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| 3045 | El Placita - Schooner Steam Yacht |
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| 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) | 
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) | |||||
| 3466 | George E. Klinck - Schooner |
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| George E. Klinck was a three masted schooner built at the Michael B. McDonald Shipyard in Mystic, Connecticut in 1904. She was a 152.6' centerboarder weighing 560 gross tons. "George E. Klinck" was a three masted [152.6' centerboarder, 560 gross tons] schooner built at [the Michael B. McDonald Shipyard in] Mystic, Connecticut in 1904. Lennox Ledyard "Bink" Sargent (1916-1989) [and Jay Bushway of Marblehead] acquired her circa 1937 when he found her laid up in Rockland. He brought her up to the coal dock on Clark Point in Southwest Harbor and restored her. They worked on her from a float in the water and replaced her transom, among other things. Ralph Merrill Grindle (1915-2005) spliced her rigging. [Ralph Merrill Grindle was later a partner with Roger C. Rich in the Rich & Grindle boat shop where he specialized in rigging.] Captain Lewis McFarland of Trenton took her down to Camden and from there she went south to pick up a load of hard pine. On her return north she took a pounding and a beating around Cape Hatteras in North Carolina and broke up. Her crew was rescued by the aircraft carrier "Wasp." - Ralph Warren Stanley 10/26/10 "George E. Klinck" had been in difficulties before "Bink" brought her back to life. “On April 15th, 1915 two three-masted vessels, the "George E. Klinck," bound from Long Cove, Me., for New York, with a cargo of stone, and the "Roger Drury," bound from St. John, N. B., for City Island and, with a cargo of laths, struck on Hawes shoal, in Nantucket sound, during heavy weather in the night, the latter being ashore only a short distance outside of Cape Poge. The crew from Muskeget station boarded both vessels early in the morning and later the coast guard cutter “Acushnet” came down and succeeded in floating the "Klinck." The "Drury" remained fast until the 17th, when a wrecking outfit from New London succeeded in floating her, after lightering several hundred bundles of laths.” – “Wrecks Around Nantucket Since The Settlement Of The Island, And The Incidents Connected Therewith, Embracing Over Seven Hundred Vessels” compiled by Arthur H. Gardner, published by the [Nantucket] Inquirer and Mirror Press, c. 1915 - First published in 1877 under the title: “A List Of The Wrecks Around Nantucket” This is the rescue Ralph Stanley describes: “During “USS Wasp’s” passage to Norfolk [Virginia] in 1941, heavy weather sprang up on the evening of 7 March. “Wasp” was steaming at standard speed, 17 knots. Off Cape Hatteras, a lookout spotted a red flare at 2245, then a second set of flares at 2259. At 2329, with the aid of her searchlights, “Wasp” located the stranger in trouble. She was the lumber schooner “George E. Klinck,” bound from Jacksonville, Florida, to Southwest Harbor, Maine. The sea, in the meantime, worsened from a state 5 to a state 7. “Wasp” lay to, maneuvering alongside at 0007 on 8 March. At that time, four men from the schooner clambered up a swaying “jacobs ladder” buffeted by gusts of wind. Then, despite the raging tempest, “Wasp” lowered a boat, at 0016, and brought the remaining four men aboard from the foundering 152-foot schooner. Later that day, “Wasp” disembarked her rescued mariners and immediately went into dry-dock at the Norfolk Navy Yard. The ship received vital repairs to her turbines. Port holes on the third deck were welded over to provide better watertight integrity, and steel splinter shielding around her 5-inch and 1.1-inch batteries was added.” - “USS Wasp (CV-7) – Definition”, WordiQ site, 2010, Accessed online 10/16/10; http://www.wordiq.com/definition/USS_Wasp_(CV-7) “A Jacobs ladder is a portable ladder used on ships and having, typically, wooden rungs and rope or wire sides” – YourDictionary.com 10/26/10. The ships plans for "George E. Klinck" are Mystic Seaport in the Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library, Miscellaneous Commercial Sail Collection. See Look Magazine, May 20, 1941 for a contemporary account of the rescue of the crew of "George E. Klinck." See page 93-96 “The Last Sail Downeast” by Giles M.S. Tod, published by Barre Publishers, Barre, Massachusetts, 1965 for more about “George E. Klinck.” | 
