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16299Steamer Cimbria Aground at Bass Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • 1898 c.
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
Steamer Cimbria Aground at Bass Harbor
Item:
  • 16299   
Accession #:
  • 2004
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
Date:
  • 1898 c.
Place:
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Gift of Charles Carroll
15947Solace - Steam Launch
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
Solace - Steam Launch
Item:
  • 15947   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
15841Kronprinzessin Cecilie - Steamship
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
Last of four ships of the Kaiser class, she was also the last German ship to have been built with four funnels. She was engaged in transatlantic service between her homeport of Bremen and New York until the outbreak of World War I when she sought safety at Bar Harbor. She was carrying c. $10,000,000 in gold and $3,400,000 in silver. "One morning in the summer of 1914 my husband got up and looked out the window, then called me and said in a tone of utter amazement, “There’s an ocean liner in the harbor.” Everyone knows the story of the "Kronprinzessin Cecile," how the news of the war had overtaken her in mid-ocean with her cargo of $10 million in American gold and a full complement of 1200 passengers…" - "Only in Maine: Selections from Down East Magazine," edited by Duane Doolittle, foreword by John Gould, “Old Bar Harbor Days” chapter by Marian L. Peabody, Downeast Enterprise Incorporated, Camden, Maine, 1969, p. 244.
Kronprinzessin Cecilie - Steamship
Item:
  • 15841   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
Description:
Last of four ships of the Kaiser class, she was also the last German ship to have been built with four funnels. She was engaged in transatlantic service between her homeport of Bremen and New York until the outbreak of World War I when she sought safety at Bar Harbor. She was carrying c. $10,000,000 in gold and $3,400,000 in silver. "One morning in the summer of 1914 my husband got up and looked out the window, then called me and said in a tone of utter amazement, “There’s an ocean liner in the harbor.” Everyone knows the story of the "Kronprinzessin Cecile," how the news of the war had overtaken her in mid-ocean with her cargo of $10 million in American gold and a full complement of 1200 passengers…" - "Only in Maine: Selections from Down East Magazine," edited by Duane Doolittle, foreword by John Gould, “Old Bar Harbor Days” chapter by Marian L. Peabody, Downeast Enterprise Incorporated, Camden, Maine, 1969, p. 244. [show more]
15832Boston Floating Hospital - Steamer
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
Boston Floating Hospital - Steamer
Item:
  • 15832   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
15815Agnes - Steam Passenger Launch
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
Agnes - Steam Passenger Launch
Item:
  • 15815   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
15365S.S. Columbia - Auxiliary Sail Passenger Steamship
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
“It can be appropriately said of the new and magnificent steamship Columbia, of the Hamburg Line, that she is a "gem of the ocean." The accounts of her remarkably fast runs continue to be published in leading journals at home and abroad...” Source: Ocean: Magazine of Travel, Vol. III, No. 2, September 1889, Page 42 Information from various sources including Lloyd’s Register of British and Foreign Shipping.
S.S. Columbia - Auxiliary Sail Passenger Steamship
Item:
  • 15365   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
Description:
“It can be appropriately said of the new and magnificent steamship Columbia, of the Hamburg Line, that she is a "gem of the ocean." The accounts of her remarkably fast runs continue to be published in leading journals at home and abroad...” Source: Ocean: Magazine of Travel, Vol. III, No. 2, September 1889, Page 42 Information from various sources including Lloyd’s Register of British and Foreign Shipping.
15294Cimbria - Passenger Steamer
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
Cimbria - Passenger Steamer
Item:
  • 15294   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
15292S.S. Cimbria - Steamship
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
"September 9, 1878 - Fine day with a nice breeze. The "Cimbria" is getting ready to leave Southwest Harbor where she has rode at her anchors 4 months and 12 days. Probably she will never enter it again." "At a quarter to 4 o'clock the big gun flashes from her bows, the anchor is away - 3 cheers are given. She turns and steams slowly out of the Eastern Way." - Day Book of Elizabeth Cook (Carroll) Lawler - In the collection of Robert Lindsay Smallidge, Jr.
