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| 12392 | Canada Stamp - Samuel de Champlain Surveys the East Coast - 1606 - Issued May 28, 2006 |
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| 12386 | Canada Stamp - Don de Dieu - Issued May 16, 2008 |
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| 11825 | Launching Steamer Arthur B. Homer |
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| 16064 | War “Ships” in Harbor, Bar Harbor, ME |
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| 3542 | Arthur B. Homer - Great Lakes Steam Freighter |
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| 15843 | Myra J. Wooster - Freighter |
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| The Myra J. Wooster “…carried salt fish to Gloucester and freight between Belfast and Bass Harbor… - Schreiber, Laurie. Boatbuilding on Mount Desert Island (Arcadia Publishing, 2016) p. 152 - from an unidentified article written by E.M Holmes in February 1947. | 
Description: The Myra J. Wooster “…carried salt fish to Gloucester and freight between Belfast and Bass Harbor… - Schreiber, Laurie. Boatbuilding on Mount Desert Island (Arcadia Publishing, 2016) p. 152 - from an unidentified article written by E.M Holmes in February 1947. | |||||
| 15883 | Champlain's Patache |
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| Samuel de Champlain's small ship that he used to explore the Maine coast. | 
Description: Samuel de Champlain's small ship that he used to explore the Maine coast. | |||||
| 15884 | Champlain's Shallop |
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| Samuel de Champlain's small wooden shallop used for inshore voyages. |
Description: Samuel de Champlain's small wooden shallop used for inshore voyages. | |||||
| 15913 | Anthony & Josephine - Side Trawler |
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| 14012 | USS Vesuvius |
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| USS Vesuvius, the third ship of the United States Navy named for the Italian volcano, was a unique vessel in the Navy inventory which marked a departure from more conventional forms of main battery armament. She is considered a dynamite gun cruiser. Vesuvius was laid down in September 1887 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by William Cramp and Sons Ships and Engine Building Company, subcontracted from the Pneumatic Dynamite Gun Company of New York, New York. Vesuvius was 929 tons. She was launched on 28 April 1888 sponsored by Miss Eleanor Breckinridge and commissioned on 2 June 1890 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard with Lieutenant Seaton Schroeder in command. Vesuvius carried three 15-inch pneumatic guns, mounted forward side-by-side. In order to train these weapons, the ship had to be aimed, like a gun, at its target. Compressed air projected the shells from the "dynamite guns." The explosive used in the shells themselves was actually a "desensitized blasting gelatin" composed of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine. It was less sensitive to shock than regular dynamite but still sensitive enough that compressed air, rather than powder, had to be utilized as the propellant. Vesuvius sailed for New York shortly after commissioning and then joined the Fleet at Gardiner's Bay, New York, on 1 October 1890. She operated off the east coast with the North Atlantic Squadron into 1895. She served in the Spanish American War. Originally a dynamite gun cruiser she became an experimental torpedo boat. She was decommissioned and ordered appraised for sale on 21 April 1922 to J. Lipsitz and Company of Chelsea, Massachusetts. | 
Description: USS Vesuvius, the third ship of the United States Navy named for the Italian volcano, was a unique vessel in the Navy inventory which marked a departure from more conventional forms of main battery armament. She is considered a dynamite gun cruiser. Vesuvius was laid down in September 1887 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by William Cramp and Sons Ships and Engine Building Company, subcontracted from the Pneumatic Dynamite Gun Company of New York, New York. Vesuvius was 929 tons. She was launched on 28 April 1888 sponsored by Miss Eleanor Breckinridge and commissioned on 2 June 1890 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard