Keywords: Steel Ships
Item 8862
Five-mast steel schooner KINEO under sail, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Maine Maritime Museum Date: circa 1910 Media: Photographic print
Item 8864
Steel four-mast bark 'Dirigo,' Bath, 1894
Contributed by: Maine Maritime Museum Date: 1894 Location: Bath Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
George Popham and a group of fellow Englishmen arrived at the mouth of the Kennebec River, hoping to trade with Native Americans, find gold and other valuable minerals, and discover a Northwest passage. In 18 months, the fledgling colony was gone.
Exhibit
After the canoe, steamboats became the favored method of transportation on Moosehead Lake. They revolutionized movement of logs and helped promote tourism in the region.
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Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources
"Ship's Caulking Tool KitDavistown Museum Early shipbuilding in Hallowell was quite different from modern shipbuilding today because of the tools…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties
"… not have the coal and iron needed to produce the steel for the ships and engines, and Bath emerged as the only Maine shipbuilding center to…"
Story
A first encounter with Bath and its wonderful history
by John Decker
Visiting the Maine Maritime Museum as part of a conference
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Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR
