Thomas W. Lawson (ship)

The Thomas W. Lawson was a seven-masted, steel-hulled schooner originally planned for the Pacific trade, but then used primarily to haul coal and oil along the East Coast of the United States. Built in 1902, the ship holds the distinction of being the largest schooner and the third-largest sailing ship ever built, the larger sailing ships being the French and German five-masted barques France II (1911) and R. C. Rickmers (1906) respectively. Regarding only pure sailing ships without an auxiliary engine for propulsion ever built-in, the huge schooner was the world's largest sailing ship of that kind, followed by the famous German full-rigged five-masted ship Preussen (Prussia) of the Flying P-Liner fleet, launched in the same year. The Thomas W. Lawson was destroyed in a storm on December 14, 1907, killing all but two of her crew.
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