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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Medford Ship building Notes (search)
en was one not named and not sold. Adding the fifty-five above listed gives a total of five hundred and sixty-eight, or four more than the total given by Usher (page 427). The queries arise, what was the name given the one not sold, built by Captain Foster? Assuming the Usher totals correct, what the names of those four, and who the owners? From the names given we might infer that some were built for the East India trade. The half models of six are preserved in the Historical building. Osee Register, Vol. XXII, p. 76) and a photograph of the same lying at wharf. Besides these we have the framed photo of the Ellen Brooks, and a faded photo of the steamship Cambridge, of the above list. The last ship built in Medford was by Captain Foster in 1873, and Mr. Woolley's excellent water-color is also framed and hangs in the society's assembly hall, and the artist's story of the launching and brief history of the Pilgrim in Vol. XVI, p. 71, of the Register. Also in Vol. XXI, No. 1