The photograph was taken in the vicinity of the Lewis Kennison Robinson house at 465 Maine Street, Southwest Harbor. Addison Packing Company, at the head of Southwest Harbor, can be seen in the background of this picture. - Interview with Ralph Stanley, October 2008.
Description: The photograph was taken in the vicinity of the Lewis Kennison Robinson house at 465 Maine Street, Southwest Harbor. Addison Packing Company, at the head of Southwest Harbor, can be seen in the background of this picture. - Interview with Ralph Stanley, October 2008.
"Helen McColl" - 65'7" sardine carrier built in 1911 "Eva Grace" - 60' sardine carrier built in 1930 "America" - 47' sardine carrier built in 1908 "Arthur S. Woodward" - lobster smack - later sardine carrier built in 1949 "Henry O. Underwood" - third left on dock at foreground - 70' sardine carrier built in 1949 Several of the fishing boats in the photograph sport "scalers" - long box-shaped chutes on top of their shelters.
Description: "Helen McColl" - 65'7" sardine carrier built in 1911 "Eva Grace" - 60' sardine carrier built in 1930 "America" - 47' sardine carrier built in 1908 "Arthur S. Woodward" - lobster smack - later sardine carrier built in 1949 "Henry O. Underwood" - third left on dock at foreground - 70' sardine carrier built in 1949 Several of the fishing boats in the photograph sport "scalers" - long box-shaped chutes on top of their shelters. [show more]
The photograph was taken in the vicinity of the Lewis Kennison Robinson house at 465 Maine Street, Southwest Harbor. Addison Packing Company, at the head of Southwest Harbor, can be seen in the background of this picture. - Interview with Ralph Stanley, October 2008.
Description: The photograph was taken in the vicinity of the Lewis Kennison Robinson house at 465 Maine Street, Southwest Harbor. Addison Packing Company, at the head of Southwest Harbor, can be seen in the background of this picture. - Interview with Ralph Stanley, October 2008.
Vessels Left to Right: "Eva Grace" El Placita - Schooner Steam Yacht as a sardine carrier "Lawrence Wayne" The Mayo / Hinckley house is just visible in the background to the right of the "Eva Grace" rigging.
Description: Vessels Left to Right: "Eva Grace" El Placita - Schooner Steam Yacht as a sardine carrier "Lawrence Wayne" The Mayo / Hinckley house is just visible in the background to the right of the "Eva Grace" rigging.
“The “Joyce Marie” (formerly named “Glen Gary”) was built in 1948 in Thomaston, Maine. She was a round-sterned, 80 foot sardine carrier that would carry 75 hogsheads of fish. [1 hogshead (hhd) = 17 ½ bushels or 63 U.S. gallons.] The “Joyce Marie” carried fish to North Lubec Manufacturing and Can Company in Rockland, Maine fir a time and then to various Stinson Canning Company factories …Charlton Dow and his son Gregory, of Bass Harbor ran the “Joyce Marie” until it was decided that she was no longer seaworthy and was tied up and left to die… …[After 1989] she was taken out of retirement and put back to work.” - “Masts and Masters: A Brief History of Sardine Carriers and Boatmen” by John D. Gilman, published by John D. Gilman, 1993, p. 99-100. “Captain Dave Bikford has [“Joyce Marie”] now. L.O.A. 80’, LWL 69’ x 18’ x 8’6”. Built 1948 Thomaston, Maine and launched as “Glengary.” She can boat 1359 bu. Decks are white pine on oak beams and she has a 10” x 10” keelson. Official #256967, 51 Gr. T. x 40 T. net. At one time she boated fish to Addison Packing in S.W. Harbor. Skippered by Donald Stuart of Richardson, Deer Island.” - Sardine Carriers and Seiners of the Maine Coast compiled and written by Paul E. Bennett, The St. Pierre Doriman, p. 21 & 28 – 1992. For beautiful photographs of “Joyce Marie” see “Wood, Water & Light: Classic Wooden Boats,” Text by Joel White and Photographs by Benjamin Mendlowitz, published by W.W. Norton & Company, 1988, p. 139-141.
