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| Silver Crest - Steam Passenger Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Silver Crest - Steam Passenger Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Silver Crest – Steam Passenger Launch.pdf …The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, February 9, 1888. "W.R. …The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, May 10, 1888. "W.R. …The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, June 7, 1888. "Messrs. Pollister and Merritt, U.S. …[Industrial Journal]." - The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, September 6, 1888. | |||
| Cimbria - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Cimbria - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Cimbria - Passenger Steamer.pdf …Gross tons: 289.14 Length: 116.7 Beam: 18.5 Draught: 7 Subsequent Owners: Bangor & Bar Harbor Co. owned by the Barbour line According to John M …The steamer Cimbria of the Bangor & Bar Harbor Steamboat Co. was launched at Bangor Monday afternoon, having been on the docks all winter undergoing repairs …The Bar Harbor Record, May 10, 1899. …Richardson said, Railroad competition forced Cimbria out of the picture as far as the Bangor-Bar Harbor traffic was concerned, not long after the turn | |||
| Agnes - Steam Passenger Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Agnes - Steam Passenger Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Agnes – Steam Passenger Launch.pdf …The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, May 10, 1888. 1888: "The steam launch Agnes, took a party from the Stanley House around Mount Desert Island last Friday …The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, August 16, 1888. 1888 "The steamer Agnes, built by W.R. …Hadlock." - Bar Harbor Record, July 10, 1888 Captain Samuel Osgood Richardson (1842-1910) 1888: "The steam launch Agnes, took a party from the Stanley …The Bar Harbor 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 | |||
| Liberty - Sightseeing Boat Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Liberty - Sightseeing Boat Southwest Harbor Public Library 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 …Bar Harbor Times, May 1, 1941. …"In 1996, Bill Benson recalled, Uncle Benson Jordan ran a sightseeing boat company on the Bar Harbor waterfront in the 1930s. …For $1, one could tour Frenchmans Bay with the amenities of plush seats and an amplifier system." - "Bar Harbor" by Earle G. | |||
| Norumbega - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Norumbega - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Norumbega – Passenger Steamer - T.pdf …Desert Ferry and Around the Hills service from Bar Harbor to Southwest Harbor with calls at Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor Named for: Norumbega …Southwest Harbor. …The Bar Harbor 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 | |||
| Bluenose I - Passenger and Motor Vehicle Ferry Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Bluenose I - Passenger and Motor Vehicle Ferry Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Bluenose I - Passenger and Motor Vehicle Ferry.pdf …She sailed between Bar Harbor, 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 Bar Harbor, Maine, and from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, to Portland, | |||
| S.V.A. Hunter - Passenger Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  S.V.A. Hunter - Passenger Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library 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." Bar Harbor Record, June 15, 1895 1910: "Northeast Harbor - The many friends of Capt. …Ladd is working about his place on Cranberry Isles." - Bar Harbor Record, August 3, 1910. Author: Charlotte R. Morrill Date: 2017 | |||
| Fannie Earl - Schooner Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Fannie Earl - Schooner Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Fannie Earl - Schooner - T.pdf …. - Nov. 19, 1891; Bar Harbor 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; Bar Harbor Record Dec. 18 - N. E. gale today crossing the banks. Dec. 21 - Heavy gale S. …- Jan. 30, 1901 Bar Harbor Record On the return trip Capt. Stanley was given a cabin, but William Hanna had to bunk with the Chesapeake crew. | |||
| Alice M. Leland - Schooner Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Alice M. Leland - Schooner Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Alice M. Leland - Schooner - T.pdf …." - The Bar Harbor 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. | |||
| El Placita - Schooner Steam Yacht Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  El Placita - Schooner Steam Yacht Southwest Harbor Public Library 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 …Bar Harbor Society News, The New York Times, August 7, 1898. 1900: "Hall McCormick arrived [at Bar Harbor] on Tuesday in his yacht, El Placita on which | |||
| Solace - Steam Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Solace - Steam Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library 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." Bar Harbor Record, June 15, 1895. Author: Charlotte R. Morrill Date: 2017 | |||
| Wilderedge II - Power Cruiser Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Wilderedge II - Power Cruiser Southwest Harbor Public Library 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. …Bar Harbor Times, April 20, 1927. | |||
| Frances Parsons - Schooner Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Frances Parsons - Schooner Southwest Harbor Public Library 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 Bar Harbor Times, February 4, 1925 The schooner survived this ordeal and was sailing, under Capt. | |||
| Photos of a dirigible and boats Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photos of a dirigible and boats Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...anchored to a navy ship with Coast Guard vessel in front July 4, 1925, Bar Harbor Maine. C= Postcard of [illegible] yacht wrecked on Duck island... | |||
| Meredith II - Lobster Boat Mum's Mink Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  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 Bar Harbor 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. | |||