with Lieutenant Seaton Schroeder in command. Vesuvius carried three 15-inch pneumatic guns, mounted forward side-by-side. In order to train these weapons, the ship had to be aimed, like a gun, at its target. Compressed air projected the shells from the "dynamite guns." The explosive used in the shells themselves was actually a "desensitized blasting gelatin" composed of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine. It was less sensitive to shock than regular dynamite but still sensitive enough that compressed air, rather than powder, had to be utilized as the propellant. Vesuvius sailed for New York shortly after commissioning and then joined the Fleet at Gardiner's Bay, New York, on 1 October 1890. She operated off the east coast with the North Atlantic Squadron into 1895. She served in the Spanish American War. Originally a dynamite gun cruiser she became an experimental torpedo boat. She was decommissioned and ordered appraised for sale on 21 April 1922 to J. Lipsitz and Company of Chelsea, Massachusetts. [show more] | |||||
| 14013 | USS Philadelphia |
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| The USS Philadelphia (Philadelphia IV), a cruiser, was laid down 22 March 1888 by Wm. Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; launched 7 September 1889; sponsored by Miss Minnie Wanamaker, daughter of merchant and philanthropist John Wanamaker; and commissioned 28 July 1890, Capt. B. F. Bradford in command. While fitting out at the New York Navy Yard, Philadelphia was designated on 18 August as flagship of Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi, commanding the North Atlantic Squadron. Philadelphia - C 4: dp. 4,324: 1. 335'; b. 48'6", dr. 19'2"; s. 19 k., cpl. 384; a. 12 6", 4 6-pdrs., 4 3-pdrs., 2 1-pdrs., 3 37mm. Cruiser Philadelphia arrived San Francisco 22 August 1893. As the flaghip of the Commander-in-ehief, Pacific Station, she cruised with the squadron, engaging in drills and maneuvers, and visiting various ports on the west coast of the United States. She was struck from the Navy List 24 November 1926. Cruiser Philadelphia was sold at public auction at the Puget Sound Navy Yard in 1927 to Louis Rotherberg | 
Description: The USS Philadelphia (Philadelphia IV), a cruiser, was laid down 22 March 1888 by Wm. Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; launched 7 September 1889; sponsored by Miss Minnie Wanamaker, daughter of merchant and philanthropist John Wanamaker; and commissioned 28 July 1890, Capt. B. F. Bradford in command. While fitting out at the New York Navy Yard, Philadelphia was designated on 18 August as flagship of Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi, commanding the North Atlantic Squadron. Philadelphia - C 4: dp. 4,324: 1. 335'; b. 48'6", dr. 19'2"; s. 19 k., cpl. 384; a. 12 6", 4 6-pdrs., 4 3-pdrs., 2 1-pdrs., 3 37mm. Cruiser Philadelphia arrived San Francisco 22 August 1893. As the flaghip of the Commander-in-ehief, Pacific Station, she cruised with the squadron, engaging in drills and maneuvers, and visiting various ports on the west coast of the United States. She was struck from the Navy List 24 November 1926. Cruiser Philadelphia was sold at public auction at the Puget Sound Navy Yard in 1927 to Louis Rotherberg [show more] | |||||
| 14014 | USS Dolphin |
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| USS Dolphin, a 1486-ton steel unarmed dispatch vessel, was built at Chester, Pennsylvania, as one of the first ships of the "New Navy". Dolphin - Length 240 feet. Breadth 32 feet. Mean draft 141/4 feet. Displacement 1,486 tons. Speed 15.50 knots per hour. Personnel 7 officers. 110 men. Cost $315,000. Commissioned in December 1885, she steamed around the World during her first three years' service, and then served off the U.S. east coast and in the West Indies area for the next three decades. For much of this time, Dolphin was employed in support of high-ranking Government officials, as well as on more conventional gunboat-type duties. "On July 24, 1892, with Assistant Secretary of the Navy James Soley aboard, the "Dolphin" participated in a practice cruise of New York's First Naval Battalion. At about this time, work began converting the "Dolphin" to a presidential yacht…" - “Special Fleet: The History of the Presidential Yachts” by Fred Eugene Crockett, published by Down East Books, 1985, p. 28-36. See these pages for a description of her conversion and the presidents who sailed in her. Dolphin was decommissioned in October 1921 and sold in February 1922. | 
