The pride of Gloucester sailing to victory in the International Fishermen's Race off Halifax, October, 1920. She struck a submerged wreck and sank, undefeated, off Sable Island on May 3rd, 1921. U.S.N. Deck Paint was her work-a-day dress, her victory cloark and her funeral shroud.

Schooner Esperanto

(from an early hand-tinted postcard)

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