Keywords: Coasting schooners
Item 19213
Old Coasting Schooner Loaded with Logs, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1920 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Photograph Postcard
Item 22920
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1910 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
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.
Exhibit
The rocky coastline of Cape Elizabeth has sent many vessels to their watery graves.
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work
"Early fishing schooner, ca. 1870Swan's Island Historical Society With the best timber harvested, men turned to the sea for their livelihood rather…"
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Granite and Ice Industries
"Sometimes as many as 10 three-masted schooners were lined up, waiting for stone. Stone from the island was used in buildings all over the country."
Story
Saga of a Sub Chaser S.C. 268 along Maine Coast
by DANIEL R CHRISTOPHER
A look back at a Sub Chaser Crew on duty along the Maine coastline near the end of World War I
Story
A first encounter with Bath and its wonderful history
by John Decker
Visiting the Maine Maritime Museum as part of a conference
