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Shiverick’s Shipyard
Asa Shiverick and his sons built many fine clipper ships in the famous shipyard, now marked only by a plaque on a large boulder, at Dennis. The plaque is located on Sesuit Neck Road just as you come over the hill before the entrance to the west side of the town harbor.
Two of the best known clippers designed and put together by the Shivericks were the Wild Hunter and the Belle of the West. The latter was lost in the Bay of Bengal. The last launching of a Shiverick clipper was in 1863.
The Shiverick boats, most of them running about 1000 tons, were launched on high course tides as bare hulls. They were then either towed, or sailed under a jury-rig, to Boston, where the masts were stepped and the rigging attached.
Of the many fine clippers built and launched in Dennis; eight of them were captained by native sons. The Shiverick shipbuilding enterprise was principally financed by Christopher Hall, also of Dennis. Thomas Hall, son of Christopher, sailed in Shiverick vessels as a boy, and later wrote a history of the shipyard, in the form of a monograph.
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Posted by capelinks - (website) on 02/14/06
Categories: Dennis, History, Places
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Carol, There is a historical society and you can reach them at their website. I am sure they would be very interested in them.
Posted by Jeff from E. Dennis on 05/04/08 at 12:15 PM | #
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FYI I am the proud owner of 8 original pen and ink drawings of the 8 clipper ships built at Shiverick Shipyards. They were drawn by my late Great Aunt Dorothy Hambly Ellen of East Dennis, MA, I believe for the centennial (1963?) celebration of the last Shiverick ship launched. As I recall, her pen-and-ink drawings were used to print commemorative ceramic tiles and notecards for the occasion. I haven’t been to Cape Cod in 30 years and do not know whether there is a historical society interested in these drawings.