Wyoming

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36.5”L x 19.5”H x 4”W

The Wyoming was one of the largest wooden ships - 450 feet long and capable of carrying 6000 tons of coal - ever built and also one the last of the six-mast schooners.  Wyoming Governor Bryant Butler Brooks was a prime investor in the ship, which cost $175,000 in 1909 dollars.

Because of the extreme length of the Wyoming and its wood construction, it tended to flex in heavy seas, which would cause the long planks to twist and buckle, thereby allowing seawater to intrude into the hold. The Wyoming had to use pumps to keep its hold relatively free of water.

She served for fifteen years. In March 1924, she headed from Norfolk to New Brunswick. A large storm arose, just as she reached Pollock Rip, a channel through the ten-mile stretch of water separating Nantucket from Cape Cod. The Wyoming stopped there to ride out the storm. Her size caught up with her - gaps opened in her planking and let water in. Normally her pumps could handle the leakage, but the Pollock Rip storm was too much. She sank, taking thirteen sailors down with her.