Keywords: Sea rescue
Item 80737
Coast Guard Life Saving Station, Biddeford Pool, ca. 1917
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1917 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 7528
Lifeboat drill, Biddeford Pool, about 1910
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.
Exhibit
The rocky coastline of Cape Elizabeth has sent many vessels to their watery graves.
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 4 of 4
"Scarborough was the first town in Maine to have a rescue service, and later the group helped set up units in Standish and Cape Elizabeth."
Site Page
Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry
"Folks near Galway rescued him. He sent a report back to the ship owners and was given passage back to the States by the Irish government."
Story
Portland in the 1940s
by Carol Norton Hall
As a young woman in Portland during WWII, the presence of servicemen was life changing.
Story
In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood
An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.
