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Description
"This photograph shows the pilothouse and deck winches of the steamer Walrus out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. She was built in the James boatyard in Essex, Massachusetts, in 1917 as a fishing trawler for the Cunningham & Thomson Company. She weighed 479 gross tons and was 163 feet long from stem to stern." --Fletcher, David H. "The Portland Company 1846-1982." Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub., 2002. 57.
About This Item
- Title: The Walrus, Gloucester, Massachusetts, ca. 1917
- Creation Date: circa 1917
- Subject Date: circa 1917
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Locations:
- Gloucester, MA
- Essex, MA
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 39 Folder 5/17
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Trawlers (Vessels)
- Cunningham & Thomson Company
- Portland Company (Me.)--Manufactures
- Manufacturing industry--Maine--Portland
- Hoisting machinery
- Metalworking industry--Maine--Portland
- Walrus (Ship)--Equipment and supplies--Photographs
- Fishing boats--Massachusetts--Gloucester
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