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Description
"This view shows the 18-inch, 32- by 22- inch compound marine engine built as shop No. 105 by the Portland Company and soon to be installed in the towboat 'Cumberland.' The engine had 440 horsepower and operated with 150 pounds of steam pressure." --Fletcher, David H. "The Portland Company 1846-1982." Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub., 2002. 69.
About This Item
- Title: Engine for The Cumberland, Portland Company, ca. 1910
- Creation Date: circa 1910
- Subject Date: circa 1910
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 39 3/3
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Boat engines
- Boat & ship industry--Maine
- Metalworking industry--Maine
- Portland Company (Me.)--Manufactures
- Manufacturing industry--Maine
- Tugboats--Maine
- Cumberland (Tugboat)
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