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Axe Fight Aboard the “Queen” of All Wooden Sailing Ships

Tragedy From an Axe Fight Aboard the “Queen” of All Wooden Sailing Ships, the Six-Masted Schooner, the Eleanor A. Percy With the economic boom of the late 1890s, the need for coal, lumber, and steel for construction prompted shipbuilders to … Continue reading

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