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Steamer SAPPHO Northeast Harbor Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat		Steamer SAPPHO Northeast Harbor Library Identifier: nehl-7270 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
Steamer FRANK JONES Northeast Harbor Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat		Steamer FRANK JONES Northeast Harbor Library Identifier: nehl-7271 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
Steamer RANGELEY Northeast Harbor Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat		Steamer RANGELEY Northeast Harbor Library Identifier: nehl-7272 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
Steamer NORUMBEGA Northeast Harbor Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat		Steamer NORUMBEGA Northeast Harbor Library Identifier: nehl-7274 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
Steamer MOUNT DESERT Northeast Harbor Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat		Steamer MOUNT DESERT Northeast Harbor Library Identifier: nehl-7273 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
Steamer J. T. MORSE Northeast Harbor Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat		Steamer J. T. MORSE Northeast Harbor Library Identifier: nehl-7269 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Description: The last large side-wheeler steamer used in New England for both passenger and freight service was the 214-foot J. T. Morse, built in 1903-04 in East Boston for the Eastern Steamship Company. Powered by a 600-horsepower, single-beam engine, it traveled the Rockland, Maine to Bar Harbor run from April to October or November each year. The ship was named for James Thomas Morse of the well-known maritime (shipping and towing) family from Bath, Maine. (Text from visitacadia.com) [show more]
S.S. Cimbria - Steamship Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	S.S. Cimbria - Steamship Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15292 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Description: "September 9, 1878 - Fine day with a nice breeze. The "Cimbria" is getting ready to leave Southwest Harbor where she has rode at her anchors 4 months and 12 days. Probably she will never enter it again." "At a quarter to 4 o'clock the big gun flashes from her bows, the anchor is away - 3 cheers are given. She turns and steams slowly out of the Eastern Way." - Day Book of Elizabeth Cook (Carroll) Lawler - In the collection of Robert Lindsay Smallidge, Jr. [show more]
Cimbria - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Cimbria - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15294 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
S.S. Columbia - Auxiliary Sail Passenger Steamship Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	S.S. Columbia - Auxiliary Sail Passenger Steamship Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15365 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Description: “It can be appropriately said of the new and magnificent steamship Columbia, of the Hamburg Line, that she is a "gem of the ocean." The accounts of her remarkably fast runs continue to be published in leading journals at home and abroad...” Source: Ocean: Magazine of Travel, Vol. III, No. 2, September 1889, Page 42 Information from various sources including Lloyd’s Register of British and Foreign Shipping.
Solace - Steam Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Solace - Steam Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15947 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
Agnes - Steam Passenger Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Agnes - Steam Passenger Launch Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15815 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
Boston Floating Hospital - Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Boston Floating Hospital - Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15832 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
Kronprinzessin Cecilie - Steamship Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Kronprinzessin Cecilie - Steamship Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15841 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Description: Last of four ships of the Kaiser class, she was also the last German ship to have been built with four funnels. She was engaged in transatlantic service between her homeport of Bremen and New York until the outbreak of World War I when she sought safety at Bar Harbor. She was carrying c. $10,000,000 in gold and $3,400,000 in silver. "One morning in the summer of 1914 my husband got up and looked out the window, then called me and said in a tone of utter amazement, “There’s an ocean liner in the harbor.” Everyone knows the story of the "Kronprinzessin Cecile," how the news of the war had overtaken her in mid-ocean with her cargo of $10 million in American gold and a full complement of 1200 passengers…" - "Only in Maine: Selections from Down East Magazine," edited by Duane Doolittle, foreword by John Gould, “Old Bar Harbor Days” chapter by Marian L. Peabody, Downeast Enterprise Incorporated, Camden, Maine, 1969, p. 244. [show more]
