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Article: Museum accessions.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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Born in Boston in 1759 to a British customs officer stationed there, Isaac Coffin joined the Royal Navy in 1773, rising to the rank of admiral by 1814 and along the way, in 1804, being created a baronet. Despite his lifelong allegiance to England, Coffin had strong ties to Massachusetts, specifically to the island of Nantucket, where his ancestor Tristram Coffin had been one of the first settlers and where the admiral himself established the Coffin School in 1826. Originally intended to train young men to become sailors, the Coffin School continued to educate Nantucket children through the twentieth century, and the building today houses the Egan Institute of Maritime ...
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