Description: USS Dolphin, a 1486-ton steel unarmed dispatch vessel, was built at Chester, Pennsylvania, as one of the first ships of the "New Navy". Dolphin - Length 240 feet. Breadth 32 feet. Mean draft 141/4 feet. Displacement 1,486 tons. Speed 15.50 knots per hour. Personnel 7 officers. 110 men. Cost $315,000. Commissioned in December 1885, she steamed around the World during her first three years' service, and then served off the U.S. east coast and in the West Indies area for the next three decades. For much of this time, Dolphin was employed in support of high-ranking Government officials, as well as on more conventional gunboat-type duties. "On July 24, 1892, with Assistant Secretary of the Navy James Soley aboard, the "Dolphin" participated in a practice cruise of New York's First Naval Battalion. At about this time, work began converting the "Dolphin" to a presidential yacht…" - “Special Fleet: The History of the Presidential Yachts” by Fred Eugene Crockett, published by Down East Books, 1985, p. 28-36. See these pages for a description of her conversion and the presidents who sailed in her. Dolphin was decommissioned in October 1921 and sold in February 1922. [show more] | |||||
| 14015 | USS Concord |
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| USS Concord, a Yorktown Class Gunboat was laid down in May 1888 by the Delaware River Iron Works, Chester, Pennsylvania; Launched 8 March 1890; Commissioned USS Concord, Gunboat No. 3, 14 February 1891. USS Concord - Displacement 1,710 t; Length 245'; Beam 36'; Draft 14'; Speed 16.8 kts; Complement 195; Armament six 6" breech-loading rifles, two 6-pounders and two 3-pounder rapid firing guns, two Hotchkiss revolving cannon, two Gatling guns - (1910) six 6"mounts and four 3-pounders; Propulsion four cylindrical boilers, two 3,405ihp horizontal triple-expansion engines, two shafts. With the declaration of war between Spain and the United States in April 1898, Concord joined Admiral George Dewey's squadron at Mirs Bay near Hong Kong on the 24th and sailed for the Philippines. On 1 May the squadron entered Manila Bay and won the victory that resulted in American control of the Philippines. Concord was sold 28 June 1929. | 
Description: USS Concord, a Yorktown Class Gunboat was laid down in May 1888 by the Delaware River Iron Works, Chester, Pennsylvania; Launched 8 March 1890; Commissioned USS Concord, Gunboat No. 3, 14 February 1891. USS Concord - Displacement 1,710 t; Length 245'; Beam 36'; Draft 14'; Speed 16.8 kts; Complement 195; Armament six 6" breech-loading rifles, two 6-pounders and two 3-pounder rapid firing guns, two Hotchkiss revolving cannon, two Gatling guns - (1910) six 6"mounts and four 3-pounders; Propulsion four cylindrical boilers, two 3,405ihp horizontal triple-expansion engines, two shafts. With the declaration of war between Spain and the United States in April 1898, Concord joined Admiral George Dewey's squadron at Mirs Bay near Hong Kong on the 24th and sailed for the Philippines. On 1 May the squadron entered Manila Bay and won the victory that resulted in American control of the Philippines. Concord was sold 28 June 1929. [show more] | |||||
| 14105 | Raimondo Montecuccoli - Cruiser |
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| "Raimondo Montecuccoli" - Captain Lamberto DeLebene Condottieri-class cruiser Displacement: 7,523 t (7,404 long tons) standard 8,994 t (8,852 long tons) full load Length: 182.2 m (597 ft 9 in) Beam: 16.6 m (54 ft 6 in) Draught: 5.6 m (18 ft 4 in) Propulsion: 2 shaft Belluzzo geared turbines 6 Yarrow boilers 106,000 hp (79,044 kW) Speed: 37 knots (43 mph; 69 km/h) Carried 2 aircraft 1 catapult 47 officers 86 petty officers 318 seamen 278 midshipmen "Raimondo Montecuccoli" was a Condottieri class light cruiser serving with the Italian Regia Marina during World War II. She survived the war and served in the post-war Marina Militare until 1964. Montecuccoli, which gives the name to its own sub-class, was part of the third group of Condottieri class light cruisers. They were larger and better protected than their predecessors. She