283 tons and 114 feet in length Owned by Meltiah Richardson (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 Life Saving Station in 1885
Description: 283 tons and 114 feet in length Owned by Meltiah Richardson (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 Life Saving Station in 1885
Brig “Caroline Gray,” 327 gross tons, was built in 1869. She had a long and varied career. Rerigged to sail as a coasting schooner With Jesse H. Pease as her master she carried sugar and molasses out of Portland, Maine in 1880 and is listed as arriving under Capt. Pease, in New York on March 16, 1880 with that or another of the same load. She also carried lime from Rockland to New York at this time.
Description: Brig “Caroline Gray,” 327 gross tons, was built in 1869. She had a long and varied career. Rerigged to sail as a coasting schooner With Jesse H. Pease as her master she carried sugar and molasses out of Portland, Maine in 1880 and is listed as arriving under Capt. Pease, in New York on March 16, 1880 with that or another of the same load. She also carried lime from Rockland to New York at this time.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt made a trip to Campobello Island in June 1933 on Schooner Amberjack II (45’) chartered by his son, James, for the trip. Eleanor Roosevelt traveled by car with her friends, Nancy Cook and Marion Dickerman, to open up the cottage at Campobello and prepare for Franklin’s arrival. "When [Eleanor, Nancy and Marion] arrived at Mary Dreier’s home on Mount Desert Island in Maine, ER discovered that a large party was planned for the next afternoon, and she wrote in dismay: ‘I don’t dare tell Nan, but this is not my idea of a holiday!’ The next morning ER awoke to discover that ‘FDR and the whole fleet’ had anchored outside Mary Dreier’s home in Southwest Harbor. ER worried that it was ‘rather overpowering for Mary Dreier, but she seemed pleased.’ ER’s three sons went ashore for breakfast, and FDR invited ER and her party aboard the Amberjack II for lunch. By all accounts it was a ’joyous reunion,’ and nobody discussed the London Economic Conference. After FDR’s detour to Mary Dreier, he continued his cruise while ER headed directly for Campobello to make beds and prepare the great welcoming picnic to celebrate FDR’s first visit in twelve years…" - "Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume II, The Defining Years," 1933-1938 by Blanche Wiesen Cook, Viking, 1999, Unpaged – Chapter 6, “Family Discord and the London Economic Conference.” "Miss Nancy Cook of New York City is at the Old Fernald homestead at Fernald Point for the season. Miss Cook is associated with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt in a furniture manufacturing business in that city." - The Bar Harbor Times, July 19, 1933 Cook - Nancy Cook (1884-1962)
Description: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt made a trip to Campobello Island in June 1933 on Schooner Amberjack II (45’) chartered by his son, James, for the trip. Eleanor Roosevelt traveled by car with her friends, Nancy Cook and Marion Dickerman, to open up the cottage at Campobello and prepare for Franklin’s arrival. "When [Eleanor, Nancy and Marion] arrived at Mary Dreier’s home on Mount Desert Island in Maine, ER discovered that a large party was planned for the next afternoon, and she wrote in dismay: ‘I don’t dare tell Nan, but this is not my idea of a holiday!’ The next morning ER awoke to discover that ‘FDR and the whole fleet’ had anchored outside Mary Dreier’s home in Southwest Harbor. ER worried that it was ‘rather overpowering for Mary Dreier, but she seemed pleased.’ ER’s three sons went ashore for breakfast, and FDR invited ER and her party aboard the Amberjack II for lunch. By all accounts it was a ’joyous reunion,’ and nobody discussed the London Economic Conference. After FDR’s detour to Mary Dreier, he continued his cruise while ER headed directly for Campobello to make beds and prepare the great welcoming picnic to celebrate FDR’s first visit in twelve years…" - "Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume II, The Defining Years," 1933-1938 by Blanche Wiesen Cook, Viking, 1999, Unpaged – Chapter 6, “Family Discord and the London Economic Conference.” "Miss Nancy Cook of New York City is at the Old Fernald homestead at Fernald Point for the season. Miss Cook is associated with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt in a furniture manufacturing business in that city." - The Bar Harbor Times, July 19, 1933 Cook - Nancy Cook (1884-1962) [show more]
The schooner "Vanguard" was built at Bristol, Maine in 1867. "The fishing schooner Vanguard (of Orland), Capt. Lawrence went ashore at this place Tuesday at high water. She lost both anchors and rudder, broke her boom and wheel. Capt. Lawrence has notified the insurance company as there is $1200 risk on her." Tremont, January 8, 1896 - The Bar Harbor Record. The schooner "Vanguard" was sold by Capt. Warren A. Spurling of Cranberry Island to Capt. Merrill King of Manset in the fall of 1903. - Ralph W. Stanley.
