Ship BARING BROTHERS about to be launched at Thomaston, Maine in 1877.

Ship BARING BROTHERS about to be launched at Thomaston, Maine in 1877.

Ship BARING BROTHERS about to be launched at Thomaston, Maine in 1877. Schooner-2 SEVENTY SIX at wharf next to launch ways. View is across cove, with crowd gathered on near shore. Note: this print is 'landscape' crop of middle 2/3 of a 'portrait' image on Maine Memory Network (2014), supplied by Thomaston Historical Society. Their caption: 'The three-masted Down Easter BARING BROTHERS 2166 tons, was named for the London merchant bankers with whom many American ship owners had an account. In 1889 she was deliberately set on fire by dissatisfied seamen. She was launched from the OÆBrien shipyard in 1877. In this image, her bow points southwest toward Brooklyn Heights on the road to Cushing. The old lower toll bridge lies in the right center of the image with Water Street in the foreground. The picture is taken from the north side of the St. George River on the site of the present Lyman Morse Boatyard. Schooner Seventy Six, 196.77 tons, built in 1864 by Walsh & Simmons, Captain Joe Teel, lays dockside in front of BARING BROTHERS. note: 2 copies of this image, captions on reverse identical