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Benjamin F. Packard (1883) was a three-masted full-rigged ship, built and owned by the Bath firm Goss, Sawyer and Packard. Two of the shipowners had already been honoured by having their names given to ships, now it was time for the third. The ship was rigged with sky-sails and a typical example of the 'Down Easters' of the 1880s.
However, the ship was best-known for her master for 15 years - Capt. Zachary Allen, his son - the 1st Mate and Mr.Turner - 2nd., who were constantly in trouble because of their methods of discipline. The ship was nicknamed' The battleship of the American MN ' . Nevertheless, in 1892, she sailed to New York in 83 days from San Francisco. She was very strongly built and was still afloat in New York in 1925.
By Lennart Boberg Log Book August 1998.
Micronesia 1993 SG302

06 May 1908 arrived at Bremerton WA were she was laid up.
06 January 1909 sold to North-western Fisheries Co., Seattle for $25,000, registered at Port Townsend, WA and was used as a factory and packing storage for the salmon fishing in Alaska.
In the autumn of 1924 sold to timber merchant, Hansen & Nieder Lumber Co., Seattle WA, she was fully loaded with timber at the west coast of America, where after she was towed via the Panama Canal to New York.
November 1925 sold to Theodore Roosevelt Pell for $12,000. She was thereafter used for the sale of maritime antique. The same year sold as reported for $5,000 to Max Williams.
The same year handed over to the United States Junior Naval reserve to be used as a training ship during a period of one year.
1926 Towed to the Manhasset Bay, Long Island where she was beached.
During a public auction in December 1929 sold to Flayderman and Kaufman for $1,000.
1930 Sold to a syndicate headed by the Swedish Count Hans Georg Mörner and his brother Gösta Mörner which intended to use the ship as an attraction at an amusement park at Rye Beach NY, to be called “Playland Park”. The ship was subsequently re-rigged by Karl “Charly” Müller, the bosun of Count Felix von Luckner’s schooner MOPELIA.
18 May 1939 stripped of anything of value the hull was sunk at the Long Island Sound.
The plans of the Mystic Seaport Museum to tow the ship to the museum was not possible, while the draught of the BENJAMIN F PACKARD was too deep for the Mystic River.
Only part of her officer’s cabin is preserved and exhibited at the museum.

Micronesia 1993 29c sg302, scott?