The Wreck of the Schooner "WYOMING", the Largest Wooden Ship in History

While searching for phones online one day, my mind wandered to the Wyoming, because much like the phone I was hoping to buy, it was a technological dinosaur.
The Wyoming | And Other Technological Dinosaurs | Justin Shatwell | February 25, 2015

Quite a magnificent beast of a ship.

A six masted schooner? WOW!

The great trading vessels of Roman times are known to have brought 100s of tons of cargo from India to Egypt. The manifest for one arrival by one ship (compiled by the tax man, probably) shows the largest single part of the cargo was over 600 tons of pepper. Achoo! This schooner Wyoming was totin' about 5000 tons of coal on its final voyage. For one more contrast, according to Gordon Lightfoot's song, the Edmund Fitzgerald was hauling 26,000 tons ('...more than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty') when it sank.

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And the captain insisted on being addressed as ‘master’.

Wooden giant of sea is found [near Monomoy Island]
John Leaning, Staff Writer
November 8, 2003, updated January 6, 2011
https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2003/11/08/wooden-giant-sea-is-found/50942839007/

A search-and-survey company has discovered the wreck of the Wyoming, at 329.5 feet long, the largest schooner built to carry cargo. It sank in a gale in 1924 near Monomoy Island.

"Hard to steer" the video sez... :^D

I would imagine so!

More cowbell and more sail!

List of largest container ships
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ships

A Timeline of the World’s Largest Passenger Ships From 1831-Present | HMY Yachts
https://www.hmy.com/timeline-worlds-largest-passenger-ships/

The main problem was, the crew was six sheets to the wind. ;^)

I wonder if these maritime “arms races” led to or proceeded from large codpieces.

That sound you hear? A rimshot.

Hellenistic-era warships
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic-era_warships#Larger_polyremes

A massive wooden sailing ship. Quite remarkable, actually, for its day. But the current champion, the Royal Clipper, is larger, and much faster.

Does Noah know about this claim?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessarakonteres

We could ask him, but the Ouija board would have to be made of gopher wood.

They’re not haulin’ coal. :^) Just diamonds.

https://www.starclippers.com/us-dom/our-fleet/tall-ships/introducing-royal-clipper.html

When you write repeatedly that “ it was the biggest schooner of all time” you might oh I don’t know GIVE HER FRIKIN SIZE AND DISPLACEMENT.