Description: The view is from the Pemetic Hotel (The Castle) and, on the Southwest Harbor side, shows the Clarence Clark (Ellsbert/Heilaka) house left foreground. The long roofed building in the center, next to the harbor, a bowling alley after World War II - currently the Hamilton Marine building. The building on the right with the striped roof is the firm of Clark & Parker/Manset Marine Supply Co./ and the Oceanarium since 1979. The Oceanarium is the oldest commercial building on Clark Point - the only one extant except the Clarence Clark House. The Manset shore is in the background with discernible landmarks, including the Manset Union Church, the Stanley wharf, the early Stanley House and numerous commercial buildings on the Shore Road. There are about 30 schooners visible in the harbor and tied up at the wharves. - Identifications by Meredith Hutchins - 2006 [show more]
Description: Southwest Harbor Captain Adoniram Judson Robinson (1834-1912), great-grandfather of boat builder Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021), was Master of schooner "Andrew Nebinger," built at on the Mispillion River. For information about the vessels built on Mispillion Creek see "Mispillion-Built Sailing Vessels 1761-1917" by Betty Harrington Macdonald, published by the Milford Historical Society in 1990 - available for view at the Maritime Museum in Bath, Maine. See "Wood Shavings to Hot Sparks: The History of Shipbuilding in Milford, Delaware" – video produced for the Milford Museum by 302 Stories, Inc., Written, Directed and Edited by Michael Oates, Narrated by Don Wescott – 36 minutes.Early boat building at Milford, Delaware on the Mispillion River. [show more]
Description: This photograph originally belonged to Captain Adoniram Judson Robinson (1834-1912). It was taken in Stonington, Connecticut in the early 1900s while she was there for repairs after a collision. Damage to the hull can be seen below the first mast.
Description: When "Niliraga" sailed in Mount Desert waters she was owned by the Dunn and Milliken families and sailed off of Sutton Island and Northeast Harbor, Maine. Ralph Warren Stanley sailed her for both families. She was built with a shorter bowsprit and single jib, but she had such a weather helm that Mr. Dunn had the bowsprit lengthened and an extra jib added and original jib made smaller. “That helped her some.” She was sold away and featured in a TV mini-series. "Some guy was 'murdered' on her deck." She ended up in Brewer, Maine, "probably cut up and dumped." - Ralph Stanley 01/28/2013. [show more]
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: The schooner, "Leader" is center rear with a pinky to the right of it. The sloop in the left foreground is rigged like the Irish/Boston hookers, a type of vessel not native to Mount Desert Island. There is a weir visible to the right rear of the photograph. Maypole Point is on the right.
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]
Description: Brig “Caroline Gray,” 327 gross tons, was built in 1869. She had a long and varied career. Rerigged to sail as a coasting schooner With Jesse H. Pease as her master she carried sugar and molasses out of Portland, Maine in 1880 and is listed as arriving under Capt. Pease, in New York on March 16, 1880 with that or another of the same load. She also carried lime from Rockland to New York at this time.
Description: Coasting Schooner "Abby K. Bentley" , later "Emma R. Harvey" carried lumber, cement etc. As Schooner "Emma R. Harvey" she was lost off Digby Gut on the 5th December 1906. Her owner/captain, John Walter Berry, died later as a result of having lashed himself to her wheel in the freezing storm. The Digby Gut or St. George's Strait as it is officially named, is a narrow channel connecting the Bay of Fundy with the Annapolis Basin. The town of Digby, Nova Scotia is located on the inner portion of the western side of the Gut. [show more]