Ship S.S. WINIFRED

Antonio Jacobsen, artist. oil on canvas. S.S. WINIFRED, port side view underway. Winifred, built in 1898 at Bath Iron Works, was the first steel tramp steamer built in the United States. A tramp steamer is a freighter that does what most sailing ships did - carry freight wherever it is wanted, without regard to home port or schedule. Smaller than many wooden sailing vessels built in Maine, she was owned by a New York firm. Eventually converted to a tanker, she was scrapped in the mid-1930s.