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| Rudder with curved blade, wood stem, and cross-piece Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Rudder with curved blade, wood stem, and cross-piece Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Boat equipment. Rudder: wood with two metal brackets and two metal pegs, curved blade with wooden stem and cross-piece. | |||
| Woolies, Sailors' Embroidered Folk Art, tapestry Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Woolies, Sailors' Embroidered Folk Art, tapestry Northeast Harbor Library Description: This magnificent gift of twenty-four English sailors' embroideries - Woolies - was presented by Mrs Douglas Dillon to honor the new Northeast Harbor Library in 2007. These unique pieces of nineteenth century mariner's folk art were souvenirs of the sailors' world-wide journeys and were embroidered in wool on sailcloth. Mrs. Dillon began a half-century ago to develop this unique and wonderful collection and continued until presenting them to the Library. Woolie 1: Doris 27 1/2" high by 48" wide, British Flagship, unusual harlequin background Woolie 2: Black hull ship, British Ensign under sail, sea gulls flying overhead, three other ships in foreground, lifeboat swung up on davit Woolie 3: Sailor's Adieu, ship's dory waiting to take him to his three-masted warship, and gulls flying overhead, 18" high by 26" wide Woolie 4: Seventy-two gun warship at sea full sail, 23" high by 27" wide, British Ensign Woolie 5: Tugboat bringing large three-masted sailboat (sails furled) home from the sea, crewelwork stitches in silk, cotton and wool, 22" high by 30" wide Woolie 6: Gunboat under sail, lighthouse and small photo of Captain in oval at center of Woolie at base Woolie 7: H.M.S. Terrible bombarding Odessa, only battle scene known to me, ironclad H.M.S. Terrible facing away, huge clouds of smoke, green sea, 17 1/2" high by 28 1/2" wide Woolie 8: Two-decked gunship, captain with spyglass, ship dressed all over, with crew standing on spars, over 100 men, perhaps Royal Review at Cowes Woolie 9: Warship under sail, depicted with life preserver and laurel leaf enclosure and flags, a small gold and pearl navy brooch is pinned below crown added by me when woolly was moth-proofed, 31 1/2" wide by 35" high Woolie 10: Three-masted warship under sail, from porthole surrounded by Union Jack and other flags in laurel wreath Woolie 11: Ice-breaker prow on three-masted and steam-powered gunboat with lighthouse and man on shore Woolie 12: H.M.S. Lether, British three-masted ship under sail hoisted a very large anchor at prow, 16" high by 26" wide Woolie 13: Largest of Woolies, 30 1/2" high by 44" wide, depicting Rock of Gibraltar and McKinley's Great White Fleet gunboat and a British streamer and French gunboat, Spain on left, Morocco on right Woolie 14: H.M.S. Hero, ninety-one guns three-masted gunboat, British Flag, smokestack with grey smoke puff Woolie 15: Three-masted black hull British Flag, initialed at bottom F.D. and 91 Woolie 16: Choppy blue and white sea, seven gunboats, sails furled, small bronze guns attached by wool, over-sized sailors on ships, 22" high by 25" wide Woolie 17: Duke of Wellington three-masted, three-decked gunship dressed all over, flags strum from stem to stern - my finest Woolie - purchased in Brighton, England in 1950, rigging of wool - usually they used string for tautness and lasting qualities - Flagship, Admiral's gig at side, probably a Royal Review for Queen Victoria memorialized by artist Woolie 18: Silver framed three-masted gunship with gold steam stacks mid-ship, British flags, 30 1/2" wide by 21" high Woolie 19: Silk-work ship (faded) with Cliffs of Dover, 16" wide by 13 1/2" high Woolie 20: White Ensign British warship entering harbor, small fort on left, lighthouse on right, 12 1/2" high by 15" wide Woolie 21: Three-decker gunship entering harbor, sailing straight at us, British saluting or being fired on by entrance fort Woolie 22: Small-sized gold framed three-masted gunship under sail, blue and White Sea, 12" high by 16" wide Woolie 23: Three-masted British ship at sea approaching white lighthouse (looks like a milk bottle) interesting sky, 51" wide by 24" high Woolie 24: Paddle steamship, 20 1/2" high by 27" wide [show more] | ||||
| Trailboard from sloop; Stanley cemetery post; powder horn Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Trailboard from sloop; Stanley cemetery post; powder horn Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of three items. (A) Trailboard from a Friendship sloop. Letters visible: “BUILDER FRIENDSHIP, ME” on one side, and “WILBUR A. MORSE, BUILDER” on the other side. Carved with leaves and wavy line on both sides. Donor believes this could be the trailboard from one of Peter Richardson’s Friendship sloops. Richardson kept five Friendship sloops where Heliker LaHotan now stands (the old Stanley boatyard).(Trailboards are a pair of decorative boards at the bow of a sailboat, running from the figurehead back towards the hawsepipe.) (Measurements: 35"L x 6"H x 8.5"W) Note: On 10/14/16 Captain, historian, and boat builder Ralph Stanley visited GCIHS and commented on the trailboard. Ralph explained that donor's Friendship sloop, Old Baldy, was bought from its original owner; Kathy Newman owns it now. Jarvis Newman restored it. Stanley believes that the sloop that the trailboard came from was Little Flirt. (Apparently, the intended name was Alert, but William Doane Stanley had also named his boat Alert.) Eventually, Little Flirt had Sweet Pea painted on her stern. Whoever gave Lou Alert’s trailboard, likely found it in the field by Lewis Stanley’s boat yard (Ralph Stanley’s Uncle Lew) after the boat was destroyed and the ruins put in the field. He believes a full trailboard would have included the date made, 1904, and would have had an eagle’s head on the end. Ralph will check and see if Kathe Walton has the head. (B) Stanley cemetery wooden post. A broken post with carved top intact for exhibit purposes and for use as a model for new fence posts for the 2014 restored Stanley cemetery. (There are several more broken fence posts currently at the cemetery.) (Measurements: 41"L x 6" Diameter) (C) Powder horn from donor's family. Lovely, plain, unornamented horn which Donor used with her muzzle loading rifles and as a prop in a play. Has string attached by screw; two drilled holes; hollow. It was probably acquired in Ohio. No direct connection to GCI other than Lou Millar's use in her long and interesting life and it’s a neat artifact. (Measurements: 14.5"L x 3.5"H x 3"W) [show more] |