S.S. Cimbria - Steamship
Item:
  • 15292   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
Description:
"September 9, 1878 - Fine day with a nice breeze. The "Cimbria" is getting ready to leave Southwest Harbor where she has rode at her anchors 4 months and 12 days. Probably she will never enter it again." "At a quarter to 4 o'clock the big gun flashes from her bows, the anchor is away - 3 cheers are given. She turns and steams slowly out of the Eastern Way." - Day Book of Elizabeth Cook (Carroll) Lawler - In the collection of Robert Lindsay Smallidge, Jr. [show more]
15220Atlanta - Auxiliary Sail Steamer
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
Atlanta - Auxiliary Sail Steamer
Item:
  • 15220   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
15093Yarmouth - S.S. Yarmouth - Steamship
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
“The “Yarmouth,” said to be the finest and fastest sea-going steamer owned in the Dominion of Canada, is 1,432 tons gross; was built at the Clyde by A. MacMillan & Son, in the early part of 1887, for £24,000 sterling; is of 2,200 horse-power, lighted by electricity, steered by steam-power; has the other modern improvements, and berths for 350 passengers. Already a favorite with the traveling public, this steamer makes semi-weekly trips between Yarmouth and Boston,: can make the passage, 240 miles, in 15 hours, but ordinarily occupies 16 to 17 hours. The “Yarmouth” is in charge of Capt. Harvey Doane, whose twenty years’ experience in steamers running to Yarmouth entitles him to the utmost confidence; and he is ably seconded by Capt. Samuel F. Stanwood, now acting pilot.” – “Yarmouth, Nova Scotia: A Sequel to Campbell’s History” by George S. Brown, Rand Avery Company, Printers, Boston, p. 505 – 1888. Photographer Henry L. Rand traveled from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia to Boston, Massachusetts on the “Yarmouth” arriving on July 26, 1894.
Yarmouth - S.S. Yarmouth - Steamship
Item:
  • 15093   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
Description:
“The “Yarmouth,” said to be the finest and fastest sea-going steamer owned in the Dominion of Canada, is 1,432 tons gross; was built at the Clyde by A. MacMillan & Son, in the early part of 1887, for £24,000 sterling; is of 2,200 horse-power, lighted by electricity, steered by steam-power; has the other modern improvements, and berths for 350 passengers. Already a favorite with the traveling public, this steamer makes semi-weekly trips between Yarmouth and Boston,: can make the passage, 240 miles, in 15 hours, but ordinarily occupies 16 to 17 hours. The “Yarmouth” is in charge of Capt. Harvey Doane, whose twenty years’ experience in steamers running to Yarmouth entitles him to the utmost confidence; and he is ably seconded by Capt. Samuel F. Stanwood, now acting pilot.” – “Yarmouth, Nova Scotia: A Sequel to Campbell’s History” by George S. Brown, Rand Avery Company, Printers, Boston, p. 505 – 1888. Photographer Henry L. Rand traveled from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia to Boston, Massachusetts on the “Yarmouth” arriving on July 26, 1894. [show more]
15092Katahdin - Side-wheel Steamer
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
Built by and/or owned by The Sanford Steamship Co.
Katahdin - Side-wheel Steamer
Item:
  • 15092   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
Description:
Built by and/or owned by The Sanford Steamship Co.
15091Adelita II - Steam Yacht
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
“Mr. F.H. Peabody, of Boston, owner of the old “Adelita,” built a larger steam yacht, and gave it the name of the “Adelita.” It is of wood, and was launched late last year from the yard of D.J. Lawlor, of East Boston. She is 95 feet over all, 80 feet on water line, and 16 feet beam. Her engines are of the compound inverted type, 22 1/2 and 15 inches by 14 inches stroke, is fitted with a steel boiler, 7 feet 6 inches by 9 feet.” – “A Chronological History of the Origin and Development of Steam Navigation” by George Henry Preble and John Lipton Lochhead, published by L.R. Hamersly, 1883.
