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14994Article and Photograph About Howe D. Higgins' Hobby Business
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • People
  • Newman - Eleanor Newman
  • Bangor Daily News
  • 1951-07-29
14018Free Rides to See Mayflower Thrills Provincetown Youth
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events
  • People
  • Boston Globe
  • 1957-06-13
15404Maine Yard Building Sixty-Foot Yachts
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • The New York Times
  • 1950-02-11
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.
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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]
3015Dunn - Gano Sillick Dunn
  • Publication, Literary, Memoir
  • People
  • Bush - Vannevar Bush
  • 1954
12782Paintings of the Late Philip Lyford on Display at Westport
  • Publication, Clipping
  • People
  • 1950-07-06
12819Seagoing Power Boat
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • Rudder Magazine
  • 1955-04
Describes the boat being build at the Bass Harbor Boat Shop, designed by Eldredge-McInnis, for William Chisholm II
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Describes the boat being build at the Bass Harbor Boat Shop, designed by Eldredge-McInnis, for William Chisholm II
15405Alden Yawls Nirvana and Valhalla
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • 1951
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.
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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.