Camden has Changed Since 1940
Today, the schooner Mattie, fully restored and carrying her original name Grace Bailey, looks better than ever. »Read More
Seventy Years Later, She’s Still in Camden
Today, the schooner Mattie, fully restored and carrying her original name Grace Bailey, looks better than ever. »Read More
A New Car Ferry for Islesboro
May 19, 1936 is launching day for the Gov. Brann, a 65’ double-ended, wooden-hulled ferry. »Read More
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. »Read More
Cheaper Than a Railway
Ingenuity helped keep working coasters going long after their heyday. »Read More
LILLIAN Becalmed
It’s early morning in Rockland Harbor and there’s no wind. »Read More
Camden Harbor About 1940
More crowded these days, but no less sheltered, Camden’s inner harbor affords the perfect winter berthing »Read More
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. »Read More
Holiday Winter
At Holiday Beach in Owls Head, and at other places along the Maine coast in the 1930s and ‘40s, no one much cared if a few traps and a boat or two sat out the winter. »Read More
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. »Read More
THEOLINE in Camden
The 184’ Theoline was launched from the Francis Cobb yard in Rockland in 1917 as a coal carrier. She foundered in 1942 off Panama. She is in Camden at the P.G. Willey Company wharf delivering coal.
Wiscasset Still Life
How could anyone interested in sailing vessels resist climbing aboard this pair? »Read More
FLYING CLOUD and Elmer Montgomery
Family lore had this as a model of the clipper ship Flying Cloud, but the flag shows Red Jacket. »Read More
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. »Read More
The KLINCK Alongside
After languishing at Snow’s in Rockland, a new owner refurbished the George E. Klinck and put her back in service, the final phase being carried out in Camden. »Read More
Camden Harbor Before the War
Here is more of Capt. Swift’s fleet, laid up along Camden Shipbuilding’s wharves for the winter. »Read More