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Steamer SAPPHO Northeast Harbor Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat		Steamer SAPPHO Northeast Harbor Library Identifier: nehl-7270 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
Steamer FRANK JONES Northeast Harbor Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat		Steamer FRANK JONES Northeast Harbor Library Identifier: nehl-7271 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
Steamer RANGELEY Northeast Harbor Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat		Steamer RANGELEY Northeast Harbor Library Identifier: nehl-7272 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
Steamer NORUMBEGA Northeast Harbor Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat		Steamer NORUMBEGA Northeast Harbor Library Identifier: nehl-7274 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
Steamer MOUNT DESERT Northeast Harbor Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat		Steamer MOUNT DESERT Northeast Harbor Library Identifier: nehl-7273 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
Steamer J. T. MORSE Northeast Harbor Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat		Steamer J. T. MORSE Northeast Harbor Library Identifier: nehl-7269 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Description: The last large side-wheeler steamer used in New England for both passenger and freight service was the 214-foot J. T. Morse, built in 1903-04 in East Boston for the Eastern Steamship Company. 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. The ship was named for James Thomas Morse of the well-known maritime (shipping and towing) family from Bath, Maine. (Text from visitacadia.com) [show more]
Agnes - Steam Passenger Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Agnes - Steam Passenger Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15815 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
Boston Floating Hospital - Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Boston Floating Hospital - Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15832 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
Kronprinzessin Cecilie - Steamship Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Kronprinzessin Cecilie - Steamship Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15841 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Description: Last of four ships of the Kaiser class, she was also the last German ship to have been built with four funnels. 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. She was carrying c. $10,000,000 in gold and $3,400,000 in silver. "One morning in 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.” Everyone knows the story of the "Kronprinzessin Cecile," how the news of the war had overtaken her in mid-ocean with her cargo of $10 million in American gold and 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. Peabody, Downeast Enterprise Incorporated, Camden, Maine, 1969, p. 244. [show more]
Solace - Steam Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Solace - Steam Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15947 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
Emita - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Emita - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13792 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
Forest City - Sidewheel Walking Beam Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Forest City - Sidewheel Walking Beam Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13888 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
Pilgrim - Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Pilgrim - Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13890 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
West Branch No. 2 - Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	West Branch No. 2 - Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14088 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Description: “Called “Great Northern’s Navy,” the Great Northern Paper Company owned a fleet of steamers used in its logging operations on several waters in the neighborhood of Chesuncook Lake, the largest… Replacing the “A.B. Smith” [side-wheel steamer built in 1902] was the “West Branch No. 2,” built May 1926 at Chesuncook Dam, now replaced by Ripogenus Dam…” - “Maine’s Steamboating Past” by Donald A. Wilson, published by Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC, p. 117, c. 2007 Vessel Name – West Branch No.2 Class – logging vessel Hull - wood Designed by – O.A. Harkness (Orrin Albert Harkness) (1870-) Build date – 1926 Launched – May 5, 1927 Built by – Great Northern Paper Co. Built at – on the shore at Chesuncook Dam, ME Built for – Great Northern Paper Co. Named for – West Branch of the Penobscot River in Maine. Power - 30 ton diesel Gross tons - Net tons – Capacity - Length – 91’ Beam – 21’ Draught – 8’ Crew – Designer O.A. Harkness was a mechanical genius who developed an inland fleet of lumbering vessels for Great Northern and was known as the “Admiral.” West Branch No. 2 operated between the head of Chesuncook Lake and Ripogenus Dam – 24 miles, towing pulpwood in booms, sometimes as much as 5000 cords at a time. By 1933 she had towed more than half a million cords of wood. – The Lewiston Daily Sun, November 20, 1933. [show more]
Chicago - Auxiliary Sail Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Chicago - Auxiliary Sail Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15017 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
