Historic 3-Masted Wooden Schooner k/a Victory Chimes


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Historic 3-Masted Wooden Schooner k/a Victory Chimes - O/N #136784 Auction Photo

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Helm, Bulkhead Forward - 2023

Helm Looking Starboard - 2023

Top Deck Aft - 2023

Mid Deck Seating - 2023

Forward Bulkhead To Main Salon - 2023

Sidedeck Starboard Forward - 2023

Sidedeck Port Side Forward - 2023

Donkey Motor 1906 Olds Seagear 6hp

Donkey Motor Room

Original 1900 Anchor Windlass

Fuel Tank 207 gal.

Companionway to Captains Quarters - 2023

Captains Quarters Forward Bulkhead - 2023

Captains Quarters Fireplace - 2023

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Crew Quarters 1 On Deck - 2023

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Crew Quarters 3 Below Deck Starboard - 2023

Crew Quarters 4 Below Deck Port - 2023

Passageway Crew Cabin Below Deck Starboard - 2023

General On Deck Shower 1 - 2023

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Forward Companionway, General Use Heads Either Side - 2023

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Passageway Guest Cabins Starboard - 2023

Salon Starboard Side- 2023

Salon Port Side - Sails - 2023

Galley Portside Forward - 2023

Galley Port Side Aft Reach in Cooler System- 2023

Galley Stbd Side Aft - 1946 Diesel Fired French Flat Top Ran

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Salon Starboard Side - 2023

Bilge Area - 2023

Victory Chimes - 2023

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19' Yawl Boat 210HP Cummins - 2023

19' Yawl Boat Aft- 2023

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Admirals Suite - VC Website

Governors Suite - VC Website

Mainsail Suite - VC Website

Cabin #2 - VC Website

Single Cabin - VC Website

Standard Room - VC Website

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Auction 23-53

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Timed Online Auction
Secured Party's Sale at Public Auction 23-53
Historic 3-Masted Wooden Schooner k/a Victory Chimes
Windjammer Wharf, Captain Spear Dr., Rockland, Maine

Online Bidding Begins: Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 9AM EST
Online Bidding Ends: Monday, May 8, 2023 at 1PM EST

Previews: Friday, April 21 & 28, 2023 from 9AM-12PM

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Auctioneer's Note: Maine's Premier Windjammer is heading to public auction. The VICTORY CHIMES is a three-masted, gaff-rigged Chesapeake Ram schooner with 21 cabins. Passenger cruises along the coast of Maine began in 1954 and her home port has been Rockland, Maine for many decades. She is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and has been designated a National Historic Landmark by the National Parks Service. The Maine State Legislature recognized her as a premier vessel in the Maine�s Windjammer Fleet, and in 2003 she was featured and minted on the Maine State Quarter. There are many good years left in her service, and the marketing, historical, educational, and repurposing opportunities that she can provide are great. The current US Coastguard certification has expired and the extensive work and expense that will be required in order for her to be able to return to passenger service is forcing the owner and the lender to sell the vessel at a Secured Party�s Sale at Public Auction.

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Builder: George K. Phillips Co., Bethel, DE USA
Year Built: 1900 as Cargo Ship
Year Converted: 1946 as Passenger Cruise Vessel
Model: Schooner, 3-Masted
Location: Rockland, ME USA
Deck & Hull: Flat bottomed, centerboard (oak), Hull is double planked long leaf yellow pine on oak frames, deck is long leaf yellow pine
Mast Material: Oregon Douglas Fir, 80�+
Mast Replacement Dates: 1976 Mizzenmast, 1988 Main, 1989 Fore
Rigging: Traditional ram schooner rig w/ standing jib, flying jib, staysail, foresail, mainsail, and mizzen
Type: Chesapeake Ram, last surviving example
Assisted Power: 19� Yawlboat, wooden lapstrake, 210HP Cummins diesel, inboard w/trailer
Passenger Cabins: 21 accommodating 39 adults, Below Deck � (11) Standard Cabins w/bunks and sink. (3) Private Cabins w/ 1-berth and sink. (1) Cabin w/ 2-berths and sink. (5) Suites w/Queen or Full beds, head, and sink. Topside � (1) Cabin w/ 2-berths and sink.
Captain�s Quarters: Aft and forward of the helm, wood paneled, fireplace, head, shower, settee, mahogany table, 2- single berths
Crew Quarters: Below Deck- Aft, (1) single berth and (1) double berth, Fo�c�sle 4-berths. Topside- (2) single berths w/sinks.
Galley: Located forward, has refrigeration, French flat top range/dbl oven diesel powered, 2-bay sink
Main Salon: Seats all guests, forward off galley
Common Head/Shower: (2) On deck forward
Total Heads: 9
Donkey Engine: 1906 Olds Seagear 6hp - Windlass
Notables: Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, has been designated a National Historic Landmark, featured on the 2003 Maine State Quarter, Premier Schooner of Maine�s Windjammer Fleet by Maine State Legislature
Hull Designer: J.M.C. Moore
LOA: 127.5�
Beam: 23.8�
Min Draft: 8� 6�
Max Draft: 18�
Gross Tons: 208
Net Tons: 178

Victory Chimes
Specifications Below Are
From Victorychimes.com website

Victory Chimes (official number 136784) is a three-masted, gaff-rigged Chesapeake Ram schooner, home-ported in Rockland, Maine. Originally designed for and used as a general purpose cargo hauler, she was converted to a passenger cruise vessel in 1946. Built in 1900 in Bethel, Delaware as Edwin And Maud.

The three-masted Chesapeake ram schooner Victory Chimes was launched in April 1900 from the Bethel, Delaware yard of George K. Phillips Co. as the Edwin And Maud, named for two children of her first captain, Robert Riggin.

