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Specifications
Homeport of roseway.
- Rig: Schooner
- Sparred Length: 137′
- LOA: 112′
- LOD: 90′
- LWL: 90′
- Draft: 12′
- Beam: 25′
- Rig Height: 84′
- Freeboard: 51′
- Sail Area: 5,600 square feet
Organization: World Ocean School
The World Ocean School is an internationally focused nonprofit, nonsectarian organization dedicated to providing challenging educational programs for youth by fostering an appreciation for, and obligation to, community and relationships; developing a deep commitment to ethical values and cultivating an expanded world view. The World Ocean School provides programs aboard the schooner Roseway for an international mix of students ages 15-21. Programs focus on studies in marine ecology, maritime history, stewardship, seamanship, ethical decision- making, and community service. The 137-foot Roseway was built in 1925 in Essex, Massachusetts as a private fishing yacht. She was purchased by the Boston Pilots Association in 1941, where she received a bronze plaque in honor of her exemplary wartime service during World War II. The Roseway was the last pilot schooner in the United States when she was retired in 1973. In 1974, the Roseway was taken to Maine to serve in the Windjammer trade. In 1977, the Roseway starred in the television movie, Captains Courageous. In September 2002 she was donated to the World Ocean School. Today, after 78 years of service, she is one of the last Grand Banks schooners built in Essex, and a registered U.S. National Historic Landmark.
- USCG Certification: Passenger Vessel (Subchapter T)
- Who Sails: Middle School, High School, College
- Program Type: Other: sea education in ethical decision-making and community service in ports
- Normal Cruising Waters – Summer: Caribbean
- Normal Cruising Waters – Winter: New England
- Sailing Season: Year-round
- Year Launched: 1925
- Number of Crew: 10
- Name of Contact: Eden Leonard
- Phone: (617) 816-9247
- Website: https://worldoceanschool.org/
John F. James ROSEWAY
Wartime designation: CGR-812
Type: Gaff-rigged schooner
LOA: 137′ 0″ / 42.00m – LOD: 112’0″ / 34.00m – LWL: 90’0″ / 27.00m – Beam: 20′ 7″ / 6.27m – Draft: 13′ 0″ / 4.00m – Displacement: – Sail Area: 5,600 sq ft / 520 m2 – Original Owner: Harold Hathaway of Taunton, Massachusetts – Original Name: Roseway – Year Launched: 24 November 1925 – Designed by: John F. James – Built by: John F. James & Son – Hull Material: Wood – In service: May 1942 – Out of service: November 1945 – National Register Number: 97001278
Historical:
Roseway was designed as a fishing yacht by John James and built in 1925 in his family’s shipyard in Essex, Massachusetts. Father and son worked side by side on Roseway, carrying on a long New England history of wooden shipbuilding. She was commissioned by Harold Hathaway of Taunton, Massachusetts, and was named after an acquaintance of Hathaway’s “who always got her way.”
n 1941, Roseway was purchased by the Boston Pilot’s Association to serve as a pilot boat for Boston Harbor, as a replacement for the pilot-boat Northern Light, No. 3
WWII service
In the spring of 1942, Roseway was fitted with a .50-caliber machine gun and assigned to the First Naval District (New England). All lighted navigational aids along the coast were turned off during the war, and it was up to the Pilots and Roseway to guide ships through the minefields and anti-submarine netting protecting the harbor. At the end of the war, the Coast Guard presented a bronze plaque to the pilots in honor of Roseway‘s exemplary wartime service.
Post War Years: Roseway continued to serve as a pilot vessel until the early 1970s, at which point she and San Francisco’s Zodiac were the only pilot schooners still in service in the United States. She was then sold and converted into a passenger vessel for the tourist trade. Roseway changed hands several times in the ensuing decades, operating primarily out of Camden, Maine and the US Virgin Islands. In 1997, Roseway appeared in a 1977 television remake of Rudyard Kipling’s “Captains Courageous” featuring Karl Malden. And she is now believed to be one of only six Essex-built Grand Banks fishing schooners left in existence. Roseway was listed as a National Historic Landmark. Roseway, at that time, retained between eighty and ninety percent of her original hull fabric and was badly in need of repairs. She remained docked in Rockland, Maine until she was repossessed by the First National Bank of Damariscotta, which in 2002 donated the vessel to the newly founded World Ocean School. Following two years of restoration in Boothbay Harbor, Roseway again set sail in 2005. She currently serves as the platform for the World Ocean School, which offers various educational programs in St. Croix and the northeastern United States. Roseway appeared in a 1977 television remake of Rudyard Kipling’s “Captains Courageous” featuring Karl Malden. And she is now believed to be one of only six Essex-built Grand Banks fishing schooners left in existence. Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Notable Guest, and Reunion Information):
Owner: (1925-1941) – Harold Hathaway of Taunton, Massachusetts Owner: (1941–1942) – Boston Pilots Owner: (1942–1945) – Coast Guard Reserve Owner: (1945–1972) – Boston Pilots Owner: (1972–1974) – A Boston syndicate Owner: (1974–1987) – Jim Sharp, Orvil Young Owner: (2002–present) – World Ocean School
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