This vessel, named the "Jere G. Shaw" for a prominent businessman of Biddeford, was launched November 16, 1918. She had four masts, was 193 feet long, 36 feet wide, and 15 feet deep. The tip of her mainmast was 120 feet above the deck. She measured 739 tons. Her keel was built of oak from the trees of Biddeford and surrounding York County.
