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| Golden Rod - Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Golden Rod - Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...During the years she ran "round the hills" between Hancock Point and Southwest Harbor, under command of Captain W.M...Crosby, she became so popular with the ladies at Bar Harbor that they named a social club after her…" - Penobscot Bay, Mount Desert and Eastport Steamboat...Album by Allie Ryan, p. 28-30 - 1972 “The Fourth – How it was Celebrated by the Band at Southwest Harbor - …[during the festivities] To the Bar Harbor...Crosby was extremely courteous to his passengers.” – The Bar Harbor Record, July 6, 1895... | |||
| Kronprinzessin Cecilie - Steamship Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Kronprinzessin Cecilie - Steamship Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...She was engaged in transatlantic service between her homeport of Bremen and New York until the outbreak of World War I when she sought safety at Bar Harbor...the summer of 1914 my husband got up and looked out the window, then called me and said in a tone of utter amazement, “There’s an ocean liner in the harbor...a full complement of 1200 passengers…" - "Only in Maine: Selections from Down East Magazine," edited by Duane Doolittle, foreword by John Gould, “Old Bar...Harbor Days” chapter by Marian L... File Attachment: Kronprinzessin Cecilie - Steamship.pdf …She was engaged in transatlantic service between her homeport of Bremen and New York until the outbreak of World War I when she sought safety at Bar Harbor …full complement of 1200 passengers " - "Only in Maine: Selections from Down East Magazine," edited by Duane Doolittle, foreword by John Gould, Old Bar …Harbor Days chapter by Marian L. …Disposition: Interned at Bar Harbor, Maine, August 4, 1914 Seized by the United States February 3, 1917 Commissioned by the US July 28, 1917 Served as | |||
| Carrie M. Richardson - Coasting Schooner Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Carrie M. Richardson - Coasting Schooner Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...1828-1901), named after his wife, Mary Caroline "Carrie" Stanley Richardson (1847-1920) launched in 1874, sold in 1883 Rescued at the Peaked Hill Bar... File Attachment: Carrie M. Richardson - Coasting Schooner.pdf …Foundered 2.5 miles northeast of Provincetown, Massachusetts on the outer shore of Cape Cod on December 20, 1886 - Crew rescued by the crew at Peaked Hill Bar …Meltiah Jordan Richardson who had previously been master of the smaller schooner Quickstep that had been built at Bass Harbor was her master. …Richardson of Portland, Maine struck Peaked Hill Bar about 6:00 in the evening. …The stranded vessel beat in over the bar at high water during the night. | |||
| Olivette - Auxiliary Sail Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Olivette - Auxiliary Sail Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...., and Havana) by sending her to Boston in June of that year to open a new and direct line from that place to Bar Harbor...., arriving at Bar Harbor the next morning at 7, with the regularity of clockwork...Returning, the “Olivette” left Bar Harbor on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at 6 P.M., due in Boston at 7 the next morning...The vessel was taken to Orrington to be repaired." - July 17, 1890 - The Bar Harbor Record or Times... | |||
| Steamer J. T. MORSE Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Steamer J. T. MORSE Northeast Harbor Library Description: ...Powered by a 600-horsepower, single-beam engine, it traveled the Rockland, Maine to Bar Harbor run from April to October or November each year... | ||||
| Vanguard - Schooner Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Vanguard - Schooner Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Tremont, January 8, 1896 - The Bar Harbor Record. The schooner "Vanguard" was sold by Capt. Warren A. Spurling of Cranberry Island to Capt... | |||
| Moosehead - Passenger Steamer Mayflower - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: ..."Moosehead came out first in 1911, with two triple expansion engines that could produce 2350 horsepower and give Bar Harbor rusticators a thrilling ride... File Attachment: Moosehead – Passenger Steamer - T.pdf …Gross tons: 710 Length: 185 2 Beam: 35.8 Draught: 10 6 Number: 208616 She was a luxury steamer designed to appeal Bar Harbor rusticators. | |||
| J.T. Morse - Side-Wheel Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  J.T. Morse - Side-Wheel Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...The vessel was designed specifically for the Rockland-Bar Harbor Line, connecting the overnight Boston-to-Bangor steamers at Rockland... File Attachment: J.T. Morse - Side-Wheel Steamer.pdf …Built to replace Side-wheel Steamer Mount Desert to carry passengers and freight on the Rockland to Bar Harbor, Maine, run, connecting to the Boston steamers …She hailed from Rockland and called at Stonington, Southwest Harbor, Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor and Bar Harbor. Manset was a flag stop. | |||
