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Sardine Carriers
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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  • Ballard, W.H.
Sardine Carriers
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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This photo is of several sardine carriers tied up off Southwest Boat Corporation. In the left foreground is a lobster boat with a canvas spray hood built on Cranberry Islands and hull # 1B783.
Sardine Carriers
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Ballard, W.H.
Sardine Carriers
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Sardine carriers (formerly coasting schooner "Lewis R. French") made into cannery boat carrying supplies. Supply boats picked up oi and other itemsl from canneries. Paul Stubing indicated that the William Underwood was "practically a new sardine carrier". Lewis R. French at this time was used as a freighter, the other two are sardine carriers. Ralph Stanley said the Lewis R. French is now used as a schooner out of Rockland or Camden area and that she is a very old boat. She was restored by Captain John Foss and is used as a cruising schooner out of Rockland (information added by Rosamond Rea Oct. 2012) [show more]