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Your absentee bid for Lot 036 - Antique Framed Photograph Of Schooner Lavinia M. Snow With Crew On Board, Built 1893 Rockland Maine By J. L. Snow & Co., Capt. James F. Hinckley, 14-3/4" x 12-3/4" was successfully submitted—thank you for bidding with us!
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Lot 036 - Antique Framed Photograph Of Schooner Lavinia M. Snow With Crew On Board, Built 1893 Rockland Maine By J. L. Snow & Co., Capt. James F. Hinckley, 14-3/4" x 12-3/4"
Lot 036 - Antique Framed Photograph Of Schooner Lavinia M. Snow With Crew On Board, Built 1893 Rockland Maine By J. L. Snow & Co., Capt. James F. Hinckley, 14-3/4" x 12-3/4"
Lot 036 - Antique Framed Photograph Of Schooner Lavinia M. Snow With Crew On Board, Built 1893 Rockland Maine By J. L. Snow & Co., Capt. James F. Hinckley, 14-3/4" x 12-3/4"
Antique framed photograph of the schooner Lavinia M. Snow No. 141257 with its crew on board, housed in its original pressed gesso frame with wood back. A period label on the verso lists the vessel’s specifications: length 1330.0, breadth 31.7, depth 10.9, net 337, built in 1893 at Rockland, Maine by J. L. Snow & Co., and associated with Capt. James F. Hinckley in 1897. No maker’s imprint on the photograph.
Historical accounts note that the Lavinia M. Snow became the subject of significant maritime litigation following a collision on September 8, 1903, when the schooner—sailing northward after clearing Quarantine—was struck by the Hamburg-American Line ocean liner Deutschland near Staten Island. Contemporary reports, including the New York Times (September 9, 1903) and The Federal Reporter (Volume 129, 1904), describe the ocean liner backing without signals, ripping away the schooner’s upper rigging and staving a hole in her bow with its propeller hood. The liner lowered a boat to assist, and a Hamburg-American tug towed the damaged schooner to Clifton, Staten Island. In 1904, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York found the Deutschland solely at fault for the collision, granting a decree in favor of the Lavinia M. Snow’s owners, Wing, Putnam, & Burlington.
Later accounts indicate the schooner ultimately sank off the Durants, North Carolina. A United States Coast Guard report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930 records that on March 7, 1930, six members of the wrecked Lavinia M. Snow were rescued by the Creeds Hill station.
Source: https://sunkenshipsobx.com/lavina-m-snow/
Light wear consistent with age and display.
Auction Date: 11/27/2025
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