Unloading sardines from dory to sardine carrier. 

Unloading sardines from dory to sardine carrier. 

Unloading sardines from dory to sardine carrier. This photo was used by B.F. Goodrich to advertise their suction hose in Atlantic Fisherman when the sardine pump was introduced. R.J. Peacock had three carriers working out of Portland in the 1950s:CONQUEROR, SEAWANHAKA, and SYLVINA E. BEAL."Small boat's sardine catch is brought alongside sardine carrier owned by R.J. Peacock Canning Co. Inc., Portland , Me., to be loaded by rubber suction hose. Fishermen lower the hose, manufactured by B.F. Goodrich, by hand into the fish-filled nets, and then turn on a pump to develop suction within the hose. A carrier ship can take on 65 tons an hour in this manner. Loading the same quantity by net, alone, takes three hours." This carrier is the 1911 Jonesport built CONQUEROR. She was rebuilt in 1948, and that may have been when the new herring pump was added. Captain Edgar MacNeill is seated and his son Captain Fremont 'Monty' C. MacNeill of Cape Elizabeth is working on deck wearing a ball cap. In the wheelhouse is probably Bob Pride. They are pumping out Dyer's stop seine at Boat Cove on Cliff Island. The herring pump revolutionized handling herring. Fish went through the suction hose and then into a box like this one where they were directed to the appropriate hold and salted down.