Photos of the Lucy Evelyn

Last Updated on August 19, 2023 by Christopher G Mendla

Photos of the schooner, Lucy Evelyn,  right after she was beached in Beach Haven and converted to a gift shop.

These photos were taken just after the Lucy Evelyn was beached permanently in Beach Haven.  Also, see our photos of her riding at anchor in Little Egg Harbor. We take photographs for granted today. Almost everyone has a cell phone, even children. Photography was different in the 1940’s. Cameras ranged from expensive press cameras to 35 millimeter cameras to ‘box cameras’. When you took a photograph, the negatives had to be developed and printed. This was a relatively costly process. This makes photos such as these rare and something to be appreciated.

The photo below shows the Lucy Evelyn after she was beached. The door was already cut in the starboard side of the hull. All of her rigging was intact. The original masts and booms were in place. If you look closely on her starboard side, you can see the two curved boat davits. The Schooner’s Wharf was built in the same location after she burned in January 1972

For more details on the schooner, see our main Lucy Evelyn Page.

For a very small fee, visitors could tour the cabins in the aft part of the ship and the decks

She was a three masted schooner.

Below is the approximate location where the schooner was beached.