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Thomas F. Bayard (pilot boat)
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The Thomas F. Bayard was a 19th-century Delaware River pilot schooner built by C. & R. Poillon shipyard in 1880. She spent sixteen years as a pilot boat before being sold during the Yukon Gold Rush in 1897. She was sold again in 1906 for Seal hunting, then purchased by the Department of Marine & Fisheries where she guided freighters into New Westminster, British Columbia for 43 years. She was then acquired by the Vancouver Maritime Museum in 1978. When she sank at her mooring in 2002, the International Yacht Restoration School, Mystic Seaport and the Vancouver Maritime Museum, removed the vessel in pieces for the archeological teams to study and document the remains of her hull. The Thomas F. Bayard Collection, at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, contains the documents, history and preservation efforts.
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Name | Thomas F. Bayard |
Namesake | Thomas F. Bayard, United States Senator |
Owner | Delaware Pilots, Henry Virden |
Builder | C. & R. Poillon |
Cost | $15,000 |
Launched | March 13, 1880 |
Out of service | July 15, 1897 |
Renamed | Sandsheads |
Fate | Sold |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | schooner |
Tonnage | 70-tons TM |
Length | 94 ft 0 in (28.65 m) |
Beam | 21 ft 4 in (6.50 m) |
Depth | 13 ft 0 in (3.96 m) |
Propulsion | Sail |
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Notes | Wood-hulled, copper sheathed, two-masted schooner |