Description: ...During the years she ran "round the hills" between Hancock Point and Southwest Harbor, under command of Captain W.M...Crosby, she became so popular with the ladies at BarHarbor that they named a social club after her…" - Penobscot Bay, Mount Desert and Eastport Steamboat...Album by Allie Ryan, p. 28-30 - 1972 “The Fourth – How it was Celebrated by the Band at Southwest Harbor - …[during the festivities] To the BarHarbor...Crosby was extremely courteous to his passengers.” – The BarHarbor Record, July 6, 1895...
Description: ...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 BarHarbor...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...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...
File Attachment: Kronprinzessin Cecilie - Steamship.pdf …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 BarHarbor …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. …Disposition: Interned at BarHarbor, Maine, August 4, 1914 Seized by the United States February 3, 1917 Commissioned by the US July 28, 1917 Served as
Description: ...1828-1901), named after his wife, Mary Caroline "Carrie" Stanley Richardson (1847-1920) launched in 1874, sold in 1883 Rescued at the Peaked Hill Bar...
File Attachment: Carrie M. Richardson - Coasting Schooner.pdf …Foundered 2.5 miles northeast of Provincetown, Massachusetts on the outer shore of Cape Cod on December 20, 1886 - Crew rescued by the crew at Peaked Hill Bar …Meltiah Jordan Richardson who had previously been master of the smaller schooner Quickstep that had been built at Bass Harbor was her master. …Richardson of Portland, Maine struck Peaked Hill Bar about 6:00 in the evening. …The stranded vessel beat in over the bar at high water during the night.
Description: ...., and Havana) by sending her to Boston in June of that year to open a new and direct line from that place to BarHarbor...., arriving at BarHarbor the next morning at 7, with the regularity of clockwork...Returning, the “Olivette” left BarHarbor on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at 6 P.M., due in Boston at 7 the next morning...The vessel was taken to Orrington to be repaired." - July 17, 1890 - The BarHarbor Record or Times...
Description: ...Eastern Steamship Lines steamer on Rockland to BarHarbor run through 1920's. Her hull now rests in the Hackensack River. Collected for "Mt...
Description: ...Powered by a 600-horsepower, single-beam engine, it traveled the Rockland, Maine to BarHarbor run from April to October or November each year...
Description: ...Tremont, January 8, 1896 - The BarHarbor Record. The schooner "Vanguard" was sold by Capt. Warren A. Spurling of Cranberry Island to Capt...
Description: ..."Moosehead came out first in 1911, with two triple expansion engines that could produce 2350 horsepower and give BarHarbor rusticators a thrilling ride...
File Attachment: Moosehead – Passenger Steamer - T.pdf …Gross tons: 710 Length: 185 2 Beam: 35.8 Draught: 10 6 Number: 208616 She was a luxury steamer designed to appeal BarHarbor rusticators.
Description: ...The vessel was designed specifically for the Rockland-BarHarbor Line, connecting the overnight Boston-to-Bangor steamers at Rockland...
File Attachment: J.T. Morse - Side-Wheel Steamer.pdf …Built to replace Side-wheel Steamer Mount Desert to carry passengers and freight on the Rockland to BarHarbor, Maine, run, connecting to the Boston steamers …She hailed from Rockland and called at Stonington, Southwest Harbor, Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor and BarHarbor. Manset was a flag stop.
Description: ...(D): information from Ralph Stanley and BarHarbor Record...
File Attachment: 2013.246.2366D.pdf …Here are some items from the BarHarbor Record: July 6, 1888, Cranberry Isles, Capt. …Benjamin Spurling, in the schooner Lizzie Maud, is in the harbor now. He has bought his father's place, the George N. Spurling homestead. …Spurling and wife of Boothbay Harbor, arrived at the house of Wm. P. Preble last Wednesday for a visit of a few weeks. Capt.
Description: ...The next morning ER awoke to discover that ‘FDR and the whole fleet’ had anchored outside Mary Dreier’s home in Southwest Harbor...Roosevelt in a furniture manufacturing business in that city." - The BarHarbor Times, July 19, 1933 Cook - Nancy Cook (1884-1962)...
Description: ...Contents of Curtis Phelps Collection: CD1: - Main Street: 5 B/W images of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - 13 images of Northeast Harbor and Mount...Northeast Harbor 9. Rock End Hotel 10. Seal Harbor 11. Seaside Inn 12. Sloop Alice Marion 1921 13. Tarn - Old postcards: 1. Steamer J. T...BarHarbor 1890 3. Claremont 1900's 4. Handlock Pont 1910 5. IGA 6. Northeast Harbor 1920 7. Seaside and Glen Cove hotels 8. Somes Sound 9...