Olivette - Auxiliary Sail Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Olivette - Auxiliary Sail Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15018 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Description: “In 1888 the Plant Railroad and Steamship Co. of Florida endeavored to find summer work for its fine steel screw steamer “Olivette” (which in the winter plied between Port Tampa, Key West, Fla., 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. The “Olivette,” built by William Cramp and Co. at Philadelphia, was launched on Feb. 16, 1887. She was in reality a small ocean steamer and a far better sea boat than anything then or since running to the coast of Maine. Richardson and Barnard, 20 Atlantic avenue, were the Boston agents, and Albert Bee acted in the same capacity in Bar Harbor. Her schedule was as follows: From Boston every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 6 P.M., 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. To keep up this timetable meant a speed of nearly 18 knots an hour,, fog or no fog but this she did, and with only one accident, when in 1888, in a fog, she ran into the schooner “Edward H. Blake,” loaded with ice and lumber, cut her in two and sank her, and with not the slightest injury to herself. Capt. James McKay (now superintendent of the U.S Transport service at Jacksonville, Fla.), who commanded the “Olivette” during all the years she ran to Bar Harbor, considers it one of the most wonderful accidents he ever heard of, for at the time of the collision the schooner was only 17 days old.” - “Some Account of Steam Navigation in New England” by Francis Boardman Crowninshield Bradlee, The Essex Institute, p. 110-111 – 1920. "Steamer, Olivette, collides with the schooner, Edward H. Blake, launched two weeks before at Millbridge. Loaded with 1017 tons of ice and 102,000 feet of spruce lumber, the Blake was cut completely in two. The crew and passengers were saved. Captain was George E. Smith of Bangor...Collision happened off Matinicus. The Blake was struck between mizzen mast and cabin. The vessel was taken to Orrington to be repaired." - July 17, 1890 - The Bar Harbor Record or Times. As the “Olivette” was luxuriously fitted up with modern convenience, she naturally enjoyed the cream the passenger and express traffic; she remained on line up to 1891 inclusive, and was fought off by the persistent hostility of the Maine Central Railroad. Then she was placed by her owners on the Boston-Halifax, N.S. route running (in the summer) for many years connection with other steamers. The “Olivette’ was totally lost on the north coast of Cuba in January, 1918.” - “Some Account of Steam Navigation in New England” by Francis Boardman Crowninshield Bradlee, The Essex Institute, p. 110-111 - 1920. [show more]
Adelita II - Steam Yacht Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Adelita II - Steam Yacht Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15091 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Description: “Mr. F.H. Peabody, of Boston, owner of the old “Adelita,” built a larger steam yacht, and gave it the name of the “Adelita.” It is of wood, and was launched late last year from the yard of D.J. Lawlor, of East Boston. She is 95 feet over all, 80 feet on water line, and 16 feet beam. Her engines are of the compound inverted type, 22 1/2 and 15 inches by 14 inches stroke, is fitted with a steel boiler, 7 feet 6 inches by 9 feet.” – “A Chronological History of the Origin and Development of Steam Navigation” by George Henry Preble and John Lipton Lochhead, published by L.R. Hamersly, 1883. [show more]
Katahdin - Side-wheel Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Katahdin - Side-wheel Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15092 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Description: Built by and/or owned by The Sanford Steamship Co.
Yarmouth - S.S. Yarmouth - Steamship Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Yarmouth - S.S. Yarmouth - Steamship Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15093 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Description: “The “Yarmouth,” said to be the finest and fastest sea-going steamer owned in the Dominion of Canada, is 1,432 tons gross; was built at the Clyde by A. MacMillan & Son, in the early part of 1887, for £24,000 sterling; is of 2,200 horse-power, lighted by electricity, steered by steam-power; has the other modern improvements, and berths for 350 passengers. Already a favorite with the traveling public, this steamer makes semi-weekly trips between Yarmouth and Boston,: can make the passage, 240 miles, in 15 hours, but ordinarily occupies 16 to 17 hours. The “Yarmouth” is in charge of Capt. Harvey Doane, whose twenty years’ experience in steamers running to Yarmouth entitles him to the utmost confidence; and he is ably seconded by Capt. Samuel F. Stanwood, now acting pilot.” – “Yarmouth, Nova Scotia: A Sequel to Campbell’s History” by George S. Brown, Rand Avery Company, Printers, Boston, p. 505 – 1888. Photographer Henry L. Rand traveled from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia to Boston, Massachusetts on the “Yarmouth” arriving on July 26, 1894. [show more]
Atlanta - Auxiliary Sail Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Atlanta - Auxiliary Sail Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15220 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
S.S. Cimbria - Steamship Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	S.S. Cimbria - Steamship Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15292 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Description: "September 9, 1878 - Fine day with a nice breeze. The "Cimbria" is getting ready to leave Southwest Harbor where she has rode at her anchors 4 months and 12 days. Probably she will never enter it again." "At a quarter to 4 o'clock the big gun flashes from her bows, the anchor is away - 3 cheers are given. She turns and steams slowly out of the Eastern Way." - Day Book of Elizabeth Cook (Carroll) Lawler - In the collection of Robert Lindsay Smallidge, Jr. [show more]
Cimbria - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Cimbria - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15294 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
S.S. Columbia - Auxiliary Sail Passenger Steamship Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	S.S. Columbia - Auxiliary Sail Passenger Steamship Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15365 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Description: “It can be appropriately said of the new and magnificent steamship Columbia, of the Hamburg Line, that she is a "gem of the ocean." The accounts of her remarkably fast runs continue to be published in leading journals at home and abroad...” Source: Ocean: Magazine of Travel, Vol. III, No. 2, September 1889, Page 42 Information from various sources including Lloyd’s Register of British and Foreign Shipping.
City of Rockland - Sidewheel Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	City of Rockland - Sidewheel Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14389 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
Camden - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Camden - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14395 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat

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