was built by Ansaldo, Genoa, and was named after Raimondo Montecuccoli, a 17th century Italian general in Austrian service. Montecuccoli entered service in 1935 and was sent out to the Far-East in 1937 to protect Italian interests during the Sino-Japanese War, and returned home in November 1938 after being relieved by the Bartolomeo Colleoni. During the war she participated in the Battle of Punta Stilo and in the successful Battle of Pantelleria, where her guns disabled the British destroyer HMS Bedouin and set the large tanker SS Kentucky on fire. She was badly damaged by USAAF bombers in Naples on 4 December 1942, but having been repaired and just weeks before the armistice, she shelled without consequences a small Allied convoy off Palermo during the Allied invasion of Sicily. After the Armistice she was interned by the Allies and returned to Italy after the war to serve as a training cruiser until 1964. | 
Description: "Raimondo Montecuccoli" - Captain Lamberto DeLebene Condottieri-class cruiser Displacement: 7,523 t (7,404 long tons) standard 8,994 t (8,852 long tons) full load Length: 182.2 m (597 ft 9 in) Beam: 16.6 m (54 ft 6 in) Draught: 5.6 m (18 ft 4 in) Propulsion: 2 shaft Belluzzo geared turbines 6 Yarrow boilers 106,000 hp (79,044 kW) Speed: 37 knots (43 mph; 69 km/h) Carried 2 aircraft 1 catapult 47 officers 86 petty officers 318 seamen 278 midshipmen "Raimondo Montecuccoli" was a Condottieri class light cruiser serving with the Italian Regia Marina during World War II. She survived the war and served in the post-war Marina Militare until 1964. Montecuccoli, which gives the name to its own sub-class, was part of the third group of Condottieri class light cruisers. They were larger and better protected than their predecessors. She was built by Ansaldo, Genoa, and was named after Raimondo Montecuccoli, a 17th century Italian general in Austrian service. Montecuccoli entered service in 1935 and was sent out to the Far-East in 1937 to protect Italian interests during the Sino-Japanese War, and returned home in November 1938 after being relieved by the Bartolomeo Colleoni. During the war she participated in the Battle of Punta Stilo and in the successful Battle of Pantelleria, where her guns disabled the British destroyer HMS Bedouin and set the large tanker SS Kentucky on fire. She was badly damaged by USAAF bombers in Naples on 4 December 1942, but having been repaired and just weeks before the armistice, she shelled without consequences a small Allied convoy off Palermo during the Allied invasion of Sicily. After the Armistice she was interned by the Allies and returned to Italy after the war to serve as a training cruiser until 1964. [show more] | |||||
| 14235 | Placida - Motor Yacht |
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| “Placida” was designed by the Henry J. Gielow Company and built by Bath Iron Works. She was one of five diesel-powered sister ships, built on speculation, and essentially to the same design, by the Bath Iron Works in the early Thirties, among them, “Placida,” “Sylvia” and Kenkora II. The over-all length of each ship was slightly more than 190 feet, with a displacement of 396 tons. “The Placida had two launch tenders. The starboard launch was the one usually used to take members of the owner's party (guests etc.) to and from shore facilities such as the Clifton Dock in Northeast Harbor or any other place where the yacht was unable to tie up to a pier. The port launch was used to take the crew ashore and bring supplies on board when needed. The port launch could also be used when the starboard launch needed engine repairs since the two launches were the same size. The starboard launch is the one used as the Northeast Harbor Fleet race committee boat. The race committee started boat races and recorded how they finished. This went on for a year or two immediately following World War II. I do not recall seeing the port launch after the War.” – Albie Neilson 09/12/11 “Placida” was purchased by the Navy on June 19, 1941 for use during WWII and converted for Naval service at Gibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville, Florida. She was commissioned as “USS Ruby” (PY-21)on September 23, 1941 and decommissioned after the war on July 23, 1945 at Boston, Massachusetts. She was struck from the Naval