Moosehead - Passenger Steamer Mayflower - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Moosehead - Passenger Steamer Mayflower - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14638 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Description: "At the end of the first decade of the century management of the Maine Central Railroad decided it wanted more class and more power for its Mt. Desert Ferry steamers and directed Bath Iron Works to produce two vessels meeting these qualifications. They were the twin steamers, "Moosehead" and "Rangeley," both 185 feet long and named after two of Maine's largest lakes. "Moosehead came out first in 1911, with two triple expansion engines that could produce 2350 horsepower and give Bar Harbor rusticators a thrilling ride…" "During World War I, "Moosehead" was taken over by the Navy, but after the war returned to civilian service under the name first of "Porpoise" and later "Mayflower," running between New York and Bridgeport, Connecticut…" - Penobscot Bay, Mount Desert and Eastport Steamboat Album by Allie Ryan, p. 5 & 32 - 1972. [show more]
Rangeley - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Rangeley - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14639 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Description: “Last of the Maine Central’s fleet, built in 1913. Bath built and almost the twin of “Moosehead.” Had a single 1200 triple expansion engine in place of “Moosehead’s” twins. WWI conditions and tourist traffic by auto sent the “Rangeley” to New York in April, 1925. Hudson River Dayliner, renamed the “Chauncey M. DePew.” In 1941 she was under lease to the Government. Released from that lease, she went to Boston and sailed for the Nantasket Steamboat Co.’s Provincetown Service, still as the “Depew.” Since then she was on the Block Island run, the New York Harbor service, spent 1949 on the Tolchester Line, and was sold to Bermuda as a tender to cruise ships too large to dock at Hamilton and St. George. She made the trip from Baltimore to Bermuda under her own power.” – Eleanor Mayo’s notes for this photograph. "Rangeley was built at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine in 1913. She had a steel hull, was 185.1’ x 35.6’ (molded 30.5’) x 13.5’ (overall, 194’11” x 34’4”, 11’7” draft, loated, aft) 652 gross, 282 net tons. She carried a triple expansion Bath Iron Works engine. Cylinders, 16”, 26”, 30” x 2’ – 1 boiler – 1198 hp." - “Hudson River Day Line: The Story of a Great American Steamboat Company” by Donald C. Ringwald, published by Howell-North Books, Berkeley, California, 1965, p. 158-161, 213. "Rangeley's" service for the Maine Central Railroad was to carry passengers from the Mount Desert Ferry terminal to various towns on Mount Desert Island. [show more]
J.T. Morse - Side-Wheel Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	J.T. Morse - Side-Wheel Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14642 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Description: "The "J.T. Morse" was the last of the picturesque fleet of sidewheelers whose gleaming white hulls and long foaming white wakes were once such a decorative part of the Maine scene, set in the blue of Penobscot Bay against the green background of the mountains and the wooded offshore islands. The vessel was designed specifically for the Rockland-Bar Harbor Line, connecting the overnight Boston-to-Bangor steamers at Rockland. She was ordered as a replacement for the sidewheeler "Mount Desert," built at Bath in 1879, which by the turn of the century had become too small to handle the growing summer passenger and freight business…" "The "Morse" ran her last regular season in Maine in 1931…Steamer patronage had dwindled because of the competition from the automobile, and it was no longer profitable to operate her…" - Penobscot Bay, Mount Desert and Eastport Steamboat Album by Allie Ryan, p. 6 to 11 - 1972. These six pages tell the complete story of the "J.T. Morse." [show more]
Golden Rod - Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Golden Rod - Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14643 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Description: "In 1893, the 75-foot "Golden Rod," slid down the ways at the Barbour yard in Brewer - destined first for service at Mt. Desert Island. During the years she ran "round the hills" between Hancock Point and Southwest Harbor, under command of Captain W.M. Crosby, she became so popular with the ladies at Bar Harbor that they named a social club after her…" - Penobscot Bay, Mount Desert and Eastport Steamboat Album by Allie Ryan, p. 28-30 - 1972 “The Fourth – How it was Celebrated by the Band at Southwest Harbor - …[during the festivities] To the Bar Harbor people there was nothing pleasanter for the day than the sail back and forth on the Golden Rod. Capt. Crosby was extremely courteous to his passengers.” – The Bar Harbor Record, July 6, 1895 [show more]
Bay State - Sidewheel Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Bay State - Sidewheel Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14644 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Description: "The sidewheel steamer "Bay State" was built at Bath in 1895…" "...On September 24, 1916 she ran aground at Cape Elizabeth and later slid off the rocks and sank." - Penobscot Bay, Mount Desert and Eastport Steamboat Album by Allie Ryan, p. 56 - 1972 To learn more about steamboats consult - The Steamship Historical Society of America - 1029 Waterman Avenue, East Providence, Rhode Island 02914 - E-mail - info@sshsa.org - http://www.sshsa.org/. [show more]
Lewiston - Sidewheel Walking Beam Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Lewiston - Sidewheel Walking Beam Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14645 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Description: The Lewiston was the sister ship to Steamer Forest City. She was built in New York in 1856 and operated on the Boston - Bangor line. She had a walking beam engine.
