Captain John B. Stahl Papers, 1892-1903 | Maine Maritime Museum Manuscript Collection Online Catalog

Scope and Contents: The Capt. John B Stahl Jr. papers consists of one charter party document of the barkentine E. O. Clark, and various vessel papers of the four-mast schooner Nimbus including insurance papers, correspondence with brokers Smith & Gregory (New York) and J. H. Flinter & Co. (Boston), invoices, charter parties, freight & cargo receipts and portage accounts. Most of the time Stahl appears to have been in command of the Nimbus, but there is some correspondence from Capt. William A. Keene indicating that Keene took command of the vessel for a time in 1900-1901. Keene reports to Stahl as if Stahl were the vessel’s owner, but addresses him as “Dear Brother.” The vessel papers of the bark William Hales consists of ownership papers (bills of sale for shares and a copy of a certificate of registry), and a receipt and documents of protest regarding the bark being struck by the steamer Niagara, as a result of which the bark sank immediately.