5-Masted Schooner

Model of a 5-masted schooner at the Columbia River Maritime Museum.

I believe this model of a 5-masted schooner at the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, Oregon, may be a model of the K. V. Kruse. The K. V. Kruse was a 242-foot 5-masted schooner built by Kruse & Banks Shipbuilding Co. of North Bend, Oregon for Coos Bay interests in 1920. The K. V. Kruse was idle in Astoria by 1930, and was moved to Lake Union, Washington by 1935. It was sold to the Gibson Bros. Logging Co. of Vancouver, British Columbia in 1939 to be converted to a log barge. It was lost off the coast of British Columbia in July 1941.

For more about schooners and clipper ships on the West Coast, see Steve Priske's sites:

Tall Ships of San Francisco
Article in March 2005 issue of Bay Crossings

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