Noank-built fishing/oystering sloop Lucy E. Smith and Watch Hill Yacht Club dory Luana

Metadata

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5310

Title

Noank-built fishing/oystering sloop Lucy E. Smith and Watch Hill Yacht Club dory Luana

Supplied	yes

Origin Information

Date Created	1882 to 1920 (year uncertain)

Parent Item

Mystic Seaport Museum

Connecticut History Illustrated

Resource Type

Still image

Digital Origin

reformatted digital

Description

Views of two sailboats. At top is a port view of the Noank-built sloop Lucy E. Smith on port tack. At bottom is a port aft view of the sailing dory Luana on port tack.

Genre

Subject

Lucy E. Smith (Sloop)

Geographic Subject

Noank (Conn.)

Extent

Source extent: 1 photograph : silver print ; 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.

Held By

Mystic Seaport Museum

Use and Reproduction

Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Photography Department, Mystic Seaport, Mystic.

Note

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Infrastructure

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Lifestyle

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Livelihood

Note	Title supplied by cataloger. Two photographs on single sheet, mounted on cardboard, 9 x 12 in. Lucy E. Smith was originally a fishing smack, built in Noank, 1882. She was later an oyster sloop. Luana is identified as "The 'Luana' Dory #3 Watch Hill Yacht Club, 21' l.o.a./ 'Swampscott, with centrboard [sic] and enough lead under floor boards/ to make her sink if she capsized.'".

Local Identifier

Accession number: 1992.12

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Noank-built fishing/oystering sloop Lucy E. Smith and Watch Hill Yacht Club dory Luana

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