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16738Andrew McInnes sailing Venture
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor lifelong summer resident Andrew McInnes sailing Venture in the 1930s. The sailboat, co-owned with his brother Robert, was a B.B. Corninshield B Boat. Andrew didn't know that Mr. Ballard had taken the photograph until he happened to be in Grand Central Station in New York City and saw an enormous print or projection of the image advertising Maine as a tourist destination. Mr. Ballard gave him the 8x10 glass negative when they next met.
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Southwest Harbor lifelong summer resident Andrew McInnes sailing Venture in the 1930s. The sailboat, co-owned with his brother Robert, was a B.B. Corninshield B Boat. Andrew didn't know that Mr. Ballard had taken the photograph until he happened to be in Grand Central Station in New York City and saw an enormous print or projection of the image advertising Maine as a tourist destination. Mr. Ballard gave him the 8x10 glass negative when they next met. [show more]
15829Andrew Nebinger - Schooner
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  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
Southwest Harbor Captain Adoniram Judson Robinson (1834-1912), great-grandfather of boat builder Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021), was Master of schooner "Andrew Nebinger," built at on the Mispillion River. For information about the vessels built on Mispillion Creek see "Mispillion-Built Sailing Vessels 1761-1917" by Betty Harrington Macdonald, published by the Milford Historical Society in 1990 - available for view at the Maritime Museum in Bath, Maine. See "Wood Shavings to Hot Sparks: The History of Shipbuilding in Milford, Delaware" – video produced for the Milford Museum by 302 Stories, Inc., Written, Directed and Edited by Michael Oates, Narrated by Don Wescott – 36 minutes.Early boat building at Milford, Delaware on the Mispillion River.
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Southwest Harbor Captain Adoniram Judson Robinson (1834-1912), great-grandfather of boat builder Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021), was Master of schooner "Andrew Nebinger," built at on the Mispillion River. For information about the vessels built on Mispillion Creek see "Mispillion-Built Sailing Vessels 1761-1917" by Betty Harrington Macdonald, published by the Milford Historical Society in 1990 - available for view at the Maritime Museum in Bath, Maine. See "Wood Shavings to Hot Sparks: The History of Shipbuilding in Milford, Delaware" – video produced for the Milford Museum by 302 Stories, Inc., Written, Directed and Edited by Michael Oates, Narrated by Don Wescott – 36 minutes.Early boat building at Milford, Delaware on the Mispillion River. [show more]
15911Anna L. Sanborn - Coasting Schooner
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  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
15913Anthony & Josephine - Side Trawler
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  • Vessels, Ship
11969Aquarelle II
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Southwest Harbor
14434Aquarelle II - Pleasure Cruiser
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  • Vessels, Boat
Aquarelle II, a pleasure cruiser, was built in 1949 by Rich & Grindle boatbuilders for Talbot Faulkner Hamlin (1880-1959), an uncle of Cyrus N. Hamlin, who designed the vessel. See: “We Took to Cruising: From Maine to Florida Afloat” by Talbot and Jessica Hamlin, published by Sheridan House, New York, 1951, photographs between pages 224-225, Chapter 15, “The Dream Fulfilled: Aquarelle II,” p. 233-257+ The complete story of "Aquarelle II" from inception to her first cruise.
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Aquarelle II, a pleasure cruiser, was built in 1949 by Rich & Grindle boatbuilders for Talbot Faulkner Hamlin (1880-1959), an uncle of Cyrus N. Hamlin, who designed the vessel. See: “We Took to Cruising: From Maine to Florida Afloat” by Talbot and Jessica Hamlin, published by Sheridan House, New York, 1951, photographs between pages 224-225, Chapter 15, “The Dream Fulfilled: Aquarelle II,” p. 233-257+ The complete story of "Aquarelle II" from inception to her first cruise. [show more]
14255Arethusa III - Pleasure Cruiseraka Waterbed
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  • Vessels, Boat
Arethusa III, designed by Raymon Adelbert Bunker, was a wooden pleasure cruiser built in 1968 for Alvah Crocker by Bunker & Ellis.
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Arethusa III, designed by Raymon Adelbert Bunker, was a wooden pleasure cruiser built in 1968 for Alvah Crocker by Bunker & Ellis.
11220Arnold Lunt aboard a Northeast Harbor Fleet Committee Boat
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
The boat in the foreground - "22/29" - was built by Southwest Boat Corporation as an Army mine or two yawl. It was rejected by the government and acquired by the Northeast Harbor Fleet for use as a Committee Boat. Arnold Lunt is the man in the white shirt, standing, watching an A-Boat race. - Ralph Stanley 11/21/11.