Description: “The “Joyce Marie” (formerly named “Glen Gary”) was built in 1948 in Thomaston, Maine. She was a round-sterned, 80 foot sardine carrier that would carry 75 hogsheads of fish. [1 hogshead (hhd) = 17 ½ bushels or 63 U.S. gallons.] The “Joyce Marie” carried fish to North Lubec Manufacturing and Can Company in Rockland, Maine fir a time and then to various Stinson Canning Company factories …Charlton Dow and his son Gregory, of Bass Harbor ran the “Joyce Marie” until it was decided that she was no longer seaworthy and was tied up and left to die… …[After 1989] she was taken out of retirement and put back to work.” - “Masts and Masters: A Brief History of Sardine Carriers and Boatmen” by John D. Gilman, published by John D. Gilman, 1993, p. 99-100. “Captain Dave Bikford has [“Joyce Marie”] now. L.O.A. 80’, LWL 69’ x 18’ x 8’6”. Built 1948 Thomaston, Maine and launched as “Glengary.” She can boat 1359 bu. Decks are white pine on oak beams and she has a 10” x 10” keelson. Official #256967, 51 Gr. T. x 40 T. net. At one time she boated fish to Addison Packing in S.W. Harbor. Skippered by Donald Stuart of Richardson, Deer Island.” - Sardine Carriers and Seiners of the Maine Coast compiled and written by Paul E. Bennett, The St. Pierre Doriman, p. 21 & 28 – 1992. For beautiful photographs of “Joyce Marie” see “Wood, Water & Light: Classic Wooden Boats,” Text by Joel White and Photographs by Benjamin Mendlowitz, published by W.W. Norton & Company, 1988, p. 139-141. [show more]
“Built to E. Boothbay 1924 for William Underwood, Jonesport. She measured up 39 T. Gr. x 17 Net and was 61’ x 15’3” x 7’6”, She would carry 52 hhds to the W. Jonesport factory and Ernest Wolf who lived there in W. Jonesport had her a while and then Lewis Beal took her. She ran herrin’ to the Bass Harbor factory on occasions.” - Sardine Carriers and Seiners of the Maine Coast compiled and written by Paul E. Bennett, The St. Pierre Doriman, p. 54 – 1992
Description: “Built to E. Boothbay 1924 for William Underwood, Jonesport. She measured up 39 T. Gr. x 17 Net and was 61’ x 15’3” x 7’6”, She would carry 52 hhds to the W. Jonesport factory and Ernest Wolf who lived there in W. Jonesport had her a while and then Lewis Beal took her. She ran herrin’ to the Bass Harbor factory on occasions.” - Sardine Carriers and Seiners of the Maine Coast compiled and written by Paul E. Bennett, The St. Pierre Doriman, p. 54 – 1992 [show more]
“Sardine carrier “Christopher” 37 hogsheads, boated for Ralph K. Barter in Stonington. She was built in 1888 in Brewer, Maine, 43’4” x 11’2” x 4’5”, 13 T GR and 9 T Net, reg. #126524, call letters WA3686. At one time she had a 30 HP oil bullgine.” – “Sardine Carriers and Seiners of the Maine Coast” compiled and written by Paul E. Bennett, The St. Pierre Doriman, p. 28, 1992.
Description: “Sardine carrier “Christopher” 37 hogsheads, boated for Ralph K. Barter in Stonington. She was built in 1888 in Brewer, Maine, 43’4” x 11’2” x 4’5”, 13 T GR and 9 T Net, reg. #126524, call letters WA3686. At one time she had a 30 HP oil bullgine.” – “Sardine Carriers and Seiners of the Maine Coast” compiled and written by Paul E. Bennett, The St. Pierre Doriman, p. 28, 1992.
“Fish Hawk” carries 54 hogsheads. She worked fish to factories of Jonesport through the early sixties. She broke her back when a storm drove her ashore and died at Beals Island and a dock was built over her hulk. She was built in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1914 for William Underwood Company. WC 2991, Reg #212685, 40 T Gr. X 17 Net. In 1959 she was still working out of McKinley for the William Underwood factory.” – “Sardine Carriers and Seiners of the Maine Coast” compiled and written by Paul E. Bennett, The St. Pierre Doriman, p. 28, 1992.
Description: “Fish Hawk” carries 54 hogsheads. She worked fish to factories of Jonesport through the early sixties. She broke her back when a storm drove her ashore and died at Beals Island and a dock was built over her hulk. She was built in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1914 for William Underwood Company. WC 2991, Reg #212685, 40 T Gr. X 17 Net. In 1959 she was still working out of McKinley for the William Underwood factory.” – “Sardine Carriers and Seiners of the Maine Coast” compiled and written by Paul E. Bennett, The St. Pierre Doriman, p. 28, 1992. [show more]