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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.
Grand Old One Design Class Still Races off Northeast Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Other, Northeast Harbor
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Sloop
  • 1964
Description:
Magazine artilce from Down East Magazine Sept. 1964 about A Clss. Written by E.R.Welles III, photos by W.H. Ballard Previously accessioned as 007.122
Gaffed Rigged Racing Sloop newspaper article
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Sloop
  • 1962
Gaffed Rigged Racing Sloop newspaper article
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
News item about the revival of the A-Class racing fleet in NE, dated Aug. 30, 1962
3 Tie for First Place in A Class Regata
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Sloop
  • 1966
3 Tie for First Place in A Class Regata
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Newspaper article entitled 3 Tie for first place in A Class Regattta written by LaRue Spiker ,includes one of her photographs. 1966 Previously accessioned as 007.117
"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]