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| 6268 | Sidewheel Steamer Forest City and Steamer Florence at Southwest Harbor |
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| WRITTEN ON BACK: "Clark Point Wharf Southwest Harbor, Me Forest City (sister ship Lewiston) built in New York - 1854 - Boston - Bango route in 1880's Florence - small steamer in foreground - Blue Hill territory - chartered by Capt. Crockett Sign on a building at right - "International Express" | 
Description: WRITTEN ON BACK: "Clark Point Wharf Southwest Harbor, Me Forest City (sister ship Lewiston) built in New York - 1854 - Boston - Bango route in 1880's Florence - small steamer in foreground - Blue Hill territory - chartered by Capt. Crockett Sign on a building at right - "International Express" | |||
| 10196 | Freight Bill from the Sidewheel Steamer Rockland |
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| A freight bill for 3 casks of lime for Capt. James Long (1814-1895) signed by Jo. R. Freeman [John T.R. Freeman (1838-1916)] and paid at Mt. Desert on November 2, 1853. As can be seen from the account below, "Rockland" was supposed to have been built in 1853 and to have gone into service in 1854, but this bill of lading clearly shows that she was working in the Mt. Desert area as early as November 1853. She may have gone on the water in 1853 and done some freight work in the area before she started her career on the passenger route in 1854. The 1857 date may just be an error. | 
Description: A freight bill for 3 casks of lime for Capt. James Long (1814-1895) signed by Jo. R. Freeman [John T.R. Freeman (1838-1916)] and paid at Mt. Desert on November 2, 1853. As can be seen from the account below, "Rockland" was supposed to have been built in 1853 and to have gone into service in 1854, but this bill of lading clearly shows that she was working in the Mt. Desert area as early as November 1853. She may have gone on the water in 1853 and done some freight work in the area before she started her career on the passenger route in 1854. The 1857 date may just be an error. [show more] | |||
| 10195 | Timetable for Sidewheel Steamer Rockland |
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| The timetable is signed by J.R. Freeman at Southwest Harbor. | 
Description: The timetable is signed by J.R. Freeman at Southwest Harbor. | |||
| 7114 | E.S.S. Horatio Hall at Portland, Maine |
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| 6806 | Steamship Cimbria in Southwest Harbor |
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| Bradley's title was, "Steamship "Cimbria" - S.W. Harbor, Mt. Desert, Me." | 
Description: Bradley's title was, "Steamship "Cimbria" - S.W. Harbor, Mt. Desert, Me." | |
| 16299 | Steamer Cimbria Aground at Bass Harbor |
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| 6741 | Boston & Bangor Steamship Co. Receipt Envelope |
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| Roderick Ariel Pepper (R.A. Pepper on this envelope) was a Director & Treasurer of The Eastern Steamship Company, India Wharf, Boston, in 1915. | 
Description: Roderick Ariel Pepper (R.A. Pepper on this envelope) was a Director & Treasurer of The Eastern Steamship Company, India Wharf, Boston, in 1915. | |||
| 6721 | Steamer City of Rockland at the Eastern Steamship Company Wharf, Belfast, Maine |
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| 6527 | Steamer Norumbega Aground on Clark Point, Southwest Harbor, Maine |
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| 11264 | Mississippi Sternwheel Steamer at St. Louis, Missouri |
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| 8167 | Foreign Steamship in Boston Harbor |
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| 11501 | Steamer "Moosehead" and Steam Launch "Bismark" |
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| 5530 | Green Mountain Railway Excursion Steamer Wauwinet on Eagle Lake |
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| 5800 | Steamer Sappho at Steamer Wharf in Southwest Harbor - Between 1886 and 1911 |
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| 6320 | Steamer Sappho at Steamboat Wharf in Southwest Harbor - Between 1886 and 1911 |
