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Title |
William E. Wright Boatbuilding and Biographical History |
Collection |
William E. Wright |
Catalog Number |
2019.24.79 |
Date |
1918-2002 |
Scope & Content |
William E. Wright Deadrise boatbuilder, Syringa, Virginia (1918-2002) William Wright's father G.L. "Captain Ladd" Wright was "an early pioneer of building staved, cross-planked-bottom deadrise workboats in the Chesapeake" Worked with his father as a boy aboard the converted to power bugeye Sophie A. Durm Was foreman at Deagle & Sons Marine Railway from 1935-1975 Apprenticed with Linwood Price to learn ship construction at Deagles At Deagles & Sons he built boats, rebuilt schooners and bugeyes, converted sailboats to powerboats, installed round sterns on deckboats and patent sterns on bugeyes Converted included Sarah Conway, Ida B. Conway, Betty I. Conway, Flora C. Kirwan Rebuilt the Harriet C. Whitehead in 1935, the largest two-masted schooner on the Bay |