Schooner aground after hurricane

07 Jan 2010 by Sean in Charleston History

I have a thing for tall ships and the history of sailing.  You might have picked up on that when I interviewed a deckhand from the Spirit of Massachusetts.

The Flickr Commons has an incredible collection of old photos.  I was looking for old shots of schooners there and stumbled upon this photo of a big three-master aground after a hurricane in Florida.

You’ve got to imagine these boats were everywhere 100 years ago.  Charleston was (and is) a huge port, so you can imagine masts reaching to the sky all along the waterfront.