ACTIVITY: Sea disaster CASE: GSAF 1898.00.00.g DATE: 1898 LOCATION: Pacific Ocean off Hawaii VESSEL: Nomad (schooner) NARRATIVE: “A tragic loss occurred offshore, probably some time in 1898, the evidence in the form of wreckage drifting ashore early in 1899. The fine four-masted schooner Nomad, one of the beautiful craft built by Hall Bros. Shipyard at Port Blakeley, departed Tacoma for Shanghai on her maiden voyage on September 18, 1897, lumber-laden and commanded by Captain J. W. McAllep, who was accompanied by his daughter Helen. His sons, Weston and George, were signed on as ship's carpenter and able seaman respectively. She delivered her cargo safely in the Orient and left Shanghai December 7, 1897, but on the return voyage was apparently abandoned at sea and all hands lost. On February 1, 1899 the derelict drifted ashore at Kohala Beach on the coast of Hawaii, but the only trace ever found of her crew was part of a man's body found in the wreckage, apparently partly eaten by sharks and unidentifiable.” SOURCES: Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1899, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, page 51, et al.

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The only known image of the Nomad

San Francisco Call Thursday February 9,1899

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The five-masted schooner George E. Billings on drydock at the Hall Brothers Shipyard, Port Blakely, Washington, 1903.

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