Hotel Rockland, Rockland, Me 111 (or 1H)

The Second Empire style Hotel Rockland was built in 1870. It was located on Main Street, at the foot of Park Street, overlooking Rockland Harbor

Bows and Anchors

This study of the bow of the Charles H. Klinck shows the old and the new. Name and paint are worn, and drooping anchors look tired.

SEA BISCUIT

This is Elmer Montgomery’s post-war shot of the Bray family and their neighbor Gil Merriam running across Rockland Harbor

Unloading at Rockland’s Maine Central Railroad Wharf

With masts spaced widely apart and shipping a steam driven loading boom, the schooner Annie & Reuben stood out from the other coasters.

South Cove, Rockland

Before Ted Lang and his Mainship operation brought in the fill that became today’s Snow Marine Park, this tidal cove became a graveyard for boats of all kinds

Arriving Tug

The steam tug Sommers N. Smith and the steam lighter Sophia formed the backbone of Capt. John I. Snow’s Rockland-based Snow Marine Co.

Everyone Loves a Launching

The year is 1936 and the day October 3rd. The 86’ seiner Mary Grace appears to be stuck on the launching ways and is about to be towed until she floats.

LILLIAN Becalmed

It’s early morning in Rockland Harbor and there’s no wind.

VINAL HAVEN Sunk

On November 10, 1938, the laid-up steamer Vinal Haven snagged her guardrail, listed enough to fill with water, and sunk at the dock.

Building the ST. GEORGE, 1939

Albert Condon’s drawings for this 110’ dragger are, like all his work, very detailed. There’s no guessing the size, shape, and location of the pieces that go into building her.

DELILAH in Winter

The late Kennedy Crane (Rockland’s Senter-Crane department store) owned this handsome Friendship Sloop and kept her summers off his cottage at Dynamite Beach in Owls Head.

Hauling Day at Snow’s

The yard crew guides the three-master Edward R. Smith onto Snow’s big railway for caulking and painting on the first day of June, 1940. This 565-ton schooner was built in 1911 in Phippsburg. Catalog Number LB2008.15.25

Launching Day at Snow’s

Carl Beckman’s 79’ dragger slides overboard September, 16th, 1939. Four months later, Clyson Coffin’s 110’ dragger, now in frame beyond Pelican, will be christened as the St. George.

Rockland

Main Street Rockland’s Victorian brick commercial buildings

Richard W. Feyler

Successful businessman Richard Feyler poses as part of a major article on Rockland’s Seafood Festiva

Sam-o-set Hotel, Rockland, Me

Summer guests are playing croquet on the west lawn of the Samoset Hotel in the early part of the twentieth century.