In 1955, a schooner called the Annie C. Ross sank in Hempstead Harbor while waiting to be used by a sea cadet school for training.

 

She was a 175-foot long wooden hulled schooner once used in the lumber trade.

 

Built in 1917 in Maine, the Annie C. Ross started life as a freighter, she was then purchased by an actor with an affitity for ships, and finally ended up with the sailing organization before she sank on her moorings.

 

A New York Times article from 1952 says that at one time the Annie C. Ross belonged to an actor named Scott Moore. He bought her at auction and after a little controversy with minor shareholders of the ship, the Annie C. Ross became his. Moore and his wife set about restoring the ship in hopes of using her in television shows.

 

It's not know if the Annie C. Ross ever got her close-up, but in according to shipsandthings.com, in 1954, she was bought by a scouting organization intending to use her as a training vessel. The scouting organization was still raising money for their project when the Annie C. Ross sank at her moorings in Glen Cove.

 

Another account says more specifically that the Catholic Sea Cadets of America acquired the Annie C. Ross and renamed her Star of the Sea before she sank.

 

She was the last of the schooners built by Maine shipyard Percy and Small to perish.