LEWIS R. FRENCH (Schooner) - View this location on map Built in 1871, this is the oldest surviving sailing vessel built in Maine, the center for wooden shipbuilding in the United States after the Civil War. FRENCH worked mostly as a coasting schooner, carrying a variety of cargoes both as a sailing and later a motor vessel; currently, she is a Maine windjammer, her schooner rig restored. Rockland Harbor, Rockland, Maine Historical, Kids

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