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Sawyer, Warren, Captain (1849-1914) | Maine Maritime Museum Manuscript Collection Online Catalog
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Warren Sawyer was the eldest child of Joseph Warren Sawyer and Mary Jane (Wallace) Sawyer, born in Milbridge, Washington County, Maine, in 1849. He went to sea, and at the age of 20 had command of the Bath-built three-mast schooner Warren Sawyer. In 1872 he became the commander and part owner of the 5-year-old Milbridge schooner Mahaska, which his father and uncle had had shares in from her launching. In 1876 he took the new Milbridge bark Illie, and in 1885 the new Milbridge bark Ventura. He later commanded the 1897 Milbridge three-mast schooner Nokomis, built by his brothers.
In 1876 he married Mary L. Knowles, and they lived in Milbridge. When the census taker visited the house in 1880, Warren Sawyer got recorded as “Master Mariner – at sea.” He was still listed as commanding Nokomis in 1899, but by the 1900 census his occupation was given as ship builder. Although nominally a partner with his father and brothers in the family shipyard from 1888, he likely was less directly involved in the yard, spending a good deal of his time at sea.
Warren Sawyer is the builder of record for the four-mast schooner Myrtle Tunnel, launched in 1904. There were other schooners built in Milbridge that carried the Tunnel name, but all were built by Sawyer Brothers. Every other vessel built in Milbridge from 1899 until Warren’s death was recorded as built by Sawyer Brothers or a non-Sawyer builder. The Myrtle Tunnel may be the only vessel built by Warren alone.
The 1910 census gives his occupation as “Saw Mill”, but when he died of pneumonia on 19 April 1914, aged 64, he was called a ship builder.
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