The Rotting Remains of the Schooner "Cora F. Cressy"
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Though there isn't much left of her, the Cora F. Cressy's remains are of the largest wooden schooner still in existence. This 120 year old vessel is acting as a breakwater in Maine, rotting away and settling into the silt. Let's take a quick tour of her site and look back on her history while there's still something left to see of her.
Special thanks to the Maine Maritime Museum for all their ongoing hard work to keep the story of these ships alive.
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Seeing this vessel this way is truly heartbreaking.
I've just got a beautiful wooden hulled fishing boat about 50 or so feet long and renamed her the explorer in honour of your UA-cam channel .
Thank you Tom Lynskey and the rest of the part-time explorer team for this fantastic video.
That’s incredible, my friend! I’m honored. I’d love to see pictures of it
@@PartTimeExplorer just doing some finishing touches to it stripped off the Paint on her Hull for a repaint including the paint below the waterline which has seen better days the plan is to repaint her Hull above and below the waterline parts then see if she's ready to start sailing but sadly with COVID and everything else going on at the minute family reasons sadly I can't say when she'll be ready for that hopefully by the early summer but where being cautious at the moment doing it day by day just incase we get put into lockdown in the UK again.
@@connorredshaw7994 Good luck with the maintenance - a wooden boat is always more work than it sounds. I'd love to see some pictures someday. If you can, send them to tlynskey@historicalfx.com
@@PartTimeExplorer thank you for kind words
I used to live on a pacemaker 60 from the mid 60s, and she was a wood hull that had been glassed over- with the exception of her transom for some reason. looked good, but I didn't have the strength to keep her beautiful after all I did to her. she was wired like a house when I got her. I had to fix that.
About 30 years ago the Cressy was intact enough to explore inside. Her stern had fallen off by that time. I pulled a couple iron spikes out of her clamp and shelf. She stuck around long enough to serve as a great resource for understanding the construction of her type. Thanks for the great video!
I'd have loved to have been able to explore her back then
If you ever make it up to the Maine coast again, please reach out. I worked in the Maine Windjammer Fleet and currently work as a carpenter at a wooden boatbuilding yard. I’d be more than willing to give you a grand tour of the local maritime history as a thanks to your great content.
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Schooners are my favorite ships. They're so graceful and beautiful. Cora was a very beautiful schooner. Love your channel!
Alot of old wooden barges (scows) were used as water breaks near me, most are over 100 years old. At low tide you can walk on them from the land and find all sorts of decaying junk from the past. The barges were full of trash when they were deliberately sunk so alot of the old trash is actually pretty interesting.
that's amazing, where do they have that?
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The visuals of the remains along with the choice of music truly is beautiful, thank you Tom and Emma
Thank you. Reminds me of the wrecks of the Hesper and the Luther Little. I watched them for years as they slowly deteriorated and collapsed into the mud. The age of the schooners was very important in our history and it is good to see that these great and beautiful ships, the eighteen wheelers of their day, are not forgotten.
Tom Lynskey never stops to impress us.
Oh I knew I recognized her name! I learned about her at the Maine Maritime Museum last October. I really enjoyed Bath, especially the Patton Free Library. It's a lovely space with lots for history buffs to see. I recommend it heartily and also the nearby Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. That area made quite the impression. ❤
Tom, if you ever find yourself in the Pacific NW, you might want to cover the Peter Iredale wreck. It was a steel-hulled four-masted barque that ran aground on the beach near Astoria, OR in 1906. A good section of the bow is still there as well as the lower portions of her masts. It’s easily accessible too.
Oddly enough, this ship made me think of a boat that was wrecked about six years ago in the grounds of the college I used to attend (the place backs out onto the local creek, where there are hulks scattered along the shore) - she came loose from her moorings at the nearby boat yard and ran aground on the beach, or at least that was the official story; in another telling, the owner owed money to said yard and the boat - in a tragically convenient twist of fate - 'came loose' in a storm. Either way, she lies there today, disappearing rapidly with the tide. Her name was Astoria.
