FRANK S. BOWKER & SONS

Phippsburg ME

Most recent update: May 11, 2016.
Frank Bowker was actually the second generation of Bowkers building ships in Phippsburg, but the first to get the business organized.  Starting in 1890, he and his sons built __ ships over the next 30 years, including some of the U.S,' finest four-masters.  Their first yard was at the junction of Stoney Brook Road and Highway 209, an impossible location from which they soon moved to deeper water near Phippsburg Center.  If anyone has any corrections or additions to this table, please send them to timcolton@aol.com.
Hull # O.N. Original Name Original Owner Type GT Feet Delivery Disposition
  81300 John L. Martino   Schooner 257   1890  
  106788 Abbie Bowker   Schooner 191   1890  
  81300 Winneganee   Schooner 257   1890  
  96126 Henry H. Chamberlain   Schooner 245   1891  
  81383 William H. Davenport   Schooner 256   1892  
  77113 James H. Dudley   Schooner 367   1893 Later Griffin
  107121 Abenaki   Schooner 176   1894  
  77432 John W. Dana   Schooner 556   1900  
  96479 Henry Weller   Schooner 400   1900  
  117018 Seguin   Schooner 405   1901  
  201550 Persis A. Colwell   Schooner 516   1901  
  93306 Madeleine   Schooner 463   1902  
  200202 Georgia D. Jenkins   Schooner 471   1903  
  200501 Fred W. Ayer   Schooner 387   1903  
  157690 Doris   Schooner 382   1903  
  203581 Herbert May   Schooner 384   1906  
  204717 Horace M. Bickford   Schooner 503   1907  
  204138 Antoinette   Schooner 299   1907  
  205748 Frank B. Witherbee   Schooner 504   1908  
  206365 Richard W. Clark   Schooner 503   1909  
  206985 G. J. Cherry   Schooner 533   1909  
  208109 William E. Litchfield Edward M. Baird Schooner 542   1910  
  209252 Edward R. Smith   Schooner 565   1911  
  210477 Edwin G. Farrar   Schooner 556   1912  
  211701 William M. Chritchett   Schooner 544   1913  
  212549 Albert H. Willis   Schooner 567   1914  
  213574 George S. Smith   Schooner 577   1915  
  214337 James M. W. Hall Henry M. Wilkie Schooner 572   1916  
  215762 Alice M. Kafka   Schooner 686   1917 Later Friend Ship
  214695 Margaret L. Roberts   Schooner 535   1917  
  217215 John R. Fox   Schooner 741   1918  
  218561 Mary Stuart   Schooner 726   1919  
  219469 Amelia Zeman   Schooner 738   1920  
  221436 Laura Annie Barnes   Schooner 698   1921  
    Auburn   Schooner        
    Julia B. Cole   Schooner        
    Kate Fiore   Schooner