Schooner Trader
Description
- Creator
- Neff, Charles S., Artist
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Drawings
- Notes
- Trader, a 2-masted schooner, built in the early 1850s for Neff & Co. (Abel Neff & Alonzo Leach); moulded-built schooner, fully rigged with topmasts; white oak construction. Purchased 1861 by Sam & W. W. Neff from Neff & Co. as a wreck on the beach at Clifton, eastern shore of Lake Winnebago. It was raised by block & screws, and found badly damaged. They made what repairs they could. The sails were bent, the vessel launched, and sailed to Oshkosh after a terrible night on Lake Winnebago in a storm, and with the vessel leaking. As soon as they landed an offer of purchase was made. The offer was accepted. They had a fair profit for their trouble. The boat went to Menasha and was repaired in a dry dock. It was 60 feet long. Good lines. Center Board. Sam & W. W. Neff were at work raising the Trader when news came of the outbreak of the Civil War. After many years of service, the Trader was found buried under a stave factory at Menasha. Capt. E. M. Neff came along one day and took a piece of oak timber from her, and made it into a cane. - Notes from Charles S. Neff
- Date of Original
- 1861-62
- Subject(s)
- Donor
- John S. Neff
- Creative Commons licence
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