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Item 21721
Title: Northeast Harbor Fleet Dock
Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Date: circa 1940
Location: Mount Desert
Media: Postcard
Item 21734
Title: Northeast Harbor Fleet International One Designs
Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Date: circa 1938
Location: Mount Desert
Media: Photograph
Item 21649
Title: Mosquito fleet, Casco Bay, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1950
Location: South Portland
Media: Photograph
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A Naval Disaster: The Penobscot Expedition
A fleet of privateers and hastily recruited soldiers failed to stop the British from occupying Majabigwaduce on Penobscot Bay in 1779. The disastrous Penobscot Expedition left the area, later known as Castine, to the British and a loyalist colony called New Ireland.