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
File Attachment: Fannie Earl - Schooner - T.pdf …. - Nov. 19, 1891; BarHarbor Record Andrew C. Wheelwright used her as a pleasure craft in the summer. Sutton, The many friends of Capt. …I have the best to eat and a good room. - Jan. 23, 1901; BarHarbor Record Dec. 18 - N. E. gale today crossing the banks. Dec. 21 - Heavy gale S. …- Jan. 30, 1901 BarHarbor Record On the return trip Capt. Stanley was given a cabin, but William Hanna had to bunk with the Chesapeake crew.
File Attachment: Alice M. Leland - Schooner - T.pdf …." - The BarHarbor Record, October 30, 1890. …and was supposed to be sinking, and the crew took to the boat and landed on an island where rough weather kept them prisoners for several days." - The Bar …Harbor Record, May 25, 1893.
Description: El Placita was built for Abbott - John William Abbott (1834-1897) El Placita was owned at various times by: Abbott - John William Abbott (1834-1897) McCormick - Robert Hall McCormick Jr. (1878-1963) Jesup - Morris Ketchum Jesup (1830-1908)
File Attachments: El Placita - Schooner Steam Yacht.pdf …BarHarbor Society News, The New York Times, August 7, 1898. 1900: "Hall McCormick arrived [at BarHarbor] on Tuesday in his yacht, El Placita on which
File Attachment: Solace - Steam Launch.pdf …Keene (1851-1933) Built at: Southwest Harbor (Manset) Power: Steam boiler built 1891 when built Steam boiler built 1905 put in by William R. …Keene 1909: Inspected at Northeast Harbor 1910: Inspected at Bangor, Maine 1895: "Manset District Mr. Wm. R. …Wheelwright s little steamer at Northeast Harbor." BarHarbor Record, June 15, 1895. Author: Charlotte R. Morrill Date: 2017
File Attachment: Wilderedge II - Power Cruiser.pdf …Builders Built at: ME - SWH Clark Point Road 168 Built for: Wilder Milo West Wilder Jr. (1879-1955) Named for: Milo s cottage at Southwest Harbor …Sinclair of Northeast Harbor Summer colony. He also built a tender for Mr. …BarHarbor Times, April 20, 1927.
File Attachment: Frances Parsons - Schooner - T.pdf …Schooner on Maine Rocks The Frances Parsons is Wrecked Off Southwest Harbor in Blizzard Southwest Harbor, Me., Jan. 30 The three masted schooner …The schooner had been in harbor here for three days awaiting favorable weather, and is light. The New York Times, January 31, 1925. …The BarHarbor Times, February 4, 1925 The schooner survived this ordeal and was sailing, under Capt.
Description: Built by Ronald Dean Rich for his twin brother Roger Clifton Rich in 1959. The boat was named for Roger's daughter Meredith. The boat was later sold to Sheldon "Snicker" Damon, who renamed it "Mum's Mink." The boat was restored by Damon's sons after Ronald, Roger, and Sheldon had all passed away.
File Attachment: Meredith II - Lobster Boat.pdf …After he gave up lobstering the boat was sold to Northeast Harbor fisherman Sheldon Snicker Damon, who renamed it Mum s Mink. …Whenever I went to his market in BarHarbor to buy fish, Snicker would ask after my father and I never told him I wasn t quite reconciled to the name …They would have been delighted with the new Meredith II /Mum s Mink." - "Rich & Grindle Boatbuilders, Southwest Harbor, Maine," adapted from an …Labor of Love - Bert Damon of Northeast Harbor paints his father s old fishing boat, Mum s Mink, in anticipation of the coming fishing season.