| Amberjack II - Schooner Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Amberjack II - Schooner Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...The next morning ER awoke to discover that ‘FDR and the whole fleet’ had anchored outside Mary Dreier’s home in Southwest Harbor...Roosevelt in a furniture manufacturing business in that city." - The Bar Harbor Times, July 19, 1933 Cook - Nancy Cook (1884-1962)... | |||
| Gamecock - Coasting Schooner Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Gamecock - Coasting Schooner Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...She was built over in Bar Harbor, and he may have owned shares in her, too... | |||
| City of Richmond - Sidewheel Walking Beam Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  City of Richmond - Sidewheel Walking Beam Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ..."The 'City of Richmond' steamship sailed from Portland to Bar Harbor three days a week during the summer months in the late 1800s..."- Mount Desert - An Informal History Edited by Gunnar Hansen, 'Memories of Northeast Harbor' by Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, p. 180 - 1989... | |||
| Silver Crest - Steam Passenger Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Silver Crest - Steam Passenger Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Silver Crest – Steam Passenger Launch.pdf …The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, February 9, 1888. "W.R. …The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, May 10, 1888. "W.R. …The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, June 7, 1888. "Messrs. Pollister and Merritt, U.S. …[Industrial Journal]." - The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, September 6, 1888. | |||
| Cimbria - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Cimbria - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Cimbria - Passenger Steamer.pdf …Gross tons: 289.14 Length: 116.7 Beam: 18.5 Draught: 7 Subsequent Owners: Bangor & Bar Harbor Co. owned by the Barbour line According to John M …The steamer Cimbria of the Bangor & Bar Harbor Steamboat Co. was launched at Bangor Monday afternoon, having been on the docks all winter undergoing repairs …The Bar Harbor Record, May 10, 1899. …Richardson said, Railroad competition forced Cimbria out of the picture as far as the Bangor-Bar Harbor traffic was concerned, not long after the turn | |||
| Agnes - Steam Passenger Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Agnes - Steam Passenger Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Agnes – Steam Passenger Launch.pdf …The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, May 10, 1888. 1888: "The steam launch Agnes, took a party from the Stanley House around Mount Desert Island last Friday …The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, August 16, 1888. 1888 "The steamer Agnes, built by W.R. …Hadlock." - Bar Harbor Record, July 10, 1888 Captain Samuel Osgood Richardson (1842-1910) 1888: "The steam launch Agnes, took a party from the Stanley …The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, August 16, 1888. 1891: "Sept 18th 1891 - Dr Bates has given out that the Sunday school picnic will be a week from today | |||
| Liberty - Sightseeing Boat Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Liberty - Sightseeing Boat Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Liberty - Sightseeing Boat.pdf …Clement Boat Builders Built at: Southwest Harbor, Maine Built for: Benson Jordan Bennett Benson (1887-1945) Power: Steam Capacity: 84 passengers Length …Bar Harbor Times, May 1, 1941. …"In 1996, Bill Benson recalled, Uncle Benson Jordan ran a sightseeing boat company on the Bar Harbor waterfront in the 1930s. …For $1, one could tour Frenchmans Bay with the amenities of plush seats and an amplifier system." - "Bar Harbor" by Earle G. | |||
| Norumbega - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Norumbega - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Norumbega – Passenger Steamer - T.pdf …Desert Ferry and Around the Hills service from Bar Harbor to Southwest Harbor with calls at Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor Named for: Norumbega …Southwest Harbor. …The Bar Harbor Record reported, on Wednesday, August 28, 1913: The passenger steamer Norumbega of the Maine Central Railroad fleet which was stranded …Kate & Bee have come home from the wreck and says there has been hundreds of people down there this P.M. from all quarters, Bar H. and elsewhere, and there | |||
| Bluenose I - Passenger and Motor Vehicle Ferry Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Bluenose I - Passenger and Motor Vehicle Ferry Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Bluenose I - Passenger and Motor Vehicle Ferry.pdf …She sailed between Bar Harbor, Maine and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. …cutbacks to Marine Atlantic in the mid-1990s, Bay Ferries was formed as a subsidiary of NFL and successfully bid for the right to operate the Yarmouth-Bar …Harbor route. 1997 - Bay Ferries took control of the operation and continued to operate the MV Bluenose that year, after which it was sold. 1998 - Bay …Ferries operated ferry service across the Gulf of Maine from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, to Bar Harbor, Maine, and from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, to Portland, | |||
