Two-masted coasting schooner "Gamecock" was built at Eden, Maine in 1858. She was 97 8/95 tons - 68.8 - 23.0 - 6.8. Her first owners were the Langley family from Ellsworth and Trenton, Maine. - List of Vessels Built on Mount Desert, Cranberry, Tinker’s, Thompson’s and Long Island (Frenchboro) Compiled by Ralph Stanley, p. 62-3 - 2003.
John Langley Jr. (1809-1886) - Tremont
Catherine E. Dow Langley, Mrs. John Langley Jr. (1817-1880) – Tremont
Jonathan P. Langley (1843-?) – son of John Langley Jr. and Catherine
"I've also found records from the 1870s showing that my great-grandfather was master of the two-masted schooner "Gamecock." She was built over in Bar Harbor, and he may have owned shares in her, too. There are old newspaper accounts saying the Gamecock was going back and forth between Calais, in Maine, and Boston, Danvers, and Lynn, in Massachusetts, quite regularly. Sometimes she even went to New York.
In 1882, the "Gamecock" was sold to Nova Scotia parties, and A. J. Robinson became master of a three-masted schooner named the "Andrew Nebinger" that was even bigger." - - “Ralph Stanley : Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder” by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine 2004, p. 25-28.
