There have been lengthy delays in the move, but final preparations have been completed on the Mare Island seawall, where the ...
The Muir was a 130-foot (39.6 meters), three-masted schooner that was built in 1872. The ship was en route from Bay City, Michigan, to South Chicago, Illinois, with a cargo of bulk salt.
It will be the launching of a six-masted schooner, the first vessel of her kind ever built. This remarkable vessel has been named the George W. Wells, and she is the largest schooner that has yet ...
Lane and Sons built the ship in Whangaroa, Northland in 1904 as a wooden three-masted schooner weighing 230 tonnes, 126 feet in length, 29.4 feet in breadth and with a depth of 7.6 feet.