Teacher Instructions Abstract Students will map the journey of the two masted, coastal schooner Industry 1868

What was the path of the schooner Industry and where did she sink? The Industry was lost at sea on December 29,1868. All ships keep a ship’s log; coordinates, distances, weather conditions, and ship activities are recorded on a regular schedule in a log. Because the log for the Industry was lost, we do not know the path of the journey and position of the sinking. Your job is to plot the paths of the two ships and map the position of the shipwreck.

The Industry is classified as a coastal schooner. What is a schooner? Schooners have a special place in marine history; the early schooners were built in Massachusetts. In 1713, in Gloucester a shipbuilder named Andrew Robinson launched a boat of an innovative design, built for agility, speed and transporting cargo. “Oh, how she scoons.” commented a spectator at her launching. The name stuck and “scoon” became schooner, which is a Scottish term meaning to skim. Schooners were so efficient and fast that soon shipyards along the East coast were building schooners.

Figure 1. A classic schooner, Bluenose on a Canadian postage stamp.

1. Do an online search for the term “schooner”. What physical attributes are specific to a schooner?

2. Why was a schooner a good fit for fishing and trade in the North Atlantic?

You will read Sailing to Buy a Wedding Dress, which was adapted from the letter from Master Mariners Sponagle and Currie to Mr DesBrisay. Using this document, you will create a map of the journey using the coordinate positions of the schooner Industry.

Read the story Sailing to Buy a Wedding Dress and highlight all the place names and locational clues mentioned in the reading.

Copy the Shipwreckdata folder that your teacher gives you to the MyWorldGIS data folder. Once you copy it, open the folder, you should see the following data folders: atl_hurtrack, AtlanticProv, Provinces and Ice. Within the Shipwreckdata folder, create a new folder and name it Created. Save any datasets that you create in this new folder.

The ship’s log for the Industry has been long lost, but we can recreate a ship’s log by recording all locational clues along the journey. Construct a spreadsheet in Excel of all places mentioned in the story Sailing to Buy a Wedding Dress; indicate the date and geographic coordinates. Use Google Earth to locate each place; you will need to record the locations in decimal degrees. To have Google Earth display decimal degrees, open Google Earth, click the Google Earth Menu, select Preferences, and set “Show Lat/Long” to decimal degrees as in the Figure 2 below.