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Image: Governor Ames launch

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Description: The schooner Governor Ames preparing for launch, Leavitt-Storer Shipyard, Waldeboro, Maine. The Governor Ames was the first five-masted schooner built on the East Coast. She later sank off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, in December 1909, drowning 11 sailors.
Title: Governor Ames launch
Credit: http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Detail?ln=8868&supst=enlarge
Author: J. C. Higgins & Son, Bath, Maine (retouched by MarmadukePercy)
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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