Lives Under Sail by A.M. Foley
memory was Thomas W. Lawson, the largest-ever schooner, passing Hoopers Island. Perhaps sighting the seven-masted Lawson helped lure the youngster to leave Honga River waters and pursue coastal freighting. To plan the Lawson, financier and yachtsman T. W. Lawson had commissioned B. B. Crowninshield, previously known for
Fifty years ago, Captain William T. Hooper of Hoopersville, Maryland, was working on his memoir. Captain Hooper had begun his offshore career at seventeen, coastal freighting as cook aboard the schooner Annie Hodges. At eightyfive years of age, he looked back on a lifetime “following the water,” with many sights and experiences to recall. One sight etched in his
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