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From: "David Kearney" <>
Subject: Re: [LDR] This Was Chesapeake Bay
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 14:30:50 -0400
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Kelly,

Yea! After striking out and not finding anything for the first two rooters to inquire, I did find a reference for you.

The A Victor Neal is mentioned on page 106 of the book, in Burgess's chapter on Bay schooners, "The Schooner of the Chesapeake." Apparently, A Victor Neal was one of the last commercial schooners to serve on the Bay, albeit converted to a "powerboat." Here is the indexed passage from the book:
"So the commercial schooner has disappeared from the Cheaspeake. The hulls of those converted to powerboats -- the Ida B. Conway, Sarah C. Conway, Ruth Conway, Betty I. Conway, Lula M. Phillips, Flora Kirwan, Gussie C., A. Victor Neal, John Martin, Mildred, Minnie May Kirwan, and W. J. Mathews -- still serve on the Bay. All are former two-masted schooners; some have been renamed; most have retained their original names."
It's not entirely clear to me when the above passage was written. The book was first released in 1963, but the articles in the book were written over a 17 year timespan leading up to the book's release. My guess is that the passage was written "close" to 1963; it appears the last date referenced in the article is 1958 (when the Anna and Helen, apparently the last working schooner on the Bay, was abandoned in Crisfield Harbor and sank.)

I did not find the Anderton name in the index, or any of the other ships' names. Salisbury, Maryland is referenced several times in the book, including (1) being mentioned as the home of a descendant of the "Parson of the Islands," Joshua Thomas, famous for his ministry on the lower Bay islands; (2) being one terminus of the Victor Lynn Line that ran from Baltimore and up the Wicomico to Salisbury, and back; and (3) being the final home of the last commercial sailing freighter on the Bay, the ram Jennie D. Bell, and it's captain, Clarence Heath, and his wife.

Best wishes!

Dave Kearney


----- Original Message -----
From: Kelly
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Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: [LDR] This Was Chesapeake Bay


Dear David,
Could you please look up the name Anderton? My grandfather was Capt Carl
Anderton and his father was Capt Elmer Anderton. They were on the bay from
the early 1900's until the 1990's. My grandfather owned Anderton Marine out
of Salisbury.
The names of the boats were :
Carbet
A Victor Neal
Pilimbo
General
Carolinian I
Carolinian II
Fort Pike
Night Hawk
Night Eagle
Night Owl
Marylander
Virginian
Delawarian
Sam M. Denny
City of South Part
Vermont
Thank you in advance,
Kelly Salyers



----- Original Message -----
From: David Kearney <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 8:20 PM
Subject: [LDR] This Was Chesapeake Bay


> LDRRooters,
>
> I'm reading through "This Was Chesapeake Bay," by Robert H. Burgess,
and it occurred to me that the book could be of some interest for LDR
rooters with more direct ties with the Bay. I might be able to do some
limited look-ups.
>
> Burgess was a Baltimore native and a long-time curator at The Mariners
Museum. He wrote many articles for newspapers in the Bay area, with a
particular emphasis on sailing ships and steamships of the 1800s and first
half of the 1900s. In fact, the book is largely a compendium of articles
that Mr. Burgess wrote over the years, along with quite a few old
photographs (many of them taken by the author himself). Obviously, the
western edge of the Delmarva is included within the scope of his work.
>
> The book's original release was in 1963, and I'm working off of the
1990 printing.
>
> The book provides a look at many of the better known ships of the Bay
in days gone by, along with many of their stopping places, and mentions at
about 300-400 individuals involved with the Bay in different roles over the
relevant time period.
>
> If you think you might have an ancestor who was involved in some way
with the Bay, particularly in some fashion with one of the better known
ships on the Bay, I would be happy to look for you to see if they show up in
the book's index, and, if so, then we can go from there!
>
> If you would rather get your own copy of the book to read about the
heyday of ships on the Bay, I bet Neil maybe can find copies for you!
>
> Dave Kearney
>
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