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Title	Schooners Charles Whittemore, Clara Davis and Tifton under construction, Mystic.
Place	Pistol Point (Mystic, Conn.) Mystic (Conn.)
Topic	Schooners Sailing ships Ships Shipbuilding
Topic-Organization, Vessel	Charles Whittemore (Schooner) Clara Davis (Schooner) Tifton (Schooner) M. B. McDonald & Sons
Genre	Photographs
Theme	Infrastructure Livelihood
Description	View of three four-masted schooners, the Charles Whittemore, Clara Davis and Tifton under construction at the M.B. McDonald yard, Pistol Point, Mystic, after the business went bankrupt.""Sch Clara Davis" is handwritten at bottom left, and just above, "JUL 15 1905" is rubber-stamped.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. Hand printed above photograph across the top of what appears to be a mount: "__. WHITTEMORE" "CLARA DAVIS" and "TIFTON", and below the photograph: "__ schooners under construction at the M.B. __ yard after the establishment had gone into __cy. The vessels had been adjudged to be the __y of the owners for whome they were being built__of the yard and they were finished under the__" Shipbuilder Michael B. McDonald had worked in Madison, New London and Noank before launching M. B. McDonald & Sons on Pistol Point in Mystic, which he operated from 1903 to 1905. The firm built ten coasting schooners and a barge in this time period before going into bankruptcy in 1905. The schooners were completed in 1905 under the supervision of W. J. (William J.) Baker. The Charles Whittemore was a Navy submarine decoy ship in World War I; she was eventually abandoned at sea (1927) by later owners. Clara Davis was interned in Italy during World War I, had a series of European owners, and was broken up in 1938. The Tifton was named for the Georgia town, founded by Connecticut native Henry Harding Tift, that provided much of the timber for McDonald's. She had a series of owners and foundered in January 1926 off Hillsboro Light, Florida.
Date created	[ca. 1905]
Physical format	1 photograph : gelatin print ; 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number: 1943.182.3 File name: IMG0017-4773.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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