Westport - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Westport - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14646 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Description: Operated Eastern Steamship Lines
City of Richmond - Sidewheel Walking Beam Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	City of Richmond - Sidewheel Walking Beam Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14647 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Description: The "City of Richmond" was a side wheel steamer with a walking beam engine. Those who are interested in walking beams and their technology may see a model (being restored) of the walking beam from the Ticonderoga at the Maine Antique Power Association on Beech Hill Crossroad in Mt. Desert - 207-244-0204. The Ticonderoga, one of the last walking beam side-wheel passenger steamboats in existence, and a Registered Historic Place is on display at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont. "The 'City of Richmond' steamship sailed from Portland to Bar Harbor three days a week during the summer months in the late 1800s. In 1881 she ran aground on the Mark Island Ledge. She was rebuilt by the Portland Company and continued in service until 1892." - Maine Memory Network, Accessed online 10/17/07; http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Detail?ln=5949 "The Maine Central Railroad was still two years away from completing its rail line from Washington Junction (Ellsworth) to Hancock and what would become Mt. Desert Ferry, when it purchased the Portland, Bangor and Machias Steamboat Company in 1882. It appears that the primary asset was the rebuilt (1881) walking-beam side-wheel steamer "City of Richmond," which was promptly transferred to the Mt. Desert and Machiasport run. The ship's schedule was designed to serve the trains in Portland and Rockland. In 1884 the trains started running through to Mt. Desert Ferry at the mouth of the Sullivan River in Hancock Point, and the Maine Central started to win the lion's share of the Mt. Desert Island business."- Mount Desert - An Informal History Edited by Gunnar Hansen, section written by Peter B. Bell, p. 166 - 1989 "I first came here at the age of three or four, in 1890 or 1891, on the steamer "City of Richmond." One went on board in Portland after a train journey from Boston or New York, spent the night on board, and woke up in the morning amid the delicious smells and sights of Eggemoggin Reach. "The City of Richmond" was partly owned by her captain, Captain Gary, who was a great character along the coast.."- Mount Desert - An Informal History Edited by Gunnar Hansen, 'Memories of Northeast Harbor' by Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, p. 180 - 1989 [show more]
Sieur de Monts - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Sieur de Monts - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14653 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
Belfast - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Belfast - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14654 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat
Penobscot - Sidewheel Walking Beam Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Penobscot - Sidewheel Walking Beam Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14655 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Description: “A series of beautiful and larger vessels [of the Sanford Independent Co., based in Bangor, Maine] appeared, starting in 1882 with the “Penobscot,” the twins: “City of Bangor,” 1894, and “City of Rockland,” 1900; and the sister ships “Belfast” and “Camden.”” - “Bangor, Maine: An Illustrated History – 1769-1976” – A New Edition in honor of the National Bi-Centennial edited by James B. Vickery, p. 47-48 – 1976.
Portland - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Vessels, Steamboat	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Portland - Passenger Steamer Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14770 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Steamboat

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