@@danielkarmy4893 where is the Astoria wrecked?
The Peter Iredale is a wreck I’ve been wanted to get to, but that’s quite a distance for me. I may try to this coming summer. Thank you for reminding me. If you see a video from me on her, know that it was on your suggestion!
@@PartTimeExplorer It's in Forton Lake, Gosport, Hampshire, England, within the grounds of St Vincent College - I feel I should explain a bit more because it's an interesting place! I've studied the vessels that ended up there for a fair few years now, as they captivated my heart when I moved to a street that led directly to the creek as a kid, and although most aren't all that significant in their own right, there are a number of landing craft, a World War Two minesweeper, and others that would have played their part in that particular effort. Walking the shores there felt almost like paying respect, especially living in a naval town just across the harbour from Portsmouth and not far from Southampton; it's just that these days, it feels like an homage to my childhood too. It's literally a graveyard of boats and ships - there was a local man who owned a boatyard there for many years, but he died in the early '80s, and his son apparently showed no interest in clearing the vessels that he left behind. The Astoria is a wreck I think of now and then - alongside the Allendale Rose, or NP 26, which also found its last resting place at the lake and was once an absolutely beautiful boat - as I say, Astoria has only been laid there for six or seven years, but the deterioration in that time is far worse than I've witnessed in the other wrecks. She looks a lot like the Cora F. Cressy, just about half the size.
I gave this a thumbs up before watching it knowing that I have yet to be dissapointed of any video you make.
Hello from maine, glad to see someone cover our ship building history!
Thanks for sharing! Hadn't known about her. When I was a kid, there were still two rotting, but clear ship-form schooners, esp one of them, below the big bridge across from NH to Maine, I think the I-95 one. My family drove over the bridge on our way to camp in Camden, ME. I loved watching the old schooner (s). Sadly, they rotted too much before anyone with money thought to try to preserve them. I read an effort last minute shored up one enough to last as a picturesque hulk a few more years. They were relics as long as they could, then broke apart and disappeared.
I believe you're thinking of the Hesper and the Luther Little, who were at Wiscasset, on the Sheepscot, not the Piscataqua, on the border.
Time is a interesting proposition.
You tell A great story and many of us have no real conception of the loss of these ship's and the personal stories you convey quite eloquently.
Hat's off to you friend.
I researched this a little further and found photos of it in the 80s. Now I remember seeing this ship as a kid on vacation to Boothsbay around 1982. Exactly the kind of thing our parents always dragged us around to see.
Thanks for brining back a memory I had completely forgotten.
the cora f cressy was a very beautiful ship and seeing the ship in this state is truly heartbreaking.
i will never forget the cora f cressy.
Lived in Maine my entire life and never heard about this. Keep up the good work.
To whoever is reading this: If you live in, or anywhere near Bath, please go visit the Maine Maritime Museum. It's crazy to see all of those artifacts, models, and technology that was put to use in Percy & Small's Schooners in the flesh.
I was there when I made this video, and I went there for a second time only last week. A wonderful museum that I highly recommend!
a bitter sight to be sure.
great content as usual. 👍
As I kid we traveled often up through Wiscassett. I was always thrilled to see the remains of the sailing ships in the harbor. Its been years since I went that far down the coast on US 1 but I think they are gone. I will definitely go find the Cressy. Thanks.
Thanks for another nice video. I drive by Bremen regularly, but haven't stopped to see the wreck.
Never knew about this growing up, and having traveled to sail on the Isaac H. Evans out of rockland for 14 years straight. I wish I’d known, it’s along the way!
I discovered this channel only today. The videos are beautifully done, the music is perfect. God bless you, Part-Time Explorer, and your crew. I'm so grateful you popped up in my feed!
2:14 ... but the lobsters didn't like her! Well I like her and I thank you for introducing us to her.
Very cool video.
It is great to see you active.
We've got some cool stuff to explore up here in Northern New York.
Your videos are so well put together, never stop you are so unbelievably talented and a great story teller.
