Keywords: Schooner
Item 22920
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1910 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
Item 102131
Launching Schooner "Kennebunk", Kennebunkport, 1918
Contributed by: Charles Morgan through Brick Store Museum Date: 1918-07-10 Location: Kennebunkport Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
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 <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.
Exhibit
The Doris Hamlin, a four-masted schooner built at the Frye-Flynn Shipyard in Harrington, was one of the last vessels launched there, marking the decline of a once vigorous shipbuilding industry in Washington County.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Schooners, Steamers, Ships and Tankers
"The scow schooner, which used a schooner rig on a flat-bottomed, blunt-ended scow hull, was popular in North America for coastal and river transport."
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Andrew Smith Store
"… a mackerel seiner and was the captain of several schooners. Mackerel fishing declined in the late 1800s, and Smith may have turned to shopkeeping…"
Story
Saga of a Sub Chaser S.C. 268 along Maine Coast
by DANIEL R CHRISTOPHER
A look back at a Sub Chaser Crew on duty along the Maine coastline near the end of World War I
Story
A first encounter with Bath and its wonderful history
by John Decker
Visiting the Maine Maritime Museum as part of a conference
