgess and his wife Marie welcomed a baby girl while at sea. Their location
at the time was 10°N 117°W - in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of
miles west of Central America. Sorensen named the baby girl Burgess, after
the ship.

The famous old Downeaster Snow and Burgess, originally a full-rigged ship,
then a bark, and finally rerigged as a five-masted schooner, long in the
Pacific Coast lumber and coal trades, arrived in ballast at Port Townsend in
March, 1920, 87 days from Manila. She had long been commanded by Capt. A. H.
Sorenson while owned by Lorentzen of San Francisco, but on this last voyage
home she was commanded by Capt. Dan (Black) Martin. She was badly hogged,
leaked constantly and had lumber lashing chains around her stem, set up with
turnbuckles to keep her together. She did not sail again, but was
subsequently sold for $3,000 (she had been valued at $ 200,000 during the
shipping boom of two years earlier) and burned for junk on the beach at Port
Townsend.

H. W. McCurdy was engaged in the scrapping of the Snow & Burgess and her
bell was subsequently installed on his yacht Moby Dick.

In 1990 Burgess Cogill (nee Sorensen) published 'When God was an atheist
sailor: Memories of a childhood at sea, 1902-1910'

From Publishers Weekly
At 87, Cogill offers a memoir of her childhood, telling of her first eight
years spent aboard her father's lumber schooner; he was a roughshod captain
who plied the seas from the American Northwest to South America. In this
charming evocation of a seagoing Victorian family, the author and her sister
make "mud" pies with flour from the galley; they sit in the ship's carpentry
shop and collect wood curls. On birthdays, the Japanese cook bakes the
children's favorite mince pie. The captain was an exacting disciplinarian
with the crew, a softie with his daughters; the author's mother educated
them and, when necessary, reined them in.

tim W




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