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The boat in the foreground - "22/29" - was built by Southwest Boat Corporation as an Army mine or two yawl. It was rejected by the government and acquired by the Northeast Harbor Fleet for use as a Committee Boat. Arnold Lunt is the man in the white shirt, standing, watching an A-Boat race. - Ralph Stanley 11/21/11.
16290Art and Nan Rowing the BLB
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Places, Harbor
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Frenchboro, Placentia Island
16285Art Kellam with the BLB
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Film Negative
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Frenchboro, Placentia Island
3542Arthur B. Homer - Great Lakes Steam Freighter
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  • Vessels, Ship
13958Arthur S. Woodward - Lobster Smack
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  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
15240Asticou - Passenger Boat
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  • Vessels, Boat
14184A.T. Haynes - Small Freighter
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  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
The vessel was originally built as a commercial schooner.
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The vessel was originally built as a commercial schooner.
15220Atlanta - Auxiliary Sail Steamer
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
6843Auxillary Sail Steamship Kronprinzessin Cecilie at Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
  • Bar Harbor
15830Baby Rose - Dragger
  • Reference
  • Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Net Fishing Vessel, Dragger
16217Balance Rock and Frigate Portsmouth
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Stereograph
  • Places, Shore
  • Vessels, Ship
  • Kilburn - Benjamin West Kilburn (1827-1909)
  • Bar Harbor
6324Bar Harbor Wharf and Steamer Mount Desert
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Harbor
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf, Steamboat Wharf
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • Bar Harbor
13972Barbara Carol - Lobster Boat
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  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
14644Bay State - Sidewheel Steamer
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
"The sidewheel steamer "Bay State" was built at Bath in 1895…" "...On September 24, 1916 she ran aground at Cape Elizabeth and later slid off the rocks and sank." - Penobscot Bay, Mount Desert and Eastport Steamboat Album by Allie Ryan, p. 56 - 1972 To learn more about steamboats consult - The Steamship Historical Society of America - 1029 Waterman Avenue, East Providence, Rhode Island 02914 - E-mail - info@sshsa.org - http://www.sshsa.org/.
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"The sidewheel steamer "Bay State" was built at Bath in 1895…" "...On September 24, 1916 she ran aground at Cape Elizabeth and later slid off the rocks and sank." - Penobscot Bay, Mount Desert and Eastport Steamboat Album by Allie Ryan, p. 56 - 1972 To learn more about steamboats consult - The Steamship Historical Society of America - 1029 Waterman Avenue, East Providence, Rhode Island 02914 - E-mail - info@sshsa.org - http://www.sshsa.org/. [show more]
14654Belfast - Passenger Steamer
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
3482Benj. F. Jones - Miniature Tugboat
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  • Vessels, Boat
14061Bessie L. - Sardine Carrier
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  • Vessels, Boat, Sardine Carrier
Sardine carrier “Bessey L.” 36 hogsheads, 51’4” x 14’5” x 6’2” deep. She was built in 1905 at Lubec for Riviera Packing, Eastport, 27 GR T., 16 T NET. Call letters WC4221, Reg. #202066. She boated fish to the Holmes factories and in the late ‘40’s she worked herrin’ to the Maine Sardine Co. of Addison. She has been slowly dying in the Creek at Jonesport, Maine, since Skipper Adien Smith limped her in with a broken piston in April of 1973. She boated herrin’ for the Holmes factories at Robbinston and Eastport most of her life until the winter of ’72-’73 when she was rigged up for dragging scallops. When she was working the herrin’ she could carry 56 hogsheads… “Sardine Carriers and Seiners of the Maine Coast” compiled and written by Paul E. Bennett, The St. Pierre Doriman, p. 8, 12, 1992.
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Sardine carrier “Bessey L.” 36 hogsheads, 51’4” x 14’5” x 6’2” deep. She was built in 1905 at Lubec for Riviera Packing, Eastport, 27 GR T., 16 T NET. Call letters WC4221, Reg. #202066. She boated fish to the Holmes factories and in the late ‘40’s she worked herrin’ to the Maine Sardine Co. of Addison. She has been slowly dying in the Creek at Jonesport, Maine, since Skipper Adien Smith limped her in with a broken piston in April of 1973. She boated herrin’ for the Holmes factories at Robbinston and Eastport most of her life until the winter of ’72-’73 when she was rigged up for dragging scallops. When she was working the herrin’ she could carry 56 hogsheads… “Sardine Carriers and Seiners of the Maine Coast” compiled and written by Paul E. Bennett, The St. Pierre Doriman, p. 8, 12, 1992. [show more]
15954Bette S. - Lobster Boat
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  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat