Hi,

I'm doing research on anthracite and coal schooners operated by the Pennsylvania Coal Company and the NYS&W Coal Company, and have found references in their general ledgers to payments made to the B&M in relation to schooner barge operations in Boston Harbor.

It appears that PCC shipped foal on schooners from the NYS&W Edgewater NJ dock to various places in New England -- and there are the interesting references to the B&M.

Any Anthracite/Schooner Barge/Boston Harbor experts here, or does anyone know of any in the B&M Historical Society who might have some insights on this?

Thanks!

Jim Guthrie

Best photographic essay on schooner barges may be Paul C. Morris' "Schhoners & Schooner Barges" (Lower Cape Publishing, 1984). Also, WH Bunting's "Portrait of the Port of Boston 1985-1914, Harvard University Press) has numerous photos of schooner barges as well as supplemental text. One of the Appendeces in the June 1923 Report of the "New England Governor's (Storrow) Commission for a Comprehensive Transportation Policy" has a list of arrivals in the Port of Boston in the two weeks between April 1st & April 15th, 1923 including many coal barges. The Lowee Archives and Walker Transportation Collection at the Beverly Historical Society both have a copy of this report.

Tim Gilbert

Looking for photo of the coastal schooner AUSTIN D KNIGHT. Bill Bunting hasn't seen one as of yet. Have you come across any.

Thanks