Description: George E. Klinck was a three masted schooner built at the Michael B. McDonald Shipyard in Mystic, Connecticut in 1904. She was a 152.6' centerboarder weighing 560 gross tons. "George E. Klinck" was a three masted [152.6' centerboarder, 560 gross tons] schooner built at [the Michael B. McDonald Shipyard in] Mystic, Connecticut in 1904. Lennox Ledyard "Bink" Sargent (1916-1989) [and Jay Bushway of Marblehead] acquired her circa 1937 when he found her laid up in Rockland. He brought her up to the coal dock on Clark Point in Southwest Harbor and restored her. They worked on her from a float in the water and replaced her transom, among other things. Ralph Merrill Grindle (1915-2005) spliced her rigging. [Ralph Merrill Grindle was later a partner with Roger C. Rich in the Rich & Grindle boat shop where he specialized in rigging.] Captain Lewis McFarland of Trenton took her down to Camden and from there she went south to pick up a load of hard pine. On her return north she took a pounding and a beating around Cape Hatteras in North Carolina and broke up. Her crew was rescued by the aircraft carrier "Wasp." - Ralph Warren Stanley 10/26/10 "George E. Klinck" had been in difficulties before "Bink" brought her back to life. “On April 15th, 1915 two three-masted vessels, the "George E. Klinck," bound from Long Cove, Me., for New York, with a cargo of stone, and the "Roger Drury," bound from St. John, N. B., for City Island and, with a cargo of laths, struck on Hawes shoal, in Nantucket sound, during heavy weather in the night, the latter being ashore only a short distance outside of Cape Poge. The crew from Muskeget station boarded both vessels early in the morning and later the coast guard cutter “Acushnet” came down and succeeded in floating the "Klinck." The "Drury" remained fast until the 17th, when a wrecking outfit from New London succeeded in floating her, after lightering several hundred bundles of laths.” – “Wrecks Around Nantucket Since The Settlement Of The Island, And The Incidents Connected Therewith, Embracing Over Seven Hundred Vessels” compiled by Arthur H. Gardner, published by the [Nantucket] Inquirer and Mirror Press, c. 1915 - First published in 1877 under the title: “A List Of The Wrecks Around Nantucket” This is the rescue Ralph Stanley describes: “During “USS Wasp’s” passage to Norfolk [Virginia] in 1941, heavy weather sprang up on the evening of 7 March. “Wasp” was steaming at standard speed, 17 knots. Off Cape Hatteras, a lookout spotted a red flare at 2245, then a second set of flares at 2259. At 2329, with the aid of her searchlights, “Wasp” located the stranger in trouble. She was the lumber schooner “George E. Klinck,” bound from Jacksonville, Florida, to Southwest Harbor, Maine. The sea, in the meantime, worsened from a state 5 to a state 7. “Wasp” lay to, maneuvering alongside at 0007 on 8 March. At that time, four men from the schooner clambered up a swaying “jacobs ladder” buffeted by gusts of wind. Then, despite the raging tempest, “Wasp” lowered a boat, at 0016, and brought the remaining four men aboard from the foundering 152-foot schooner. Later that day, “Wasp” disembarked her rescued mariners and immediately went into dry-dock at the Norfolk Navy Yard. The ship received vital repairs to her turbines. Port holes on the third deck were welded over to provide better watertight integrity, and steel splinter shielding around her 5-inch and 1.1-inch batteries was added.” - “USS Wasp (CV-7) – Definition”, WordiQ site, 2010, Accessed online 10/16/10; http://www.wordiq.com/definition/USS_Wasp_(CV-7) “A Jacobs ladder is a portable ladder used on ships and having, typically, wooden rungs and rope or wire sides” – YourDictionary.com 10/26/10. The ships plans for "George E. Klinck" are Mystic Seaport in the Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library, Miscellaneous Commercial Sail Collection. See Look Magazine, May 20, 1941 for a contemporary account of the rescue of the crew of "George E. Klinck." See page 93-96 “The Last Sail Downeast” by Giles M.S. Tod, published by Barre Publishers, Barre, Massachusetts, 1965 for more about “George E. Klinck.” [show more] | |||||
