{"nrhp_refnum":"89002054","name":"ADVENTURE (schooner)","other_names":["226070"],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"State Fish Pier, Gloucester Inner Harbor","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gloucester","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.61073619100006,"lon":-70.65811009594006,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-12-11","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1994-04-19","areas_of_significance":["Engineering","Industry","Maritime History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-masted wooden knockabout fishing schooner built in 1926 at the John F. James & Son shipyard in Essex, Massachusetts, and now berthed at the State Fish Pier in Gloucester Inner Harbor. She was designed by Thomas F. McManus of Boston.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Adventure was the last fishing schooner in operation using the dory hand-trawling method and the most financially successful commercial fishing vessel in Atlantic fishing annals. She is also a premier example of the Gloucesterman class and one of three Essex-built Gloucester fishing schooners still afloat from the late 19th and early 20th century. She is listed under Criteria A and C at the state level.","narrative":"Adventure is a 121-foot wooden knockabout schooner built in 1926 at the John F. James & Son yard in Essex, Massachusetts, to a design by Thomas F. McManus. Built in the traditional plank-on-frame manner, she retains much of her original white oak planking, oak keel and yellow pine ceiling. She fished out of Gloucester from 1926 to 1934 and out of Boston until 1953, when she retired as the last American schooner to catch fish by dory hand-trawling. Her catch under Captain Leo Hynes totaled about $3.5 million over nineteen years, believed to be a record for an American fishing vessel. In 1954 her fish hold and engine room were converted to passenger cabins, changes described as reversible. Howard Chapelle examined her in 1934 and used her construction details in his book on American fishing schooners. She is listed for her role in the fishing industry and as one of three surviving Essex-built Gloucestermen. Today she serves as a maritime education vessel in Gloucester.","period_of_significance":"1926-1953","architect_builder":"Architect Thomas F. McManus, Boston, MA; Builder John F. James and Son shipyard, Essex, MA","architectural_style":"Other (\"Knockabout\" Schooner)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Being restored and used as a hands-on maritime educational classroom and living museum, also for charters; rotted frames forward of the foremast were slated for replacement.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.395724-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/78/7948/63794878/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89002054.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002054/9a9ee1dcc4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002054/9a9ee1dcc4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Paul T Morrison (MBCF)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schooner_Adventure_2013.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul T Morrison (MBCF)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schooner_Adventure_2013.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794878","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_(1926_schooner)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2323226"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/adventure-schooner-89002054/"}