Thanks as always Mr. Tom for a great video on what must’ve been a very impressive vessel in her prime! I look forward to your uploads every weekend brother! You have one of the most underrated ship channels on the platform and I feel line you’re going to explode in the future. The worst part is now I gotta wait a week for the next one lol!
Leaving UA-cam due to their restrictions.. Have already transferred most of my subscriptions... Only have six more to transfer, yours is one of them... Will miss the documentaries of yours... Couldn't find you on Rumble...
I'm watching great Channels that had to leave y.t. as well such as ScottyMar10, TheeFallen1, Dark Knight, X22Report and wish other Channels would also go to Rumble.
Well, she didn´t deserve that fate, but at least, some of her parts have been rescued.
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Great video I did some work for Audubon on Hog Island which is close to her. Bowsprit is in Maine Maritime Museum in Bath. So is name plate.
Really nice work! I just discovered your channel and am enjoying it immensely. I saw what was left of the Cora F. Cressy about 30 years ago, but haven't been back, though it's not far away. It's in the "population place" of Medomak, within the town of Breman. (Pronounced BREE-man.) Please keep on with these fascinating videos!
Nice to see a ship history that didn’t end in deaths.
You’ve never had a bad upload, Tom! Great production 👍
Thanks for this, never heard of this beautiful ship, what a wonderful sight she must have made in her heyday, so sad that she could not have been preserved but thankfully the Maritime Museum has some memories of her still.
Ships like that may once have been common, but as with everything, schooner or later it all must come to an end.
WOW
Very beautifully presented ! 👍
If that big mess is considered a surviving hull, I'd love to see what the people in those parts consider a wreck!
Love the location, pity about the demise of such a beautiful vessel, music is well chosen to.
Great video! Would love if you did a series about histories of towns in massachussetts and maine and tell about the history of them. Really interesting with all the maritime history there!
Another good one Tom.
Sad to see this ship this way. I hope one day it can be rebuilt as a model and use this as a piece to build a new one
This was fun to rewatch after the Wyoming video you just released. Both fabulous tributes to these two forgotten beauties.
Those silly lobsters, so ungrateful. The line "but they didn't like her" makes me chuckle but to be fair, they're probably pretty skeptical up there about anything offered to them by humans at this point.
You produce FABULOUS videos.
Thank you!
That was VERY interesting, seems those hull spikes would make a very desirable souvenir, not to mention a 2 or 3 inch slice of timber.
Great work Sir thank you
Solid content, always glad to see a video from you pop up in my feed - although I would have one very minor nitpick, I found the background music (while fitting) a bit too distracting from the narration although I can't say for sure if it was the style or volume in this case - maybe lower the volume just a tad in the next one - in any case, great work and thanks! :)
There seems to be some errors in the audio mixing. In most systems, including the one I edited this on, the music is barely audible. Then on some, I’m told it’s too loud. I’m still working on fixing this in future problems. It’s something called phase cancellation.
@@PartTimeExplorer I love the music but a little lower would be nice. They compete for my attention when the music is as loud as the narration. Ta
What a beautiful elegant looking ship she was in her heyday, a perfect combination of function and good design, and alas that seems to be an afterthought today when you look at some of these ugly monsterous cruise ships roaming the ocean.
Agreed. The ugly bad-wedding cake look of modern cruise ships comes largely from the fact every passenger wants windows for their cabin. --And that with stabilizers it's possible now to build such cake ships w/o capsizing. No below decks, 1 porthole per cabin berths on liners like my parents travelled on to and from Europe in the 50's before I was born; to be teachers in the Neth. and Denmark.
The most beautiful ships ever
Didn't know she was related to the Wyoming, but then again, I haven't been studying sailing ships for a long time now. Shame to see her in the state she's in today, but props to the Maine Maritime Museum for saving what they could (I actually almost ended up going to Maine Maritime Academy this past Fall Semester). It'd be really nice if by some miracle she could be restored. Always tragic to see a once great ship - or any boat or ship for that matter - end up like this.
Can we perhaps get a video for the Thomas W. Lawson, SS Great Eastern, or the Preußen?
Great drone photography. I have been meaning to go up and see her since the 1980s, but never quite made it. Sadly, no just a jumble of wood. Great video!
You have a dream-job....one me and I'm sure alot of your viewers wish we had! Keep up the great endeavors!!
To me it seems wise to build and sail them again.
Wow what a superb video...awesome
How did they drive the pilings for docks back in the day?
Looking at the Boston picture, it seems to have been tied up at Long Wharf or Commercial Wharf.
You can still preserve her. Just attach new parts to the nameboard.
And it would be too expensive today but a very nice adventure, however, to rebuild it identically, in France they rebuilt the 12-class Concorde 26-gun frigate, Hermione ...
So just do it =) !
This would make a fabulous sailing school ship for civilians.
But even more, at the time of anti-pollution techniques, Clippers are a non-negligible option, they have a huge payload despite their seemingly small sizes, if they no longer cross the oceans, although it is always feasible; they would still be useful in cabotage; the wind is free, unlike heavy fuel oil.
In some archipelagos on the planet, they are still Shooners and Cutters all wood or steel hull with Auric wings, which ensure the transport of goods, vehicles included, mails, animals and people, without these certain islands would become inhospitable or at least almost unlivable without them. this external contribution and this human connection.
Interesting, I used to deliver bait to that wharf, always wondered about it.
There actually is a fishing boat that wrecked during a storm on a rocky area near where my grandparents live. During low tide I would see the rusted mast sticking out of the water. Haven’t been in a while so not sure of it’s state.
Edit: turns out it was salvaged years ago, based on what my grandpa told me.
If it’s still there you go scuba diving there(if family still lives there)
@@brianstabile165 I’m gonna go check out the wreck in a few days.
@@rmsteutonic3686 cool
wow when i first saw this i didn't know what it was until you stated it was a wreck but i'd like to say i love your videos
A ship that always made it home .
What a rotten, sad end for a fine old lady.
Love your work Tom ! Do you have anything on the Hesper and Luther Little in Wiscasset, Maine ?
I didn’t hear about those two ships until the day after I returned from this filming trip in Maine, and I stayed not too far from them in Bath! I may have to get back up there.
He may not but I have an unknown picture of them from the 70 s
My step dad long dead serve on one as a young man
@@-randychasechase2660 I would love to see the photo. If I do return there to make a video, I'd love to use any photos possible to tell its story when it was still in service. Would you be willing to send it to me at tlynskey@historicalfx.com?
These type of vids mke sittin thro the crap worth it love it thx .
Nice vignette 🖒🤠
What a sad ending for such a fine lady.
Excellent video! Does anyone know the name of the music played in the background?
why tf do you make such good videos
Would like to have a brand new huge wooden built sale ship like they had years ago. Wonder how many would take a cruise on her.
Tom, may I suggest a Great Lakes series? As many passenger steamships and schooners once sailed the lakes.. for a interesting story I may suggest the one of the Alvin Clark, a schooner that sunk in the 1860s and was raised in the 1960s but left to rot.
I’m thinking of doing a Great Lakes series soon, but never heard of the Alvin Clark. Do you know where she’s rotting, if she’s still around? Thanks for the suggestion!
@@PartTimeExplorer she’s not still around. In the 90s her remaining Timbers were hauled away to a local dump. But as a museum she was known as “mystery ship Alvin Clark” when raised in the 1960s she was perfectly preserved and was a very nice example of a oak small sailing ship. But lack of preservation efforts caused her to rot and sometime in the 70s or 80s she was moved to onshore. Which did little to help stop the rot.
And she was located as a museum in Menominee, Michigan.
...but the lobsters didn’t like her. Tom, I so appreciate your wit. Also, how were they able to get the alcohol onto her before sailing out into the Prohibition Party Zone?
Imagine if she was rebuilt, with some original timbers and the original fittings that were saved. I'd imagine the cost would be too high to ever justify such a project.
