Alice E. Clark
Four-Masted Schooner · United States · Lost 1909 · Penobscot Bay & Midcoast Maine
A big Bath-built coal schooner that struck a ledge off Islesboro in 1909 and now lies broken on the bottom of Penobscot Bay.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Alice E. Clark was a four-masted wooden schooner built in 1898 by the noted Bath shipyard of Percy & Small for the coal trade. On July 1, 1909, she struck a ledge off Islesboro Island in Penobscot Bay and was lost. Her wreck lies broken up in roughly 60 feet of water and is occasionally visited by divers familiar with the bay's fleet of coal-schooner wrecks.
Vessel
- 1898
- Percy & Small
- Bath, Maine
- Wood
- 227 ft
- 43 ft
- 1621
- Sail
- J.S. Winslow & Company, Portland, Maine
Loss
- July 1, 1909
- Grounding
- Islesboro Ledge, Penobscot Bay, Maine
- Penobscot Bay
- Not established
- Coal
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- Not established
The Wreck Today
- 60 ft
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Position
- Not established
- Position not established
- Islesboro, Maine
Evidence
Overall confidence: Partially documented (70/100)
Casualty details and the exact circumstances of the grounding are not established in the sources reviewed.
Hunting New England Shipwrecks (wreckhunter.net)
Build data, ownership, loss date, location, and depth, citing a 1909 New York Times report.
