Vessel History Yankee (I) - Schooner Built as: Loodsschoeoner 4 (Translation: Pilot Schooner) Class: Dutch North Sea pilot schooner Hull: Seasoned oak – 7 ½ “ x 7” frames, set up and weathered for a year before 3” oak planking installed – copper sheathed bottom. Masts: 2 Build date: 1897 First Yankee Voyage: November 5, 1933 Built by: The Kingdom of the Netherlands Built at: Holland Built to: carry pilots to incoming ships Power: Auxiliary motor Gross tons: 90 Length: 92’ LOA - 76’ LWL Beam: 21 Draught: 11’ Sail: New foretopmast added by the Johnsons in 1933. Number: As Texel: 149352 Owner Chain: 1926: Purchased at auction and renamed Texel by Captain Claude S. Monson, Ipswich, England Probably Claude Sach Monson (c.1882-1946) Named for: Texel - An island of northwest Netherlands in the North Sea in the southwest Frisian Islands. 1933: Purchased from Captain Monson by Irving and Electa Johnson Renamed: Yankee (I) Johnson – Irving McClure Johnson (1905-1991) Search – Harriet Electa (Search) Johnson (1909-2004) "The owner's cabin was aft, with two small cabins to starboard, one double and one single cabin, engine room, and bathroom to port. Forward of these were the main cabin with an upper and lower tier of bunks, six to port and eight to starboard. There were benches and boxes for provisions under the bunks. Along one side of the cabin was what would become a Johnson trademark on all their vessels an enormous swinging teakwood table that always remained level no matter how the ship heeled. Forward of the main cabin was the galley, then a companionway to the teak deckhouse, with bunks, chart table, and storage for several thousand charts.": "The Circumnavigators: Small Boat Voyagers of Modern Times," by Don Holm, Angus and Robertson, 1975 - Chapter 14, The Yankees Go Around and Around, p. 139. Disposition: The Johnsons sailed Yankee around the world three times before WWII. 1941: Sold Later wrecked off Nova Scotia. The Johnson’s second Yankee, brigantine, replaced this vessel in 1946. See: "Westward Bound in the Schooner Yankee" by Captain and Mrs. Irving Johnson; with drawings by Roland Wentzel, W.W. Norton, New York, 1936. “Sailing to See: Picture Cruise in the Schooner Yankee” by Captain and Mrs. Irving Johnson, W.W. Norton, New York, c.1939. OTS: 0398 – not in database yet Tod, Giles M.S.. The Last Sail Downeast (Barre Publishers, Barre, Massachusetts, 1965) p. 156-157. .