Sail Number: 46015
Wartime designation: CG-65016.
ex; Morning Star
LOA: 81’6″ / 24.84m – LOD: 65’4″ / 17.50m – LWL: 46’5″ / 14.12m – Beam: 14’9″ / 4.47m – Draft: 8’6″ / 2.57m – Displacement: 70,400 lbs 31,933 kg – Ballast: – Sail Area: 2,054 ft² / 190.82m² – Original Owner: Charles Lee Andrews, Long Island – Year Launched: 1926 – Designed by: John G. Alden – Design No.: 273 B – Type: After Cockpit – Built by: Fred F. Pendleton’s shipyard, Wiscasset, Maine – Documentation or State Reg. No. – Owner’ Website: www.alden-schooner.com
Historical:
CURLEW was designed by John G. Alden for Charles Lee Andrews, Port. Washington Long Island and built and launched in 1934 by Fred F. Pendleton’s shipyard, Wiscasset, Maine
WWII service
WWII Wartime designation: (1940-1960) – CG-65016 – Picket Patrol
Donated on the 31st of January 1940 to the US Coast Guard Academy at New London CT for the grand sum of $1.00. Here she served as a sail-training vessel and saw coastal submarine patrol duty for the Coast Guard during WWII.
Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):
- Owner/Guardian: (1926 – 1937) – Charles Lee Andrews
- Owner/Guardian: (1937 – 1940) William Jay Schieffelin Jr
- Owner/Guardian: (1940 – 1951) US Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT
- Owner/Guardian: (1951 – 1960) USCG Recruit Training Center, Cape May, NJ
- Owner/Guardian: (1960 – 1970) Mr. Robert Gervasoni, Trenton, N.J. & Mr. Sam Fiorello, Yardley, PA
- Owner/Guardian: (1970 – ?) Louis G & Mildred Holcomb, Saratoga, CA
- Owner/Guardian: Carlos Romer, Marina del Rey, CA
- Owner/Guardian: Steven King
- Owner/Guardian: 1985 Pat and Marlene Russell
- Owner/Guardian: 2002 Captain Robert A Harrison Jr., then of Newport Beach, CA
- Skipper: Robert Beare
- Crew: Lieutenant Donald H. Treadwell
- Crew: Joshua Sparrow
- Commanding officer: Arnold Peterson
- Crew: 1st Class Boatswain Mate Preston Mason
- Crew: Bobby Wies
- Crew: Marinus Middeldorp
- Crew: Sean Brennan
- Crew: Frank Sherman
- Crew: Bobby Wies
Resources
- Curlew Charters, Inc
- Coast Guard Modeling
- MIT Museum