Register on August 13, 1945 and transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal on December 26, December 1945. The once proud yacht was scrapped in 1957. Information compiled from several sources, among them: “Ruby (PY-21)” by Gary P. Priolo, NavSource Online: Patrol Yacht Archive , 2006, Accessed online 07/31/2011; http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/1321.htm “Placida” was laid down December 23, 1929 and launched May 17, 1930. She was bought by Henry Garner Haskell Sr. and delivered to him on July 1, 1930. She was a twin screw diesel seagoing yacht, 190 feet long with a 10 foot draft. Mr. Haskell and his family cruised in her extensively from Maine to Florida with Wilmington, Delaware as her home port. |
Description: “Placida” was designed by the Henry J. Gielow Company and built by Bath Iron Works. She was one of five diesel-powered sister ships, built on speculation, and essentially to the same design, by the Bath Iron Works in the early Thirties, among them, “Placida,” “Sylvia” and Kenkora II. The over-all length of each ship was slightly more than 190 feet, with a displacement of 396 tons. “The Placida had two launch tenders. The starboard launch was the one usually used to take members of the owner's party (guests etc.) to and from shore facilities such as the Clifton Dock in Northeast Harbor or any other place where the yacht was unable to tie up to a pier. The port launch was used to take the crew ashore and bring supplies on board when needed. The port launch could also be used when the starboard launch needed engine repairs since the two launches were the same size. The starboard launch is the one used as the Northeast Harbor Fleet race committee boat. The race committee started boat races and recorded how they finished. This went on for a year or two immediately following World War II. I do not recall seeing the port launch after the War.” – Albie Neilson 09/12/11 “Placida” was purchased by the Navy on June 19, 1941 for use during WWII and converted for Naval service at Gibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville, Florida. She was commissioned as “USS Ruby” (PY-21)on September 23, 1941 and decommissioned after the war on July 23, 1945 at Boston, Massachusetts. She was struck from the Naval Register on August 13, 1945 and transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal on December 26, December 1945. The once proud yacht was scrapped in 1957. Information compiled from several sources, among them: “Ruby (PY-21)” by Gary P. Priolo, NavSource Online: Patrol Yacht Archive , 2006, Accessed online 07/31/2011; http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/1321.htm “Placida” was laid down December 23, 1929 and launched May 17, 1930. She was bought by Henry Garner Haskell Sr. and delivered to him on July 1, 1930. She was a twin screw diesel seagoing yacht, 190 feet long with a 10 foot draft. Mr. Haskell and his family cruised in her extensively from Maine to Florida with Wilmington, Delaware as her home port. [show more] | |||||
| 14253 | Rambler - Pleasure Boat |
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| 13649 | Salvage III |
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| “Salvage III” was originally built at 82 tons, 66’ long, 4.5’ draft (light) and 24.5’ wide. Douglas lengthened her using the facilities at the Hinckley yard in Manset at the same time that he built their large self-powered steer able boat trailer in 1993-1994. “Salvage III” was lengthened by 16’ to 82’ and was 102 tons after lengthening. She carries 3 engines - all Detroit Diesels – two 871s and one 671 for operating the hydraulics and the generator. She carries a hydraulic derrick, and, among other things, uses the derrick to drive a “spud” (steel post) through a casing on the corner of the vessel to moor “Salvage III.” Douglas started building “Salvage III” at Southwest Boat Corporation on Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor, in late October 1989 and launched her in August 1990. “Salvage III” was one of the last vessels built there as Southwest Boat closed in February 1990. | 