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| The steamer, "Sappho," of the Maine Central Railroad, is at the Steamboat Wharf. | 
Description: The steamer, "Sappho," of the Maine Central Railroad, is at the Steamboat Wharf. | |||
| 6722 | Steamer Norumbega at Bar Harbor, Maine |
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| 7116 | Pilgrim - Steamer |
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| The Steamer Pilgrim at Great Diamond Island | |||||
| 8298 | Steamer H.M. Whitney Sinking in Boston Harbor |
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| "Steamer Sunk in Boston Harbor The Ottomon Comes Into Collision with the H.M. Whitney of the Metropolitan Line Boston, Mass., Sept. 28 – [Special] – Within seven minutes after it left its wharf this evening the steamer H.M. Whitney of the Metropolitan line, plying between Boston and New York, was lying in midchannel with its nose in the muddy bottom of the harbor and two holes in its starboard side, made by the prow of the steamship Ottoman of the Warren line. The collision was the result of a misunderstanding of signals. The Ottoman was coming up from quarantine and the H.M. Whitney had just started for New York. They met in the channel, both vessels going at a slow rate of speed. Capt. Hallett of the Whitney says he gave two whistles and that the Ottoman answered him with two. Capt. Williams of the Ottoman says he heard only one whistle and that he answered it with one. The result was that the Ottoman crashed into the Whitney’s starboard bow near the foremast. The force of the collision knocked everybody and everything on the Whitney endwise. In an instant it filled and sank. The water tight compartments held the Whitney’s stern above water. Fortunately no lives were lost and no one was injured by the collision. The Ottoman suffered only slightly, a small hole being stove in the bow below the water line and a few of the iron plated being started. The Whitney cost $250,000 and is fully covered by insurance. Its cargo is valued at $150,000. Arrangements have been made to begin the work of raising the Whitney at once." – Chicago Tribune, September 29, 1892, p. 1. | 
Description: "Steamer Sunk in Boston Harbor The Ottomon Comes Into Collision with the H.M. Whitney of the Metropolitan Line Boston, Mass., Sept. 28 – [Special] – Within seven minutes after it left its wharf this evening the steamer H.M. Whitney of the Metropolitan line, plying between Boston and New York, was lying in midchannel with its nose in the muddy bottom of the harbor and two holes in its starboard side, made by the prow of the steamship Ottoman of the Warren line. The collision was the result of a misunderstanding of signals. The Ottoman was coming up from quarantine and the H.M. Whitney had just started for New York. They met in the channel, both vessels going at a slow rate of speed. Capt. Hallett of the Whitney says he gave two whistles and that the Ottoman answered him with two. Capt. Williams of the Ottoman says he heard only one whistle and that he answered it with one. The result was that the Ottoman crashed into the Whitney’s starboard bow near the foremast. The force of the collision knocked everybody and everything on the Whitney endwise. In an instant it filled and sank. The water tight compartments held the Whitney’s stern above water. Fortunately no lives were lost and no one was injured by the collision. The Ottoman suffered only slightly, a small hole being stove in the bow below the water line and a few of the iron plated being started. The Whitney cost $250,000 and is fully covered by insurance. Its cargo is valued at $150,000. Arrangements have been made to begin the work of raising the Whitney at once." – Chicago Tribune, September 29, 1892, p. 1. [show more] | ||
| 8297 | Steamer H.M. Whitney Sinking in Boston Harbor |
