Built in 1877, STONE is the oldest surviving Gulf schooner, a type which was important to maritime commerce of the South and Gulf Coast, where shallows and sandbars made the employment of shoal centerboard schooners essential to the transfer of freight and goods to and from large oceangoing sailing vessels which could not come into port.

Information provided by the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Park Service

Photo courtesy Friends of Governor Stone. The GOVERNOR STONE sails along the Gulf Coast; consult http://www.governorstone.org/index.html for the most current port location.