The Bremen ship ANNA was built at Vegesack/Grohn by Johann Lange, and was launched on 22 June 1837. 133 Commerzlasten / 366 tons; 28,9 x 8,5 x 5,0 meters (length x beam x depth of hold). Her original owners were the Bremen firm of E. Hoffschläger & Co (2/3) and her master, Jacob Wessels, of Bremen (1/3). Her maiden voyage was from Bremerhaven to New York, and she was employed primarily in the transport of passengers and cargo between the Weser and North America and the West Indies.

Although built as a ship, by 1843 the ANNA was re-rigged as a bark. In 1845, Hoffschläger sold their 2/3 interest to D. J. Visser of Bremen. In 1846/47, the ANNA made a roundtrip voyage from Bremerhaven by way of Capetown to Singapore. In 1853, ownership of the ANNA was divided between Capt. Wessels (1/2) and the Bremen firms of Lüdering & Co (1/4), who managed the vessel, and Müller & Gloystein (1/4); Müller & Gloystein obtained Lüdering & Co's share in 1856. Jacob Wessels was followed as master of the ANNA by, in turn, Everhard Wessels, Johann Samuel Kortland, and, from 1849, Christ. Fr. Evers.

In 1859, the ANNA was sold to F. Nielson & Co, of Larvik, Norway; master, H. Smith. Her later history and ultimate fate is not known.

Source: Peter-Michael Pawlik, Von der Weser in die Welt; Die Geschichte der Segelschiffe von Weser und Lesum und ihrer Bauwerften 1770 bis 1893, Schriften des Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseums, Bd. 33 (Hamburg: Kabel, c1993), p. 192, no. 142.

The U.S. brig ANNANDALE was built at Lincolnville, Maine, in 1846, and was registered at Boston, Massachusetts, at 177 tons. The New York Herald for 9 December 1869, p. 10e, prints the following account of the wreck of the ANNANDALE:

BRIG ANNANDALE, from Philadelphia for Boston ... went ashore about 5 PM 6th inst[ant] five miles south of Sqan Inlet, striking on the outer bar. She was leaking badly at the time she struck, and sunk soon after. Three men went ashore in the boat, which capsized in the surf, but they held on until they got in the undertow, and were rescued by men on the beach. The mate went up in the foretop, where he remained until next morning, when he was rescued. The captain and one man were drowned soon after she struck ... She has bilged, and is full of water. Capt. John M Brown, agent of the Atlantic Submariae [misprint for "Submarine"] Wrecking Co, is engaged with a gang of wreckers stripping her. Vessel and cargo will be a total loss.

Mariners drowned on the New Jersey shore were almost invariably buried locally. So far as I can determine, the two oldest churches in Manasquan are the Manasquan Methodist Episcopal Church (Manasquan United Methodist Church) and the Presbyterian Church of Squan Village (First Presbyterian Church of Manasquan). The records of the latter have been published in Joseph F. and Miriam S. Bryan, compilers, Early Records of the Presbyterian Church of Squan Village, NJ, 1848 - 1900 (Freehold: Monmouth County Genealogy Club, 1990). For further information, contact the

Squan Village Historical Society
105 South Street
Manasquan, NJ 08736

You can contact the Manasquan Boro Historian, Toni McChesney, at history@manasquan-nj.com.

The U.S. ship ANNIE M. SMULL was built at Mystic, Connecticut, by Charles H. Mallory for his own account, at a cost of $115,000, and was launched 16 September 1868. 1010 tons, 181.7 x 37.2 x 21.7 ft (length x beam x depth of hold). She was named after the builder's recently deceased daughter.

The ANNIE M. SMULL was built along medium clipper lines, and was intended for the New York-San Francisco-Shanghai-Liverpool trade. However, although a triumph of design, she was built at a time when such vessels were a drug in the market (indeed, her builder's eldest son had vigorously objected to her construction), and she failed to find a buyer, even when her asking price was reduced to $92,000. C. H. Mallory & Co. reluctantly accepted her management.

Masters:
     1868-c1876  - Charles E. Packer
     1876        - William C. Warland
     c1876-c1883 - J. W. Guest

Voyages, 1868-1875:
     1.   New York - San Francisco - Queenstown - Dublin - Newport, Wales - New York
     2.   New York - San Francisco - Hong Kong - San Francisco - Liverpool - Le Havre - Cardiff - New York
     3.   New York - Portland, Oregon - Dublin - New York
     4.   New York - Le Havre - Cardiff - Shanghai - Manila - London - New York
     5.   New York - San Francisco - New York

Voyages, 1876-1883:
     6.   New York - San Francisco - Liverpool - New York
     7.   New York - San Francisco - London - New York
     8.   New York - Shanghai - China coasting - New York
     9.   New York - Java - Baltimore - Manila - New York

The ANNIE M. SMULL was considered a good sailer, and is credited with an exceptionally fast passage of 34 days from San Francisco to Hong Kong. The average of her passages from New York to San Francisco was 125 days, her longest being 130 days. Her fastest run eastwards was 111 days from San Francisco to New York and 113 days from San Francisco to Queenstown. However, she never found enough business to become profitable, and on 24 May 1883, after a career that her builder's son could only describe as "ruinous", the ANNIE M. SMULL was sold Norwegian for $21,725.

Sources: Frederick C. Matthews, American Merchant Ships, 1850-1900, Series I, Marine Research Society Publication 21 (Salem, Massachusetts: Marine Research Society, 1930), pp. 33-34; James P. Baughman, The Mallorys of Mystic; six generations in American maritime enterprise, American Maritime Library, 4 (Middletown, Connecticut: published for the Marine Historical Association by Wesleyan University Press, [1972]), pp. 126-127, 161-162, 419, 423. The Mallory family papers are now held by

Mystic Seaport Museum
50 Greenmanville Ave.
Mystic, CT 06355-0990

[Marine Historical Association, Library, Inventory of the Mallory family papers, 1808-1958, compiled by Charles R. Schultz, Mystic Seaport Manuscripts Inventory No. 2 (Mystic, Connecticut, [1964])].