This Sardine Boat was built by Henry R. Hinckley Company as Southwest Boat Corporation. The photographer's notes for this set of photos sometimes list the Cape Cod's length at 60', 65'. and 70'.
Description: This Sardine Boat was built by Henry R. Hinckley Company as Southwest Boat Corporation. The photographer's notes for this set of photos sometimes list the Cape Cod's length at 60', 65'. and 70'.
“Baby Rose” was built in Thomaston and taken over by the government during WWII. After the war she was refitted at Southwest Boat Corporation for the Ciamentaro family of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Description: “Baby Rose” was built in Thomaston and taken over by the government during WWII. After the war she was refitted at Southwest Boat Corporation for the Ciamentaro family of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Photographs of boats under repair at Southwest Boat Corporation taken from the deck of North Star: A.T. Haynes (Helen McColl); Woiee; Surfman. Notice Beals Fish Wharf in the background and Manset Marine Supply Company at far left.
Description: Photographs of boats under repair at Southwest Boat Corporation taken from the deck of North Star: A.T. Haynes (Helen McColl); Woiee; Surfman. Notice Beals Fish Wharf in the background and Manset Marine Supply Company at far left.
Photographs: 01-15 – life boats – George C. Gilley (1913-2000) on the right 01-16, 01-17 – building life boats at SW Boat 02-93 - George C. Gilley is the man on the top of the boats Most of these photographs were taken on April 6th, 1943. Moving the boats was taken on July 20, 1943 The rustic derrick pole was cut by Chris Lawlor as a replacement for a broken one. Chris cut it on his “uncle’s back lot” his way of saying that he cut it on Acadia National Park land (Uncle Sam’s land) somewhere on the back side of Freeman Ridge with a two-man cross-cut saw; Chester Warren Stanley and Chris Lawlor cut it. Chris’ horses hauled it out. Built by Henry R. Hinckley Company as Southwest Boat Corporation
Description: Photographs: 01-15 – life boats – George C. Gilley (1913-2000) on the right 01-16, 01-17 – building life boats at SW Boat 02-93 - George C. Gilley is the man on the top of the boats Most of these photographs were taken on April 6th, 1943. Moving the boats was taken on July 20, 1943 The rustic derrick pole was cut by Chris Lawlor as a replacement for a broken one. Chris cut it on his “uncle’s back lot” his way of saying that he cut it on Acadia National Park land (Uncle Sam’s land) somewhere on the back side of Freeman Ridge with a two-man cross-cut saw; Chester Warren Stanley and Chris Lawlor cut it. Chris’ horses hauled it out. Built by Henry R. Hinckley Company as Southwest Boat Corporation [show more]
“1941 - With World War II on the horizon, [Henry Rose Hinckley II (1907-1980)] goes to Washington D.C. to secure contracts for military boats. His first order is for twenty 38-foot Coast Guard picket boats. By the end of the war, 93 of these boats are built for the Coast Guard, using production line techniques developed for the Islander. The yard also builds 24-foot Navy personnel boats, motor mine and tow yawls (using a hull design that would briefly reappear 30 years later in fiberglass yacht club launches), shallow-draft towboats and sailing yawls as part of the war effort… By the end of the war, Hinckley will have built nearly 40% of the 1,358 boats built in Maine for the war.” - “The Hinckley Company History”
Description: “1941 - With World War II on the horizon, [Henry Rose Hinckley II (1907-1980)] goes to Washington D.C. to secure contracts for military boats. His first order is for twenty 38-foot Coast Guard picket boats. By the end of the war, 93 of these boats are built for the Coast Guard, using production line techniques developed for the Islander. The yard also builds 24-foot Navy personnel boats, motor mine and tow yawls (using a hull design that would briefly reappear 30 years later in fiberglass yacht club launches), shallow-draft towboats and sailing yawls as part of the war effort… By the end of the war, Hinckley will have built nearly 40% of the 1,358 boats built in Maine for the war.” - “The Hinckley Company History” [show more]
The Hinckley logo is a styled image of Talaria, the winged sandals worn by the Greek messenger god Hermes. They were said to be made by the god Hephaestus of imperishable gold and they flew the god as swift as any bird.
Description: The Hinckley logo is a styled image of Talaria, the winged sandals worn by the Greek messenger god Hermes. They were said to be made by the god Hephaestus of imperishable gold and they flew the god as swift as any bird.
Floor and sail plans for two yawls, the Nirvana and the Valhalla, designed by John G. Alden in 1948 and built by the Henry R. Hinckley company in 1949-1950.
Description: Floor and sail plans for two yawls, the Nirvana and the Valhalla, designed by John G. Alden in 1948 and built by the Henry R. Hinckley company in 1949-1950.
The clipping reads: "MANSET, Me., Feb. 10 (AP) Yacht builders of Manset have resumed an art dormant since pre-war days, the fashioning of king-sized pleasure craft on Mount Desert Island. Of "two sixty-footers now building, one is a future. Bermuda race contender ordered by Harry G. Haskell Jr. of Wilmington, Del. and Northeast Harbor. The other will fly the flag of Cummins Catherwood of Philadelphia. The yachts are. on ways of Henry R. Hinckley & Co. Shipwrights expect Mr. Haskell's craft will be launched in April or May. The tentative date for the other launching is June 17." The Catherwood boat was the Valhalla. The Haskell boat was the Nirvana.
Description: The clipping reads: "MANSET, Me., Feb. 10 (AP) Yacht builders of Manset have resumed an art dormant since pre-war days, the fashioning of king-sized pleasure craft on Mount Desert Island. Of "two sixty-footers now building, one is a future. Bermuda race contender ordered by Harry G. Haskell Jr. of Wilmington, Del. and Northeast Harbor. The other will fly the flag of Cummins Catherwood of Philadelphia. The yachts are. on ways of Henry R. Hinckley & Co. Shipwrights expect Mr. Haskell's craft will be launched in April or May. The tentative date for the other launching is June 17." The Catherwood boat was the Valhalla. The Haskell boat was the Nirvana. [show more]