Description: “Salvage III” was originally built at 82 tons, 66’ long, 4.5’ draft (light) and 24.5’ wide. Douglas lengthened her using the facilities at the Hinckley yard in Manset at the same time that he built their large self-powered steer able boat trailer in 1993-1994. “Salvage III” was lengthened by 16’ to 82’ and was 102 tons after lengthening. She carries 3 engines - all Detroit Diesels – two 871s and one 671 for operating the hydraulics and the generator. She carries a hydraulic derrick, and, among other things, uses the derrick to drive a “spud” (steel post) through a casing on the corner of the vessel to moor “Salvage III.” Douglas started building “Salvage III” at Southwest Boat Corporation on Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor, in late October 1989 and launched her in August 1990. “Salvage III” was one of the last vessels built there as Southwest Boat closed in February 1990. [show more] | |||||
| 13651 | Salvage II |
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| Built by Douglas Beal. His second vessel, “Salvage II” is now owned by Jeff Berzinis at Southwest Boat Marine Services on Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor. “Salvage II” is now “Triton.” | 
Description: Built by Douglas Beal. His second vessel, “Salvage II” is now owned by Jeff Berzinis at Southwest Boat Marine Services on Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor. “Salvage II” is now “Triton.” | |||||
| 13667 | Aloha I - Brig Rigged Yacht |
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| 13135 | Levi Woodbury - U.S. Revenue Cutter |
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| Vessel Name – Mahoning – renamed Levi Woodbury “Woodbury” April 1898 – renamed Laksco after 1915 Class – Topsail Schooner / Steamer – Pawtuxet-class tender Hull – wood – oak, locust and white oak w. iron diagonal bracing Masts - 2 Rig – topsail schooner Build date – 1863 Commissioned – July 18, 1864 Built by – J.W. Lynn & Sons Built at – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Built for – U.S. Revenue Service Named for – Mahoning creek and valley, Pennsylvania – 1898 for Levi Woodbury (1789-1851), U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, Supreme Court Justice Power – steam engine with 2 oscillating cylinders; single 8’ screw Displacement – 350 tons Length – 138’ Beam – 26’6” Draft – 11’ Crew – 7 officers, 34 enlisted Armament – 1 x 30-pound Parrott rifle; 5 x 24-pound howitzers Number – Disposition – By 1913, Woodbury was not only the Coast Guard's oldest cutter, she was the oldest active-duty vessel in U.S. government service, as well as being the only ship to have seen active service in both the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War. Decommissioned by Coast Guard, July 19, 1915, Portland, Maine. Sold to Thomas Butler & Co., Boston, Massachusetts August 10, 1915. Woodbury's decommission ended 51 years with the Revenue Cutter Service, making her one of the longest serving cutters in the organization's history. After her final decommission in 1915, Levi Woodbury was placed into service as the merchant Laksco. She disappears from shipping records in 1932. “For more than fifty years the cutter “Levi Woodbury” was stationed on the coast of Maine, ranging between Portland and Eastport with regular calls at Rockland, Castine, and Machiasport. At first her hull was black, but later was painted white. She served from 1864 until 1916, when she was condemned by the government and sold. She finished her days enacting shipwreck scenes in silent movies.” - “Penobscot Bay, Mount Desert and Eastport Steamboat Album” by Allie Ryan, p. 68-69 – 1972 A revenue cutter did customs work, survey work and smuggling patrol. It functioned as the Coast Guard does today. - Ralph Stanley - 09/26/2007 In 1790, Alexander Hamilton proposed armed shipping vessels to enforce customs duties in the nations shipping ports. Congress appropriated $10,000 to maintain 10 revenue cutters to be placed under the charge of customs collectors. | 
