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Doris Hamlin
Built in Pine Bluff, Arkansas by Davis Steel Ship Corporation in 1980, the Doris Hamlin is 88’ long and 38’ abeam – the exact width of the original schooner for which she is named. She measures 46’ from topmast to keel, and draws 8’ of water. She is an inland river pushboat, with twin Caterpillar 1800 horsepower diesel engines with turbo chargers. Vane acquired her in 1998 from St. Laurent Paper Products Corporation in West Point, Virginia.
Her namesake, the original Doris Hamlin, was a four-masted schooner built in 1919 by Frye & Flynn in Harrington, Maine. Carrying a crew of eight, she measured 200’ in length, 38’ in breadth, and 18’ in depth. The original Vane brothers, Captain W. Burke Vane and Allen P. Vane, were part owners of the Doris Hamlin, that called on ports along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard and the Caribbean during the 1930s. Her cargos included pulpwood, fertilizer materials, lumber, coal, and logwood. It is believed that in 1940 the proud schooner was lost with all hands when she was sunk by a German U-boat.
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