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| Account of the A Grand Old One Design Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Account of the A Grand Old One Design Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Handwritten partial history of the A Class Design. Includes quotes from E.R. Welles. It appears to be part of a forward for a future article. Gaff Rigged Sloop. Known also as an H class Previously accessioned as 007.121 | ||||
| Gaffed Rigged Racing Sloop newspaper article Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Gaffed Rigged Racing Sloop newspaper article Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: News item about the revival of the A-Class racing fleet in NE, dated Aug. 30, 1962 | |||
| 3 Tie for First Place in A Class Regata Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| 3 Tie for First Place in A Class Regata Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper article entitled 3 Tie for first place in A Class Regattta written by LaRue Spiker ,includes one of her photographs. 1966 Previously accessioned as 007.117 | |||
| Regatta Information 1967 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Regatta Information 1967 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: 1967 information sheet for the Oceanus Cruising Club A Class Regatta Previously accessioned as 007.123 | |||
| Safe Haven (Kronprinzessin Cecilie) Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Safe Haven (Kronprinzessin Cecilie) Jesup Memorial Library | |||
| High and Dry Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  High and Dry Jesup Memorial Library | |||
| A Tragedy at Mt. Desert Ferry Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  A Tragedy at Mt. Desert Ferry Jesup Memorial Library | |||
| Schooner Frank Brainerd Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Schooner Frank Brainerd Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Framed picture of the Frank Brainerd with a deck load lumber. Sticker on the back of the frame reads: Frank A. Bigelow, Inc. 11 Bromfield St., Boston, Mass. | |||
| Shipwrecks of Mount Desert Island College of the Atlantic |
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|  Shipwrecks of Mount Desert Island College of the Atlantic Description: A map showing shipwrecks around MDI identifying where the wrecks are and pictures of them. |
| Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Glass negative taken at Mount Desert Rock, September 1907. View depicts a Friendship sloop, identified as belonging to Captain Van Norden, towing two smaller boats. Negative envelope reads: Mt. Desert Lt. Sta. Sept. 1907 No. 1 Capt. Van Norden's Boat | |
| Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Glass negative taken off Mount Desert Rock, circa 1907. View shows a Friendship sloop under sail with the light station visible in the background. This negative envelope may actually belong with 1988.19.72; as that envelope has the name of a boat, the Gladys Simmons. |
| Stanley - Nathan S Stanley Account for the Schooner Lizzie Maud. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Stanley - Nathan S Stanley Account for the Schooner Lizzie Maud. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: An account receipt for Nathan Stanley on the schooner Lizzie Maud. This slip shows a payment of $3000 for 1/16th of the schooner, insurance, assessments, and a check of balance! | |
| Allen - Lincoln Allen account on the schooner Lizzie Maud Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Allen - Lincoln Allen account on the schooner Lizzie Maud Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Lincoln Allen's account on the schooner Lizzie Maud. This slip shows a payment for insurance, cash paid by check, and other boat related payments. The Lizzie Maud was a schooner that travelled around the Cranberry Isles, the Lizzie Maud wrecked in 1904 and the shipwreck is frequently visited. | |
| Spurling - Benjamin H. Spurling Bill of sale for a Boat. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Spurling - Benjamin H. Spurling Bill of sale for a Boat. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A bill of sale for a boat to Benjamin Spurling. The boat was sold to Spurling by a woman named Dora Boyd, who was in charge of Frank I. Reed's Estate. Frank Reed previously owned the boat, and lived in Boothbay Harbor. |
| Photograph of a Sailboat. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Photograph of a Sailboat. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photograph of a sailboat at what looks like Isleford Dock. There is no date on the photo, but from the people on the boat it looks like it could be from the late 1800's early 1900's. | ||
| Funliner Trips- Maine State Ferry Service Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Funliner Trips- Maine State Ferry Service Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A Map of the outer islands, including Great Cranberry, Mt. Desert, Deer Island and North Haven Island. On the other side there is a diagram that explains what the lights and buoys mean. | ||
| "American Marksmanship Claims British Vessel." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "American Marksmanship Claims British Vessel." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: "American Marksmanship Claims British Vessel." - Part 185 of Fred Humiston's "Blue Water Men - and Women." This story is about Edward Preble, it starts by telling of Preble's youth as a farm boy and his journey with learning how to be a seaman. The story then switches over to the story of a navy ship that fired a deadly shot to a British ship. This part says " The 'protector' fired a deadly raking broadside, which brought down the mizzenmast and set the main top-gallant afire." [show more] |
| Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: A Gloucester fishing schooner sails not far from Mount Desert Rock under partial sail. A number of people are visible on the deck, and a stack of dories can be seen between the masts. A large flag has the name of the vessel, which appears to be two words, though only Frances P. M______ is visible. William H. Bunting has (July 2021) identified this schooner as the Frances P. Mesquita, of Gloucester. Built in Gloucester in 1905, she was owned and commanded by Capt. Joseph Mesquita, and was both a successful fishing and racing vessel. She was sold in 1918 to owners from Newfoundland, and sunk by a U-boat that year. The envelope with this negative reads: No. 7 f., Tower, Single Tenement + Double Tenement, Looking N.W." and is likely an envelope reused from another negative. [show more] | ||
| Model of MDI Class Sloop, Rugosa Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Model of MDI Class Sloop, Rugosa Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Scale model of MDI Class sloop #16, Rugosa, made in 2008 by Duane Muzzy. The MDI Class Sloops were designed by Ralph Winslow in 1924 and 16 were constructed to teach the children of Mount Desert Island summer residents to sail. The full sized boats were: 21' 8" LOA 16' 5" LWL 4' Draft 6' 8" Beam 260.00 sq ft sail area 4,428.00 lbs Displacement | |
| Model, Controversy 36', "Constellation" Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Model, Controversy 36', "Constellation" Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Model of Controversy 36' Constellation built by Duane Muzzy in 2012. A pram, called "Little Dipper" was added to this model by Duane Muzzy as a bit of a whimsy, playing off the name of the boat, but was never on the original boat. The original Constellation was built by Mount Desert Yacht Yard and was owned yard owner, E. Farnham Butler. | |
| Model, International Class sloop, Auriga Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Model, International Class sloop, Auriga Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Scale model of International Class (also called International One Design) sloop AURIGA. Auriga was among the original Internationals to arrive in the Great Harbor, in 1938. Model made by Duane Muzzy in 2010 | |
| Boat Model, Luders 16 Sturgis R. Haskins Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Boat Model, Luders 16 Sturgis R. Haskins Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Luders 16 model in 1:16 scale made by Duane Muzzy, 2012. Boat is named in honor of Sturgis R. Haskins, a longtime board member of the Great Harbor Maritime Museum, who was very involved in the revitalization of the Mount Desert Island fleet of Luders 16 sloops. | |
| Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Mount Desert Rock Light Station, August 1908 - "Capt. Van Norden's Boat" - A Friendship sloop sails in front of the light station at Mount Desert Rock | |
| Half model of a Luders 16 Sloop Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Half model of a Luders 16 Sloop Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Half model of a sloop, perhaps a Luders 16, with a Genoa jib, made by Robert L. Smallidge Sr. of Northeast Harbor. Model's hull is varnished, and uses various wood types for topsides, waterline, and bottom, while the sails are painted white. The model and sails are mounted on a pine board. On the back of the model is #6, R.L. Smallidge, N.E. Harbor, Me. | |
| Lou [Lewis] Stanley's boat 1935 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Lou [Lewis] Stanley's boat 1935 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo, Lou [Lewis] Stanley's boat 1935 (item #1747a is the reverse side of picture) -from the Hazel Stanley Collection |