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Model of Steamer "Tremont"
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Digital Photograph
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • 1989-12
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Model of Steamer "Tremont"
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
The model was owned by Elwin Alexander Hodgdon (1924-2002).
Sidewheel Steamer, View from Deck
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1891-08-29
  • No Copyright - United States
Sidewheel Steamer, View from Deck
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Steamer State of Maine, Portland, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • 1950 PM
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Steamer State of Maine, Portland, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
“This vessel was built as a U. S. Navy hospital ship, “The Comfort,” and served in the Pacific during World War II and later served as a U. S. Army transport to bring the troops back home. Reportedly the nurses’ lounge of the vessel had once been hit by a kamikaze in Okinawa. When the Maine Maritime Academy Students went to sea in her as “The State of Maine,” the three padded cells in the former psycho ward of the hospital ship, were still in place. Philip Rich [Philip Clifton Rich (1941-)], who attended the Academy from 1959-1962, bunked in the former isolation ward, which held only five or six cadets, during his junior year and remembers that the plumbing fixtures of the former psycho ward had levers, not regular handles. They used the padded cells on the second deck as storages closets to supplement the cadets’ small storage lockers.” – Meredith Hutchins 01/25/12 [show more]
Steamer Sieur de Monts
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • 1910
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Steamer Sieur de Monts
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Steam Yacht Solace
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Steam Yacht Solace
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Copied by W.H. Ballard
S.S. Kaiser Wilham II
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Art, Drawing
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • 1896
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
S.S. Kaiser Wilham II
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Vessel Name - S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm II Renamed 1900 - Hohenzollern Class – Passenger Steamship Hull - Steel Masts - 4 Designed by – Build date – 1889 Launched – April 23, 1889 Built by – A.G. Vulcan Built at – Stettin, Germany Built for – North American Lloyd Steamship Company Named for – Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht von Preußen; Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia (1859-1941) Power – Steam – Triple expansion engines, 1 screw, 2 funnels – 16 knots Gross tons – 4,773 – after 1892 rebuild – 6,661 Capacity – 1,200 passengers Length – 450’ Beam – 51’ Draught - Crew – Grounded on May 10, 1908 at Alghero, Sardinia. Refloated and sold for scrap in Italy. [show more]
Passenger Launch Steamer Agnes
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Transparency, Slide Transparency
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • 1888 c.
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Passenger Launch Steamer Agnes
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Vessel Name - "Agnes" - later "G.T. Hadlock" ferry Class - Steam Passenger Launch Build date - 1888 Built by - W.R. Keene Built at - Manset, Maine Gross tons - 12.20 Length - 39’ Beam - 9’ Draught - 4.02’ She was powered by a Shipman Automatic engine by 1890.
Steamer Norumbega - Little Girl With Crew at Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • 1902 c.
  • No Known Copyright
Description:
About this photo, George Bedigan wrote: "I have enclosed scan of my father’s (Jean Bedigian) discharge papers from SS Norembega. The picture in question looks to be more circa 1920 than 1902. I say that after examining the gentleman with the suit and tie. If Jean Bedigian is in the photo it would be the fourth crew member from the left. I do not have a photo of him at that time but a photo of one of his sons (attached .. soldier on the right ) has a likeness. Also he was not a tall man approx. 5’ 7”. Jean’s mother (Zois) and sister(Maria who married an American soldier) emigrated to the US after the first world war and may have settled in the area." Jean Bedigian (1885-1950) [show more]
Steam Tug Storm King and Log Raft
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1890
  • No Copyright - United States
Steam Tug Storm King and Log Raft
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Sidewheel Steamer John Brooks
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • 1844 c.
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Sidewheel Steamer John Brooks
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Heading out of Southwest Harbor by the Manset shore. The Nathaniel Gott house on Greening Island is visible off the stern of the vessels as is the Gott barn before it was moved further away from the shore.
S.S. Cimbria - Steamship
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
S.S. Cimbria - Steamship
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
"September 9, 1878 - Fine day with a nice breeze. The "Cimbria" is getting ready to leave Southwest Harbor where she has rode at her anchors 4 months and 12 days. Probably she will never enter it again." "At a quarter to 4 o'clock the big gun flashes from her bows, the anchor is away - 3 cheers are given. She turns and steams slowly out of the Eastern Way." - Day Book of Elizabeth Cook (Carroll) Lawler - In the collection of Robert Lindsay Smallidge, Jr. [show more]
Atlanta - Auxiliary Sail Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Atlanta - Auxiliary Sail Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Katahdin - Side-wheel Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Katahdin - Side-wheel Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Built by and/or owned by The Sanford Steamship Co.
