Wartime designation: CGR-3080
Type: Gaff-rigged schooner
ex; Hardi Biaou; Mandalay
LOA: 110′ 6″ / 33.68m – LOD: – LWL: 84’6″ / 25.75m – Beam: 24′ 3″ / 7.39m – Draft:13′ 0″ / 4.00m – Displacement: 385,300 lbs / 174,769 kg – Original Owner: Dr. Henry D. Lloyd, Brooklin, MA. – Original Name: Hardi Biaou – Year Launched: 24 March, 1928 – Designed by: John G. Alden – Design No. : 350 – Sail Area: – Built by: George Lawley & Son, Neponset, MA – Hull Material: Wood – Official No. : 227257 – Fate: Sank (inexperienced crew) Triumph Reef South Miami
Historical:
VALOR (Originally HARDI BIAOU, 1928), was designed by John G. Aiden for Dr. Henry D. Lloyd, of Brooklin, MA.
David T. Parsons, commander of Valor, a 112-foot schooner, says: Alden had designed Valor to go anywhere in the world. She had seven tiled showers and four heads. Accommodations were so good that sometimes we had as many as twenty-one men onboard. She even had built-in whale-oil tanks, one on either side of the bow, with outboard connections to spread the oil to calm the seas
WWII service
Valor served during the war as United States Coast Guard Picket Patrol CGR-3080
Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Notable Guest, and Reunion Information):
Owner: (1928) – Dr. Henry D. Lloyd, Brooklin, MA.
Owner: Lucius Beebe
Owner: Amory Haskell
Owner: (1961) – R. Fred Irvine, Miami, FL
I found a cache of photos in my family papers. My father, Wm A. Carpenter was in Hooligans Navy, & took many b& w photos while at sea. I have 6 photos of the Valor, all dated Oct 1943. My father did not serve on this ship, but took these photos from the deck of the Jane Dore”,
CGR 81006, one of the picket boats he crewed on from Sept ‘43 to Oct ‘43