Homes' of Sardine Fishermen. Type of Motorboats Used At Frontier. 

Homes' of Sardine Fishermen. Type of Motorboats Used At Frontier. 

" 'Homes' of Sardine Fishermen. Type of Motorboats Used At Frontier. More than $100,000 Value Tied Up Here. Gas, Kerosene & Crude Oil Burning. Carry from 35 to 75 HHg Herring. Engines from 30 h.p. to 60 h.p. Here. Fishermen Idle From Last October. East Maine Sardine Factories Open Ap15."Two sloop-rigged round sterned carriers in foreground. These are motorized with small sails bent on. FRANCES is one, a 15 ton vessel built in 1904, Roque Bluffs. One is CATHERINE M. BUTLER a 21 ton vessel builtin 1914 in Eastport. These have dry exhausts pointed over stern. Schooners behind. Sizable transom sterned rowing boat trails the foreground carrier.These are sloop-rigged carriers that possibly came between the all-sail carryaway or Quoddy boats and the motorized schooner- based vessels that followed.