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| 5874 | Chester Warren Stanley Sailing the Neilson Family in Friendship Sloop, Reliance |
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| The boats racing in the background are International One Design boats. | 
Description: The boats racing in the background are International One Design boats. | ||
| 6146 | Frank Bernard Rich With Builder's Model of the Brig M.P. Rich Built by his Grandfather |
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| The inscription on the model says, "Brig M.P. Rich built on site of this camp 1857." Vessel Name – M.P. Rich Class – half brig Hull – wood Metalled July 1860 Masts - Designed by – Build date - 1857 Built by – M.P. Rich Built at – Tremont, Maine Built for – Collin McRae (1822-1900) and others Named for – Maurice Peters Rich Sr. (1805-1879) Gross tons – 266 9/98 Net tons – Length – 102.8’ Beam – 27.4’ Depth – 10.4’ 1857 - 1858 - Captain / Owner - Collin McRae 1859 – Captain - Collin McRae – Owners or Consignees - Howland, Hinckley & Co. 1861 - Captain Dix - Owners or Consignees - Howland, Hinckley & Co. 1863 - Captain Dix 1869 - Captain Dix Disposition - Sold – renamed Parimaribo 1866-1872 – Hailed – Suriname "A half brig has square sails on the foremast and fore and aft sails on the main." - Ralph Stanley, September 26, 2007. | 
Description: The inscription on the model says, "Brig M.P. Rich built on site of this camp 1857." Vessel Name – M.P. Rich Class – half brig Hull – wood Metalled July 1860 Masts - Designed by – Build date - 1857 Built by – M.P. Rich Built at – Tremont, Maine Built for – Collin McRae (1822-1900) and others Named for – Maurice Peters Rich Sr. (1805-1879) Gross tons – 266 9/98 Net tons – Length – 102.8’ Beam – 27.4’ Depth – 10.4’ 1857 - 1858 - Captain / Owner - Collin McRae 1859 – Captain - Collin McRae – Owners or Consignees - Howland, Hinckley & Co. 1861 - Captain Dix - Owners or Consignees - Howland, Hinckley & Co. 1863 - Captain Dix 1869 - Captain Dix Disposition - Sold – renamed Parimaribo 1866-1872 – Hailed – Suriname "A half brig has square sails on the foremast and fore and aft sails on the main." - Ralph Stanley, September 26, 2007. [show more] | ||
| 6206 | Boats at Low Tide - Head of the Harbor |
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| The boat on the left (#1 L 148) was owned by Carleton Barron Gilley (1921-2001) and was built by Paul Patton in Ellsworth. The boat in the middle (#1 M 551) is the 1st boat Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) built for himself in 1951. At the time this photograph was taken in 1960 Charles “Charlie” Montriville Gilley (1924-2006), leaning against it, was the owner. The boat on the right (#1 L 256), built by Robert “Bobby” Farnsworth Rich at his Bass Harbor Boat Shop was owned by Harold Edward Alley (1924-2004) , shown in the photograph working on the boat. The factory wharf in the back with white sardine carrier visible was the Addison Packing Company. | 
Description: The boat on the left (#1 L 148) was owned by Carleton Barron Gilley (1921-2001) and was built by Paul Patton in Ellsworth. The boat in the middle (#1 M 551) is the 1st boat Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) built for himself in 1951. At the time this photograph was taken in 1960 Charles “Charlie” Montriville Gilley (1924-2006), leaning against it, was the owner. The boat on the right (#1 L 256), built by Robert “Bobby” Farnsworth Rich at his Bass Harbor Boat Shop was owned by Harold Edward Alley (1924-2004) , shown in the photograph working on the boat. The factory wharf in the back with white sardine carrier visible was the Addison Packing Company. [show more] | ||
| 6212 | Sweet Pea and Electron II at Southwest Harbor |
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| The boat in front is the "Sweet Pea'' owned by "Peter" Richardson, Great Cranberry Island. Lewis Gilley Stanley was sailing her the day the picture was taken. The yawl behind "Sweet Pea" is "Electron II" owned by Professor Holmes of the University of Vermont Physics department. He adjusted and fixed compasses for fishermen for free. | 
Description: The boat in front is the "Sweet Pea'' owned by "Peter" Richardson, Great Cranberry Island. Lewis Gilley Stanley was sailing her the day the picture was taken. The yawl behind "Sweet Pea" is "Electron II" owned by Professor Holmes of the University of Vermont Physics department. He adjusted and fixed compasses for fishermen for free. | ||
| 11147 | Chester Warren Stanley Sailing the Neilson Family in Friendship Sloop, Reliance |
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| 11783 | Dragger Under Construction |
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| Note the thickness of the wooden deck. The boat was being built by Southwest Boat Corporation where this photograph was taken. | 
Description: Note the thickness of the wooden deck. The boat was being built by Southwest Boat Corporation where this photograph was taken. | |||
| 11786 | Southwest Boat Corporation - Sports Fisherman Alice K - built for Donald C. Keigher |
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| 9361 | Dragger Rhode Island at Southwest Harbor Town Dock |
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| 11155 | Washing the Bottom of Dragger Rhode Island at Southwest Harbor Town Dock |