| Natalie Todd - Schooner Virginia - Schooner Araho - Schooner Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: Schooner "Araho" began life in 1941 as the two-masted wooden schooner, "Virginia," designed by Alan Woods and built at Muller Boat Works, Brooklyn, New York for the Virginia Corporation, Inc. "Virginia" was 129’ long, 21’ beam, 10’ draught, 199 gross tons and had a single screw propeller driven by a 150 HP diesel engine. She was built of white oak with a teak deck. She spent 40 years commercial fisher trawling the Grand and George’s Banks. [show more] File Attachment: Natalie Todd - Schooner - ex Virginia, Araho, later American Pride.pdf …She emerged as the gaff-rigged "Natalie Todd," an excursion boat running out of Bar Harbor, Maine. …Todd" was purchased by the Children's Maritime Foundation in October 1996 and began a 7500 mile sail through the Panama Canal to her new home in Rainbow Harbor | |||
| Amos Swan - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Amos Swan - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Amos Swan - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat.pdf …He was president of the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, and he had bought this old twenty-six-footer sloop called the Amos Swan. …In the fall I brought her across the harbor, and we finished her in the storage building behind my house on Clark Point Road. …The shop on Clark Point Road was Ralph s great uncle Jimmy s house and shed at 102 Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor, Maine. | |||
| Forest City - Sidewheel Walking Beam Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Forest City - Sidewheel Walking Beam Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Forest City - Sidewheel Walking Beam Passenger Steamer.pdf …She was largely responsible for the capture of the daring Confederate raiders who boarded Revenue Cutter, Caleb Cushing in Portland Harbor in 1863. the …Charles Deering organized the Boston and Maine Steamship Co. to run Boston, Castine, Bar Harbor, Southwest Harbor and Machiasport. | |||
| No-Name - Lobster Boat - Built for Joseph Elwood Spurling Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  No-Name - Lobster Boat - Built for Joseph Elwood Spurling Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This no-name spray hood lobster boat was originally owned by Joseph Elwood Spurling. The vessel had been brought up to Maine by summer people and so started out life as being slightly more elegant than the common fishing boat. She was planked with southern cedar and copper fastened. Elwood used her for weir fishing. He later sold it to Henry Lewis Linscott. When Ralph Ober Phippen owned the vessel he used it for lobster fishing. – Ralph Warren Stanley, 2009. [show more] File Attachment: No-Name - Lobster Boat – Built for Joseph Elwood Spurling.pdf …Clement is an expert boat builder and this product of his skill has brought him much praise from those who understand seagoing craft. " Bar Harbor | |||
| Aloha I - Brig Rigged Yacht Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Aloha I - Brig Rigged Yacht Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Aloha I - Brig Rigged Yacht.pdf …By 1939 James owned Aloha III, a steam yacht that visited Bar Harbor. Author: Charlotte Morrill | |||
| Betty Lou - Lobster Boat Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Betty Lou - Lobster Boat Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Betty Lou - Lobster Boat.pdf …The theory was that he and Fred ran out of gas outside of Baker s Island somewhere, and they drifted across the Bass Harbor bar. | |||
| Photo-Essay of Last (1942) Voyage of Coal Schooner "Rebecca R. Douglas" Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Photo-Essay of Last (1942) Voyage of Coal Schooner "Rebecca R. Douglas" Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: ...Douglas" between Northeast Harbor and New York City... File Attachment: Coastwise on a 3 Sticker.pdf …When I first saw her she was grounded out alongside the coal wharf at Northeast Harbor. …You might meet some pretty girls in there says he, but keep away from the bar rooms, mind. …all hands jumped at the chance, and after landing on pebble beach and struggling over the New Haven railroad tracks, made a bee line for the nearest bar …A good harbor furl was put on all sails and the long wait began. | ||
| Early Hadlock papers group 4 of 5 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Early Hadlock papers group 4 of 5 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...In 2018, Rosie Silvers discoverd this collection of early Hadlock papers at Wikhegan Books in Northeast Harbor, Maine... File Attachments: 2018.419.2288description.pdf …Folder 4: (GCIHS 2018.419.2288) Description provided by Joanne Fuerst, Wikhegan Books, Northeast Harbor, Maine. …Boston fruit wholesaler; coffee and tea; telephone and telegraph bills, steamship lading slips; tobacco, booze (and temperance) material; a buggy from Bar …Harbor; banking and insurance; grain, hay, agricultural supplies; office supplies; boys clothing (2 circulars w/5 fabric-samples in each); chocolates | |||
| Letter with details of voyage on the Schooner Willow Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Letter with details of voyage on the Schooner Willow Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Warren Bunker wrote the letter to his brother-in-law Daniel Hamor, Warren's wife's (Sidney Hamor Bunker's) brother, who was then living in Eden (now Bar...Harbor), Maine... File Attachment: 2015.323.2084C.pdf …Johns Bar | |
| Photographs and a brochure from Ralph Stanley Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Photographs and a brochure from Ralph Stanley Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: See index file for a description of each item File Attachments: accession-contact-sheet-2014.pdf …FOR RESEARCH ONLY ~ Page 1 of 1 ~ Southwest Harbor Public Library Digital Archive ~ Accession 2014 2014 2014-001.tif (5985x4716) 2014-002.jpg (1455x2148 accession-index-2014.pdf …Accession Index Southwest Harbor Public Library Digital Archive Accession #: 2014 Title: Photographs and a brochure from Ralph Stanley Archivist: George …Photos 013 018 are from an album of about 40 photos taken at what appears to be a Friendship Sloop race around Greening Island, outside of Southwest Harbor …Joy, Ellsworth. 2014-002 Print and CD image of Balance Rock on the shore path in Bar Harbor, July1885. 2014-003 2014-008 Eight-page brochure titled …PO Box 157, Southwest Harbor, ME 04679 ~ www.swhplibrary.org ~ archivist@swhplibrary.org stanley-wind-wood.pdf …Boat Building Clark Point Road Southwest Harbor; Maine 04679 207-244- 3795 i . …s outhwest Harbor, Maine has a long history in the boat building industry. |