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Loading the mail boat ferry
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Businesses, Ferry Service
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • 1963
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Loading the mail boat ferry
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Wilfred Bunker (about age 43) receives cargo on stern of the Island Queen. "Mail Route - Men at Southwest Harbor load mail for delivery at Cranberry Island and Islesford." Photo shows the mail boat at the Lower Town Dock in Southwest Harbor. Photo for newspaper by L. Spiker. The Island Queen was built in 1963. Beal & Bunker moved operations to Northeast Harbor in 1972.
"American Marksmanship Claims British Vessel."
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Fred Humiston
  • 1965-01-01
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
  • In Copyright
"American Marksmanship Claims British Vessel."
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
"American Marksmanship Claims British Vessel." - Part 185 of Fred Humiston's "Blue Water Men - and Women." This story is about Edward Preble, it starts by telling of Preble's youth as a farm boy and his journey with learning how to be a seaman. The story then switches over to the story of a navy ship that fired a deadly shot to a British ship. This part says " The 'protector' fired a deadly raking broadside, which brought down the mizzenmast and set the main top-gallant afire." [show more]
Paul Peterson and Hazel (Stanley) Peterson
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
  • 1965
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Paul Peterson and Hazel (Stanley) Peterson
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Photo, Paul Peterson and Hazel "Brooke" "Snooks" (Stanley) Peterson-1965. Beal and Bunker Speedboat "Rogue"