The Rotting Remains of the Schooner "Cora F. Cressy" 

Seeing this vessel this way is truly heartbreaking. I've just got a beautiful wooden hulled fishing boat about 50 or so feet long and renamed her the explorer in honour of your RU-vid channel . Thank you Tom Lynskey and the rest of the part-time explorer team for this fantastic video.

About 30 years ago the Cressy was intact enough to explore inside. Her stern had fallen off by that time. I pulled a couple iron spikes out of her clamp and shelf. She stuck around long enough to serve as a great resource for understanding the construction of her type. Thanks for the great video!

Schooners are my favorite ships. They're so graceful and beautiful. Cora was a very beautiful schooner. Love your channel!

Tom Lynskey never stops to impress us.

The visuals of the remains along with the choice of music truly is beautiful, thank you Tom and Emma

Alot of old wooden barges (scows) were used as water breaks near me, most are over 100 years old. At low tide you can walk on them from the land and find all sorts of decaying junk from the past. The barges were full of trash when they were deliberately sunk so alot of the old trash is actually pretty interesting.

Thank you. Reminds me of the wrecks of the Hesper and the Luther Little. I watched them for years as they slowly deteriorated and collapsed into the mud. The age of the schooners was very important in our history and it is good to see that these great and beautiful ships, the eighteen wheelers of their day, are not forgotten.

Oh I knew I recognized her name! I learned about her at the Maine Maritime Museum last October. I really enjoyed Bath, especially the Patton Free Library. It's a lovely space with lots for history buffs to see. I recommend it heartily and also the nearby Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. That area made quite the impression. ❤

I gave this a thumbs up before watching it knowing that I have yet to be dissapointed of any video you make.

Tom, if you ever find yourself in the Pacific NW, you might want to cover the Peter Iredale wreck. It was a steel-hulled four-masted barque that ran aground on the beach near Astoria, OR in 1906. A good section of the bow is still there as well as the lower portions of her masts. It’s easily accessible too.

Hello from maine, glad to see someone cover our ship building history!

Time is a interesting proposition. You tell A great story and many of us have no real conception of the loss of these ship's and the personal stories you convey quite eloquently. Hat's off to you friend.

I researched this a little further and found photos of it in the 80s. Now I remember seeing this ship as a kid on vacation to Boothsbay around 1982. Exactly the kind of thing our parents always dragged us around to see. Thanks for brining back a memory I had completely forgotten.

Lived in Maine my entire life and never heard about this. Keep up the good work.

a bitter sight to be sure. great content as usual. 👍

Thanks for sharing! Hadn't known about her. When I was a kid, there were still two rotting, but clear ship-form schooners, esp one of them, below the big bridge across from NH to Maine, I think the I-95 one. My family drove over the bridge on our way to camp in Camden, ME. I loved watching the old schooner (s). Sadly, they rotted too much before anyone with money thought to try to preserve them. I read an effort last minute shored up one enough to last as a picturesque hulk a few more years. They were relics as long as they could, then broke apart and disappeared.

the cora f cressy was a very beautiful ship and seeing the ship in this state is truly heartbreaking.

As I kid we traveled often up through Wiscassett. I was always thrilled to see the remains of the sailing ships in the harbor. Its been years since I went that far down the coast on US 1 but I think they are gone. I will definitely go find the Cressy. Thanks.

To whoever is reading this: If you live in, or anywhere near Bath, please go visit the Maine Maritime Museum. It's crazy to see all of those artifacts, models, and technology that was put to use in Percy & Small's Schooners in the flesh.

I discovered this channel only today. The videos are beautifully done, the music is perfect. God bless you, Part-Time Explorer, and your crew. I'm so grateful you popped up in my feed!

Your videos are so well put together, never stop you are so unbelievably talented and a great story teller.

Never knew about this growing up, and having traveled to sail on the Isaac H. Evans out of rockland for 14 years straight. I wish I’d known, it’s along the way!

Thanks for another nice video. I drive by Bremen regularly, but haven't stopped to see the wreck.

You’ve never had a bad upload, Tom! Great production 👍

Thanks as always Mr. Tom for a great video on what must’ve been a very impressive vessel in her prime! I look forward to your uploads every weekend brother! You have one of the most underrated ship channels on the platform and I feel line you’re going to explode in the future. The worst part is now I gotta wait a week for the next one lol!