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| 11156 | Washing the Bottom of Dragger Rhode Island at Southwest Harbor Town Dock |
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| 11771 | The Wreck of the Schooner Catherine in Somes Harbor |
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| Remains of schooner "Catherine" in Fernald Cove, Somesville, 1935. A few years later a storm shifted the hulk to the shore at right where surviving frames and timbers could be seen for some years at low tide. After the wreck and before this photograph was taken, salvagers cut a hole through the side of the vessel to allow the mast to fall into the water and be salvaged. The hole, near the bow. is visible in this photograph. SWHPL 9500 was a duplicate of this item and has been removed. | 
Description: Remains of schooner "Catherine" in Fernald Cove, Somesville, 1935. A few years later a storm shifted the hulk to the shore at right where surviving frames and timbers could be seen for some years at low tide. After the wreck and before this photograph was taken, salvagers cut a hole through the side of the vessel to allow the mast to fall into the water and be salvaged. The hole, near the bow. is visible in this photograph. SWHPL 9500 was a duplicate of this item and has been removed. [show more] | |||
| 11146 | The Wellington Family and Archie Spurling Sailing in Friendship Sloop Dolphin Off Greening Island |
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| 6204 | The Wellington Family and Archie Spurling Sailing in Friendship Sloop Dolphin Off Greening Island |
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| 6205 | Beal's Fish Wharf |
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| The boat in the foreground is a Cranberry Isles double ender. The dark boat behind with the canvas hood was built by Charles "Dud" Bracey on the Cranberry Isles. It was owned first by Wesley Bracey and then by George Dolliver. | 
Description: The boat in the foreground is a Cranberry Isles double ender. The dark boat behind with the canvas hood was built by Charles "Dud" Bracey on the Cranberry Isles. It was owned first by Wesley Bracey and then by George Dolliver. | ||
| 6211 | Utility Boat O.K. - Dragger Hornet and a Dragger at the Lower Town Dock in Southwest Harbor |
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| 6213 | Bass Harbor from Bernard |
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| 9357 | Dragger CR&M at Southwest Boat Corporation Dock in Southwest Harbor |
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| The building behind the vessel is the old Coal Shed, now gone. The shed was used by Southwest Boat to saw, mill and plane lumber. The heavy tools were kept there. | 
Description: The building behind the vessel is the old Coal Shed, now gone. The shed was used by Southwest Boat to saw, mill and plane lumber. The heavy tools were kept there. | |||
| 9366 | Fairhaven Queen, Irma, Medric and Five Other Fishing Vessels at Southwest Boat Corporation |
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| Vessels – Left to Right – Background to Foreground: “Fairhaven Queen” Unknown vessel from St. Andrews Unknown vessel “Irma” from Lubec Unknown vessel Unknown vessel “Medric” from Lubec – now disintegrating at Eastport Boat Building School Unknown dragger from Southwest Boat | 
Description: Vessels – Left to Right – Background to Foreground: “Fairhaven Queen” Unknown vessel from St. Andrews Unknown vessel “Irma” from Lubec Unknown vessel Unknown vessel “Medric” from Lubec – now disintegrating at Eastport Boat Building School Unknown dragger from Southwest Boat | |||
| 11149 | Scallop Dragger Connecticut Under Construction at Southwest Boat Corporation |
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| 11235 | Lobster Boat - O.K. - Dragger - Hornet and a Dragger at the Lower Town Dock in Southwest Harbor |
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| 11732 | Fishing Vessels at Southwest Harbor Lower Town Dock |
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| 11781 | Schooner Rebecca R. Douglas and Steam Powered Buoy Tender Ilex at Manset |
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| The remains of the burned Manset Coal Company wharf [now Manset Town Dock] are in the foreground. The wharf at the right was Stanley Fisheries. | 
Description: The remains of the burned Manset Coal Company wharf [now Manset Town Dock] are in the foreground. The wharf at the right was Stanley Fisheries. | ||
| 11785 | Schooner Lillian Loading Fish Meal at Addison Packing Company |
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| 5657 | Schooners Wm. Stevens in Clark's Cove at Low Tide |
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| The "William B. Stevens" is at the left. The "Palestine" is in the background. Distant wharf on the right is the Sardine Cannery (marina) before the cannery was enlarged. The boat on the left is the Wm. Stevens. Wooden lobster pots are stacked on the boat behind it. | 
Description: The "William B. Stevens" is at the left. The "Palestine" is in the background. Distant wharf on the right is the Sardine Cannery (marina) before the cannery was enlarged. The boat on the left is the Wm. Stevens. Wooden lobster pots are stacked on the boat behind it. | ||
| 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] |
