Updated on 21 August 2026 | A. O. Small was an 82½-ton, 65-foot, two-masted schooner, built in Essex in 1852. The master was Duncan Chisholm. Together, C. A. Hannum, Arnold Small, Benjamin Small, and John Small Jr. of Provincetown held half of the 16 shares in the vessel.1
1“Alphabetical List of Ship Registers, District of Barnstable, Massachusetts, 1814-1913, Compiled From Original Documents Stored in the New Bedford Custom House,” prepared by the National Archives Project, 1938, accessible through HathiTrust.