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Item 20563
Title: Ship Sam Skolfield
Contributed by: Pejepscot Historical Society
Date: circa 1980
Location: Brunswick; Harpswell
Media: Photograph
Item 26297
Title: Baring Brothers Launch, Thomaston 1877
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society
Date: 1877
Location: Thomaston
Media: Photograph
Item 10628
Title: Launching of the Louis V. Place, Kennebunkport, 1890
Contributed by: Brick Store Museum
Date: 1890
Location: Kennebunk
Media: Photograph
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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.
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Canoes, Schooners and the Down-Easter
Maine has a long history of boat and ship-building, spurred by the timber resources and the many sheltered ports along the coast. Shipping and trade were especially important in Maine in the 19th century.
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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.