Adelita II - Steam Yacht
Item:
  • 15091   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
Description:
“Mr. F.H. Peabody, of Boston, owner of the old “Adelita,” built a larger steam yacht, and gave it the name of the “Adelita.” It is of wood, and was launched late last year from the yard of D.J. Lawlor, of East Boston. She is 95 feet over all, 80 feet on water line, and 16 feet beam. Her engines are of the compound inverted type, 22 1/2 and 15 inches by 14 inches stroke, is fitted with a steel boiler, 7 feet 6 inches by 9 feet.” – “A Chronological History of the Origin and Development of Steam Navigation” by George Henry Preble and John Lipton Lochhead, published by L.R. Hamersly, 1883. [show more]
15018Olivette - Auxiliary Sail Steamer
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
“In 1888 the Plant Railroad and Steamship Co. of Florida endeavored to find summer work for its fine steel screw steamer “Olivette” (which in the winter plied between Port Tampa, Key West, Fla., and Havana) by sending her to Boston in June of that year to open a new and direct line from that place to Bar Harbor. The “Olivette,” built by William Cramp and Co. at Philadelphia, was launched on Feb. 16, 1887. She was in reality a small ocean steamer and a far better sea boat than anything then or since running to the coast of Maine. Richardson and Barnard, 20 Atlantic avenue, were the Boston agents, and Albert Bee acted in the same capacity in Bar Harbor. Her schedule was as follows: From Boston every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 6 P.M., arriving at Bar Harbor the next morning at 7, with the regularity of clockwork. Returning, the “Olivette” left Bar Harbor on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at 6 P.M., due in Boston at 7 the next morning. To keep up this timetable meant a speed of nearly 18 knots an hour,, fog or no fog but this she did, and with only one accident, when in 1888, in a fog, she ran into the schooner “Edward H. Blake,” loaded with ice and lumber, cut her in two and sank her, and with not the slightest injury to herself. Capt. James McKay (now superintendent of the U.S Transport service at Jacksonville, Fla.), who commanded the “Olivette” during all the years she ran to Bar Harbor, considers it one of the most wonderful accidents he ever heard of, for at the time of the collision the schooner was only 17 days old.” - “Some Account of Steam Navigation in New England” by Francis Boardman Crowninshield Bradlee, The Essex Institute, p. 110-111 – 1920. "Steamer, Olivette, collides with the schooner, Edward H. Blake, launched two weeks before at Millbridge. Loaded with 1017 tons of ice and 102,000 feet of spruce lumber, the Blake was cut completely in two. The crew and passengers were saved. Captain was George E. Smith of Bangor...Collision happened off Matinicus. The Blake was struck between mizzen mast and cabin. The vessel was taken to Orrington to be repaired." - July 17, 1890 - The Bar Harbor Record or Times. As the “Olivette” was luxuriously fitted up with modern convenience, she naturally enjoyed the cream the passenger and express traffic; she remained on line up to 1891 inclusive, and was fought off by the persistent hostility of the Maine Central Railroad. Then she was placed by her owners on the Boston-Halifax, N.S. route running (in the summer) for many years connection with other steamers. The “Olivette’ was totally lost on the north coast of Cuba in January, 1918.” - “Some Account of Steam Navigation in New England” by Francis Boardman Crowninshield Bradlee, The Essex Institute, p. 110-111 - 1920.