WOW Very beautifully presented ! 👍

Nice to see a ship history that didn’t end in deaths.

Very cool video. It is great to see you active. We've got some cool stuff to explore up here in Northern New York.

Thanks for this, never heard of this beautiful ship, what a wonderful sight she must have made in her heyday, so sad that she could not have been preserved but thankfully the Maritime Museum has some memories of her still.

Another good one Tom.

Great work Sir thank you

Really nice work! I just discovered your channel and am enjoying it immensely. I saw what was left of the Cora F. Cressy about 30 years ago, but haven't been back, though it's not far away. It's in the "population place" of Medomak, within the town of Breman. (Pronounced BREE-man.) Please keep on with these fascinating videos!

Wow what a superb video...awesome

Well, she didn´t deserve that fate, but at least, some of her parts have been rescued.

You produce FABULOUS videos.

These type of vids mke sittin thro the crap worth it love it thx .

2:14 ... but the lobsters didn't like her! Well I like her and I thank you for introducing us to her.

Great video! Would love if you did a series about histories of towns in massachussetts and maine and tell about the history of them. Really interesting with all the maritime history there!

You have a dream-job....one me and I'm sure alot of your viewers wish we had! Keep up the great endeavors!!

Love the location, pity about the demise of such a beautiful vessel, music is well chosen to.

Great video I did some work for Audubon on Hog Island which is close to her. Bowsprit is in Maine Maritime Museum in Bath. So is name plate.

This was fun to rewatch after the Wyoming video you just released. Both fabulous tributes to these two forgotten beauties. Those silly lobsters, so ungrateful. The line "but they didn't like her" makes me chuckle but to be fair, they're probably pretty skeptical up there about anything offered to them by humans at this point.

If that big mess is considered a surviving hull, I'd love to see what the people in those parts consider a wreck!

The most beautiful ships ever

Ships like that may once have been common, but as with everything, schooner or later it all must come to an end.

Leaving RU-vid due to their restrictions.. Have already transferred most of my subscriptions... Only have six more to transfer, yours is one of them... Will miss the documentaries of yours... Couldn't find you on Rumble...

Great drone photography. I have been meaning to go up and see her since the 1980s, but never quite made it. Sadly, no just a jumble of wood. Great video!

wow when i first saw this i didn't know what it was until you stated it was a wreck but i'd like to say i love your videos

That was VERY interesting, seems those hull spikes would make a very desirable souvenir, not to mention a 2 or 3 inch slice of timber.

why tf do you make such good videos

Nice vignette 🖒🤠

Excellent video! Does anyone know the name of the music played in the background?

Can we perhaps get a video for the Thomas W. Lawson, SS Great Eastern, or the Preußen?

Beautiful ❤😊

How did they drive the pilings for docks back in the day?

Sad to see this ship this way. I hope one day it can be rebuilt as a model and use this as a piece to build a new one

To me it seems wise to build and sail them again.

Thanks!

Amazing! Im in rhode island!

Didn't know she was related to the Wyoming, but then again, I haven't been studying sailing ships for a long time now. Shame to see her in the state she's in today, but props to the Maine Maritime Museum for saving what they could (I actually almost ended up going to Maine Maritime Academy this past Fall Semester). It'd be really nice if by some miracle she could be restored. Always tragic to see a once great ship - or any boat or ship for that matter - end up like this.

Sweet ✨

What a beautiful elegant looking ship she was in her heyday, a perfect combination of function and good design, and alas that seems to be an afterthought today when you look at some of these ugly monsterous cruise ships roaming the ocean.

Solid content, always glad to see a video from you pop up in my feed - although I would have one very minor nitpick, I found the background music (while fitting) a bit too distracting from the narration although I can't say for sure if it was the style or volume in this case - maybe lower the volume just a tad in the next one - in any case, great work and thanks! :)

Love your work Tom ! Do you have anything on the Hesper and Luther Little in Wiscasset, Maine ?

A ship that always made it home .

Interesting, I used to deliver bait to that wharf, always wondered about it.

Looking at the Boston picture, it seems to have been tied up at Long Wharf or Commercial Wharf.

What a rotten, sad end for a fine old lady.

Tom, some time ago you had a video where you interviewed Father Roberto Pirrone on board the Queen Mary. You and he walked around his magnificent ship models and had a very interesting discussion. I was fascinated. Do you still have access to this video? I would love to view it again but can't seem to find it. Thanks

You can still preserve her. Just attach new parts to the nameboard.

