Cased Model of the Schooner Victory Chimes, built by Erik A.R. Ronnberg, Jr., Massachusetts, 1999, vessel identified on pennant and brushed nickel plaque, overall ht. 22 3/4, lg. 35 1/2, dp. 10 1/4 in., in a glazed brass-bound case with mahogany base. Note: The Victory Chimes is a three-masted, gaff-rigged Chesapeake Ram schooner. She was launched in April of 1900 from the Bethel, Delaware, yard of George K. Phillips Co. as the Edwin And Maud, which was named for the two children of her first captain, Robert Riggin. Originally designed for and used as a general purpose cargo hauler, she was converted to a passenger cruise vessel in 1946. She is the only surviving example of the "Chesapeake Ram" type, and one of only three surviving examples of a three-masted schooner in the United States. She is now home-ported in Rockland, Maine.
Cased Model of the Schooner Victory Chimes, built by Erik A.R. Ronnberg, Jr., Massachusetts, 1999, vessel identified on pennant and brushed nickel plaque, overall ht. 22 3/4, lg. 35 1/2, dp. 10 1/4 in., in a glazed brass-bound case with mahogany base. Note: The Victory Chimes is a three-masted, gaff-rigged Chesapeake Ram schooner. She was launched in April of 1900 from the Bethel, Delaware, yard of George K. Phillips Co. as the Edwin And Maud, which was named for the two children of her first captain, Robert Riggin. Originally designed for and used as a general purpose cargo hauler, she was converted to a passenger cruise vessel in 1946. She is the only surviving example of the "Chesapeake Ram" type, and one of only three surviving examples of a three-masted schooner in the United States. She is now home-ported in Rockland, Maine.
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