Olivette - Auxiliary Sail Steamer
Item:
  • 15018   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
Description:
“In 1888 the Plant Railroad and Steamship Co. of Florida endeavored to find summer work for its fine steel screw steamer “Olivette” (which in the winter plied between Port Tampa, Key West, Fla., and Havana) by sending her to Boston in June of that year to open a new and direct line from that place to Bar Harbor. The “Olivette,” built by William Cramp and Co. at Philadelphia, was launched on Feb. 16, 1887. She was in reality a small ocean steamer and a far better sea boat than anything then or since running to the coast of Maine. Richardson and Barnard, 20 Atlantic avenue, were the Boston agents, and Albert Bee acted in the same capacity in Bar Harbor. Her schedule was as follows: From Boston every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 6 P.M., arriving at Bar Harbor the next morning at 7, with the regularity of clockwork. Returning, the “Olivette” left Bar Harbor on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at 6 P.M., due in Boston at 7 the next morning. To keep up this timetable meant a speed of nearly 18 knots an hour,, fog or no fog but this she did, and with only one accident, when in 1888, in a fog, she ran into the schooner “Edward H. Blake,” loaded with ice and lumber, cut her in two and sank her, and with not the slightest injury to herself. Capt. James McKay (now superintendent of the U.S Transport service at Jacksonville, Fla.), who commanded the “Olivette” during all the years she ran to Bar Harbor, considers it one of the most wonderful accidents he ever heard of, for at the time of the collision the schooner was only 17 days old.” - “Some Account of Steam Navigation in New England” by Francis Boardman Crowninshield Bradlee, The Essex Institute, p. 110-111 – 1920. "Steamer, Olivette, collides with the schooner, Edward H. Blake, launched two weeks before at Millbridge. Loaded with 1017 tons of ice and 102,000 feet of spruce lumber, the Blake was cut completely in two. The crew and passengers were saved. Captain was George E. Smith of Bangor...Collision happened off Matinicus. The Blake was struck between mizzen mast and cabin. The vessel was taken to Orrington to be repaired." - July 17, 1890 - The Bar Harbor Record or Times. As the “Olivette” was luxuriously fitted up with modern convenience, she naturally enjoyed the cream the passenger and express traffic; she remained on line up to 1891 inclusive, and was fought off by the persistent hostility of the Maine Central Railroad. Then she was placed by her owners on the Boston-Halifax, N.S. route running (in the summer) for many years connection with other steamers. The “Olivette’ was totally lost on the north coast of Cuba in January, 1918.” - “Some Account of Steam Navigation in New England” by Francis Boardman Crowninshield Bradlee, The Essex Institute, p. 110-111 - 1920. [show more]
15017Chicago - Auxiliary Sail Steamer
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
Chicago - Auxiliary Sail Steamer
Item:
  • 15017   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
14774Merryconeag - Passenger Steamer
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
Merryconeag - Passenger Steamer
Item:
  • 14774   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
14773Salacia - Passenger Steamer
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
Salacia - Passenger Steamer
Item:
  • 14773   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
14772Mineola - Passenger Steamer
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
Mineola - Passenger Steamer
Item:
  • 14772   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
14771Ransom B. Fuller - Passenger Steamer
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
Ransom B. Fuller - Passenger Steamer
Item:
  • 14771   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
14770Portland - Passenger Steamer
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
Portland - Passenger Steamer
Item:
  • 14770   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
14655Penobscot - Sidewheel Walking Beam Steamer
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
“A series of beautiful and larger vessels [of the Sanford Independent Co., based in Bangor, Maine] appeared, starting in 1882 with the “Penobscot,” the twins: “City of Bangor,” 1894, and “City of Rockland,” 1900; and the sister ships “Belfast” and “Camden.”” - “Bangor, Maine: An Illustrated History – 1769-1976” – A New Edition in honor of the National Bi-Centennial edited by James B. Vickery, p. 47-48 – 1976.
Penobscot - Sidewheel Walking Beam Steamer
Item:
  • 14655   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
Description:
“A series of beautiful and larger vessels [of the Sanford Independent Co., based in Bangor, Maine] appeared, starting in 1882 with the “Penobscot,” the twins: “City of Bangor,” 1894, and “City of Rockland,” 1900; and the sister ships “Belfast” and “Camden.”” - “Bangor, Maine: An Illustrated History – 1769-1976” – A New Edition in honor of the National Bi-Centennial edited by James B. Vickery, p. 47-48 – 1976.
