Maine Memory Network

Schooner, Saco, 1910

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1910 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print

Launching Schooner "Kennebunk", Kennebunkport, 1918

Contributed by: Charles Morgan through Brick Store Museum Date: 1918-07-10 Location: Kennebunkport Media: Glass Negative

Hodder residence, Bar Harbor, 1890-2001

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1890–2001 Location: Bar Harbor Clients: Melville Hodder; Elizabeth Hodder Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

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.

Launch of the 'Doris Hamlin'

The Doris Hamlin, a four-masted schooner built at the Frye-Flynn Shipyard in Harrington, was one of the last vessels launched there, marking the decline of a once vigorous shipbuilding industry in Washington County.

Historic Hallowell - Schooners, Steamers, Ships and Tankers

"The scow schooner, which used a schooner rig on a flat-bottomed, blunt-ended scow hull, was popular in North America for coastal and river transport."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Andrew Smith Store

"… a mackerel seiner and was the captain of several schooners. Mackerel fishing declined in the late 1800s, and Smith may have turned to shopkeeping…"

Saga of a Sub Chaser S.C. 268 along Maine Coast
by DANIEL R CHRISTOPHER

A look back at a Sub Chaser Crew on duty along the Maine coastline near the end of World War I

A first encounter with Bath and its wonderful history
by John Decker

Visiting the Maine Maritime Museum as part of a conference