Minnie A. Caine
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 United States
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| Builder: | The Moran Brothers |
| Cost: | $55,000 |
| Laid down: | December, 1899 |
| Launched: | October 6, 1900 |
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| Reclassified: | Fishing barge, Apr 1931 |
| Refit: | Rigging removed, Apr 1931 |
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| Tonnage: | 880 GT; 779 NT |
| Length: | 195.5 feet (59.6 m) |
| Beam: | 41.0 feet (12.5 m) |
| Depth: | 15.2 feet (4.6 m) |
| Decks: | one |
| Propulsion: | wind |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
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The Minnie A. Caine was a four-masted wooden schooner built by Seattle shipbuilder the Moran Brothers in 1900. One of the schooner's initial short-term co-owners, Elmer Caine, named her after his wife Minnie. From 1900 to 1926, the schooner was operated out of San Francisco by Charles Nelson Co., one of the largest transporter of lumber in United States at the time. The schooner transported lumber across the Pacific Ocean from the Pacific Northwest to ports of Australia and Americas, but after 1920 her scope of operations became limited to West Coast lumber trade. By 1926, the company no longer could run a sailing ship with profit, and the Minnie A. Caine was moored in boneyard in California.
In 1931 the schooner was purchased by Olaf C. Olsen who turned it to an unrigged fishing barge, operating off the Santa Monica Pier. In eight years, after a severe storm in September 1939, the Minnie A. Caine was grounded in Santa Monica Bay. Three months later, her wreckage became a threat to a California highway and had to be incinerated. Cabin clock of Minnia A. Caine is preserved on the C.A. Thayer in San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.
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