Description: The schooner "Vanguard" was built at Bristol, Maine in 1867. "The fishing schooner Vanguard (of Orland), Capt. Lawrence went ashore at this place Tuesday at high water. She lost both anchors and rudder, broke her boom and wheel. Capt. Lawrence has notified the insurance company as there is $1200 risk on her." Tremont, January 8, 1896 - The Bar Harbor Record. The schooner "Vanguard" was sold by Capt. Warren A. Spurling of Cranberry Island to Capt. Merrill King of Manset in the fall of 1903. - Ralph W. Stanley. [show more]
Two-masted coasting schooner "Gamecock" was built at Eden, Maine in 1858. She was 97 8/95 tons - 68.8 - 23.0 - 6.8. Her first owners were the Langley family from Ellsworth and Trenton, Maine. - List of Vessels Built on Mount Desert, Cranberry, Tinker’s, Thompson’s and Long Island (Frenchboro) Compiled by Ralph Stanley, p. 62-3 - 2003. John Langley Jr. (1809-1886) - Tremont Catherine E. Dow Langley, Mrs. John Langley Jr. (1817-1880) – Tremont Jonathan P. Langley (1843-?) – son of John Langley Jr. and Catherine "I've also found records from the 1870s showing that my great-grandfather was master of the two-masted schooner "Gamecock." She was built over in Bar Harbor, and he may have owned shares in her, too. There are old newspaper accounts saying the Gamecock was going back and forth between Calais, in Maine, and Boston, Danvers, and Lynn, in Massachusetts, quite regularly. Sometimes she even went to New York. In 1882, the "Gamecock" was sold to Nova Scotia parties, and A. J. Robinson became master of a three-masted schooner named the "Andrew Nebinger" that was even bigger." - - “Ralph Stanley : Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder” by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine 2004, p. 25-28.
Description: Two-masted coasting schooner "Gamecock" was built at Eden, Maine in 1858. She was 97 8/95 tons - 68.8 - 23.0 - 6.8. Her first owners were the Langley family from Ellsworth and Trenton, Maine. - List of Vessels Built on Mount Desert, Cranberry, Tinker’s, Thompson’s and Long Island (Frenchboro) Compiled by Ralph Stanley, p. 62-3 - 2003. John Langley Jr. (1809-1886) - Tremont Catherine E. Dow Langley, Mrs. John Langley Jr. (1817-1880) – Tremont Jonathan P. Langley (1843-?) – son of John Langley Jr. and Catherine "I've also found records from the 1870s showing that my great-grandfather was master of the two-masted schooner "Gamecock." She was built over in Bar Harbor, and he may have owned shares in her, too. There are old newspaper accounts saying the Gamecock was going back and forth between Calais, in Maine, and Boston, Danvers, and Lynn, in Massachusetts, quite regularly. Sometimes she even went to New York. In 1882, the "Gamecock" was sold to Nova Scotia parties, and A. J. Robinson became master of a three-masted schooner named the "Andrew Nebinger" that was even bigger." - - “Ralph Stanley : Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder” by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine 2004, p. 25-28. [show more]
The "Robert A. Snyder" was built for and owned by Capt. Eugene Tinker of Deer Island, Maine – later captain of the "Lois M. Candage," out of Camden running as an excursion boat.
Description: The "Robert A. Snyder" was built for and owned by Capt. Eugene Tinker of Deer Island, Maine – later captain of the "Lois M. Candage," out of Camden running as an excursion boat.
View probably from the Pemetic Hotel Shows: Clarence Clark House, later Ellsberrg house, left foreground Long roof of the bowling alley at center Clark and Parker store with striped roof Above are all on Clark Point Across the harbor in Manset: Manset Union Church Stanley Wharf Early Stanley House Printed in Germany
Description: View probably from the Pemetic Hotel Shows: Clarence Clark House, later Ellsberrg house, left foreground Long roof of the bowling alley at center Clark and Parker store with striped roof Above are all on Clark Point Across the harbor in Manset: Manset Union Church Stanley Wharf Early Stanley House Printed in Germany
"Northern Light" was wrecked on the Rockland Breakwater in 1926. The photograph shows two schooners - a smaller one, a wrecking schooner, with another two masts, is behind and to the right of "Northern Light." On board "Northern Light" one can see at least one man in the crow's nest, one on board and two men hanging off the bowsprit. The vessel is being stripped of anything salvageable.
Description: "Northern Light" was wrecked on the Rockland Breakwater in 1926. The photograph shows two schooners - a smaller one, a wrecking schooner, with another two masts, is behind and to the right of "Northern Light." On board "Northern Light" one can see at least one man in the crow's nest, one on board and two men hanging off the bowsprit. The vessel is being stripped of anything salvageable.
Right to Left: Harvey Sherman Stanley (1889-1942), grandson of Enoch Boynton Stanley (1820-1903) at the helm. Dunn - Gano Sillick Dunn (1870-1953) Unknown teenager. Unknown teenager. Anne Milliken (1919-), later Baronessa Mario Franchetti
Description: Right to Left: Harvey Sherman Stanley (1889-1942), grandson of Enoch Boynton Stanley (1820-1903) at the helm. Dunn - Gano Sillick Dunn (1870-1953) Unknown teenager. Unknown teenager. Anne Milliken (1919-), later Baronessa Mario Franchetti
Description: There is a Coast Guard Cutter at the dock, a buoy depot or lighthouse depot at the time this photograph was taken. Later the Coast Guard Station.
Description: The remains of the burned Manset Coal Company wharf [now Manset Town Dock] are in the foreground. The wharf at the right was Stanley Fisheries.
The "William B. Stevens" is at the left. The "Palestine" is in the background. Distant wharf on the right is the Sardine Cannery (marina) before the cannery was enlarged. The boat on the left is the Wm. Stevens. Wooden lobster pots are stacked on the boat behind it.
Description: The "William B. Stevens" is at the left. The "Palestine" is in the background. Distant wharf on the right is the Sardine Cannery (marina) before the cannery was enlarged. The boat on the left is the Wm. Stevens. Wooden lobster pots are stacked on the boat behind it.