Victory Chimes not only exemplifies the nineteenth and early twentieth century development of large American wooden schooners intended primarily, though not exclusively, for the coasting trade on both east and west coasts, but she is the only surviving example of the "Chesapeake ram" type and one of only two surviving examples of a three masted schooner in the United States. She is the largest member of Maine's fleet of windjammers.

Victory Chimes' dimensions are: length 127.5 feet, breadth 23.8 feet and depth 8.6 feet; 208 tons gross, 178 tons net.(n1) She was slightly larger than the average "ram," and today she is the largest member of Maine's fleet of windjammers, which carry passengers along the coast during summer months. The schooner is home-ported in Rockland, Maine.

She is constructed with an oak keel, double sawn frames and deck timbers and Georgia pine planking. In 1988 she was extensively repaired at Sample's Shipyard in Boothbay Harbor, Maine while owned by Domino's Pizza. Traditional working methods and materials were used to replace rotten areas in-kind.(n2)

Despite an active working life in a harsh environment and required changes for passenger safety, Victory Chimes is estimated to retain about 70 percent of her original fabric.(n3)

The traditional "ram" rig was a standing jib, flying jib, staysail (also called a forestaysail), foresail, mainsail and spanker (or mizzen), which Victory Chimes carries today. The heads of the fore, main and mizzen sails are supported by gaffs and the feet are laced to booms. The present masts of Oregon Douglas fir are over eighty feet in height. The mizzenmast was replaced in 1976, the main in 1988, and the fore in 1989.(n4) "A straight tree 110 feet tall is required to get the necessary length a full twenty-one inches in diameter."(n5)

The original wooden bowsprit was replaced by one of steel to the same dimensions in 1965. The standing rigging is steel wire. Standing rigging was minimal on rams, to enable deck cargo to be stowed on uncluttered decks. Each mast is supported by three shrouds on each side. The foremast has three stays and springstays run from its masthead to the main and mizzen masts.(n6)

Just as when Victory Chimes was built, the schooner does not carry an engine. Maneuvering assistance is provided by a nineteen foot wooden yaw boat which pushes against the stern. When not in use it is towed astern. The current yawl boat was built in 1991 by then Captain Kip Files and George Alien to enable the vessel to compete with other vessels in the passenger schooner trade which have been modified to carry engines. The yawl boat is, said Kip, "probably a bit bigger than would have originally been used."(n7) It is powered by a 210 horsepower Cummins diesel engine. Three other boats are carried on davits.

Victory Chimes is largely original, although a limited number of changes have been required to allow adaptive reuse of a freight carrying schooner as a passenger vessel. The deck plan consists of a large forward deckhouse with a companionway leading into the main saloon, a low narrow deckhouse amidships (added during the schooner's conversion to passenger use) featuring multiple porthole sidelights and a second companionway, and a third large deckhouse aft, which is set on a raised quarterdeck. Three hatches gave access to the cargo hold.

Tall bulwarks and taffrail frame the deck, although the quarterdeck features an open balustrade. Belowdecks, the cargo hold has been subdivided into nineteen cabins with the main saloon and galley forward. There are nineteen cabins, fifteen fitted with two berths, two with four berths, and one each with a single and triple berth. The introduction of these facilities has been carried out in a reversible manner so that the original hull framing and planking characteristics remain.

There are no deck lights.(n8) A single centerboard is offset alongside the mainmast. The centerboard trunk is original, whereas the centerboard was most recently replaced in 1965. Victory Chimes draws 7 feet 6 inches with the centerboard up and 18 feet with the centerboard down.

The original anchor windlass is mounted behind the bowsprit heel forward and is powered by an ancient engine in the forward part of the deckhouse. The original four horsepower donkey engine soon proved inadequate, it was replaced with a six horsepower Sea Gear engine made in 1906 by Olds in Lansing, Michigan. This is still in use.(n9) Donkey engines were a prominent feature of schooners from the end of commercial sail when crews were kept to a minimum through the use of such mechanical aids.

The ships bell is mounted on the forward side of the cover for the windlass chain drive. At the break in the quarterdeck is a one to one and a half horsepower "domestic pumper." This item of original equipment is still in use and regularly inspected by the Coast Guard.(n10) The hull is painted black with white bulwarks and is painted red below the waterline. The decks are natural, as are the masts up to the crosstrees, from which point they are painted white. Deckhouses are painted white with detailing in red, green and grey. Hatches and bitts are picked out in contrasting diamond patches as was common in well-kept coasting vessels.

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Terms: You must register with Proxibid.com in order to participate in the auction. A $10,000 deposit in the form of a hold being placed on the online bidder�s credit card is required as a qualification to bid. Winning bidder will need to submit complete payment for the vessel payable to Keenan Auction Company, Inc. within 24 hours of the sale, in cash or US certified funds, or wire transfer. The vessel will need to be removed from its current berth at Windjammer Wharf on or before a deadline of May, 12, 2023, and once removed by the deadline, Auctioneer will release the $10,000 hold on the purchasers credit card. In the event the vessel is not removed by the deadline, buyer will forfeit their $10,000 deposit to Seller, unless Purchaser can provide the Seller with a valid agreement from Windjammer Wharf authorizing the Purchaser to remain on Wharf. Said agreement will need to be provided to the Seller on or before May 12, 2023. Unsuccessful bidder�s credit card holds will be processed to be released at the conclusion of the auction. Releases are typically removed within 2-5 days from the date of the removal request by auctioneer. A 15% Buyer�s Premium. For additional terms of sale and a Property Information Package click on link below to receive or call (207) 885-5100. Richard J. Keenan #236. Our 51st Year and 8,531st Auction.

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