Wiscasset Sailing Vessels

Wiscasset Sailing Vessels. Wiscasset, Maine. , Boat and shipbuilding in Wiscasset boomed between the end of the American Revolution and the 1807 Embargo, and then again from the late 1830s until 1861. By 1865, Wiscasset was too small for the larger cargo ships, so boat building continued with a focus on yachts and smaller boats., The Bark Casilda , The bark Casilda was built in Wiscasset in 1837, with Edward H. Hall of Dresden, Master. She sailed to Liverpool and the West Indies carrying lumber, fish, sugar and molasses., The Bark Tamerlane , The Tamerlane was the second boat of that name built by John Johnston and Sons at their Wiscasset yard. Built in 1854 to carry cotton, at 924 tons, she was more than twice the size of the first and became a U.S. Government ship during the Civil War., When and If , The Pendletons, Henry and sons Fred and Emory, moved to Wiscasset from Camden in 1900 and established a boatyard on Hobson's Island. Fred had trained at the Herreschoff yard in Rhode Island. The Pendletons built beautiful luxury yachts, the most famous of which was General George S. Patton's last yacht, When and If, a 63'5" John Alden designed schooner built in 1939. She was so-named by Patton because he looked forward to sailing her when world war two was over and if he survived. He did survive the war, but died in a jeep accident in Europe in December 1945. The boat remained in his family for many years and still sails in 2013.