Fleur de Lis (pilot boat): Difference between revisions

On September 13, 1891, Captain Alfred Sorensen owner and pilot of the Boston yacht ''Fleur de Lis,'' took a party of quests out fishing when she was run into by the steamer ''Cumberland''. The passengers were safely taken off the yacht and she was repaired.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75180755/sorensen/ |title=Collision of Vessels |work=The Morning Journal-Courier |place=New Haven, Connecticut |date=14 Sep 1891|page=3|access-date=5 Apr 2021}}</ref> Captain Alfred Sorensen was reported owning the yacht from 1891 to 1895.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75183656/sorensen/ |title=Yachts and Yachtsmen. |work=The Boston Globe |place=Boston, Massachusetts |date=26 May 1895|page=32|access-date=5 Apr 2021}}</ref>

 

 

On September 25, 1897, the schooner ''Fleur de Lis,'' sank at the Commercial wharf in Boston. Thieves had cut away a lead pipe connected to the boat.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75183889/sank/ |title=Sch Fleu De Lis Sunk. |work=The Boston Globe |place=Boston, Massachusetts |date=25 Sep 1897|page=10|access-date=5 Apr 2021}}</ref> On February 7, 1904, the pilot boat ''Fleur de Lis'' was in a graveyard for boats in East Boston. She was used by [[Daniel Webster]], an American lawyer and statesman, [[Edwin Booth]] an American actor, and [[Edwin Forrest]] an American [[Shakespearean]] actor, and many other prominent men.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75181433/cemetery/ |title=Cemetery For Old Water Craft |work=The Boston Globe |place=Boston, Massachusetts| date=7 Feb 1904|page=4|access-date=5 Apr 2021}}</ref>