Description: Vessel Name – Mahoning – renamed Levi Woodbury “Woodbury” April 1898 – renamed Laksco after 1915 Class – Topsail Schooner / Steamer – Pawtuxet-class tender Hull – wood – oak, locust and white oak w. iron diagonal bracing Masts - 2 Rig – topsail schooner Build date – 1863 Commissioned – July 18, 1864 Built by – J.W. Lynn & Sons Built at – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Built for – U.S. Revenue Service Named for – Mahoning creek and valley, Pennsylvania – 1898 for Levi Woodbury (1789-1851), U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, Supreme Court Justice Power – steam engine with 2 oscillating cylinders; single 8’ screw Displacement – 350 tons Length – 138’ Beam – 26’6” Draft – 11’ Crew – 7 officers, 34 enlisted Armament – 1 x 30-pound Parrott rifle; 5 x 24-pound howitzers Number – Disposition – By 1913, Woodbury was not only the Coast Guard's oldest cutter, she was the oldest active-duty vessel in U.S. government service, as well as being the only ship to have seen active service in both the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War. Decommissioned by Coast Guard, July 19, 1915, Portland, Maine. Sold to Thomas Butler & Co., Boston, Massachusetts August 10, 1915. Woodbury's decommission ended 51 years with the Revenue Cutter Service, making her one of the longest serving cutters in the organization's history. After her final decommission in 1915, Levi Woodbury was placed into service as the merchant Laksco. She disappears from shipping records in 1932. “For more than fifty years the cutter “Levi Woodbury” was stationed on the coast of Maine, ranging between Portland and Eastport with regular calls at Rockland, Castine, and Machiasport. At first her hull was black, but later was painted white. She served from 1864 until 1916, when she was condemned by the government and sold. She finished her days enacting shipwreck scenes in silent movies.” - “Penobscot Bay, Mount Desert and Eastport Steamboat Album” by Allie Ryan, p. 68-69 – 1972 A revenue cutter did customs work, survey work and smuggling patrol. It functioned as the Coast Guard does today. - Ralph Stanley - 09/26/2007 In 1790, Alexander Hamilton proposed armed shipping vessels to enforce customs duties in the nations shipping ports. Congress appropriated $10,000 to maintain 10 revenue cutters to be placed under the charge of customs collectors. [show more] | |||||
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| 10769 | Painting of Brig Carrie F. Dix - Lisbon 1882 |
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| The paper upon which the drawing was made seems to have been embossed with a cartouche encircling the word, "Evadne." "My [great] grandfather John Dix (1829-1858) was a sea captain, and my grandmother [Celestia Gertrude Dix] always said that he was once shipwrecked, but she didn’t know where. She was just a little girl at the time, and she couldn’t remember much about it. She thought it might have been “on the Jersey coast.” Anyway, he lost his ship, and it took him two years to get home. The story went that he had traded one vessel for another one at Blue Hill, and she almost sank before he got her home to Bartlett’s Island across the bay. She’d been down in the Caribbean and hadn’t been coppered, so she was worm-eaten. Even though she was a fairly new vessel, they had to fix her up before they could use her. I’m not sure whether this was the same ship he lost or not, but I’ve got a picture of a brig that was drawn by Fred W. Dix, who was lost at sea in 1886 and who was some kind of cousin to my great grandfather. It’s just a picture on a piece of lined paper, hand colored. On the back it says “Built in New Haven, 1882,” and it says “Carrie F. Dix” on the flag. [Frederick William Dix (1861-1886) was John Dix’ nephew, the son of John Dix’ brother, William Dix (1826-1910)] Now, Carrie F. Dix was my grandmother’s sister. Carrie married Dr. Joseph Dana Phillips, but she died in childbirth. Dr. Phillips sent my grandmother and her other sister, Vienna, to school at Coburn Classical Institute in Waterville. Then my grandmother taught school on Tinker’s Island for a time, and she also taught on Bartlett’s Island, where she lived. [Carrie Frances Dix (1863-1892), later Mrs. Joseph Dana Phillips, was the daughter of John Dix and the first cousin of Frederick William Dix] On the back of this picture of the brig it also says, “First trip to Faroe Isles and then to a place in Norway.” After that, the writing fades out, and the rest of it is illegible. I’ve tried using a black light to read it, but I can’t make it out. It says something about some port in Spain, so John Dix was probably bound down through the English Channel. Whether he was wrecked on the Channel Isles and spent some time on the island of Jersey, I don’t