Hotrodding in the Schooner Era

James and Marlene Richards The Sea in my Blood, Lancelot Press 1987

Picture sequence from The Sea in my Blood, the life story of a Nova Scotian sea captain Andy Publicover who sailed from 1889-1956, the twilight of the schooner era. The Lillian E. Kerr was a 425 ton, three-masted schooner built by E. James Tull in Pocomoke City, Maryland, in 1920. It was the last ship built at the Pocomoke shipyards.
 In 1937 Captain Publicover bought this schooner, and spent the next few months rerigging it as a 4 master. It was lost during WW2 in a collision with a ship in a convoy and was the last 4 mast schooner in Nova Scotia waters.