The Thatcher Magoun

Hollis French, with a foreword by Allan Forbes

Published by Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1936.

Second Edition, 70 pp. Hardcover. 

Thatcher Magoun was a renowned American shipbuilder who opened the first boatyard in Medford, Massachusetts in 1803. Magoun's reputation as a shipbuilder was second to none, and he was known as the Father of Shipbuilding on the Mystic River. The Thatcher Magouin clipper ship was lunched 1856, the same year as its namesake's death. Detailed descriptions of the ship's architecture, a sampling of log entries, and short family history of the Magoun's and the ships first captain, William Peterson.