know. If the ship had been lost off New Jersey, it wouldn’t have taken him two years to get home. I do know that the whole crew was rescued by breeches buoy. But I bet my grandfather was shipwrecked on the Channel Isles, and he might have had to stay on the island of Jersey. Now, he might have been hurt or might have had a nervous breakdown over losing that vessel, because it took him two years to recover enough to get home. He had no money. When he got back to Maine, his spirit was broken and he never went to sea again. He had to run that little farm on Bartlett’s Island, and his family was very poor. When his daughter Emily Bartlett died, John Dix came off the island and lived in Southwest Harbor with another daughter, Vienna Lawler. When he died, they had Emily’s body brought over and buried with his, down at Mount Height Cemetery." - “Ralph Stanley : Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder” by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine 2004, p. 136-137. | 
Description: The paper upon which the drawing was made seems to have been embossed with a cartouche encircling the word, "Evadne." "My [great] grandfather John Dix (1829-1858) was a sea captain, and my grandmother [Celestia Gertrude Dix] always said that he was once shipwrecked, but she didn’t know where. She was just a little girl at the time, and she couldn’t remember much about it. She thought it might have been “on the Jersey coast.” Anyway, he lost his ship, and it took him two years to get home. The story went that he had traded one vessel for another one at Blue Hill, and she almost sank before he got her home to Bartlett’s Island across the bay. She’d been down in the Caribbean and hadn’t been coppered, so she was worm-eaten. Even though she was a fairly new vessel, they had to fix her up before they could use her. I’m not sure whether this was the same ship he lost or not, but I’ve got a picture of a brig that was drawn by Fred W. Dix, who was lost at sea in 1886 and who was some kind of cousin to my great grandfather. It’s just a picture on a piece of lined paper, hand colored. On the back it says “Built in New Haven, 1882,” and it says “Carrie F. Dix” on the flag. [Frederick William Dix (1861-1886) was John Dix’ nephew, the son of John Dix’ brother, William Dix (1826-1910)] Now, Carrie F. Dix was my grandmother’s sister. Carrie married Dr. Joseph Dana Phillips, but she died in childbirth. Dr. Phillips sent my grandmother and her other sister, Vienna, to school at Coburn Classical Institute in Waterville. Then my grandmother taught school on Tinker’s Island for a time, and she also taught on Bartlett’s Island, where she lived. [Carrie Frances Dix (1863-1892), later Mrs. Joseph Dana Phillips, was the daughter of John Dix and the first cousin of Frederick William Dix] On the back of this picture of the brig it also says, “First trip to Faroe Isles and then to a place in Norway.” After that, the writing fades out, and the rest of it is illegible. I’ve tried using a black light to read it, but I can’t make it out. It says something about some port in Spain, so John Dix was probably bound down through the English Channel. Whether he was wrecked on the Channel Isles and spent some time on the island of Jersey, I don’t know. If the ship had been lost off New Jersey, it wouldn’t have taken him two years to get home. I do know that the whole crew was rescued by breeches buoy. But I bet my grandfather was shipwrecked on the Channel Isles, and he might have had to stay on the island of Jersey. Now, he might have been hurt or might have had a nervous breakdown over losing that vessel, because it took him two years to recover enough to get home. He had no money. When he got back to Maine, his spirit was broken and he never went to sea again. He had to run that little farm on Bartlett’s Island, and his family was very poor. When his daughter Emily Bartlett died, John Dix came off the island and lived in Southwest Harbor with another daughter, Vienna Lawler. When he died, they had Emily’s body brought over and buried with his, down at Mount Height Cemetery." - “Ralph Stanley : Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder” by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine 2004, p. 136-137. [show more] | ||
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