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Description
"The nearly completed fishing trawler Sea Bird is still on the ways in the South Portland yard in 1919. She will be launched shortly after a few last-minute adjustments are finished. The 163-foot trawler weighed 383 gross tons and was built for the East Coast Fisheries Company of Portland, Maine." Fletcher, David H. "The Portland Company 1846-1982." Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub., 2002. p. 59.
About This Item
- Title: Fishing Trawler Sea Bird, Portland Company, 1919
- Creation Date: 1919
- Subject Date: 1919
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Locations:
- South Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 39 Folder 6/18
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Shipfitting
- Shipbuilding--Maine--South Portland
- Portland Company (Me.)--Manufactures
- Sea Bird (Ship)--Photographs
- Trawlers (Vessels)
- Fishing boats--Maine
- Manufacturing industry--Maine--Portland
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