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Troy Moore in North Carolina

Best to start by doing some basic research. Is there a museum accessible to you that knows anything about the vessel? Also try searching for her customs house register. This is a document issued to new vessels and reissued whenever she changed hands. Many have now been digitized. Unfortunately you will need to have some idea when and where she was built as her’s would have been issued at a port near where she was built.

The idea is to find out who built her, where, and when. With this information you can check museums in the area for archival materials.

Her name and date of loss indicates a high probability the she was one of the late 1800’s Maine Built Downeasters. It is quite possible that the key drawing, hull lines, does not exist as many were built from half models, with no drawing made. In some cases, the shipyard furnished a half model to a professional lofter who lofted the lines and furnished mounds for structural members to the yard. There were also techniques for changing the lines of a previous built vessel without making a new half model or lines drawing.

If, however, you can find who built her, principal dimensions and number of masts, you may be able to find a similar vessel. Using this you could construct a model described as “X Masted Maine built Barkentine c18XX similar to Olive Thurlow.”

Roger
 
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Troy,
From what I could find with a quick search the Olive Thurlow looks to have been built in Calais, Maine although I found no shipyard name. Jon Dunsford did a model of a three masted brigantine a few years ago and he is a wealth of knowledge on vessels built in Maine. The Library of Congress may also have some information. If you want to reach out to Jon, please feel free to PM me with your contact information and I will ask him if he can help you in your quest for info.
Allan
 
AllanKP69 said:
Troy,
From what I could find with a quick search the Olive Thurlow looks to have been built in Calais, Maine although I found no shipyard name. Jon Dunsford did a model of a three masted brigantine a few years ago and he is a wealth of knowledge on vessels built in Maine. The Library of Congress may also have some information. If you want to reach out to Jon, please feel free to PM me with your contact information and I will ask him if he can help you in your quest for info.
Allan
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Thanks Allan. That would be very helpful. YES Calais was her origin point. I contacted several museums there but no response yet. Her build date was 1886
My contact is
Troy Moore
XXXXXXXX@XXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXX

* The phone and email addresses were scrambled to avoid publicity. Please use the PM (Private Message for sensitive information, such as email address and phone number.
 
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AllanKP69 said:
Troy,
From what I could find with a quick search the Olive Thurlow looks to have been built in Calais, Maine although I found no shipyard name. Jon Dunsford did a model of a three masted brigantine a few years ago and he is a wealth of knowledge on vessels built in Maine. The Library of Congress may also have some information. If you want to reach out to Jon, please feel free to PM me with your contact information and I will ask him if he can help you in your quest for info.
Allan
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Roger Pellett said:
Best to start by doing some basic research. Is there a museum accessible to you that knows anything about the vessel? Also try searching for her customs house register. This is a document issued to new vessels and reissued whenever she changed hands. Many have now been digitized. Unfortunately you will need to have some idea when and where she was built as her’s would have been issued at a port near where she was built.

The idea is to find out who built her, where, and when. With this information you can check museums in the area for archival materials.

Her name and date of loss indicates a high probability the she was one of the late 1800’s Maine Built Downeasters. It is quite possible that the key drawing, hull lines, does not exist as many were built from half models, with no drawing made. In some cases, the shipyard furnished a half model to a professional lofter who lofted the lines and furnished mounds for structural members to the yard. There were also techniques for changing the lines of a previous built vessel without making a new half model or lines drawing.

If, however, you can find who built her, principal dimensions and number of masts, you may be able to find a similar vessel. Using this you could construct a model described as “X Masted Maine built Barkentine c18XX similar to Olive Thurlow.”

Roger
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Great thanks. So far I found that she was from the Calais, Maine area (1886) 557 tons.
 
Troy it is a terrible idea to post our email address in public on forums. I copied your address, but do yourself a favor and delete or edit your post to remove your email. PMs seem to be the safest way to convey email addresses.
Allan
 
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The model looks great, but the showcase , beautiful ,one of
the best I have seen in a long time.
 
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