Following up on a 1923 newspaper article about a four-masted schooner, the Estelle Krieger, being stranded off Ship Bottom, a search of the New Jersey Maritime Museum records showed the ship was launched in 1899 but originally called the Mary T. Quinby. Remembering the old sailor’s adage that changing a ship’s name brings bad luck and misfortune, the story of the Estelle Krieger begins.
After 11 years as the Mary T. Quinby, the name change took place during an overhaul at Philadelphia in August 1910.
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