Voyager is built to lines drawn by Aage Nielsen, design No. 390. According to historians Robert Carrick and Richard Henderson, the lines of 390s are typical of early Alden hulls except for a two foot increase in beam, exaggerated knuckle bow, and extreme sheer. These attributes render the 390s both seaworthy and eye catching. Rumor has it that the 390 was Alden's favorite of over one thousand of his office's designs. He owned two of them himself, racing them extensively over the years. He won the Bermuda race in his own designs in 1923, 1926, and 1930.

She was built at the C.A. Morse Shipyard in Thomaston Maine. Having built five of Alden's Malabar schooners by 1924, Morse had a solid working relationship with John Alden. The owner to-be was Alexander Tener, a Philadelphia lawyer. She was planked in yellow pine fastened to oak frames with iron nails. Christened Tyrone after Tener's home town in Ireland, the schooner slid down the ways and made her initial splash in 1929.

Tener dreamt of navigating the North Atlantic and arriving home with great fanfare, but little is known about his adventures on Tyrone over her first decade. We do know that in 1939 he ordered a new, larger schooner to be built. The new schooner was named Tryone as well. Presumably he sold the original Tyrone around this time and she was rechristened as Voyager. But her second owner and whereabouts until she was used as part of the "silent fleet" in WWII is lost to history. During the war, she was painted grey and served as a submarine detector off the Atlantic coast.

The second Tyrone is still sailing New England Waters and you can read about her here at https://schoonertyrone.com.