| S.V.A. Hunter - Passenger Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  S.V.A. Hunter - Passenger Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: S.V.A. Hunter – Passenger Launch.pdf …Keene Boatbuilder (1851-1933) Built at: Southwest Harbor, Maine (Manset) Built for or probable first owner: Ladd Lewis E. …Wheelwright s little steamer at Northeast Harbor." Bar Harbor Record, June 15, 1895 1910: "Northeast Harbor - The many friends of Capt. …Ladd is working about his place on Cranberry Isles." - Bar Harbor Record, August 3, 1910. Author: Charlotte R. Morrill Date: 2017 | |||
| Fannie Earl - Schooner Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Fannie Earl - Schooner Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Fannie Earl - Schooner - T.pdf …. - Nov. 19, 1891; Bar Harbor Record Andrew C. Wheelwright used her as a pleasure craft in the summer. Sutton, The many friends of Capt. …I have the best to eat and a good room. - Jan. 23, 1901; Bar Harbor Record Dec. 18 - N. E. gale today crossing the banks. Dec. 21 - Heavy gale S. …- Jan. 30, 1901 Bar Harbor Record On the return trip Capt. Stanley was given a cabin, but William Hanna had to bunk with the Chesapeake crew. | |||
| Alice M. Leland - Schooner Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Alice M. Leland - Schooner Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Alice M. Leland - Schooner - T.pdf …." - The Bar Harbor Record, October 30, 1890. …and was supposed to be sinking, and the crew took to the boat and landed on an island where rough weather kept them prisoners for several days." - The Bar …Harbor Record, May 25, 1893. | |||
| El Placita - Schooner Steam Yacht Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  El Placita - Schooner Steam Yacht Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: El Placita was built for Abbott - John William Abbott (1834-1897) El Placita was owned at various times by: Abbott - John William Abbott (1834-1897) McCormick - Robert Hall McCormick Jr. (1878-1963) Jesup - Morris Ketchum Jesup (1830-1908) File Attachments: El Placita - Schooner Steam Yacht.pdf …Bar Harbor Society News, The New York Times, August 7, 1898. 1900: "Hall McCormick arrived [at Bar Harbor] on Tuesday in his yacht, El Placita on which | |||
| Solace - Steam Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Solace - Steam Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Solace - Steam Launch.pdf …Keene (1851-1933) Built at: Southwest Harbor (Manset) Power: Steam boiler built 1891 when built Steam boiler built 1905 put in by William R. …Keene 1909: Inspected at Northeast Harbor 1910: Inspected at Bangor, Maine 1895: "Manset District Mr. Wm. R. …Wheelwright s little steamer at Northeast Harbor." Bar Harbor Record, June 15, 1895. Author: Charlotte R. Morrill Date: 2017 | |||
| Wilderedge II - Power Cruiser Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Wilderedge II - Power Cruiser Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Wilderedge II - Power Cruiser.pdf …Builders Built at: ME - SWH Clark Point Road 168 Built for: Wilder Milo West Wilder Jr. (1879-1955) Named for: Milo s cottage at Southwest Harbor …Sinclair of Northeast Harbor Summer colony. He also built a tender for Mr. …Bar Harbor Times, April 20, 1927. | |||
| Frances Parsons - Schooner Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Frances Parsons - Schooner Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Frances Parsons - Schooner - T.pdf …Schooner on Maine Rocks The Frances Parsons is Wrecked Off Southwest Harbor in Blizzard Southwest Harbor, Me., Jan. 30 The three masted schooner …The schooner had been in harbor here for three days awaiting favorable weather, and is light. The New York Times, January 31, 1925. …The Bar Harbor Times, February 4, 1925 The schooner survived this ordeal and was sailing, under Capt. | |||
| Meredith II - Lobster Boat Mum's Mink Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: Built by Ronald Dean Rich for his twin brother Roger Clifton Rich in 1959. The boat was named for Roger's daughter Meredith. The boat was later sold to Sheldon "Snicker" Damon, who renamed it "Mum's Mink." The boat was restored by Damon's sons after Ronald, Roger, and Sheldon had all passed away. File Attachment: Meredith II - Lobster Boat.pdf …After he gave up lobstering the boat was sold to Northeast Harbor fisherman Sheldon Snicker Damon, who renamed it Mum s Mink. …Whenever I went to his market in Bar Harbor to buy fish, Snicker would ask after my father and I never told him I wasn t quite reconciled to the name …They would have been delighted with the new Meredith II /Mum s Mink." - "Rich & Grindle Boatbuilders, Southwest Harbor, Maine," adapted from an …Labor of Love - Bert Damon of Northeast Harbor paints his father s old fishing boat, Mum s Mink, in anticipation of the coming fishing season. |