KELLEY SPEAR

Bath ME

Most recent update: April 13, 2016.
Kelley, Spear & Company was organized in 1886 by John R. Kelley, D. Howard Spear and Elijah F. Sawyer: it closed in 1923.  After moving around a bit, they bought the yard on Front Street, immediately to the south of the Texas Steamship yard.  It was essentially destroyed by fire in 1934, along with Texas Steamship.  If anyone can add to the table below, please send your info to timcolton@aol.com
Hull # O.N. Original Name Original Owner Type GT Feet Built

Disposition

Built in the William Rogers yard (1887-1888)
    Silicon   Bark     1887  
    Massasoit W. & J. M. Phillips 4-masted Schooner 1,317   1888  
  81194 William Lewis William Lewis Steam Bark 462   1888 Wrecked 1891 off Point Barrow
  157292 D. Howard Spear J. S. Winslow & Co. 3-masted Schooner 547   1888 Abandoned 1911 off USEC

Built in the Adams & Hitchcock yard (1889-1899)
    Albertine Adoue Jacques Adoue 3-masted Schooner 716   1890 Wrecked 1894 in the Bahamas, rebuilt as a mailboat
  157317 Daisy Farlin   3-masted Schooner 466   1891 Abandoned 1919 in mid-Atlantic
  76998 J. Percy Bartram S. March & Sons 3-masted Schooner 365   1891 Wrecked 1910 near Porthgain
    Floating Hotel Danforth   Cruise Boat     1892  
  107193 Ardmore   Schooner Barge 821   1895  
  157431 Devon   Schooner Barge 724   1895  
  111086 Rosemont   Schooner Barge 651   1895  
  81521 Wayne   Schooner Barge 820   1895  
  86431 General Knox Maine Central RR Ferry 427   1898 Later Rye Cliffe 1910, burnt 1918
    Massachusetts   4-masted Schooner 502   1898  

Built in the former Moody yard (1899-1903)
  136768 Edith Mystic Steamship Schooner Barge 859   1899 Later Lawrence Howard
   150815 Pemberton Staples Coal Co. Schooner Barge 839   1900 Burnt 1907 off Nobska Point
  127420 Calumet John S. Emery & Co. 4-masted Schooner 1,241   1900  
100 93072 Medford John S. Emery & Co. 4-masted Schooner 1,351   1900 Stranded 1909
  96510 Helena A. H. Bull & Co. 3-masted Schooner 619   1900 Stranded 1909
  127398 Cohannet   Tug 69   1900  
  136780 Elk Garden Davis Coal & Coke Schooner Barge 847   1900  
  96490 Hampshire Davis Coal & Coke Schooner Barge 830   1900  
  121135 Flora Commercial Towing Schooner Barge 865   1900  
  86514 Grace Commercial Towing Schooner Barge 877   1900  
  96535 Havana   Schooner Barge 1,617   1900 Foundered 1922
  130856 Norton Staples Coal Co. Schooner Barge 489   1900 Later Scranton, Smith Line No. 1
  116963 Sharon Samuel Cabot Schooner Barge 482   1900  
  127525 Cardenas   Schooner Barge 1,576   1901 Abandoned 1932
  130930 Newport   Schooner Barge 312   1901 Abandoned 1922
  111339 Rockland   Schooner Barge 481   1901  
  121192 Frederick W. Day   Schooner 613   1901 Sank off Cape Harreras 1914
  141769 Lizzie M. Parsons   Schooner 655   1902  
  117180 Samuel P. Bowers   Schooner 626   1902  
  127633 Cienfuegos   Schooner Barge 1,915   1902  
  130979 Norumbega Maine Central RR Ferry 304   1902 Burnt 1934
  77543 John G. Chandler Wood Towing Tug 110   1902  
  127695 Charles K. Nichols   Schooner Barge 820   1902  
  86679 George W. Truitt   Schooner 690   1903  
  116963 Sharon Staples Coal Co. Schooner Barge 482   1903  
  141868 Liberty   Schooner Barge 1,587   1903 Later Mary H. Keeler, foundered 1929
  200023 Reliance   Steamer 251   1903  
  200233 Frank Huckins   Schooner 545   1903  
  200273 J. Carlton Hudson   Schooner Barge 880   1903  
  200379 Quequechan Staples Coal Co. Tug 76   1903  
  200426 Annie Metropolitan Coal Schooner Barge 1,098   1903  
  200505 Salisbury   Schooner 597   1903  

