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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 16., Medford Memorials. (search)
yhood home and haunts, Mr. Fred. H. C. Woolley has reproduced the scene which closed the great industry of former days. We are by his courtesy allowed to reproduce in this issue a copy of his water-color, which he exhibited to an interested company in the Historical Society's rooms on Saturday evening, May 3, 1913. Mr. Woolley described the launching (unsuccessful on the day set, but carried out on the next), and gave a brief 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, bu