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Their task was to build a 45-foot-long top-sail schooner, a smaller and more manoeuvrable ship to navigate bays and waterways the Union couldn't in their pursuit of seals. With the prepared wood ...
The 1991 MPBN-TV documentary "The Two Lives of the Schooner Bowdoin" is now available to watch on YouTube (30 minutes). Virginia Thorndike has written a detailed biography of the Bowdoin entitled The ...