Description: Tusitala Collection from the Last U.S. Commercial Square Rigger 1938. Contact for shipping costs to ensure proper handling of these rare items. Despite Riesenberg’s experience, the“Three Hours for Lunch Club” quickly ran short of funds and the Tusitala was sold to james Farrel, the president of US Steel and the founder of Isthmian Steamship Company. Under Captain Barker the grand old ship made several foreign voyages inservice from New York to Hawaii via the Panama Canal. In 1938 She was towed from New York to Providence, where she was refitted as a training ship for the United States Maritime Services Training Center at Bayboro Harbor in St. Petersburg, Florida. My father, Robert Barrows Lynch, just 16 at the time, and already in love with the sea, lived only a few miles away along Narragansett Bay. When the newspaper announced the ship had tied up in Providence, it was just a short bicycle ride to the ship, where he negotiated to buy some memorabilia. During WWII, TUSITALA was laid-up in a New York City Shipyard because of the danger from U-Boats lurking off the coast. The Captain of the Square Rigger was retained as a ship keeper while the vessel was laid-up. During this time, my father served as an officer in the US Navy fighting in the Pacific. When he returned from war, one of his passions -- artwork -- was translated into turning one of his 1938 photos into a pen and ink drawing of the Tusitala in 1946. The ship was finally scrapped in Mobile, Alabama in 1947.Included in the collection are 14 photographs of the ship taken in 1938, Mate's Cap, Copy of etching. Sisal rope on Life Preserver is original and unfrayed.. Life Preserver's name "Tusitala" "New York" was retouched many years ago.
Price: 1750 USD
Location: Naples, Florida
End Time: 2024-08-16T00:07:38.000Z
Shipping Cost: 100 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Country/Region of Origin: United States
Primary Material: Rare Artifacts
Time Period, War: 1938