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| "Steamer Sunk in Boston Harbor The Ottomon Comes Into Collision with the H.M. Whitney of the Metropolitan Line Boston, Mass., Sept. 28 – [Special] – Within seven minutes after it left its wharf this evening the steamer H.M. Whitney of the Metropolitan line, plying between Boston and New York, was lying in midchannel with its nose in the muddy bottom of the harbor and two holes in its starboard side, made by the prow of the steamship Ottoman of the Warren line. The collision was the result of a misunderstanding of signals. The Ottoman was coming up from quarantine and the H.M. Whitney had just started for New York. They met in the channel, both vessels going at a slow rate of speed. Capt. Hallett of the Whitney says he gave two whistles and that the Ottoman answered him with two. Capt. Williams of the Ottoman says he heard only one whistle and that he answered it with one. The result was that the Ottoman crashed into the Whitney’s starboard bow near the foremast. The force of the collision knocked everybody and everything on the Whitney endwise. In an instant it filled and sank. The water tight compartments held the Whitney’s stern above water. Fortunately no lives were lost and no one was injured by the collision. The Ottoman suffered only slightly, a small hole being stove in the bow below the water line and a few of the iron plated being started. The Whitney cost $250,000 and is fully covered by insurance. Its cargo is valued at $150,000. Arrangements have been made to begin the work of raising the Whitney at once." – Chicago Tribune, September 29, 1892, p. 1. | 
Description: "Steamer Sunk in Boston Harbor The Ottomon Comes Into Collision with the H.M. Whitney of the Metropolitan Line Boston, Mass., Sept. 28 – [Special] – Within seven minutes after it left its wharf this evening the steamer H.M. Whitney of the Metropolitan line, plying between Boston and New York, was lying in midchannel with its nose in the muddy bottom of the harbor and two holes in its starboard side, made by the prow of the steamship Ottoman of the Warren line. The collision was the result of a misunderstanding of signals. The Ottoman was coming up from quarantine and the H.M. Whitney had just started for New York. They met in the channel, both vessels going at a slow rate of speed. Capt. Hallett of the Whitney says he gave two whistles and that the Ottoman answered him with two. Capt. Williams of the Ottoman says he heard only one whistle and that he answered it with one. The result was that the Ottoman crashed into the Whitney’s starboard bow near the foremast. The force of the collision knocked everybody and everything on the Whitney endwise. In an instant it filled and sank. The water tight compartments held the Whitney’s stern above water. Fortunately no lives were lost and no one was injured by the collision. The Ottoman suffered only slightly, a small hole being stove in the bow below the water line and a few of the iron plated being started. The Whitney cost $250,000 and is fully covered by insurance. Its cargo is valued at $150,000. Arrangements have been made to begin the work of raising the Whitney at once." – Chicago Tribune, September 29, 1892, p. 1. [show more] | ||
| 6492 | Steamer City of Augusta on the Kennebec River |
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| 11503 | Steamer Bon Ton II |
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| "Bon Ton" ran between the foot of Union Street in Bangor and the foot of Wilson Street in Brewer. | 
Description: "Bon Ton" ran between the foot of Union Street in Bangor and the foot of Wilson Street in Brewer. | ||||
| 6311 | Passenger Steamer Boothbay Steaming Out of Blue Hill Maine |
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| 6333 | Steamer Cimbia in an Advertisement for The Bangor and Bar Harbor Line |
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| "THE BANGOR AND BAR HARBOR LINE - BANGOR AND BAR HARBOR SB'T CO., STEAMERS: CIMBIA, SEDGWICK, TREMONT - Only line of steamers running between Bar Harbor and Bangor. Landings made at Seal Harbor, N. E. Harbor, S.W. Harbor, Sedgwick, Deer Isle, Isleboro, Castine, Fort Point and all landings on Penobscot River. Navigating the waters of Frenchman's Bay, Blue Hill Bay, Eggemoggin Reach, Penobscot Bay and River. - SCENERY UNSURPASSED - Steamers leave Bar Harbor Daily, except Sunday, at 7 a.m., arriving at Bangor at 5 p.m. Excellent meals served on board. Send card for time tables and maps of route. BEO. H. BARBOUR, President, H.W. Barbour, Manager, F.D. Pullen, Gen'l Ticket Agt. - Office: Bangor, Me." - The advertisement appeared in A Guide to Bar Harbor published by W.H. Sherman, p. 85 - 1897 | 
