Mystic Seaport, Accession number: 1983.77.15, File name: IMG0098-4170.PCD
Built: Holmes Ship Building Company, West Mystic Connecticut
Keel laid: April, 1901
Dimensions: 249' x 46' x 26.9'
Tonnage: 1952 net, 2227 gross
Cost: $100,000
Launched: February 11, 1902
Sunk: September 5, 1903
Cause of sinking: Collision with S.S. Schoenfels
On February 11th, 1902, in West Mystic, Connecticut, the largest coasting schooner built outside of the Maine shipyards slid down the ways of the Holmes Shipbuilding Company. Nineteen months later the Jennie R. Dubois, sunk in a collision with the Steamship Schoenfels, was resting on the sandy bottom southeast of Block Island, Rhode Island. Once cleared as a menace to navigation, the Dubois was lost to history and her location remained unknown to local divers and historians. Join me, Mark Munro, in this presentation on the recently discovered secrets of the five-masted coasting schooner Jennie R. Dubois.
You are cordially invited to attend a public presentation on the Jennie R. Dubois
February 11th, 2009
Seven o’clock in the evening
Mystic Yachting Center, Mystic Shipyard, West Mystic Connecticut
Closed Chock
The stockless anchor still in it's hawse pipe
