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Schooner yacht Alice being salvaged after the 1938 hurricane, Mystic.


Title main	Schooner yacht Alice being salvaged after the 1938 hurricane, Mystic.
Subject	Mystic (Conn.)
Subject	Schooners Yachts Boats and boating Dwellings Hurricanes
Subject	Hurricane, 1938
Subject	Rowboats
Subject	Alice (schooner) Franklin G. Post & Son Boatyard (Mystic, Conn.)
Category	Environment Infrastructure
Description	Two men are involved in a salvage operation on the Franklin G. Post schooner yacht Alice following the Hurricane of 1938. They stand in a rowboat to the right of the overturned vessel.
Description notes	Title supplied by cataloger. Franklin G. Post was a boatbuilder who had shops at two locations in Mystic. From 1914-1923 his business was located in Fort Rachel, south of the site of the old D.O. Richmond yard on the Groton side of the river. From 1923-1959 the shop occupied the site of the former Pendleton Brothers yard on the Stonington side. When his son Ernest joined the business it became Franklin Post & Son.
Date created	1938.
Format extent	1 photograph : silver print ; 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.
Format medium	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number: 1987.58.2048 File name: IMG0037-3226.PCD
Source	Mystic Seaport.
Relation isPartOf	Post Collection.
Rights	Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image are available from Mystic Seaport.
SeqNum	1608
ObjCol	Photographs

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