Built in Lubec as a sardine carrier and rebuilt at Southwest Boat Corporation as the first purse seiner in Maine. Photos 1257-1 and 1257-2 shown Sewanhaka after being rebuilt. Photos 3361 and 2262 show her before. “The Canadian fishermen had developed the purse seining industry in Canadian waters and were getting substantial amounts of herring during the winter. Carroll Peacock followed the advice of one of his carrier captains, Andrew Martin, and decided to get in on it. He sent the carrier, “Sewanhaka” to Southwest Harbor to be rigged up as a purse seiner. The first few attempts with the purse seine were failures because the boat was too small, so they decided to re-build her. The next year the “Sewanhaka” was sent to Wagstaff & Hatfield boat yard in Port Greville, N.S. to be built over. When she was finished, she was an 85’ seiner/carrier that could carry 135 hogsheads in her three holds…The “Sewanhaka” was the first purse seiner rigged for the herring fishery on the East Coast of the United States.” - Canned: A History of the Sardine Industry by John Gilman pp. 221-222. Build date – 1910 Gross tons - 73 Net tons – 40 Length – 74’ Beam – 20.5’ Depth – 8.5’ Crew – Captain Andrew Martin
Description: Built in Lubec as a sardine carrier and rebuilt at Southwest Boat Corporation as the first purse seiner in Maine. Photos 1257-1 and 1257-2 shown Sewanhaka after being rebuilt. Photos 3361 and 2262 show her before. “The Canadian fishermen had developed the purse seining industry in Canadian waters and were getting substantial amounts of herring during the winter. Carroll Peacock followed the advice of one of his carrier captains, Andrew Martin, and decided to get in on it. He sent the carrier, “Sewanhaka” to Southwest Harbor to be rigged up as a purse seiner. The first few attempts with the purse seine were failures because the boat was too small, so they decided to re-build her. The next year the “Sewanhaka” was sent to Wagstaff & Hatfield boat yard in Port Greville, N.S. to be built over. When she was finished, she was an 85’ seiner/carrier that could carry 135 hogsheads in her three holds…The “Sewanhaka” was the first purse seiner rigged for the herring fishery on the East Coast of the United States.” - Canned: A History of the Sardine Industry by John Gilman pp. 221-222. Build date – 1910 Gross tons - 73 Net tons – 40 Length – 74’ Beam – 20.5’ Depth – 8.5’ Crew – Captain Andrew Martin [show more]
This Sardine Boat was built by Henry R. Hinckley Company as Southwest Boat Corporation. The photographer's notes for this set of photos sometimes list the Cape Cod's length at 60', 65'. and 70'.
Description: This Sardine Boat was built by Henry R. Hinckley Company as Southwest Boat Corporation. The photographer's notes for this set of photos sometimes list the Cape Cod's length at 60', 65'. and 70'.
“Baby Rose” was built in Thomaston and taken over by the government during WWII. After the war she was refitted at Southwest Boat Corporation for the Ciamentaro family of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Description: “Baby Rose” was built in Thomaston and taken over by the government during WWII. After the war she was refitted at Southwest Boat Corporation for the Ciamentaro family of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Photographs of boats under repair at Southwest Boat Corporation taken from the deck of North Star: A.T. Haynes (Helen McColl); Woiee; Surfman. Notice Beals Fish Wharf in the background and Manset Marine Supply Company at far left.
Description: Photographs of boats under repair at Southwest Boat Corporation taken from the deck of North Star: A.T. Haynes (Helen McColl); Woiee; Surfman. Notice Beals Fish Wharf in the background and Manset Marine Supply Company at far left.
Photographs: 01-15 – life boats – George C. Gilley (1913-2000) on the right 01-16, 01-17 – building life boats at SW Boat 02-93 - George C. Gilley is the man on the top of the boats Most of these photographs were taken on April 6th, 1943. Moving the boats was taken on July 20, 1943 The rustic derrick pole was cut by Chris Lawlor as a replacement for a broken one. Chris cut it on his “uncle’s back lot” his way of saying that he cut it on Acadia National Park land (Uncle Sam’s land) somewhere on the back side of Freeman Ridge with a two-man cross-cut saw; Chester Warren Stanley and Chris Lawlor cut it. Chris’ horses hauled it out. Built by Henry R. Hinckley Company as Southwest Boat Corporation
Description: Photographs: 01-15 – life boats – George C. Gilley (1913-2000) on the right 01-16, 01-17 – building life boats at SW Boat 02-93 - George C. Gilley is the man on the top of the boats Most of these photographs were taken on April 6th, 1943. Moving the boats was taken on July 20, 1943 The rustic derrick pole was cut by Chris Lawlor as a replacement for a broken one. Chris cut it on his “uncle’s back lot” his way of saying that he cut it on Acadia National Park land (Uncle Sam’s land) somewhere on the back side of Freeman Ridge with a two-man cross-cut saw; Chester Warren Stanley and Chris Lawlor cut it. Chris’ horses hauled it out. Built by Henry R. Hinckley Company as Southwest Boat Corporation [show more]
The Hinckley logo is a styled image of Talaria, the winged sandals worn by the Greek messenger god Hermes. They were said to be made by the god Hephaestus of imperishable gold and they flew the god as swift as any bird.
Description: The Hinckley logo is a styled image of Talaria, the winged sandals worn by the Greek messenger god Hermes. They were said to be made by the god Hephaestus of imperishable gold and they flew the god as swift as any bird.
Floor and sail plans for two yawls, the Nirvana and the Valhalla, designed by John G. Alden in 1948 and built by the Henry R. Hinckley company in 1949-1950.
Description: Floor and sail plans for two yawls, the Nirvana and the Valhalla, designed by John G. Alden in 1948 and built by the Henry R. Hinckley company in 1949-1950.
The clipping reads: "MANSET, Me., Feb. 10 (AP) Yacht builders of Manset have resumed an art dormant since pre-war days, the fashioning of king-sized pleasure craft on Mount Desert Island. Of "two sixty-footers now building, one is a future. Bermuda race contender ordered by Harry G. Haskell Jr. of Wilmington, Del. and Northeast Harbor. The other will fly the flag of Cummins Catherwood of Philadelphia. The yachts are. on ways of Henry R. Hinckley & Co. Shipwrights expect Mr. Haskell's craft will be launched in April or May. The tentative date for the other launching is June 17." The Catherwood boat was the Valhalla. The Haskell boat was the Nirvana.
Description: The clipping reads: "MANSET, Me., Feb. 10 (AP) Yacht builders of Manset have resumed an art dormant since pre-war days, the fashioning of king-sized pleasure craft on Mount Desert Island. Of "two sixty-footers now building, one is a future. Bermuda race contender ordered by Harry G. Haskell Jr. of Wilmington, Del. and Northeast Harbor. The other will fly the flag of Cummins Catherwood of Philadelphia. The yachts are. on ways of Henry R. Hinckley & Co. Shipwrights expect Mr. Haskell's craft will be launched in April or May. The tentative date for the other launching is June 17." The Catherwood boat was the Valhalla. The Haskell boat was the Nirvana. [show more]