Rosalind (1890 ship)

The Rosalind was a wooden-hulled, three-masted schooner built in 1890 in Fairhaven, California. She was primarily engaged in the lumber trade along the Pacific Coast, carrying redwood and other timber products from the Pacific Northwest to ports further south, including San Francisco and Los Angeles. The Rosalind operated for several decades, facing the typical challenges of sailing vessels in that era, including storms, navigating treacherous coastlines, and competition from steam-powered ships. Details on her precise dimensions, capacity, and crew size are not readily available in widely accessible maritime records, but she was a typical example of the schooners used extensively in the West Coast lumber trade during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She eventually succumbed to the obsolescence of sail power and was likely either repurposed, abandoned, or lost at sea, although specific records of her final fate are elusive. The Rosalind represents a class of working vessel vital to the development of the Pacific Coast economy during a period of rapid industrial growth and expansion.