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Keywords: S.S. Peary
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Item 76881
Title: 'Bowdoin' and S.S. 'Peary' departing from Wiscasset, 1925
Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
Date: 1925
Location: Wiscasset
Media: photograph
Item 28777
Title: The S.S. Roosevelt, ca. 1908
Contributed by: Maine State Museum
Date: circa 1908
Location: New York
Media: lantern slide
Item 55120
Title: U.S.S. 'Bowdoin' crew, Greenland, 1941
Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
Date: 1941
Media: negative
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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.