Sugar House Bulletin | 1941-02-21 | Page 5 | Seven in Family Sail Three-Masted Schooner

Seven in Family Sail Three-Masted Schooner BOSTON. Seven members of one family comprising three generations genera-tions are the officers and crew of the Rebecca R. Douglas, one of the few remaining three-masted schooners schoon-ers in the Down-East merchant marine. ma-rine. Master of the Douglas is Capt. Burtis M. Wasson, a veteran of 54 years aboard windjammers in the Atlantic trade. Included in his ship's complement are two sons who serve as his mates, two other sons who are able seamen, a daughter-in-law who fills the steward's berth, and his year-old grandson who holds the rating of midshipmite. Captain Wasson has been operating operat-ing the Douglas for four years. She is the only three-masted center-board center-board schooner on the Atlantic coast, he says.