Keywords: sloops
Item 22075
Friendship Sloops off Rock End Dock, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum Date: circa 1890 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print
Item 79342
Friendship Harbor and the steamboat landing, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Friendship Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Friendship Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
George Henry Preble of Portland, nephew of Edward Preble who was known as the father of the U.S. Navy, temporarily lost his command during the Civil War when he was charged with failing to stop a Confederate ship from getting through the Union blockade at Mobile.
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.
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Shipping
"On August 9, 1804, Knox noted “60 spruce knees bought of Mark Davis at 4/6 each for the sloop now building.” When Knox settled accounts with Edward…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740
"Sloops transported several Scotch-Irish settlers and their cattle to populate the area, and they were housed in thirty log cabins constructed between…"
