Paul Palmer (schooner)

The "Paul Palmer" was a five-masted schooner built in 1902 by George F. Welt in Waldoboro, Maine. [cite web
url = http://stellwagen.noaa.gov/maritime/paulpalmer.html
title = Paul Palmer
work = Maritime Heritage: Shipwrecks
author = Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
accessdate = 2007-11-03] It was part of William F. Palmer's fleet of white-hulled vessels active in the New England coal trade. The fleet was sold to J. S. Winslow and Company in 1911.

After departing Rockport, Maine on Friday, June 13, 1913 with no cargo, the "Paul Palmer" caught fire. Attempts to douse the flames with the vessel's own pumps were not successful, and the crew abandoned ship. The "Paul Palmer" burned down to the waterline and then sank.

In 2000, researchers at the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary discovered the wreck and documented it, locating artifacts that proved the ship's identity in 2002.

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