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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 16., Medford Memorials. (search)
account of the Pilgrim's career. She sailed from Boston for Hong-Kong, commanded by Capt. Frank Fowle, on February 14, 1874, taking out a cargo of ice, and made the voyage in one hundred and twenty-four days. For several years she was in the East Indian trade. In 1890 she was barque rigged and sold to Daniel Bacon of New York. In 1892, under the command of one supposed to be an efficient navigator, she was wrecked on one of the Bahama Islands while on a voyage from Philadelphia to Cienfuegos, Cuba. Her cargo of coal and the vessel were a total loss, but the captain and crew escaped. It seems somewhat remarkable that of all the Medford-built vessels (numbering about six hundred) not one is now known to be in service; and of the buildings in the many ship-yards but one remains in any form as a relic of an industry once so thriving. A photographic copy of Mr. Woolley's picture of the Pilgrim has been purchased by Mr. Henry Hastings and hung in the Henry Hastings Room (commemo