Edna Hoyt

Last of the 52 five-masters built in Maine from 1888 to 1920. Built by Dunn and Elliot, Thomaston, Maine for account of the Superior Trading and Transportation Company. Named for the wife of one of its investors and built at a cost of $280,000. Coast Guard captain W. J. Lewis Parker wrote in a 1948 study: “built and officered by local men, managed by a leading citizen, and owned by the builder, the captain, the sailmaker, the doctor, and a score of other substantial townspeople.’’ Built by Dunn and Elliot, Thomaston, Maine for account of the Superior Trading and Transportation Company. Named for the wife of one of its investors and built at a cost of $280,000.