Built in the former Rogers yard at Front and Cedar (1904-1923)
  200628 Beattle Metropolitan Coal Schooner Barge 1,117   1904  
  200699 Frontenac   Schooner 1,704   1904  
  200718 Anthony D. Nichols Thorvald Peters Schooner 680   1904  
  200961 Louis Bossert Louis Bossert & Sons Schooner 605   1904 Sunk by a u-boat 1917 off Spain
133 201154 Horace A. Allyn Westmoreland Coal Schooner Barge 859   1904  
  201265 Charles F. Prichard Westmoreland Coal Schooner Barge 861   1904 Foundered 1937 off USEC
  201420 Berkley   Schooner Barge 650   1904  
  201520 George R. Stetson Westmoreland Coal Schooner Barge 675   1904  
  201535 George W. Truitt, Jr. John R. Eskridge Schooner 779   1904  
  201579 John Bossert Louis Bossert & Sons Schooner 601   1904 Burnt and sank off Sandy Hook 1916
  201608 Bristol   Schooner Barge 653   1904 In collision and lost 1910
  201688 Orleans R. R. Freeman Schooner 751   1905  
  202426 Frances Hyde Benvenue Granite Steamer 739   1905 Later Mary Tamplin 1919, Ena 1925, Merituuli 1947, foundered 1947
  162813 Hercules Boston Sand & Gravel Scow 203   1906 Steam barge 1908, to USN 1918 as ID-3190, YE-30 1920, sold 1923, abandoned 1940
  204088 S. T. Co. No. 2 Sagadahoc Towing Schooner Barge 526   1907  
  204224 Smyrna Robert B. Wathen Schooner Barge 741   1907  
  204436 Cadosia Robert B. Wathen Schooner Barge 756   1907  
  204560 Sidney Robert B. Wathen Schooner Barge 745   1907  
  204654 S. T. Co. No. 4 Sagadahoc Towing Schooner Barge 526   1907  
164 205188 Henry Endicott Cambridge Gas Schooner Barge 866   1908 Foundered 1939 off Mass.
  206633 Charles W Parker Jr   Tug 277   1909  
  206361 Virginia   Passenger Steamer 71   1909  
  208451 Merida Atlantic & Carib. SN Passenger Steamer 628   1911 Deleted 1937
  209020 Helen   Schooner Barge 1,285   1911  
  209403 Fall River Staples Tptn Schooner Barge 1,759   1911 Foundered 1932
  209563 Chatham Staples Tptn Schooner Barge 1,812   1912 Later Deepwater No. 2
  209721 Mount Hope Staples Tptn Schooner Barge 1,801   1912  
  209981 William C. May   Schooner 710   1912  
  210334 Eureka Rowe Bros Steamer 471   1912 Barge 1946, deleted 1956
  210570 Rahn Lehigh Coal Schooner Barge 932   1912  
  210751 Maine P. Dougherty Co. Schooner Barge 1,110   1912 Foundered off C&D Canal 1951
  210838 John H. Winstead   Schooner Barge 841   1912  
  211248 Irwin Westmoreland Coal Schooner Barge 1,304   1913  
  211651 Penn   Schooner Barge 1,849   1913 Wrecked 1923 off Block Island
  211840 Irene Mystic Steamship Schooner Barge 1,206   1913 Foundered 1934 off Barnegat Light
  213435 Wollaston Staples Tptn Schooner Barge 1,378   1915  
  213708 Atlantic Staples Tptn Schooner Barge 1,900   1915  
  213806 Larimer   Schooner Barge 1,584   1915  
  214344 Westmoreland Martin Barge Co. Schooner Barge 1,593   1916 Foundered off Cape Henry 1939
  214542 Northern No. 6   Schooner Barge 1,602   1916 Later Orleans
  214785 Northern No. 7   Schooner Barge 1,631   1917 Later Truro, foundered 1934
  215253 Manor Westmoreland Coal Schooner Barge 1,603   1917  
  215731 Samuel W. Fancher   Schooner Barge 1,972   1917 Later Southern
  215952 Osceola Westmoreland Coal Schooner Barge 1,621   1918 Scrapped 1951
  217107 Columbine U. S. S. B. Steamer 2,551   1918 Scrapped 1925
    USSB #s 2335-2340 U. S. S. B. 6 Barges     1919 Cancelled
196 218022 Falmouth Staples Tptn Schooner Barge 2,236   1919 Later barge Catonsville, sank 1937 off USEC
  218673 Winnegance Southern Tptn. Schooner Barge 1,327   1919  
  218878 New Meadows Southern Tptn. Schooner Barge 1,327   1919 Later Chelsea
  221348 Barnstable Staples Tptn Schooner Barge 1,626   1921 Stranded 1934
  221512 Bourne Staples Tptn Schooner Barge 1,626   1921 Foundered 1934
201 222889 Winsor Westmoreland Coal Schooner Barge 1,034   1923 Foundered 1946
202 222993 Hutchinson Westmoreland Coal Schooner Barge 1,034   1923 Burned off Point Reading 1951