Keywords: seagoing
Item 6152
Clipper ship the "Portland," ca. 1850
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1850 Location: Portland Media: Oil on canvas
Item 103771
Alan Olds and Lloyd Coulthard, boating mishap, South Portland, 1936
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1936-09-28 Location: South Portland 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.
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life
"If the island's seagoing tradition had diminished, the summer yachting scene allowed many shipbuilders to continue on a smaller scale."
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Early Maine Photography - Occupational Photography
"Reflecting Maine’s seagoing heritage are four portrait photographs of captains whose stern faces reflect the responsibilities of commanding a ship at…"
