Built in 1917–18 in Rockport, Massachusetts, she is one of a small number of surviving schooners designed by noted naval architect Thomas F. McManus.

Her framing is of oak and locust, with planking of yellow pine, some of it replaced by mahogany during restoration.

The area below decks has been fitted to carry passengers on day trips, and there is a motor chamber in the rear.

She was one of seven schooner yachts designed by Thomas F. McManus, then a prominent naval architect, and is the only one of those still afloat.

It was converted for use in the tourist trade in the late 1980s,[2] and now provides short tours of Penobscot Bay from her base in Camden, Maine.