Built in 1902, the Gladiator fished off Monhegan Island before being sold for use as a Yacht in Chesapeake Bay. In the early 1970s, the Gladiator was returned to Friendship Harbor in Maine.
Description: Built in 1902, the Gladiator fished off Monhegan Island before being sold for use as a Yacht in Chesapeake Bay. In the early 1970s, the Gladiator was returned to Friendship Harbor in Maine.
The 28’ “Morning Star” was built in 1912 by Albion F. Morse in Cushing, Maine. Ralph Stanley completely rebuilt her in 1976 with a Westerbeke 20 HP 2-cylinder diesel engine for Robert Wolfe.
Description: The 28’ “Morning Star” was built in 1912 by Albion F. Morse in Cushing, Maine. Ralph Stanley completely rebuilt her in 1976 with a Westerbeke 20 HP 2-cylinder diesel engine for Robert Wolfe.
“Mrs. Neilson [Clara Augusta Rosengarten, Mrs. Lewis Levick Neilson (1871-1955)] also chartered a Friendship sloop called “Reliance” from Jake Lunt, and my father [Chester Warren Stanley (1900-1971)] sailed it for her. The “Reliance” was a thirty-six-footer that was built on Swans Island in the early 1900s. She had a make-and-break engine down in the cabin, and the propeller shaft went out through the side. Mrs. Neilson chartered that sloop during the war because gas was rationed, and she wanted to go out in something that wouldn’t take much gasoline. I can remember that old sloop. She was still good enough to sail in, but she had to be bailed every day. We’d go aboard of her, and there was a hatch in the floor where you could drop a bucket down in, like just dropping a bucket in a well. You’d pull out ten buckets every day, and she’d stay right even. You never got it all.” - “Ralph Stanley : Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder” by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine 2004, p. 48.
Description: “Mrs. Neilson [Clara Augusta Rosengarten, Mrs. Lewis Levick Neilson (1871-1955)] also chartered a Friendship sloop called “Reliance” from Jake Lunt, and my father [Chester Warren Stanley (1900-1971)] sailed it for her. The “Reliance” was a thirty-six-footer that was built on Swans Island in the early 1900s. She had a make-and-break engine down in the cabin, and the propeller shaft went out through the side. Mrs. Neilson chartered that sloop during the war because gas was rationed, and she wanted to go out in something that wouldn’t take much gasoline. I can remember that old sloop. She was still good enough to sail in, but she had to be bailed every day. We’d go aboard of her, and there was a hatch in the floor where you could drop a bucket down in, like just dropping a bucket in a well. You’d pull out ten buckets every day, and she’d stay right even. You never got it all.” - “Ralph Stanley : Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder” by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine 2004, p. 48. [show more]
The illustration by Edith Brand appears on page 7 in "A Case of Sardines: A Story of the Maine Coast" by Charles Poole Cleaves, The Pilgrim Press, 1904. A sentimental novel that includes descriptions of the lives of those employed by sardine factories on the coast of Maine.
Description: The illustration by Edith Brand appears on page 7 in "A Case of Sardines: A Story of the Maine Coast" by Charles Poole Cleaves, The Pilgrim Press, 1904. A sentimental novel that includes descriptions of the lives of those employed by sardine factories on the coast of Maine.