Courtesy of World Ocean School
The 112′ LOD schooner ROSEWAY of 1925 will be broken up in 2026 if World Ocean School cannot find a new owner.
When ROSEWAY slid down the ways in Essex, Massachusetts, on November 21, 1925, she was a yacht built for swordfishing. In 1941, she went to work for the Boston Pilots Association and served them well for more than 30 years, which included wartime duty as CGR 812 patrolling the coast for German submarines. In 1972, when the Boston Pilots retired her, she underwent a swift but only partial conversion under new ownership on her way to becoming a passenger-carrying schooner. Those owners never made a go of it, but by 1976 subsequent owners Jim Sharp and Orville Young had completed the job and put her in the cruising trade as a windjammer sailing out of Camden, Maine.
In that role, she came to be noted for her red sails, sweet sheerline, and handsome hull shape. She was also one of the few of her type with auxiliary power.