Tom, some time ago you had a video where you interviewed Father Roberto Pirrone on board the Queen Mary. You and he walked around his magnificent ship models and had a very interesting discussion. I was fascinated. Do you still have access to this video? I would love to view it again but can't seem to find it. Thanks
Yes! And I’ll be re-releasing that in a couple months
My re-release will also contain several images of his newest unfinished model
@@PartTimeExplorer That is some great news. Glad to hear it. Thanks!
shes still beautiful.
Amazing! Im in rhode island!
Great video .. correct pronunciation is Bree-man , Maine 😊👍
Beautiful ❤😊
Kinda sad that all proud ships come to a sad end. But this is just true with all things in the world.
I would like to see a confederate ship evolution video from the steamships and ironclads and the Hunley.
Real interesting! Thanks! Booze Cruise, thats a good one! 🤣😅
Thanks!
Thank you so much!
The Legend of Cora (F. Cressy)
Sweet ✨
i dont know the name but their was a restored sailing ship in the UK and a few years ago it got caught a storm and sunk, whatever hapened to it
At least part of her is in a MarItime Museum.
What about the ghost fleet in philadelphia?
I have a very hard time calling this surviving when this is more of a gravesite.
What is the piano piece in the background?
Any relationship to the schooner Dustin Cressey sunk in the mud off Hackensack, NJ?
I’m honestly not sure- I’ll look into it
I looked into it, and yes, they were both built by Percy and Small and were fleetmates. Where in Hackensack is the Dustin? I'd love to see her
Are you planning on doing something about the Wyoming in the future?
Yesser - it's already queued for publication this coming Saturday.
Sounds good
I saw her back in the 90s before she collapsed
The economics and technology of her times dictated both her size and why there are almost no large wooden sailing ships in our maritime museums, on either coast. Steamships were what could provide fast, more direct passenger services, but fueling them and providing a crew fro them was expensive, but the "fuel" that multi-masted schooners used was as cheap as air. So coaling stations were serviced with these largest of wooden ships run with the least size of crew possible for a sailing vessel. I note that most full ship rigged museum ships are of iron or steel construction since the maintenance of wooden ships, the larger the more difficult, is too expensive on museum budgets in many cases.
The technological improvements developed for the by now larger steel built steamships aided the lumber industry with "donkey steam engines" that soon found their way aboard the lumber schooners and occasional barkentines, that also got into the coaling stations resupply business. Such large ships could not have been built without the steel reinforcing rods and various bracing methods. Large wooden blimp hangers also needed this form of construction to be made with wood.
I wrote a small pamphlet sized book about one such sailing ship of that era whose crew managed to rescue it from a grounding on an uncharted reef north of Australia in early 1907. There may be a copy at that maritime museum as I donated copies to such museums on both coasts back when I completed it. The donkey engine used on that one made the recovery of that ship possible with the meager crew she had. Steam powered bilge pumping, for example, made it possible to reach Cocos Keeling Island and then on to Penang, and then Singapore where the damages from the grounding led to her sale for Southeast Asia use only were finally revealed in drydock.
Thanks for another perspective on that transitional era of sea commerce. We may yet be headed towards another era of large hybrid sailing vessels with transformer like automation making them economic to crew.
It would be great if there were more sailing ships preserved. It would be awesome to see the USS Constitution and HMS Victory, perhaps the two best preserved warships of their era, sailing together, but the ships are separated by an ocean.
A Captain of the Wyoming went to a Virginia jail to try and get another hand. The man asked what ship?
"Wyoming."
" Hell. Captain, I'd rather stay in jail. "
"But the lobsters didn't like her" Oof. Harsh.
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It's Bremen Maine
rip
How could they let it rot?? How disappointing
"the lobsters didn't like her so she was sank."
what mafia connections do these lobsters have?
when I look it up the spelling is "Cressey
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There’s two different spellings online, but the original name board at 3:21 spells it Cressy, so I went with that.