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Item 23740
Title: Crew in rigging of Bowdoin, Wiscasset, 1926
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media
Date: 1926-06-19
Location: Wiscasset
Media: Glass negative
Item 23750
Title: Crew in the rigging of the Bowdoin, Wiscasset, 1926
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media
Date: 1926-06-19
Location: Wiscasset
Media: Glass negative
Item 14518
Title: Beeswax used in sailmaking, ca. 1990
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1990
Location: Camden
Media: Beeswax and pine tar
Exhibits Showing 3 of 4 View All
Exhibit
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.
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 Bowdoin, which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.
Exhibit
Scientist, author and explorer Donald B. MacMillan established Wiscasset as his homeport for many of the voyages he made to the Arctic region starting in the early 1920s.