The Henry R. Hinckley Company - as Manset Boat Yard - Coast Guard Boats on the Old Shore

Identifier:
12517  
Title:
The Henry R. Hinckley Company - as Manset Boat Yard - Coast Guard Boats on the Old Shore
Description:
This photograph was taken before the Manset shore was filled in.

– According to Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021), the White boat hauled up on shore in front of the William Spurling Newman house at 102 Shore Road, Map 17 – Lot 100 – was probably built by Leslie “Les” M. Rice (1883-1966) on Great Cranberry Island for William “Uncle Jimmy” Doane Stanley (1855-1950). She was built as a double ender. Someone bought her and put a square stern on her.

Work was slow at Hinckleys for awhile so Bill Dunham (Wilfred Manson Dunham (1918-2001) and Lewis Tapley (Lewis Merton Tapley (1916-1985) bought her and went fishing, though not for long. Work picked up at the Hinckley yard soon afterward.

The vessel was then bought by Abner W. Lunt (1908-1975), then she was bought by Luther C. Faulkingham (1901-1993) of Prospect Harbor, where she was the last time Ralph saw her.

The wharf building with the false front was the building that Francis “Frank” Thompson Chalmers Sr. (1893-1985), F. Dwight Perkins (1902-1981) and Merton S. Alley (1904-1985) had a car dealership in. Almon Frank Ramsdell Sr’s (1873-1946) garage was there later. Hinckley may have owned the building when this picture was taken. James “Jim” M. Willis (1919-2006) later ran “The Boathouse” there. See SWHPL 9363
Address:
130 Shore Road
Place:
Southwest Harbor, Manset
State:
ME
Country:
USA
Date:
August 13, 1942
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Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980), “The Henry R. Hinckley Company - as Manset Boat Yard - Coast Guard Boats on the Old Shore,” Southwest Harbor Public Library, accessed April 23, 2024, https://swhpl.digitalarchive.us/items/show/2181.Item 12517

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