From collection Elmer Montgomery Collection
Shipyard scene from water
View of shipyard with ferry NORTH HAVEN on railway at right. The two vessels in frame (MARY JANE and GOV. BRANN are being built before the launching ways were installed. Bow of schooner (ANNIE B. MITCHELL?) shows at left with sails bent on. [included in the exhibit "Working Waterfronts"]
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LB2008.15.194
[included in the exhibit "Working Waterfronts"] Snow's Shipyard, Rockland, Maine--Winter 1936 LB2008.15.194 The steamer NORTH HAVEN is to the right, hauled for maintenance; she would be the last steamboat on Penobscot Bay. These steamers primarily to served passengers; the next generation of diesel powered ferries like the GOV. BRANN were designed for motor vehicles. GOV. BRANN and the dragger MARY JANE to her left were both begun in January. Here, the photographer got to the fitting out wharf at Snow's to get this angle. Several three-masted schooners were laid up at the Snow yard in the 1930s at the end of long careers hauling coal, stone or lumber. Some worked briefly in World War II; others like the ANNIE B. MITCHELL here, never worked again and were stripped to hulks. They provided picturesque subjects. M. Elmer Montgomery Collection LB2008.15.194
