The Marine room of the Peabody Museum of Salem . 1901 and the Esperanto of 1920; thewhaling brig Viola, built by Tarr & James in 1910, a most successfulvessel with great luck in gathering ambergris, but which disappearedand has never been heard from since leaving port in 1918. The largestvessel built at Essex was the steamer Vidette of 819 tons, from theyard of John James & Co. in 1880. In a single year, Andrew Storybuilt thirteen vessels; Adam Boyd built in all 200 vessels the largestnumber recorded by one builder; sixty vessels were built at Essex inthe year 1852. The Essex builders represen
The Marine room of the Peabody Museum of Salem . 1901 and the Esperanto of 1920; thewhaling brig Viola, built by Tarr & James in 1910, a most successfulvessel with great luck in gathering ambergris, but which disappearedand has never been heard from since leaving port in 1918. The largestvessel built at Essex was the steamer Vidette of 819 tons, from theyard of John James & Co. in 1880. In a single year, Andrew Storybuilt thirteen vessels; Adam Boyd built in all 200 vessels the largestnumber recorded by one builder; sixty vessels were built at Essex inthe year 1852. The Essex builders represented in the museum collec-tion are, — J. Horace Burnham, Jeremiah Burnham, David andWillard R. Burnham, Oliver Burnham, J. G. James (Tarr & James),Arthur D. Story, Albert Story, Horatio N. Andrews and Archer , designer. On The Merrimac Many of the older Salem ships were built at Newbury, New-buryport, Amesbury and Haverhill. A full account of ship-buildingon the Merrimac will be found in John J. Curriers valuable paper 142. published in 1877. The Alliance of 1778 in which Gen. Lafayette wastaken to France was built at Salisbury Point; this vessel mountedthirty-two guns and was a favorite in the new American Navy. In1798 the U. S. S. Merrimac, commanded by Capt. Moses Brown, wasbuilt at Newburyport. The largest vessels from Essex County yardshave all been built at Newburyport; the Atlantic packet-ship Dread-nought was built there by Currier & Townsend in 1853. [SeeBradlee in E. I. Hist. Coll., vol. LVI, p. 1.] The largest merchantsailing ship built there was the Daniel I. Tenney of 1687 tons in 1875;the steamships Ontario, in 1866, and the Erie in 1867, each of 3,000tons, were built at Newburyport by George W. Jackson, Jr. Gloucester At Gloucester many vessels have been built for Gloucester firmsand to go elsewhere. Here, in 1713, Captain Andrew Robinson gavea new name to our marine vocabulary and a new rig to the commerceof the world. He evolved the schooner from the l
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