John G. Alden VALOR

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

 

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