| 3616 | William Keene - Schooner |
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| 3648 | Frederick J. Lovatt - Schooner |
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| 3649 | Ligure - Schooner |
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| The Schooner Ligure was built in 1853 at Mt. Desert. It wrecked on March 29, 1879 on the Nantucket Shoals. James Granville Thurston, brother of Captain John B. Thurston, perished in the wreck. The crew included: Captain John Benjamin Thurston (1848 - Jan. 22, 1936) James Granville Thurston (Dec. 7, 1845 - March 29, 1879) Charles Benjamin Mitchell (1857-1927) Daniel G. Benson (1858-1931) Charles Leon Lawson (Jan. 1, 1863-1943) "Ligure" means precious stone | 
Description: The Schooner Ligure was built in 1853 at Mt. Desert. It wrecked on March 29, 1879 on the Nantucket Shoals. James Granville Thurston, brother of Captain John B. Thurston, perished in the wreck. The crew included: Captain John Benjamin Thurston (1848 - Jan. 22, 1936) James Granville Thurston (Dec. 7, 1845 - March 29, 1879) Charles Benjamin Mitchell (1857-1927) Daniel G. Benson (1858-1931) Charles Leon Lawson (Jan. 1, 1863-1943) "Ligure" means precious stone [show more] | |||||
| 3679 | Leader - Schooner |
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| Maypole Point is on the right. The schooner, "Leader" is center rear with a pinky (double-ender) to the right of her. The sloop in the left foreground is rigged like the Irish/Boston hookers, a type of vessel not native to Mount Desert Island. There is a weir visible to the right rear of the photograph. |
Description: Maypole Point is on the right. The schooner, "Leader" is center rear with a pinky (double-ender) to the right of her. The sloop in the left foreground is rigged like the Irish/Boston hookers, a type of vessel not native to Mount Desert Island. There is a weir visible to the right rear of the photograph. | |||||
| 3696 | Alice M. Leland - Schooner |
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| 3698 | Abby K. Bentley - Coasting Schooner Emma R. Harvey - Coasting Schooner |
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| Coasting Schooner "Abby K. Bentley" , later "Emma R. Harvey" carried lumber, cement etc. As Schooner "Emma R. Harvey" she was lost off Digby Gut on the 5th December 1906. Her owner/captain, John Walter Berry, died later as a result of having lashed himself to her wheel in the freezing storm. The Digby Gut or St. George's Strait as it is officially named, is a narrow channel connecting the Bay of Fundy with the Annapolis Basin. The town of Digby, Nova Scotia is located on the inner portion of the western side of the Gut. |  Abby K. Bentley - Coasting Schooner Emma R. Harvey - Coasting Schooner
Description: Coasting Schooner "Abby K. Bentley" , later "Emma R. Harvey" carried lumber, cement etc. As Schooner "Emma R. Harvey" she was lost off Digby Gut on the 5th December 1906. Her owner/captain, John Walter Berry, died later as a result of having lashed himself to her wheel in the freezing storm. The Digby Gut or St. George's Strait as it is officially named, is a narrow channel connecting the Bay of Fundy with the Annapolis Basin. The town of Digby, Nova Scotia is located on the inner portion of the western side of the Gut. [show more] | |||||
| 3700 | Pendleton Sisters - Schooner |
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| 3701 | Yampa - Schooner Yacht |
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| The 132 foot steel yacht Yampa was built in 1887 for Chester W. Chapin. | 
Description: The 132 foot steel yacht Yampa was built in 1887 for Chester W. Chapin. | |||||
| 5362 | Schooner Yacht "Clytie" |
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| 5439 | Sailing Vessel in Moonlight |