Chicago - Auxiliary Sail Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Chicago - Auxiliary Sail Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Olivette - Auxiliary Sail Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Olivette - Auxiliary Sail Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
“In 1888 the Plant Railroad and Steamship Co. of Florida endeavored to find summer work for its fine steel screw steamer “Olivette” (which in the winter plied between Port Tampa, Key West, Fla., and Havana) by sending her to Boston in June of that year to open a new and direct line from that place to Bar Harbor. The “Olivette,” built by William Cramp and Co. at Philadelphia, was launched on Feb. 16, 1887. She was in reality a small ocean steamer and a far better sea boat than anything then or since running to the coast of Maine. Richardson and Barnard, 20 Atlantic avenue, were the Boston agents, and Albert Bee acted in the same capacity in Bar Harbor. Her schedule was as follows: From Boston every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 6 P.M., arriving at Bar Harbor the next morning at 7, with the regularity of clockwork. Returning, the “Olivette” left Bar Harbor on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at 6 P.M., due in Boston at 7 the next morning. To keep up this timetable meant a speed of nearly 18 knots an hour,, fog or no fog but this she did, and with only one accident, when in 1888, in a fog, she ran into the schooner “Edward H. Blake,” loaded with ice and lumber, cut her in two and sank her, and with not the slightest injury to herself. Capt. James McKay (now superintendent of the U.S Transport service at Jacksonville, Fla.), who commanded the “Olivette” during all the years she ran to Bar Harbor, considers it one of the most wonderful accidents he ever heard of, for at the time of the collision the schooner was only 17 days old.” - “Some Account of Steam Navigation in New England” by Francis Boardman Crowninshield Bradlee, The Essex Institute, p. 110-111 – 1920. "Steamer, Olivette, collides with the schooner, Edward H. Blake, launched two weeks before at Millbridge. Loaded with 1017 tons of ice and 102,000 feet of spruce lumber, the Blake was cut completely in two. The crew and passengers were saved. Captain was George E. Smith of Bangor...Collision happened off Matinicus. The Blake was struck between mizzen mast and cabin. The vessel was taken to Orrington to be repaired." - July 17, 1890 - The Bar Harbor Record or Times. As the “Olivette” was luxuriously fitted up with modern convenience, she naturally enjoyed the cream the passenger and express traffic; she remained on line up to 1891 inclusive, and was fought off by the persistent hostility of the Maine Central Railroad. Then she was placed by her owners on the Boston-Halifax, N.S. route running (in the summer) for many years connection with other steamers. The “Olivette’ was totally lost on the north coast of Cuba in January, 1918.” - “Some Account of Steam Navigation in New England” by Francis Boardman Crowninshield Bradlee, The Essex Institute, p. 110-111 - 1920. [show more]
Portland - Passenger Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Portland - Passenger Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Ransom B. Fuller - Passenger Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Ransom B. Fuller - Passenger Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Mineola - Passenger Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Mineola - Passenger Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Salacia - Passenger Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Salacia - Passenger Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Merryconeag - Passenger Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Merryconeag - Passenger Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Golden Rod - Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Golden Rod - Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
"In 1893, the 75-foot "Golden Rod," slid down the ways at the Barbour yard in Brewer - destined first for service at Mt. Desert Island. During the years she ran "round the hills" between Hancock Point and Southwest Harbor, under command of Captain W.M. Crosby, she became so popular with the ladies at Bar Harbor that they named a social club after her…" - Penobscot Bay, Mount Desert and Eastport Steamboat Album by Allie Ryan, p. 28-30 - 1972 “The Fourth – How it was Celebrated by the Band at Southwest Harbor - …[during the festivities] To the Bar Harbor people there was nothing pleasanter for the day than the sail back and forth on the Golden Rod. Capt. Crosby was extremely courteous to his passengers.” – The Bar Harbor Record, July 6, 1895 [show more]
Bay State - Sidewheel Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Bay State - Sidewheel Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
"The sidewheel steamer "Bay State" was built at Bath in 1895…" "...On September 24, 1916 she ran aground at Cape Elizabeth and later slid off the rocks and sank." - Penobscot Bay, Mount Desert and Eastport Steamboat Album by Allie Ryan, p. 56 - 1972 To learn more about steamboats consult - The Steamship Historical Society of America - 1029 Waterman Avenue, East Providence, Rhode Island 02914 - E-mail - info@sshsa.org - http://www.sshsa.org/. [show more]
Lewiston - Sidewheel Walking Beam Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Lewiston - Sidewheel Walking Beam Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
The Lewiston was the sister ship to Steamer Forest City. She was built in New York in 1856 and operated on the Boston - Bangor line. She had a walking beam engine.
Westport - Passenger Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Westport - Passenger Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Operated Eastern Steamship Lines
City of Richmond - Sidewheel Walking Beam Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Description:
The "City of Richmond" was a side wheel steamer with a walking beam engine. Those who are interested in walking beams and their technology may see a model (being restored) of the walking beam from the Ticonderoga at the Maine Antique Power Association on Beech Hill Crossroad in Mt. Desert - 207-244-0204. The Ticonderoga, one of the last walking beam side-wheel passenger steamboats in existence, and a Registered Historic Place is on display at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont. "The 'City of Richmond' steamship sailed from Portland to Bar Harbor three days a week during the summer months in the late 1800s. In 1881 she ran aground on the Mark Island Ledge. She was rebuilt by the Portland Company and continued in service until 1892." - Maine Memory Network, Accessed online 10/17/07; http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Detail?ln=5949 "The Maine Central Railroad was still two years away from completing its rail line from Washington Junction (Ellsworth) to Hancock and what would become Mt. Desert Ferry, when it purchased the Portland, Bangor and Machias Steamboat Company in 1882. It appears that the primary asset was the rebuilt (1881) walking-beam side-wheel steamer "City of Richmond," which was promptly transferred to the Mt. Desert and Machiasport run. The ship's schedule was designed to serve the trains in Portland and Rockland. In 1884 the trains started running through to Mt. Desert Ferry at the mouth of the Sullivan River in Hancock Point, and the Maine Central started to win the lion's share of the Mt. Desert Island business."- Mount Desert - An Informal History Edited by Gunnar Hansen, section written by Peter B. Bell, p. 166 - 1989 "I first came here at the age of three or four, in 1890 or 1891, on the steamer "City of Richmond." One went on board in Portland after a train journey from Boston or New York, spent the night on board, and woke up in the morning amid the delicious smells and sights of Eggemoggin Reach. "The City of Richmond" was partly owned by her captain, Captain Gary, who was a great character along the coast.."- Mount Desert - An Informal History Edited by Gunnar Hansen, 'Memories of Northeast Harbor' by Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, p. 180 - 1989 [show more]