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Loading the mail boat ferry
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • 1963
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Loading the mail boat ferry
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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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.
Mackerel in Maine Waters - article 1909
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel
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Mackerel in Maine Waters - article 1909
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Newspaper article, probably September 1909. Title: "Mackerel in Maine Waters". Article reports that 20 barrels of mackerel were caught by Eben T. Lewis, Benjamin A. Spurling, and John S. Seavey, near Monhegan. Article lists other ships and captains active in the Monhegan area due to reports of large schools of mackerel.