What is the piano piece in the background?

Tom, may I suggest a Great Lakes series? As many passenger steamships and schooners once sailed the lakes.. for a interesting story I may suggest the one of the Alvin Clark, a schooner that sunk in the 1860s and was raised in the 1960s but left to rot.

What about the ghost fleet in philadelphia?

shes still beautiful.

Imagine if she was rebuilt, with some original timbers and the original fittings that were saved. I'd imagine the cost would be too high to ever justify such a project.

What a sad ending for such a fine lady.

There actually is a fishing boat that wrecked during a storm on a rocky area near where my grandparents live. During low tide I would see the rusted mast sticking out of the water. Haven’t been in a while so not sure of it’s state. Edit: turns out it was salvaged years ago, based on what my grandpa told me.

And it would be too expensive today but a very nice adventure, however, to rebuild it identically, in France they rebuilt the 12-class Concorde 26-gun frigate, Hermione ... So just do it =) ! This would make a fabulous sailing school ship for civilians. But even more, at the time of anti-pollution techniques, Clippers are a non-negligible option, they have a huge payload despite their seemingly small sizes, if they no longer cross the oceans, although it is always feasible; they would still be useful in cabotage; the wind is free, unlike heavy fuel oil. In some archipelagos on the planet, they are still Shooners and Cutters all wood or steel hull with Auric wings, which ensure the transport of goods, vehicles included, mails, animals and people, without these certain islands would become inhospitable or at least almost unlivable without them. this external contribution and this human connection.

i dont know the name but their was a restored sailing ship in the UK and a few years ago it got caught a storm and sunk, whatever hapened to it

Are you planning on doing something about the Wyoming in the future?

Real interesting! Thanks! Booze Cruise, thats a good one! 🤣😅

Would like to have a brand new huge wooden built sale ship like they had years ago. Wonder how many would take a cruise on her.

Great video .. correct pronunciation is Bree-man , Maine 😊👍

...but the lobsters didn’t like her. Tom, I so appreciate your wit. Also, how were they able to get the alcohol onto her before sailing out into the Prohibition Party Zone?

pretty

Any relationship to the schooner Dustin Cressey sunk in the mud off Hackensack, NJ?

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The Legend of Cora (F. Cressy)

At least part of her is in a MarItime Museum.

rip

Kinda sad that all proud ships come to a sad end. But this is just true with all things in the world.

I have a very hard time calling this surviving when this is more of a gravesite.

I would like to see a confederate ship evolution video from the steamships and ironclads and the Hunley.

Gud vid

"But the lobsters didn't like her" Oof. Harsh.

I saw her back in the 90s before she collapsed

It's Bremen Maine

Lobsters: ain't living in no ghost ship!

The economics and technology of her times dictated both her size and why there are almost no large wooden sailing ships in our maritime museums, on either coast. Steamships were what could provide fast, more direct passenger services, but fueling them and providing a crew fro them was expensive, but the "fuel" that multi-masted schooners used was as cheap as air. So coaling stations were serviced with these largest of wooden ships run with the least size of crew possible for a sailing vessel. I note that most full ship rigged museum ships are of iron or steel construction since the maintenance of wooden ships, the larger the more difficult, is too expensive on museum budgets in many cases. The technological improvements developed for the by now larger steel built steamships aided the lumber industry with "donkey steam engines" that soon found their way aboard the lumber schooners and occasional barkentines, that also got into the coaling stations resupply business. Such large ships could not have been built without the steel reinforcing rods and various bracing methods. Large wooden blimp hangers also needed this form of construction to be made with wood. I wrote a small pamphlet sized book about one such sailing ship of that era whose crew managed to rescue it from a grounding on an uncharted reef north of Australia in early 1907. There may be a copy at that maritime museum as I donated copies to such museums on both coasts back when I completed it. The donkey engine used on that one made the recovery of that ship possible with the meager crew she had. Steam powered bilge pumping, for example, made it possible to reach Cocos Keeling Island and then on to Penang, and then Singapore where the damages from the grounding led to her sale for Southeast Asia use only were finally revealed in drydock. Thanks for another perspective on that transitional era of sea commerce. We may yet be headed towards another era of large hybrid sailing vessels with transformer like automation making them economic to crew.

when I look it up the spelling is "Cressey "