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Title	Ship Frolic at Mallory Wharf in Mystic.
Place	Mystic (Conn.) Mystic River (Conn.)
Topic	Clipper ships Sailing ships Ships Gunboats
Topic-Organization, Vessel	Frolic (Ship) George Greenman & Company Charles Mallory & Sons Hill & Grinnell
Theme	Infrastructure Livelihood
Description	Port stern view of the ship Frolic lying at Mallory Wharf, Mystic. Fourteen small gunboat hulls are moored in front of the Frolic. Visible in the background on the Groton side of the river are Central Hall to the left of Frolic, and to the right, houses along Gravel Street.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. Frolic was built for John A. McGaw of New York by George Greenman & Company and launched on July 5, 1869, the last square-rigged vessel built by the Greenman firm. She was advertised as a "Mystic built extreme clipper" designed for the California trade. In 1880 she was sold to German owners for $31,200 and renamed Elise. She was broken up at Genoa, Italy in 1907. The gunboat hulls were built by Charles Mallory & Sons and, under subcontract, the Greenmans and Hill & Grinnell. They were ordered by the government of Spain, but strained political relations caused the United States government to station a revenue cutter off Noank to prevent delivery. Within the year the sale was completed. George Greenman and Company was a family firm owned by three ot the Greenman Brothers, George, Clark and Thomas. They built 97 vessels between 1837 and 1878. The shipyard was located at Adams Point in the Greenmanville section of Mystic, a site that is now part of Mystic Seaport. The Charles Mallory & Sons shipyard was located on the east (Stonington) bank of the Mystic River, approximately on the site of the present duPont Preservation Shipyard at Mystic Seaport. It produced a number of sail and steam vessels from 1851 to 1875, with the Civil War period the most active. Hill & Grinnell, a partnership of Mason Crary Hill and Amos Grinnell, was in business from 1860-1874. The firm's Pistol Point shipbuilding yard was active from 1864-1874. The George Moon was the last Hill & Grinnell vessel.
Date created	1869.
Physical format	1 photograph : gelatin print ; 7 1/8 x 9 3/16 in.
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number: 1938.531 File name: IMG0007-4199.PCD
Source	Mystic Seaport
Rights	Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image are available from Mystic Seaport.
Sub-collection	Photographs

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