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| Canoe Paddle Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Canoe Paddle Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Canoe paddle used by Llewellyn Barry when competing and winning the Mt. Desert Canoe Club Race, August of 1900. "Barry" is written on the paddle handle. | |
| WWII Era Life Jacket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  WWII Era Life Jacket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Weighing about 5 pounds, this jacket is likely made of Kapok fibre from the Ceiba pentandra tree; which is lighter in weight than the original cork life jackets and much more comfortable and pliable. Unlikely to still float. Donor unknown, likely used in the early 1900s. | |||
| Boat compass in wooden Binnacle box Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Boat compass in wooden Binnacle box Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Used by Wilfred S. Trussell and Harvey Everett Bulger. Tool, boat compass in wooden binnacle box with window (brass, wood, paper, iron and glass). Compass card diameter 3.5", gimbal ring 5", interior box: 6.25" x 6.25"; exterior box: 7" x 11" x 8.5" H. North arrow has fleur d' lis motif. Compass was used by Wilfred S. Trussell (1869-1911) and/or Harvey (Harry) Everett Bulger (b.1883-d.<1911), who were husbands of Sadie Anna Harding (b.1879- d. after 1911) who once lived in the Cox now Dalton house (2016) on GCI. Sadie Harding married Trussell 1898 and Bulger 1919. No visible manufacturer or maker marks. Ralph Stanley examined this compass 2016 and believes it's a liquid (alcohol) compass after locating the corroded nut covering the fill-hole in the rim of the compass bowl. He also noted the quadrant markings on the sides of the compass. Per Stanley, Trussell had a sloop and this type of compass was used in boats of that size. It may indeed have been the compass that guided Trussell home during one particular storm (see Stanley's forthcoming book 2017). Stanley thinks it's a liquid compass about 100 years old and could have been purchased at any local marine goods store, but the box was specially made perhaps by Leslie Rice. Michael Macfarlan believes this could be a Ritchie compass and the hole in the wooden case with the shield above it would have been for a battery-powered light (not a candle). One or two large batteries would have been housed in the box's rear compartment. (Box hardware is too corroded to remove and investigate.) Stanley believes a wire to the light would have been wired to the engine. By email 2016, Ben Fuller at Penobscott Marine Museum suggests this compass would be suitable for small schooner or sloop large enough to be sailed at night, suggesting the Smithsonian's NMAH website: amhistory.si.edu/navigation/type.cfm?typeid=3 for further investigation. NMAH Website states: "Simple marine compasses have a magnetized needle attached to the bottom of a paper card, and are inherently unstable. Since the 1850s, scientists and instrument makers have struggled to solve this problem. One solution, pioneered by E. S. Ritchie in the United States, was to float the magnetic needle in a bowl of liquid...." (For genealogy see 2016.337.2103 Index p. 3 and p. 15, records p. 400 and 400A) (See also 2015.350.2115 for possible photo of Wilfred Trussel.) [show more] | ||
| Rudder with curved blade, wood stem, and cross-piece Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Rudder with curved blade, wood stem, and cross-piece Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Boat equipment. Rudder: wood with two metal brackets and two metal pegs, curved blade with wooden stem and cross-piece. | |||
| Lantern Northeast Harbor Fleet |
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|  Lantern Northeast Harbor Fleet Description: A large, iron, ships lantern that hangs from the ceiling of the Fleet House as a light source. | ||||
| Hand made fishing lines with hooks Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Hand made fishing lines with hooks Tremont Historical Society Description: 6 hand made fishing lines on wooden spools with 2 oblong lead weights and 4 tear drop shaped lead weights and 8 fish hooks donated by the children of Charles Orville and Esther Trask. | |||
| Ship’s Whistle Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
|  Ship’s Whistle Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Metal handle pushed whistle down much like a bellow. Forces air out of tin whistle at top. Air comes in through hole underneath. Hook keeps whistle closed. Brass tacks hold leather to wood. Attached tin plate reads, “J.H. Rowe Co. General agents Gloucester, Mass. Pat. Pending”. | |||||
| Oars Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
|  Oars Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Long curved oars with flat square blade. One oar tipped with copper and the other with tin. Leather hand grips. Leather wrapped in middle of oar for the oar locks. Donor info - came from house of Chester Rich in Somesville. Rich married a Smith of Somesville. Marked H.L. Smith. | |||||
| Life Jacket from Steam Vessel Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Life Jacket from Steam Vessel Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: An adult white life jacket. Cloth somewhat worn and dirty; some stains and holes. Dated March 6, 1930, "C.H.S." on jacket with worn words and STEAM VESSELS, NEW YORK, N.Y." Additional wording, "ADULTS, ATLANTIC-PACIFIC MFG. CORP. 124-128 ATLANTIC AVE. BROOKLYN N.Y" | ||||
| Brass oar lock Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Bow stem intended for Edgar Bunker's boat ca. 1950 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Bow stem intended for Edgar Bunker's boat ca. 1950 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Boatbuilding. Large, curved bow stem piece intended for Edgar Bunker's boat. Edgar died in Korean War and this bow stem piece never used. | |||
| Metal bow bit, cleat, nozzle, and "A" from various boats Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Metal bow bit, cleat, nozzle, and "A" from various boats Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Ship hardware. Collection of four large brass/metal artifacts recovered by Wesley Bracy Jr. (a.k.a. "Junior:) from local waters while scuba diving 1970-1980s. Items were either loaned or donated to GCIHS in 2000. (A): Artifact, letter "A" metal plate, from tug Astro an ocean-going tug towing a barge that ran ashore on Mt. Desert Rock 1902. Astro sank but barge okay. (B): Bow bit from the Ara, Deane's ocean-going private yacht that sank 1926 off Little Duck Island; (C): cleat; (D:) fire nozzle possibly from Deane's yacht. (See also 2015.310.2070 digital slides, and DVD interview made in 2003 (2013.265.1998).) [show more] | ||
| Compass in wood box Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Compass in wood box Tremont Historical Society Description: Round compass gimbal-mounted in wood dove-tailed box. Made by Starfinder company in Milton MA. Liquid inside compass. Removable wooden cover. Compass brass and glass. Belonged to Russell Mitchell and donated by daughter Arlene Mitchell Bartlett | ||||
| A runnng light from the USn blimp K-140100 Islesford Historical Society |
| A runnng light from the USn blimp K-140100 Islesford Historical Society Description: This running light and the attached fabric were salvaged by Mr. Tebbetts who served as the Quartermaster on the Uss Haigler YTB-327 which vessel towed the wreck of the K-14 into Bunker's Cove on July 4, 1944. Mr. Tebbetts has also furnished copies of Photos and testimony as to his role in the salvage operation. (Small wood sample, given by Helen Merrill in August 1996.) |
