# Inca (schooner)

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{{Short description|Five-masted schooner Washington state, U.S.}}
{{Infobox ship
|section1={{Infobox ship/image 
 | image               = Schooner INCA.jpg
 | image_caption             = The damaged schooner ''Inca'' at anchor, possibly in Sydney Harbour, c 1920.
 }}

|section2={{Infobox ship/career
 | hide_header              = 
 | country             = United States
 | flag                = {{shipboxflag|United States|1896}}
 | name                =
 | owner               = 
 | ordered             = 
 | builder             = Hall Brothers, [Port Blakely](/source/Port_Blakely%2C_Bainbridge_Island%2C_Washington)
 | original_cost       = 
 | laid_down           = 
 | launched            = 1896<ref>
{{Cite book
  | last = Newell
  | first = Gordon R.
  | title = "Maritime Events of 1896", H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest
  | publisher = Superior Publishing Co.
  | year = 1966
  | location = Seattle
  | pages = 4
  | url = http://www.cimorelli.com/cgi-bin/magellanscripts/ship_dates_volume.asp?ShipName=Inca
  | access-date = 2010-02-27}}
</ref>
 | acquired            = 
 | commissioned        = 
 | decommissioned      = 
 | in_service          = 
 | out_of_service      = 
 | renamed             = 
 | struck              = 1920
 | reinstated          = 
 | honours             = 
 | captured            = 
 | fate                = Hulked
 | notes               = 
 }}

|section3={{Infobox ship/characteristics
 | hide_header              = 
 | header_caption           = 
 | class               = 
 | tonnage        = 901.88 tons 
 | length              = {{cvt|215|ft|5|in|m}}
 | beam          = {{cvt|41|ft|3|in|m}}
 | draft          = {{cvt|16|ft|5|in|m}}
 | hold_depth          = 
 | propulsion          = 
 | sail_plan          = 5-masted [schooner](/source/schooner)<ref>[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18980405.2.72&cl=search&srpos=16&dliv=none&e=-------en-Logical-20--1----inca+schooner-all--- ''Governor Ames'' and the ''Inca'', the only five-masted topsail schooners in the world], San Francisco Call, Volume 83, Number 126, 5 April 1898</ref>
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}}

'''Inca''' was "the first true five-masted schooner built on the West Coast."<ref>{{Cite web
  | last = Bruzelius
  | first = Lars
  | title = Sailing Ships: Five-masted schooners
  | website = www.bruzelius.info
  | date = Oct 6, 1996
  | url = http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Schooners/Schooners%285m%29.html
  | access-date = 2010-02-27}} 
</ref> ''Inca'' was launched at [Port Blakely](/source/Port_Blakely%2C_Bainbridge_Island%2C_Washington), Washington, by Hall Bros. in 1896.<ref name ="marinedigest1">
{{Cite news 
  | last = Lyman
  | first = John
  | title = Pacific coast built sailers 1850-1905
  | newspaper = The Marine Digest
  | pages = 2
  | date = May 10, 1941
  | url = http://www.cimorelli.com/cgi-bin/magellanscripts/ship_dates_volume.asp?ShipName=Inca
  | access-date = 2010-02-27}}
</ref>

==Launching==
"The ''Inca'', because of its size and rig, had attracted considerable attention during the progress of its construction and when the time set for launching arrived a large crowd of people was present in the shipyards. The Port Blakeley schools were closed so that the pupils might attend the exercises incident to launching. Little Miss Melusina Thornton, the nine-year-old daughter of Chief Engineer Thornton of the steamer ''Sarah Renton'', christened the new boat as it slipped into the water a few minutes before 11 o'clock on the morning of November 11, 1896."<ref>{{Cite book
  | last = Begley
  | first = Clarence
  | title = History of Seattle from the earliest settlement to the present time
  | publisher = S.J Clarke Publishing Co.
  | year = 1916
  | location = Chicago
  | pages = 615–616
  | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=nbupvBGRpwEC&dq=inca+schooner&pg=PA615
 }}
</ref>

