The sailboat Thomas W. Lawson was a seven-masted schooner with a steel hull. Built in 1902 by the Fore River Ship & Engine Building Company of Quincy, near Boston, this sailboat was the largest steel schooner built and the only one with 7 masts. It was to be used for trade in the Pacific but was mainly used for the transport of coal and oil along the east coast of the United States. He was named after the Boston billionaire, stockbroker, book author and president of the Boston Bay State Gas Company. It was the largest schooner and the largest motorless sailboat ever built.
It was destroyed off the uninhabited island of Annet, in the Scilly Islands, during a storm on 14 December 1907. All the crew members were killed, as well as the captain of the rescue boat who came to their aid. Survived the captain and the engineer. The spill of its cargo - 58,000 barrels of oil - probably caused the first major oil spill.
Part I: From its construction to its coal transport activity
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