Schooner VICTORY CHIMES

Three masted schooner VICTORY CHIMES built 1900 now part of the passenger trade out of Rockland, Maine

Captain Kip Files

Captain Kip Files of the Downeast three masted schooner

VICTORY CHIMES

Three-Masted Schooner Rachel

The wreckage of an old sailing ship has surfaced again on the Baldwin County coast, Alabama, and a spokesman for Fort Morgan says it's most likely the three-masted schooner Rachel.
The ship ran aground in the early 1900s, and its most recent reappearance was on the beach six miles east of Fort Morgan after Tropical Storm Ida struck two weeks ago. Mike Bailey, Fort Morgan's events coordinator, says the Rachel was 155 feet long and was one of the largest Biloxi schooners built.
The Mobile Press-Register reports that Bailey says the ship was carrying a load of lumber when it ran into a storm, and ran aground because it was not carrying enough of a crew to handle it. The ship wreckage has reappeared on the beach, usually after storms, for at least 40 years.

Victory Chimes

Victory Chimes (catalog #2000) is a three-masted, gaff-rigged Chesapeake Ram schooner, home-ported in Rockland, Maine. Built in 1900 in Bethel, Delaware as Edwin And Maud, Victory Chimes' dimensions are: length 127.5 feet, breadth 23.8 feet and depth 8.6 feet; 208 tons gross, 178 tons net. Just as when Victory Chimes was built, the schooner does not carry an engine. Maneuvering assistance is provided by a nineteen foot wooden yawlboat which pushes against the stern. Victory Chimes not only exemplifies the nineteenth and early twentieth century development of large American wooden schooners intended primarily, though not exclusively, for the coasting trade on both east and west coasts, but she is the only surviving example of the "Chesapeake ram" type and one of only three surviving examples of a three masted schooner in the United States. A member of the Maine Windjammer Fleet, transporting 40 guests each week during the summer months to experience the wind and the sea.