Ocean King

Per the Kennebunkport Historical Society: Launched October 6, 1874 the Ocean King was a 4-masted bark. She was built by Master Carpenter Benjamin Jackson at the N.L. Thompson shipyard in Lower Village Kennebunkport, Maine. She was owned by the J. Henry Sears & Co., Boston, MA from 1875-1883. Employed in the New York - San Francisco - Liverpool route she travelled around the horn and back several times. When J. Henry Sears & Co., went out of business in 1883 she was laid up at San Francisco for 3 years. May 8, 1887, the Ocean King Sprung a leak in the North Pacific and had to be abandoned when the steam pump failed. The crew was taken off the sinking ship by the schooner Angel Dolly.