Wartime designation:
Type: Gaff-rigged schooner
LOA: 137′ 0″ / 42.00m – LOD: 112’0″ / 34.00m – LWL: 90’0″ / 27.00m – Beam: 20′ 7″ / 6.27m – Draft:13′ 0″ / 4.00m – Displacement: – Sail Area: 5,600 sq ft / 520 m2 – Original Owner: Harold Hathaway of Taunton, Massachusetts – Original Name: Roseway -Year Launched: 24 November 1925 – Designed by: John James – Built by: John F. James & Son – Hull Material: Wood – In service: – Out of service: – National Register Number: 97001278
Historical:
Roseway was designed as a fishing yacht by John James and built in 1925 in his family’s shipyard in Essex, Massachusetts. Father and son worked side by side on Roseway, carrying on a long New England history of wooden shipbuilding. She was commissioned by Harold Hathaway of Taunton, Massachusetts, and was named after an acquaintance of Hathaway’s “who always got her way.”
Roseway appeared in a 1977 television remake of Rudyard Kipling’s “Captains Courageous” featuring Karl Malden. And she is now believed to be one of only six Essex-built Grand Banks fishing schooners left in existence.
WWII service
In the spring of 1942, Roseway was fitted with a .50-caliber machine gun and assigned to the First Naval District (New England). All lighted navigational aids along the coast were turned off during the war, and it was up to the Pilots and Roseway to guide ships through the minefields and anti-submarine netting protecting the harbor. At the end of the war, the Coast Guard presented a bronze plaque to the pilots in honor of Roseway‘s exemplary wartime service.
Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Notable Guest, and Reunion Information):
Owner: (1925-1941) – Harold Hathaway of Taunton, Massachusetts
Owner: (1941–1942) – Boston Pilots
Owner: (1942–1945) – Coast Guard Reserve
Owner: (1945–1972) – Boston Pilots
Owner: (1972–1974) – A Boston syndicate
Owner: (1974–1987) – Jim Sharp, Orvil Young
Owner: (2002–present) – World Ocean School