Snow & Burgess

Snow & Burgess started as a Three-Masted Ship launched in 1878 from Thomaston, Maine. She was 228.5 feet l°ng by 41.5 feet wide and 24.7 feet in depth, and had a gross tonnage of 1655.49. San Francisco's Captain A. P. Lorentzen bought her in 1900 and a year later she was converted by Boole's shipyard in Oakland to the five-masted schooner. On 5 Sept. 1902, Capt. A. H. Sorensen of the five-masted schooner Snow & Burgess and his wife Marie welcomed a baby girl while at sea. In 1990, Burgess Cogill (nee Sorensen) published When God was an atheist sailor: Memories of a childhood at sea, 1902-1910.