Keywords: Sea rescue Boats
Item 7609
Biddeford Pool Life Savers, ca. 1910
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 80737
Coast Guard Life Saving Station, Biddeford Pool, ca. 1917
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1917 Location: Biddeford 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
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2
"… were able to get a line onto the ship and safely rescue the crew. There was one fatality earlier when the ship was struck by a large wave and…"
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 4 of 4
"Scarborough was the first town in Maine to have a rescue service, and later the group helped set up units in Standish and Cape Elizabeth."
Story
In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood
An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
