Roseway
Roseway under partial sail
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| Name: | Roseway |
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| Builder: | John F. James & Son |
| Launched: | 24 November 1925 |
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| Name: | CGR-812 |
| Acquired: | May 1942 |
| Fate: | Returned to Boston Pilots November 1945 |
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| Beam: | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Draft: | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sail, 400 hp (300 kW) diesel engine |
| Sail plan: | Gaff-rigged schooner, 5,600 sq ft (520 m2) total sail |
| Notes: | Hull material: Wood (white oak, native pine, Douglas fir) |
| Location | Seasonally Boston, Massachusetts or St. Croix |
| Built | 1925 |
| Architect | John F. James & Son |
| NRHP Reference # | 97001278 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | 25 September 1997 |
| Designated NHL | 25 September 1997 |
Roseway is a wooden gaff-rigged schooner launched on 24 November 1925 in Essex, Massachusetts. Built in 1925, she is currently operated by World Ocean School, a non-profit educational organization based in Camden, Maine, 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.
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.
Roseway sank at Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, on 14 September 1926, 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. 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.
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