Description: Shows port quarter view of SAPPHO inbound to Bar Harbor with deck cargo of people! Cargo port on cargo deck is open. Mounted on 22x10" board.
Eastern Steamship Lines steamer on Rockland to Bar Harbor run through 1920's. Her hull now rests in the Hackensack River. Collected for "Mt. Desert: an Informal History"
Description: Eastern Steamship Lines steamer on Rockland to Bar Harbor run through 1920's. Her hull now rests in the Hackensack River. Collected for "Mt. Desert: an Informal History"
Comment: She left Northeast Harbor on accumulated steam with her boilers shut down and ran out of "oomph". She was refloated without damage. Mounted on 21x19" board.
Description: Comment: She left Northeast Harbor on accumulated steam with her boilers shut down and ran out of "oomph". She was refloated without damage. Mounted on 21x19" board.
Description: From Ox Hill area. MOUNT DESERT started service in 1886 and was replaced by J. T. MORSE in 1904. Collected for "Mt. Desert: an Informal History"
The last large side-wheeler steamer used in New England for both passenger and freight service was the 214-foot J. T. Morse, built in 1903-04 in East Boston for the Eastern Steamship Company. Powered by a 600-horsepower, single-beam engine, it traveled the Rockland, Maine to Bar Harbor run from April to October or November each year. The ship was named for James Thomas Morse of the well-known maritime (shipping and towing) family from Bath, Maine. (Text from visitacadia.com)
Description: The last large side-wheeler steamer used in New England for both passenger and freight service was the 214-foot J. T. Morse, built in 1903-04 in East Boston for the Eastern Steamship Company. Powered by a 600-horsepower, single-beam engine, it traveled the Rockland, Maine to Bar Harbor run from April to October or November each year. The ship was named for James Thomas Morse of the well-known maritime (shipping and towing) family from Bath, Maine. (Text from visitacadia.com) [show more]