John I. Snow's steam lighter SOPHIA salvaging a hulk alongside a wharf.

John I. Snow's steam lighter SOPHIA salvaging a hulk alongside a wharf.

John I. Snow's steam lighter SOPHIA salvaging a hulk alongside a wharf. Probably Rockland, appears that vessel burned - notice damage to building on pier. see also LB2013.21.2004 & 2006; for much more on SOPHIA see John Richardson's 'Steamboat Lore of the Penobscot', Rockland Courier Gazette, 1941. (Vessel index at front.)