Keywords: ocean rescue
Item 26671
Carrying Place Cove, Life Saving Station, Lubec, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Lubec Memorial Library Date: circa 1890 Location: Lubec Media: Image on postcard
Item 26676
Crew of Life Saving Station, Carrying Place Cove, Lubec, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Lubec Memorial Library Date: circa 1890 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
The rocky coastline of Cape Elizabeth has sent many vessels to their watery graves.
Exhibit
CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections
Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.
Site Page
Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry
"Folks near Galway rescued him. He sent a report back to the ship owners and was given passage back to the States by the Irish government."
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3
"While hanging on to the trestle waiting to be rescued, he watched the dory dock at the Lubec boat landing and unload most of the workers."
Story
Portland in the 1940s
by Carol Norton Hall
As a young woman in Portland during WWII, the presence of servicemen was life changing.