Description: ..."The 'City of Richmond' steamship sailed from Portland to BarHarbor three days a week during the summer months in the late 1800s..."- Mount Desert - An Informal History Edited by Gunnar Hansen, 'Memories of Northeast Harbor' by Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, p. 180 - 1989...
Down East Enterprises Inc. and Wooden Boat Publications
Description: ...Clippings from issues of Wooden Boat and Down East Magazines featuring boats and boatbuilders located in or near Southwest Harbor...
File Attachment: accession-index-2060.pdf …Down East Magazine August 1974 feature on Southwest Harbor. …Down East Magazine October 1975 feature on Tom Schenk, artist living in Southwest Harbor. …Down East Magazine June 1973 feature on BarHarbor s famous Cottages. Down East Magazine July 1969 feature on old BarHarbor. …PO Box 157, Southwest Harbor, ME 04679 ~ www.swhplibrary.net ~ archivist@swhplibrary.org
File Attachment: Cimbria - Passenger Steamer.pdf …Gross tons: 289.14 Length: 116.7 Beam: 18.5 Draught: 7 Subsequent Owners: Bangor & BarHarbor Co. owned by the Barbour line According to John M …The steamer Cimbria of the Bangor & BarHarbor Steamboat Co. was launched at Bangor Monday afternoon, having been on the docks all winter undergoing repairs …The BarHarbor Record, May 10, 1899. …Richardson said, Railroad competition forced Cimbria out of the picture as far as the Bangor-BarHarbor traffic was concerned, not long after the turn
File Attachment: Agnes – Steam Passenger Launch.pdf …The BarHarbor Times, Thursday, May 10, 1888. 1888: "The steam launch Agnes, took a party from the Stanley House around Mount Desert Island last Friday …The BarHarbor Times, Thursday, August 16, 1888. 1888 "The steamer Agnes, built by W.R. …Hadlock." - BarHarbor Record, July 10, 1888 Captain Samuel Osgood Richardson (1842-1910) 1888: "The steam launch Agnes, took a party from the Stanley …The BarHarbor Times, Thursday, August 16, 1888. 1891: "Sept 18th 1891 - Dr Bates has given out that the Sunday school picnic will be a week from today
File Attachment: Liberty - Sightseeing Boat.pdf …Clement Boat Builders Built at: Southwest Harbor, Maine Built for: Benson Jordan Bennett Benson (1887-1945) Power: Steam Capacity: 84 passengers Length …BarHarbor Times, May 1, 1941. …"In 1996, Bill Benson recalled, Uncle Benson Jordan ran a sightseeing boat company on the BarHarbor waterfront in the 1930s. …For $1, one could tour Frenchmans Bay with the amenities of plush seats and an amplifier system." - "BarHarbor" by Earle G.
File Attachment: Norumbega – Passenger Steamer - T.pdf …Desert Ferry and Around the Hills service from BarHarbor to Southwest Harbor with calls at Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor Named for: Norumbega …Southwest Harbor. …The BarHarbor Record reported, on Wednesday, August 28, 1913: The passenger steamer Norumbega of the Maine Central Railroad fleet which was stranded …Kate & Bee have come home from the wreck and says there has been hundreds of people down there this P.M. from all quarters, Bar H. and elsewhere, and there
File Attachment: Bluenose I - Passenger and Motor Vehicle Ferry.pdf …She sailed between BarHarbor, Maine and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. …cutbacks to Marine Atlantic in the mid-1990s, Bay Ferries was formed as a subsidiary of NFL and successfully bid for the right to operate the Yarmouth-Bar …Harbor route. 1997 - Bay Ferries took control of the operation and continued to operate the MV Bluenose that year, after which it was sold. 1998 - Bay …Ferries operated ferry service across the Gulf of Maine from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, to BarHarbor, Maine, and from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, to Portland,
File Attachment: S.V.A. Hunter – Passenger Launch.pdf …Keene Boatbuilder (1851-1933) Built at: Southwest Harbor, Maine (Manset) Built for or probable first owner: Ladd Lewis E. …Wheelwright s little steamer at Northeast Harbor." BarHarbor Record, June 15, 1895 1910: "Northeast Harbor - The many friends of Capt. …Ladd is working about his place on Cranberry Isles." - BarHarbor Record, August 3, 1910. Author: Charlotte R. Morrill Date: 2017