| 词条 | Mercantile (schooner) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mercantile is a two-masted schooner berthed in Camden Harbor, Camden, Maine. Built in the 1914-16 on Little Deer Isle, Maine, she is one of a small number of such vessels still afloat from a time when they were one of the most common cargo vessels of the coasting trade. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1992, she now serves as a "Maine windjammer", offering multi-day sailing cruises to tourists. Description and historyMercantile is a total of {{convert|115|ft|m}} long, with a deck {{convert|80|ft|m}} and {{convert|22|ft|m}} wide. Her normal sailing rig consists of a mainsail, foresail, two headsails, and no topsails. She is framed and planked out of white oak, and has a pine deck. Her woodwork was originally fastened by treenails, but when restored these were changed to galvanized spikes.[4]Mercantile was built on Little Deer Isle, Maine by members of the Billings family over three seasons, and was launched in 1916. From then until 1943 the Billingses operated her in the coasting trade as one of thousands of such vessels built. In 1943 she was briefly involved in the mackerel fisheries of southern New England, before she was sold to Frank Swift and adapted for use as a tourist vessel. In the 1930s Swift conceived of the idea of using these vessels, which were generally laid up in coves and harbors and left to rot, to carry paying customers on sailing cruises, and this was one of the early vessels he used for this purpose. Although she has undergone several ownership changes, she has always operated in the tourist trade out of Camden Harbor.[4] Her most recent major restoration was in 1989. See also
References1. ^ {{cite web |url=http://www.mainewindjammercruises.com/mercantile.cfm |title=Mercantile |publisher=mainewindjammercruises.com |accessdate=2012-09-05 }} 2. ^ {{cite web |url = http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=2098&ResourceType=Structure |title = Mercantile (schooner) |accessdate = 2008-06-25 |work = National Historic Landmark summary listing |publisher = National Park Service |deadurl = yes |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100923160607/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=2098&ResourceType=Structure |archivedate = 2010-09-23 |df = }} 3. ^{{NRISref|2007a}} 4. ^1 {{cite journal|url={{NHLS url|id=82005265}}|title=Mercantile |work=Maritime Heritage of the United States NHL Study—Large Vessels|format=pdf|last=Dean|first=Nicholas|last2=Mohney|first2=Kirk R.|editor-last=Delgado|editor-first=James P.|editor-link=James P. Delgado|publisher=National Park Service|date=October 1990|accessdate=2012-09-05}} and {{cite web|url={{NHLS url|id=82005265|photos=y}}|title=Accompanying Photos|format=pdf|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=2012-09-05}} External links
7 : National Historic Landmarks in Maine|Ships on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine|Transportation buildings and structures in Knox County, Maine|Schooners|1916 ships|Camden, Maine|National Register of Historic Places in Knox County, Maine |
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