Contributed by Rockland Historical Society
Description
The Mary Anne was built for the Holmes Packing Company of Eastport, owned by Moses Pike of Lubec.
It was the first refrigerated sardine carrier, bubbling chilled salt water and air up though the hundred-ton load of herring that the vessel could carry.
About This Item
- Title: Sardine carrier Mary Anne afloat, Thomaston, 1947, 1947
- Creator: Sidney L. Cullen
- Creation Date: 1947
- Subject Date: 1947
- Location: Thomaston, Knox County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 19.5 cm x 24.8 cm
- Local Code: Pike 12
- Collection: Anne Pike Rugh/Rockland Courier Gazette collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Boatyards--Maine--Thomaston
- Launchings--Maine--Thomaston
- Shipyards--Maine--Thomaston
- Boatbuilding--Maine--Thomaston
- Boat & ship industry--Maine--Thomaston
- Fishing boats--Maine--Thomaston
- Shipbuilding--Maine--Thomaston
- Mary Anne (Boat)
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Rockland Historical SocietyP.O. Box 1331, 80 Union Street, Rockland, ME 04841
(207) 594-6193
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