A Master Mariner, commanding several schooners, including the E.H. Brazas, the Quickstep, the Benjamin English, the B.H. Warford, Lillie O. Wells and the Hamlet.
In 1910, he lived at 213 Christian Avenue in Stony Brook. described as 'captain of a merchant vessel'.
The Farmer, April 10, 1916 - "Capt. Clarence Rayner of the schooner "Hamlet" anchored at the Wall Street dock reported to the police this morning that his pocket had been picked of $83."
The Port Jefferson echo., February 09, 1918, Page 4 - "Capt C. H. Rayner has received a
cablegram from his son, Louis E. Rayner, stating his safe arrival at an Atlantic port, after a forty-days' passage. Capt. Rayner is master of the new five-masted auxiliary schooner Santino. She is 290 feet long, of full rig and equipped with two powerful engines and two propellers, her capacity being 4,000 tons. Capt. Rayner says the vessel is a smart sailer and very seaworthy, and carries a crew of 25 men."
(Long Island Surnames; The Farmer, April 10, 1916, page 2; The Port Jefferson echo., February 09, 1918, Page 4; Clarence H. Rayner in the New York, U.S., Death Index, 1852-1956, Certificate Number: 44867)
A Master Mariner, commanding several schooners, including the E.H. Brazas, the Quickstep, the Benjamin English, the B.H. Warford, Lillie O. Wells and the Hamlet.
In 1910, he lived at 213 Christian Avenue in Stony Brook. described as 'captain of a merchant vessel'.
The Farmer, April 10, 1916 - "Capt. Clarence Rayner of the schooner "Hamlet" anchored at the Wall Street dock reported to the police this morning that his pocket had been picked of $83."
The Port Jefferson echo., February 09, 1918, Page 4 - "Capt C. H. Rayner has received a
cablegram from his son, Louis E. Rayner, stating his safe arrival at an Atlantic port, after a forty-days' passage. Capt. Rayner is master of the new five-masted auxiliary schooner Santino. She is 290 feet long, of full rig and equipped with two powerful engines and two propellers, her capacity being 4,000 tons. Capt. Rayner says the vessel is a smart sailer and very seaworthy, and carries a crew of 25 men."
(Long Island Surnames; The Farmer, April 10, 1916, page 2; The Port Jefferson echo., February 09, 1918, Page 4; Clarence H. Rayner in the New York, U.S., Death Index, 1852-1956, Certificate Number: 44867)
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