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| 5746 | A Schooner at Sea |
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| 6137 | Coasting Schooner John Somes |
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| Note - The photograph has been cleaned for clarity. Defects in the original scan have been left around the rigging so that the lines are visible. The boat is not under sail. | 
Description: Note - The photograph has been cleaned for clarity. Defects in the original scan have been left around the rigging so that the lines are visible. The boat is not under sail. | |||||
| 6142 | Schooner Abraham Richardson at Home in Jamaica |
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| "Vessel Name – Abraham Richardson Class - Schooner Masts - 2 Rig - Build date - 1869 Built by - William Spurling Newman Built at Bass Harbor, Maine Gross tons - 154.38 tons Length - 99’ Beam – 37’ Draught – 9’ Thirty-two people owned shares with the largest number of shares (4) owned by Abraham Richardson of Tremont in 1880. Her master, in 1880, was Nathan A. Reed when she hailed from Boston, Massachusetts. - List of Vessels Built on Mount Desert, Cranberry, Tinker’s, Thompson’s and Long Island (Frenchboro) Compiled by Ralph Stanley, p. 76 - 2003 The schooner’s builder, William Spurling Newman, was born to Jonathan and Sarah Spurling Newman on May 10, 1825. He married Lydia Jordan Stanley who was born to Sans (Jr.) and Fanny Guptill Spurling Stanley on February 2, 1828 in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Lydia died on April 19, 1867 in Southwest Harbor. William Spurling Newman died on October 16, 1901. The “Abraham Richardson” was named for her largest shareholder, Abraham Richardson, born to Abraham and Mercy Wormell Richardson on February 3, 1809. Abraham first married Deborah N. Burnam who was born about 1809, on December 21, 1830. Deborah N. Burnam Richardson died on March 31, 1859. Abraham then married Amanda Robinson, daughter of Levi and Lavinia Savage Robinson on September 27, 1862. Amanda was born on February 21, 1836. Abraham Richardson died on August 31, 1878 in Tremont, Maine. Amanda (Robinson) Richardson died on April 14, 1914. Abraham Richardson was, among other things, an Insurance Agent in Bass Harbor in 1871. - Mount Desert Island and the Cranberry Isles, by Ezra A. Dodge, published by N.K. Sawyer, Printer in Ellsworth, p. 50 - 1871 - Found online using Google Book Search. The schooner’s master in 1880 was Nathan Adam Reed, born to William (II) and Sarah B. Appleton Reed. Nathan married Sarah Mitchell, daughter of Robert and Judith Staples Mitchell. Sarah was born in 1826 on Swan’s Island, Maine. Nathan Adam Reed died in Jacksonville, Florida. ""Abraham Richardson"" was chartered by a show troupe in the Caribbean for two years."" She lost her rudder off Cape Hatteras and had to steer by hawser. She was eventually lost [wrecked] off Nantucket while loaded with coal. Then she was sold in Belfast. They had to replank her because she was worm eaten. - Ralph Stanley - 09/26/07 ""In the hopes that it will be of use to someone, here is a snippet I found today in a book on 'Sailors' Valentines'. One of the examples pictured is a double valentine and the cover is inscribed ""Presented to Mrs. A. Richardson by Captn. E. H. Pray, Schr Abraham Richardson from Barbadoes W. I. 1875"". Sorry - it isn't much. There is no indication of nationality or port of registry but after a quick skim with Google, I rather think State of Maine, USA., Regards, Jay Thompson. Canada"" - Online posting at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/Mariners/2002-01/1011918190 Deaths - ""In Tremont, March 31 ult., Mrs. Debra N. RICHARDSON, wife of Capt. Abraham Richardson, age 50 years. Mrs. Richardson was universally beloved for her uniform kindness and benevolence, her Christian graces and amiable disposition. The community has sustained in her death the loss of a valuable member, one that was always ready and willing by word and deed to forward every praiseworthy object. The family of which she was an ornament and a model of patience, love and tender sympathy, has sustained irreparable loss. May be that