Recently I was asked had I ever written anything about the history of the Lucy Evelyn. A quick search of the last 40 years of articles came up with nothing.
Others had done so, most notably the fine work of John Bailey Lloyd in Six Miles At Sea, which focused on the schooner from its being brought to Beach Haven in the 1940s to its demise in 1972. With that in mind, a search for the schooner’s early history began
An October 1942 article in the American Neptune by Robert Goddard told me to look deeper.
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