Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Net Fishing Vessel, Dragger
Description: The "Rhode Island" was built in Waldoboro, Maine. She was owned by Bill Howell who used her to fish for redfish mostly. In 1953 a Photo-Electric Pilot, Model 52 automatic steerer, sold by The Harris Co., was installed in the “Rhode Island.”
Description: 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.
Description: Newspaper article (photocopy), undated. Title " 'Georgie' was Leading Vessel into New York". Author listed as Fred Humston. Article on right column mentions Benjamin Spurling commissioning the building of the 'Fannie Q. Spurling', a mackeral fishing boat.
Description: Lawrence Flye (aka Flick and/or Flicker) and Ralph Holland. Tuna weighing over 500 pounds caught outside Baker's Island. Roy Salisbury Collection
Description: Harbor, looking north. Asticou Inn in background. Fishing trawler and schooner at anchor. View taken from the shore north of Clifton Dock.
Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Net Fishing Vessel, Dragger
Description: "The “Connecticut”, 57 gross tons owned by Katherine S. Bindloss of New London, Conn. was built in 1946 [by Southwest Boat Corporation]. This vessel foundered Sept. 29, 1948, West ¼ North, 3 ¾ miles from Gay Head Lighthouse." - "Boatbuilding During World War II: MDI, Ellsworth, Stonington and Bluehill" by Ralph W. Stanley, p. 11 - 1997. The round deck house in the stern of the boat was probably an enclosed shelter deck for shucking scallops. [show more]
Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Net Fishing Vessel, Dragger
Description: "The “Cape Cod”, 34 gross tons owned by Manuel Phillips of Plymouth, Mass. was built in 1944 and used as a fishing dragger." - "Boatbuilding During World War II: MDI, Ellsworth, Stonington and Bluehill" by Ralph W. Stanley, p. 10 - 1997. "Cape Cod" was 65', and built at Southwest Boat Corporation in 1944.
Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Net Fishing Vessel, Dragger
Place:
Southwest Harbor
Description: Bonaventure was a 90’ dragger designed by Cyrus Hamlin and built for the Novello family of Gloucester by Southwest Boat Corporation in Southwest Harbor. She was the first big dragger built there. See: Prybot, Peter K.. White-Tipped Orange Masts: Gloucester’s Fishing Draggers, 1970-1972, A Time of Change (The Curious Traveller Press, Gloucester, 1998), p. 63.
Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Net Fishing Vessel, Dragger
Description: Built by Normand Joseph Bouchard for Linwood Boynton Wedge (1913-1961) and Woodrow Wilson Herrick (1914-2002) to be used as a dragger. "Seal" was owned by Samuel A. Blanchard (1926-2009) who took out fishing parties on her. - Information from Ralph Stanley 05/2011
Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Net Fishing Vessel, Dragger
Description: CR&M was a dragger built by Sim Davis. The pieces of metal on the side are to prevent chafing of the wing boards that hold the nets apart from the vessel.
Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Net Fishing Vessel, Dragger
Place:
Maine
Description: The boat at the right: Three Sisters - Passenger Launch – Fishing Boat She is a fishing/lobster boat rigged for dragging in this photograph.
Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Net Fishing Vessel, Dragger
Place:
Southwest Harbor
Description: Houses in Background - Left to Right: Extreme left: Henry Clark house - 138 Clark Point Road William Gilman Parker House and Barn, now gone - 143 Clark Point Road Edwin Clark house - 139 Clark Point Road Nathan Clark III (1843-1907) house - "Three Chimneys" - 141 Clark Point Road J.N. Mills house Nathan Clark II (1780-1848) house - 3 Claremont Road Vessels in Foreground - Left to Right: "Jacquelyn" - dragger "Grace M. Cribby" - lobster smack "Chester T. Marshall" - lobster smack "Sandra & Jean" - dragger built by Southwest Boat Corporation in 1945. [show more]
Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Net Fishing Vessel, Dragger
Creator:
Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
Place:
Southwest Harbor
Description: The building behind the vessel is the old Coal Shed, now gone. The shed was used by Southwest Boat to saw, mill and plane lumber. The heavy tools were kept there.