Description: "THE BANGOR AND BAR HARBOR LINE - BANGOR AND BAR HARBOR SB'T CO., STEAMERS: CIMBIA, SEDGWICK, TREMONT - Only line of steamers running between Bar Harbor and Bangor. Landings made at Seal Harbor, N. E. Harbor, S.W. Harbor, Sedgwick, Deer Isle, Isleboro, Castine, Fort Point and all landings on Penobscot River. Navigating the waters of Frenchman's Bay, Blue Hill Bay, Eggemoggin Reach, Penobscot Bay and River. - SCENERY UNSURPASSED - Steamers leave Bar Harbor Daily, except Sunday, at 7 a.m., arriving at Bangor at 5 p.m. Excellent meals served on board. Send card for time tables and maps of route. BEO. H. BARBOUR, President, H.W. Barbour, Manager, F.D. Pullen, Gen'l Ticket Agt. - Office: Bangor, Me." - The advertisement appeared in A Guide to Bar Harbor published by W.H. Sherman, p. 85 - 1897 [show more] | |||
| 5665 | Steamer Pemaquid at the Edge of the Ice |
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| "“The Maine Central fleet expanded quickly from the turn of the century until 1913. “Pemaquid” was the first of the new ships, having been purchased from the Long Island Railroad in 1901. She was a 132-foot steel-hilled single-screw steamer built in 1893 by Neafie and Levy of Philadelphia, with the distinction of being the last of the fleet to carry the Maine Central flag… Maine Central’s ships were sold off one by one until by 1931 the reliable “Pemaquid”, which during her thirty years with the railroad was used year-round, filling in for the seasonal vessels on the Mt. Desert run, was the only ship left. She was sold south that year and eventually was re-engined with a diesel. She lasted a long time, operating in the New York area into the 1960’s. The Eastern [Steamship Lines] threw in the towel three years later, in 1934. Hereafter the Maine trains would stop in Ellsworth, and Mt. Desert Ferry, the great bustling rail and steamboat facility, would fall silent.” - Mount Desert - An Informal History Edited by Gunnar Hansen, Maritime Transportation section written by Peter B. Bell, p. 166-167, 169 - 1989 ""The steamer ""Pemaquid"" was built in 1893 as the ""Long Island."" Shortly after the turn of the century, she was placed in service on the Maine coast by the Maine Central Railroad. The vessel left Maine in 1931. [She operated on the Hudson River and last ran] as a dieselized ferry to Block Island."" - ""Steamboats On The Hudson River"" by William H. Ewen, Jr., Arcadia Publishing, May 30, 2011, p. 89." | 
Description: "“The Maine Central fleet expanded quickly from the turn of the century until 1913. “Pemaquid” was the first of the new ships, having been purchased from the Long Island Railroad in 1901. She was a 132-foot steel-hilled single-screw steamer built in 1893 by Neafie and Levy of Philadelphia, with the distinction of being the last of the fleet to carry the Maine Central flag… Maine Central’s ships were sold off one by one until by 1931 the reliable “Pemaquid”, which during her thirty years with the railroad was used year-round, filling in for the seasonal vessels on the Mt. Desert run, was the only ship left. She was sold south that year and eventually was re-engined with a diesel. She lasted a long time, operating in the New York area into the 1960’s. The Eastern [Steamship Lines] threw in the towel three years later, in 1934. Hereafter the Maine trains would stop in Ellsworth, and Mt. Desert Ferry, the great bustling rail and steamboat facility, would fall silent.” - Mount Desert - An Informal History Edited by Gunnar Hansen, Maritime Transportation section written by Peter B. Bell, p. 166-167, 169 - 1989 ""The steamer ""Pemaquid"" was built in 1893 as the ""Long Island."" Shortly after the turn of the century, she was placed in service on the Maine coast by the Maine Central Railroad. The vessel left Maine in 1931. [She operated on the Hudson River and last ran] as a dieselized ferry to Block Island."" - ""Steamboats On The Hudson River"" by William H. Ewen, Jr., Arcadia Publishing, May 30, 2011, p. 89." [show more] | ||
| 12171 | Steamer Emita Near Portland, Maine |
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