14654Belfast - Passenger Steamer
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
Belfast - Passenger Steamer
Item:
  • 14654   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
14653Sieur de Monts - Passenger Steamer
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
Sieur de Monts - Passenger Steamer
Item:
  • 14653   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
14647City of Richmond - Sidewheel Walking Beam Steamer
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
The "City of Richmond" was a side wheel steamer with a walking beam engine. Those who are interested in walking beams and their technology may see a model (being restored) of the walking beam from the Ticonderoga at the Maine Antique Power Association on Beech Hill Crossroad in Mt. Desert - 207-244-0204. The Ticonderoga, one of the last walking beam side-wheel passenger steamboats in existence, and a Registered Historic Place is on display at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont. "The 'City of Richmond' steamship sailed from Portland to Bar Harbor three days a week during the summer months in the late 1800s. In 1881 she ran aground on the Mark Island Ledge. She was rebuilt by the Portland Company and continued in service until 1892." - Maine Memory Network, Accessed online 10/17/07; http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Detail?ln=5949 "The Maine Central Railroad was still two years away from completing its rail line from Washington Junction (Ellsworth) to Hancock and what would become Mt. Desert Ferry, when it purchased the Portland, Bangor and Machias Steamboat Company in 1882. It appears that the primary asset was the rebuilt (1881) walking-beam side-wheel steamer "City of Richmond," which was promptly transferred to the Mt. Desert and Machiasport run. The ship's schedule was designed to serve the trains in Portland and Rockland. In 1884 the trains started running through to Mt. Desert Ferry at the mouth of the Sullivan River in Hancock Point, and the Maine Central started to win the lion's share of the Mt. Desert Island business."- Mount Desert - An Informal History Edited by Gunnar Hansen, section written by Peter B. Bell, p. 166 - 1989 "I first came here at the age of three or four, in 1890 or 1891, on the steamer "City of Richmond." One went on board in Portland after a train journey from Boston or New York, spent the night on board, and woke up in the morning amid the delicious smells and sights of Eggemoggin Reach. "The City of Richmond" was partly owned by her captain, Captain Gary, who was a great character along the coast.."- Mount Desert - An Informal History Edited by Gunnar Hansen, 'Memories of Northeast Harbor' by Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, p. 180 - 1989
City of Richmond - Sidewheel Walking Beam Steamer
Item:
  • 14647   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
Description:
The "City of Richmond" was a side wheel steamer with a walking beam engine. Those who are interested in walking beams and their technology may see a model (being restored) of the walking beam from the Ticonderoga at the Maine Antique Power Association on Beech Hill Crossroad in Mt. Desert - 207-244-0204. The Ticonderoga, one of the last walking beam side-wheel passenger steamboats in existence, and a Registered Historic Place is on display at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont. "The 'City of Richmond' steamship sailed from Portland to Bar Harbor three days a week during the summer months in the late 1800s. In 1881 she ran aground on the Mark Island Ledge. She was rebuilt by the Portland Company and continued in service until 1892." - Maine Memory Network, Accessed online 10/17/07; http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Detail?ln=5949 "The Maine Central Railroad was still two years away from completing its rail line from Washington Junction (Ellsworth) to Hancock and what would become Mt. Desert Ferry, when it purchased the Portland, Bangor and Machias Steamboat Company in 1882. It appears that the primary asset was the rebuilt (1881) walking-beam side-wheel steamer "City of Richmond," which was promptly transferred to the Mt. Desert and Machiasport run. The ship's schedule was designed to serve the trains in Portland and Rockland. In 1884 the trains started running through to Mt. Desert Ferry at the mouth of the Sullivan River in Hancock Point, and the Maine Central started to win the lion's share of the Mt. Desert Island business."- Mount Desert - An Informal History Edited by Gunnar Hansen, section written by Peter B. Bell, p. 166 - 1989 "I first came here at the age of three or four, in 1890 or 1891, on the steamer "City of Richmond." One went on board in Portland after a train journey from Boston or New York, spent the night on board, and woke up in the morning amid the delicious smells and sights of Eggemoggin Reach. "The City of Richmond" was partly owned by her captain, Captain Gary, who was a great character along the coast.."- Mount Desert - An Informal History Edited by Gunnar Hansen, 'Memories of Northeast Harbor' by Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, p. 180 - 1989 [show more]
14646Westport - Passenger Steamer
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
Operated Eastern Steamship Lines
Westport - Passenger Steamer
Item:
  • 14646   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
Description:
Operated Eastern Steamship Lines
14645Lewiston - Sidewheel Walking Beam Steamer
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
The Lewiston was the sister ship to Steamer Forest City. She was built in New York in 1856 and operated on the Boston - Bangor line. She had a walking beam engine.
Lewiston - Sidewheel Walking Beam Steamer
Item:
  • 14645   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Steamboat
Description:
The Lewiston was the sister ship to Steamer Forest City. She was built in New York in 1856 and operated on the Boston - Bangor line. She had a walking beam engine.