Vessel Name - Medric Class – Sardine carrier Hull - wood Masts - 2 Designed by – Build date - 1919 Built by – Hodgedon Brothers Boatyard Built at – East Boothbay, Maine Built for – Boothbay Carriers, Inc. Named for – Power - 45-horsepower gasoline engine Gross tons - 31 Net tons – 11 Capacity - 52 hogsheads herring Length – 61’ Beam – 14' Draught - Crew – Number – Disposition - at Eastport Boat School in 2012 – falling apart The “Medric” was powered with a 45-horsepower gasoline engine and was 61 feet long by 14 feet wide, carrying a load of 52 hogsheads of herring. [1 hogshead (hhd) = 17 ½ bushels or 63 U.S. gallons.] She was one of the first ‘double-ender” style of boats built on the Maine coast… After 68 years, numerous repair jobs and new engines, the “Medric” [was] still carrying herring to the Peacock plant in Lubec [Maine in 1993.] - “Masts and Masters: A Brief History of Sardine Carriers and Boatmen” by John D. Gilman, published by John D. Gilman, 1993, p. 74-75. The book lists her masters and tells more about the vessel. By 2012 Ralph Stanley reported seeing "Medric" at the Eastport boat school, falling apart.
Description: Vessel Name - Medric Class – Sardine carrier Hull - wood Masts - 2 Designed by – Build date - 1919 Built by – Hodgedon Brothers Boatyard Built at – East Boothbay, Maine Built for – Boothbay Carriers, Inc. Named for – Power - 45-horsepower gasoline engine Gross tons - 31 Net tons – 11 Capacity - 52 hogsheads herring Length – 61’ Beam – 14' Draught - Crew – Number – Disposition - at Eastport Boat School in 2012 – falling apart The “Medric” was powered with a 45-horsepower gasoline engine and was 61 feet long by 14 feet wide, carrying a load of 52 hogsheads of herring. [1 hogshead (hhd) = 17 ½ bushels or 63 U.S. gallons.] She was one of the first ‘double-ender” style of boats built on the Maine coast… After 68 years, numerous repair jobs and new engines, the “Medric” [was] still carrying herring to the Peacock plant in Lubec [Maine in 1993.] - “Masts and Masters: A Brief History of Sardine Carriers and Boatmen” by John D. Gilman, published by John D. Gilman, 1993, p. 74-75. The book lists her masters and tells more about the vessel. By 2012 Ralph Stanley reported seeing "Medric" at the Eastport boat school, falling apart. [show more]
There is a bucket covering a pipe on "Gary Alan" and a wooden lobster pot on her deck. She hailed from Millbridge, Maine and was a sardine carrier built by Grandville W. Davis. The "Lady Lurene," a Nova Scotia boat, is rigged for dragging.
Description: There is a bucket covering a pipe on "Gary Alan" and a wooden lobster pot on her deck. She hailed from Millbridge, Maine and was a sardine carrier built by Grandville W. Davis. The "Lady Lurene," a Nova Scotia boat, is rigged for dragging.
The photograph was taken in the vicinity of the Lewis Kennison Robinson house at 465 Maine Street, Southwest Harbor. Addison Packing Company, at the head of Southwest Harbor, can be seen in the background of this picture. - Interview with Ralph Stanley, October 2008.
Description: The photograph was taken in the vicinity of the Lewis Kennison Robinson house at 465 Maine Street, Southwest Harbor. Addison Packing Company, at the head of Southwest Harbor, can be seen in the background of this picture. - Interview with Ralph Stanley, October 2008.
"Helen McColl" - 65'7" sardine carrier built in 1911 "Eva Grace" - 60' sardine carrier built in 1930 "America" - 47' sardine carrier built in 1908 "Arthur S. Woodward" - lobster smack - later sardine carrier built in 1949 "Henry O. Underwood" - third left on dock at foreground - 70' sardine carrier built in 1949 Several of the fishing boats in the photograph sport "scalers" - long box-shaped chutes on top of their shelters.
Description: "Helen McColl" - 65'7" sardine carrier built in 1911 "Eva Grace" - 60' sardine carrier built in 1930 "America" - 47' sardine carrier built in 1908 "Arthur S. Woodward" - lobster smack - later sardine carrier built in 1949 "Henry O. Underwood" - third left on dock at foreground - 70' sardine carrier built in 1949 Several of the fishing boats in the photograph sport "scalers" - long box-shaped chutes on top of their shelters. [show more]
The photograph was taken in the vicinity of the Lewis Kennison Robinson house at 465 Maine Street, Southwest Harbor. Addison Packing Company, at the head of Southwest Harbor, can be seen in the background of this picture. - Interview with Ralph Stanley, October 2008.
Description: The photograph was taken in the vicinity of the Lewis Kennison Robinson house at 465 Maine Street, Southwest Harbor. Addison Packing Company, at the head of Southwest Harbor, can be seen in the background of this picture. - Interview with Ralph Stanley, October 2008.
Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Net Fishing Vessel, Dragger
Place:
Winter Harbor ME
State:
ME
Source:
Ralph Warren Stanley Collection
Description: The boat at the right: Three Sisters - Passenger Launch – Fishing Boat She is a fishing/lobster boat rigged for dragging in this photograph.