==First cargo of sugar to Port Costa refinery==
On April 3, 1898, the ''Inca'' brought the first cargo, 31,763 bags of [sugar](/source/sugar), from [Honolulu](/source/Honolulu) to the new [sugar refinery](/source/sugar_refinery) at [Port Costa, California](/source/Port_Costa%2C_California). The [barkentine](/source/barkentine) ''Planter'' followed with a second sugar cargo from Honolulu shortly thereafter.<ref>[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&cl=search&d=SFC18980404.2.66&srpos=15&e=-------en-Logical-20--1----inca+schooner-all--- Alaska Fever Now Abating]. San Francisco Call, Volume 83, Number 125, 4 April 1898</ref>

==Voyage to Alaska gold fields, 1902==
On May 13, 1902, Inca was the first vessel to leave [Newcastle, Australia](/source/Newcastle%2C_Australia) for [Nome, Alaska](/source/Nome_Gold_Rush), bound for the gold fields.<ref>San Francisco Call, Volume 93, Number 165, 14 May 1903 — From Australia to Nome</ref>

==Lumber schooner==
''Inca'' was active in the [West Coast lumber trade](/source/West_coast_lumber_trade). In 1907, she arrived in [San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco) with over a million board feet of lumber on board—1,100,000 board feet, according to a local report.<ref>[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19070616.2.100&cl=search&srpos=44&dliv=none&e=-------en-Logical-20--41----inca+schooner-all--- Shipping News and Gossip of the Water Front], San Francisco Call, Volume 102, Number 16, 16 June 1907</ref> Two examples of her lumber voyages follow:

''Inca'' arrived in [Astoria, Oregon](/source/Astoria%2C_Oregon) from Honolulu on July 19, 1910, after discharging ballast at [Linnton](/source/Linnton%2C_Portland%2C_Oregon). She was scheduled to load lumber at the Inman Paulsen mills for New Zealand.<ref>[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19100720.2.79.9&cl=search&srpos=21&dliv=none&e=-------en-Logical-20--21----inca+schooner-all--- Shipping News of Coast], San Francisco Call, Volume 108, Number 50, 20 July 1910</ref>
 
==Dismasting==
According to Gordon R. Newell, ''Inca''  "left [Eureka, California](/source/Eureka%2C_California) October 10, 1920, with a cargo of [redwood lumber](/source/Sequoia_sempervirens) for Sydney, Australia and was dismasted in the South Pacific. She was abandoned on December 7 by all hands except two men who volunteered to remain on board. The captain, his wife and the other 10 men of the crew set out in the boats and were sighted by the steamship ''[Cosmos](/source/USC%26GS_Cosmos)'', which towed the ''Inca'' to [Sydney](/source/Sydney), where she arrived December 18, discharged her cargo and was subsequently [hulked](/source/Hulk_(ship_type))."<ref>
{{Cite book
  | last = Newell
  | first = Gordon R.
  | title = "Maritime Events of 1919-1920", H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest
  | publisher = Superior Publishing Co.
  | location = Seattle
  | year = 1966
  | pages = 312
  | url = http://www.cimorelli.com/cgi-bin/magellanscripts/ship_dates_volume.asp?ShipName=Inca
  | access-date = 2010-02-27}}
</ref>

==Schooner ''Inca'' in popular culture==

Inca Lane in San Francisco is supposedly named after the 5-masted schooner.<ref>{{Cite web
  | last = Donat
  | first = Hank
  | title = Mr. SF.com, Streets of the City
  | year = 2008
  | url = http://mistersf.com/streets/index.html?istsfr.htm 
  | access-date = 2010-02-27}}
</ref>

==See also==
*[West coast lumber trade](/source/West_coast_lumber_trade)

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18980405.2.72&cl=search&srpos=16&dliv=none&e=-------en-Logical-20--1----inca+schooner-all--- ''Governor Ames'' and the ''Inca'', the only five-masted topsail schooners in the world], San Francisco Call, Volume 83, Number 126, 5 April 1898

==Further reading==

*{{Cite book
 | last = Gibbs
 | first = Jim
 | title = West Coast Windjammers in Story and Pictures
 | edition = 1st
 | year = 1966
 | publisher = Superior Publishing Co
 | location = Seattle}}—Three photos of ''Inca'', including the frontispiece

{{1920 shipwrecks}}

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Category:Schooners of the United States
Category:Five-masted ships
Category:Ships built in Washington (state)
Category:Merchant ships of the United States
Category:Lumber schooners
Category:Maritime incidents in 1920
Category:1896 ships

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