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Item 54901
Title: Schooner 'Bowdoin' launch, East Boothbay, 1921
Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
Date: 1921-04-09
Location: East Boothbay
Media: photograph
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The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner Bowdoin, which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.