Who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb sustain the afflicted ones of this family."" - The Ellsworth Herald, April 29, 1859 ""1887, July 27 - The schooner Abraham Richardson, Captain George Pattershall, with paving stones from Citypoint, went ashore opposite the Robbins Settlement, and was seriously injured."" - History of the City of Belfast in the State of Maine by Joseph Williamson, 1913, Chapter, ""Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea,"" p. 311 ""Seven actions on policies of marine insurance for injuries claimed to have been suffered by the plaintiff's vessel coming in collision with the schooner ""Abraham Richardson."" This schooner, shortly before 9 o'clock of April 1, 1900, sank from coming into collision with a barge. After sinking to a depth of about fifty-four feet at low water, the masts of the schooner projected some fifteen feet above the water, but none of her sails remained visible. About twelve hours after such sinking, the plaintiff's vessel, striking some part of the masts, spars, sails, or rigging of the submerged schooner, sustained damage thereby, to recover for which the actions were commenced. No attempt was ever made to raise the sunken schooner. She could have been raised and repaired, but the cost would have exceeded her value. The trial court ordered judgement for the defendant, and the plaintiff appealed."" The American State Reports: Containing Cases of General Value and Authority by Abraham Clark Freeman, Vol. 109, p. 627-8 - 1906 - Accessed online at Google Book Search 10/05/07" | 
Description: "Vessel Name – Abraham Richardson Class - Schooner Masts - 2 Rig - Build date - 1869 Built by - William Spurling Newman Built at Bass Harbor, Maine Gross tons - 154.38 tons Length - 99’ Beam – 37’ Draught – 9’ Thirty-two people owned shares with the largest number of shares (4) owned by Abraham Richardson of Tremont in 1880. Her master, in 1880, was Nathan A. Reed when she hailed from Boston, Massachusetts. - List of Vessels Built on Mount Desert, Cranberry, Tinker’s, Thompson’s and Long Island (Frenchboro) Compiled by Ralph Stanley, p. 76 - 2003 The schooner’s builder, William Spurling Newman, was born to Jonathan and Sarah Spurling Newman on May 10, 1825. He married Lydia Jordan Stanley who was born to Sans (Jr.) and Fanny Guptill Spurling Stanley on February 2, 1828 in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Lydia died on April 19, 1867 in Southwest Harbor. William Spurling Newman died on October 16, 1901. The “Abraham Richardson” was named for her largest shareholder, Abraham Richardson, born to Abraham and Mercy Wormell Richardson on February 3, 1809. Abraham first married Deborah N. Burnam who was born about 1809, on December 21, 1830. Deborah N. Burnam Richardson died on March 31, 1859. Abraham then married Amanda Robinson, daughter of Levi and Lavinia Savage Robinson on September 27, 1862. Amanda was born on February 21, 1836. Abraham Richardson died on August 31, 1878 in Tremont, Maine. Amanda (Robinson) Richardson died on April 14, 1914. Abraham Richardson was, among other things, an Insurance Agent in Bass Harbor in 1871. - Mount Desert Island and the Cranberry Isles, by Ezra A. Dodge, published by N.K. Sawyer, Printer in Ellsworth, p. 50 - 1871 - Found online using Google Book Search. The schooner’s master in 1880 was Nathan Adam Reed, born to William (II) and Sarah B. Appleton Reed. Nathan married Sarah Mitchell, daughter of Robert and Judith Staples Mitchell. Sarah was born in 1826 on Swan’s Island, Maine. Nathan Adam Reed died in Jacksonville, Florida. ""Abraham Richardson"" was chartered by a show troupe in the Caribbean for two years."" She lost her rudder off Cape Hatteras and had to steer by hawser. She was eventually lost [wrecked] off Nantucket while loaded with coal. Then she was sold in Belfast. They had to replank her because she was worm eaten. - Ralph Stanley - 09/26/07 ""In the hopes that it will be of use to someone, here is a snippet I found today in a book on 'Sailors' Valentines'. One of the examples pictured is a double valentine and the cover is inscribed ""Presented to Mrs. A. Richardson by Captn. E. H. Pray, Schr Abraham Richardson