Oregon Pine (schooner)

Oregon Pine
Career (United States)
Name:	Oregon Pine
Owner:	Grant, Smith, & Co, Portland, Oregon
Builder:	Peninsula Shipbuilding Co., Portland, Oregon
Acquired:	Capt. Sterling, 1926
Renamed:	Contracted as Cotys, renamed Oregon Pine upon completion; renamed Dorothy H. Sterling in 1926
Fate:	broken up 1930
General characteristics
Tons burthen:	2,526 tons; capacity of 2,225,000 ft. of lumber
Length:	267 ft.
Beam:	49 ft. 6 in.
Draft:	25 ft. 2 in.

This article is about the ship. For the tree, see Douglas fir and Pseudotsuga menziesii.

Oregon Pine was a six-masted lumber schooner completed in 1920, which was built as a result of the shipbuilding efforts associated with World War I. She sailed in the West Coast lumber trade, bringing lumber from the Columbia River to Shanghai and Adelaide, Australia.

Construction

Oregon Pine was completed in 1920, as part of a contract by the Emergency Fleet Commission "for 12 hulls of its own design, to be delivered without engines. There were no cancellations." Her name was to be Cotys, with a sister ship of Cossa, both six-masted schooners. Upon completion, the schooners were renamed Oregon Pine and Oregon Fir, and later in their careers, Dorothy H. Sterling and Helen B. Sterling, respectively. The schooners were chartered for offshore voyages from the Columbia River with lumber. The two ships were of identical specifications: 2,526 tons, 267 ft. long, with a capacity of 2,225,000 feet of lumber.^[1]

Douglas-fir in Vancouver, British Columbia, 1887

Dorothy H. Sterling

Voyages

The Oregon Pine made her last offshore voyage in 1924. She was laid up at Astoria, Oregon, where Capt. Sterling purchased her in 1926, renaming her Dorothy H Sterling^[2] Oregon Pine and Oregon Fir were both operating "quite steadily" from the Columbia River in 1926 for the Shanghai Building Co.^[3] In 1928, Dorothy H Sterling carried lumber from Puget Sound to Adelaide, Australia. There she was "libelled for harbor dues and crew wages." The ship was broken up in Adelaide in 1930.^[4]

References

1. ^ Newell, Gordon (1966). "World War I Shipbuilding". H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle, WA: Superior Pub. Co. p. 279. OCLC 2869177. 
2. ^ McCurdy, Maritime events of 1929-30 chapter, p. 399
3. ^ McCurdy, Maritime Events of 1926 chapter, p. 372
4. ^ McCurdy, Maritime Events of 1929-30 chapter, p. 399

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