An Ocean-Going Timber Schooner Fitted with Wireless Telegraphy

Progress, Volume VIII, Issue 2, 1 October 1912, Page 100

An Ocean-Going Timber Schooner Fitted with Wireless Telegraphy

-It is interesting to see a mere sailing ship fitted with wireless when thousands of passenger steamers have not that wonderful yet comparatively cheap means .of communicating with help in case of accident. The six-masted schooner "Everett G. Griggs spoke Sydney the other day when 1500 miles away, and her messages were heard perfectly clearly. She arrived in Sydney some 16 days after with ■2% million feet of lumber on board from Puget

Sound. The illustration shows her lying at anchor in Johnston’s Bay, Sydney Harbour. As will be seen, she is square rigged on the foremast and fore and aft on the rest of the sticks. The “Everett C. Griggs” was built at Belfast by the famous firm of Harland and Wolff. Her dimensions are 308 ft. 2in. length over all, 42ft 9in beam, and 25ft. lin. depth, and her tonnage is 2518 tons. She is spoken of as a good seaboat, handy and particularly fast on a wind. Captain Stirling, her master, is very proud of her.