from Barbadoes W. I. 1875"". Sorry - it isn't much. There is no indication of nationality or port of registry but after a quick skim with Google, I rather think State of Maine, USA., Regards, Jay Thompson. Canada"" - Online posting at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/Mariners/2002-01/1011918190 Deaths - ""In Tremont, March 31 ult., Mrs. Debra N. RICHARDSON, wife of Capt. Abraham Richardson, age 50 years. Mrs. Richardson was universally beloved for her uniform kindness and benevolence, her Christian graces and amiable disposition. The community has sustained in her death the loss of a valuable member, one that was always ready and willing by word and deed to forward every praiseworthy object. The family of which she was an ornament and a model of patience, love and tender sympathy, has sustained irreparable loss. May be that Who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb sustain the afflicted ones of this family."" - The Ellsworth Herald, April 29, 1859 ""1887, July 27 - The schooner Abraham Richardson, Captain George Pattershall, with paving stones from Citypoint, went ashore opposite the Robbins Settlement, and was seriously injured."" - History of the City of Belfast in the State of Maine by Joseph Williamson, 1913, Chapter, ""Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea,"" p. 311 ""Seven actions on policies of marine insurance for injuries claimed to have been suffered by the plaintiff's vessel coming in collision with the schooner ""Abraham Richardson."" This schooner, shortly before 9 o'clock of April 1, 1900, sank from coming into collision with a barge. After sinking to a depth of about fifty-four feet at low water, the masts of the schooner projected some fifteen feet above the water, but none of her sails remained visible. About twelve hours after such sinking, the plaintiff's vessel, striking some part of the masts, spars, sails, or rigging of the submerged schooner, sustained damage thereby, to recover for which the actions were commenced. No attempt was ever made to raise the sunken schooner. She could have been raised and repaired, but the cost would have exceeded her value. The trial court ordered judgement for the defendant, and the plaintiff appealed."" The American State Reports: Containing Cases of General Value and Authority by Abraham Clark Freeman, Vol. 109, p. 627-8 - 1906 - Accessed online at Google Book Search 10/05/07" [show more] | |||||
| 6164 | Vanguard - Schooner |
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| 6597 | Coasting Schooners at Southwest Harbor |
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| The three-master is an old coaster - she is "hogged." The others are fishing schooners. - Ralph Stanley 05/12/08 hogged - "intransitive verb: to become curved upward in the middle - used of a ship's bottom or keel" - Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Accessed online 05/29/08 - http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hogging | 
Description: The three-master is an old coaster - she is "hogged." The others are fishing schooners. - Ralph Stanley 05/12/08 hogged - "intransitive verb: to become curved upward in the middle - used of a ship's bottom or keel" - Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Accessed online 05/29/08 - http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hogging | |||||
| 6813 | Schooner Theoline in Somes Sound |
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| 6875 | Victory Chimes ex Edwin and Maud |
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| 7189 | Schooner Theoline in Somes Sound |
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| 7241 | "Allen Green" and cutter "Androscoggin" - Schooners |
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| 7877 | Robert Lindsay Smallidge Sr. Working on His Model of the Whaler, "Alice Mandell" |
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| 8021 | Schooner Sylvina W. Beal, Dragger Baby Rose and lobster boat Hobo |
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| This image is thought to be by George W. Corkum. | 
Description: This image is thought to be by George W. Corkum. |
