PERCY & SMALL

Bath ME

Most recent update: April 13, 2016.

Percy & Small was started in 1894 by Samuel R. Percy Jr. and Frank A. Small, and closed in 1920.  The yard was on Washington Street, near Marshall Street: the Maine Maritime Museum is there now and has preserved much of the old yard, including a stylized mock-up of the framing of the 6-master Wyoming.  This is something not to be missed if you are in the area.  See it from the air on Google here.  The table below lists 44 of the 45 vessels that Percy & Small built: can anyone identify the missing hull? And if anyone has any data to add, please send it to timcolton@aol.com.
Hull # O.N. Original Name Original Owner Type GT Feet Built

Disposition

1 127047 Charles P. Notman Percy & Small 3-masted Schooner 1,518   1894 Rammed 1900 and sunk
  81518 William H. Clifford Percy & Small 4-masted Schooner 1,594   1895 Sunk by u-boat 1917 off France
  116722 S. P. Blackburn Percy & Small 4-masted Schooner 1,756   1896 Lost 1913 off Cape Hatteras
  107331 Alice E. Clark J. S. Winslow & Co.  4-masted Schooner 1,621   1898 Wrecked 1909 off Isleboro ME
  92935 M. D. Cressy Percy & Small  5-masted Schooner 2,114   1899 Lost at sea 1917
  96482 Helen W. Martin Percy & Small  5-masted Schooner 2,265   1899 Later Fenix, wrecked 1920 in Denmark
  81709 Wm. C. Carnegie J. S. Winslow & Co.  5-masted Schooner 2,663   1900 Wrecked 1909 off Eastport NY
  136844 Eleanor A. Percy Percy & Small  6-masted Schooner 3,401   1900 Lost at sea 1919
  93122 Martha P. Small Percy & Small  5-masted Schooner 2,178   1901 Scrapped 1923
  155397 Oakley C. Curtis J. S. Winslow & Co. 5-masted Schooner 2,374   1901 Converted to barge 1930
  127558 Cordelia E. Hayes J. S. Winslow & Co. 4-masted Schooner 1,281   1901 Wrecked 1905 off Cape Hatteras
  93206 Miles M. Merry Percy & Small  4-masted Schooner 1,589   1901 Wrecked 1909 off Moriches NY
  127634 Cora F. Cressy Percy & Small  5-masted Schooner 2,499   1902 Ran aground 1928, converted to nightclub, scuttled 1937
  107814 Addie M. Lawrence J. S. Winslow & Co. 6-masted Schooner 2,807   1902 Wrecked 1917 off the River Loire
   93292 Margaret Ward J. S. Winslow & Co.  4-masted Schooner 1,074   1902 In collision 1903 and sank off Galveston TX
  121260 Florence M. Penley Percy & Small   4-masted Schooner 1,154   1903 Sank 1915 in a hurricane off Barbados
  200201 Elizabeth Palmer William F. Palmer 5-masted Schooner 3,065   1903 In collision 1914 and sank off Fenwick Island Shoals
  200622 Umbajejus   Sloop-Barge 68   1904 Later McCormick
  201187 Grace A. Martin Percy & Small  5-masted Schooner 3,129   1904 Sank 1914 off Matinicus Rock
  201587 Ruth E. Merrill J. S. Winslow & Co. 6-masted Schooner 3,003   1904 Wrecked 1924 off Woods Hole MA
  201677 Evelyn W. Hinkly J. S. Winslow & Co. 4-masted Schooner 698   1905 Disappeared 1917 in mid-Atlantic
  202658 Davis Palmer William F. Palmer 5-masted Schooner 2,965   1905 Wrecked 1909 off Boston MA
  202699 Robert P. Murphy Percy & Small  4-masted Schooner 697   1905 Burnt 1924 in Puerto Plata DR
  203715 Alice M. Lawrence J. S. Winslow & Co. 6-masted Schooner 3,132   1906 Wrecked 1914 off Nantucket
  204125 Fannie Palmer II William F. Palmer 5-masted Schooner 2,233   1907 Foundered 1916 off Gibraltar
  204742 Governor Brooks Percy & Small 5-masted Schooner 2,628   1907 Sank 1921 off Montevideo
  205024 Edward J. Lawrence J. S. Winslow & Co. 6-masted Schooner 3,350   1908 Burnt 1925 in Portland ME
  205850 Fuller Palmer William F. Palmer 5-masted Schooner 3,060   1908 Lost 1914 off Cape Cod
  205872 Edward B. Winslow J. S. Winslow & Co. 6-masted Schooner 3,424   1908 Burnt 1917 off France
  207010 Wyoming Percy & Small 6-masted Schooner 3,730   1909 Foundered 1924 off Pollock Rip
  210255 Dustin G. Cressy Percy & Small 4-masted Schooner 862   1912 In collision 1917 and sank, recovered, scrapped 1933
  165501 Pequossette   Lighter 248   1913  
   165595 Pocahontas No. 1   Barge 444   1914  
  212900 Carl F. Cressy Percy & Small 4-masted Schooner 898   1915 Sunk 1917 by u-boat off Cape Clear
  213961 Charles D. Loveland S. C. Loveland 4-masted Schooner 766   1916 Later Esther Melbourne, wrecked 1928 off Haiti
  214327 C. C. Mengel, Jr. Mengel Box Co. 4-masted Schooner 844   1916 Wrecked 1922 off Jamaica
  214979 Sam C. Mengel Mengel Box Co. 4-masted Schooner 915   1917 Sunk 1918 off the Atlantic Coast
  215323 Dunham Wheeler East Coast Transportation 5-masted Schooner 1,926   1917 Foundered 1930 off Melbourne FL
  215684 Annie C. Ross F. G. Boggs 4-masted Schooner 791   1917 Later Elizabeth Scott Moore, sank 1955 in Glen Cove NY
  216231 St. Johns, Nfld. St. Johns Transportation 5-masted Schooner 2,046   1918 Later Edward B. Winslow, sank 1928 en route to Bermuda
  216837 Lieut. Sam Mengel Mengel Box Co. 4-masted Schooner 907   1918 Barge 1933, foundered 1935 off Boston MA
  217716 Joseph S. Zeman Stanley Navigation 5-masted Schooner 1,956   1919 Wrecked 1922 off Metinic I.
  218979 Miriam Landis Morecraft Transportation 4-masted Schooner 904   1919 Later Kenton, sank 1935 off Cape Verde I.
45 219564 Cecilia Cohen Cohen Navigation 4-masted Schooner 1,102   1920 Burnt and sank 1921 off Cape Hatteras