Tug SOMMERS N. SMITH port side view, lying just off a wharf.

Tug SOMMERS N. SMITH port side view, lying just off a wharf.

Tug SOMMERS N. SMITH port side view, lying just off a wharf. Launch Day With her scrollwork complete but the cabins and wheelhouse only in frame and her machinery yet to be installed, the steamer Monhegan splashes down the ways from Rockland's Cobb-Butler Shipyard, May 30th, 1903. This 128-footer, the first steamer built here amid a string of big wooden schooners, ended her days in Providence, wrecked there by the Hurricane of 1938. Rockland, ME note: item LB2013.21.359 is adhered to reverse