[Newspaper]
Publication: The Matawan Journal
Matawan, NJ, United States
vol. 34, no. 45, p. 1, col. 2-4
THE FREDERIC A. DUGGAN
The picture shows the new four-masted coasting schooner Frederic A. Duggan as she is being launched at Bath, Me. As she started on her course to the river Miss Myrtle Thompson, daughter of Capt. S. C. Thompson of this place, christened the craft with roses and pints.
Her official measurements are: Length, 195.5; width, 39.4; depth, 18; gross tonnage, 1,187; net tonnage 981. The Duggan is constructed strongly and in a workmanship manner, and carries all the latest improvements in the way of rigging, steam pumps and winches, and also galley and cabin furnishings. Her cabin is the best ever put in a schooner. It has a beautiful finish of golden oak, quartered oak and white wood. The trimmings are of gold and elaborate grain work.
Capt. C. C. Jayne, who is in command the craft, has quarters which have no equal in any schooner sailing the coast. The floor is of hard wood, highly polished, and large quartered oak bedstead, a roll top desk, chart desk, medicine chest and handsomely upholstered furniture composed the furnishings of the room. It is arranged for convenience and comfort. The finish of the room is done in quartered oak and unfinished material. The room is connected with the bath room by a series of doors leading across the hall at the foot of the after companionway. The bath room is furnished with all the latest lavatory improvements and a hot water heater in the dining room supplies the bath with hot water. There are two spare rooms for guests, one on each side of the main cabin, and these are finished and furnished with the best of materials.
The dining room, pantry, first and second officers' and stewards' rooms occupy the forward part of the cabin and these apartments are completed to compare with the main cabin in elegance and arrangement.
The Duggan has accommodations for four seamen besides her officers. The boiler in the forward house operates a full Hyde equipment of the latest improved type. The anchor equipment consists of a 4,080 and a 3,590 pound anchor. The masts are each ninety-six feet high with topmasts fifty feet high. The rigging is of wire fastened with turn buckles.
Capt. S. C. Thompson of this place is the managing owner of the schooner. He was at Bath, Me., during the construction of the vessel and will make the first trip. He has charted the vessel for two trips from Fernandina, Fla., to New York, and made the run from Bath, Me., to that place in five days and twenty hours.
The boat is named after Frederic A. Duggan of Trenton, prominent in the manufacture of porcelain electrical fixtures in that city. The owners are principally New York merchants.