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Loading the mail boat ferry
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
  • Organizations, Civic
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  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • 1963
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Loading the mail boat ferry
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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  • gcihs-2013.246.2352
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  • Publication, Clipping
Subject:
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
Date:
  • 1963
Description:
Wilfred Bunker (about age 43) receives cargo on stern of the Island Queen. "Mail Route - Men at Southwest Harbor load mail for delivery at Cranberry Island and Islesford." Photo shows the mail boat at the Lower Town Dock in Southwest Harbor. Photo for newspaper by L. Spiker. The Island Queen was built in 1963. Beal & Bunker moved operations to Northeast Harbor in 1972.
Vinalhaven II - Ferry
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Vinalhaven II - Ferry
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Identifier:
  • swhpl-13912
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
Description:
For over a year [after the start of WWII] the Penobscot Bay islands had no regular ferry service. Local fishermen and boat owners filled in as best they could. Then, at a special town meeting in August 1942, Vinalhaven voted to raise $55,000 to build a powerboat. The result was a sixty-five-foot, diesel-powered “motorship” named “Vinalhaven II,” built in Southwest Harbor, Maine. The boat went into service in July 1943, and Charles Philbrook was her captain…” – “Stories from the Maine Coast: Skppers, Ships and Storms” by Harry Gratwick, The History Press, 2012, p. 54-55. "The “Vinalhaven II”, 57 gross tons owned by the Vinalhaven Port District, Inc. of Rockland was built [by Southwest Boat Corporation] in 1943 to serve the island of Vinalhaven with passenger and freight service to Rockland." - "Boatbuilding During World War II: MDI, Ellsworth, Stonington and Bluehill" by Ralph W. Stanley, p. 10 - 1997. “Vinalhaven II” was designed by Cyrus “Cy” Hamlin. “Clarence” Bennett, a fisherman, was one of the group that raised the money to build “Vinalhaven II.” – Ralph W. Stanley 2011. [show more]