From collection Elmer Montgomery Collection
Schooner STEPHEN TABER
STEPHEN TABER with deck loaded with pulpwood from Frenchboro and awaiting favorable tide for the run to Brewer; yawl boat made up ready to push and presumably the owner looking the camera. Stern view. Built in 1871, Glenwood N.Y. , Fifty ton, 41’, owner Fred E. Wood, Belfast. Sold into the passenger trade in 1946, with Captain Frederick B. Guild buying the vessel. [included in the exhibit "Working Waterfronts"]
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LB2008.15.465
[included in the exhibit "Working Waterfronts"] Schooner STEPHEN TABER, August 1941 LB2008.15.465 The TABER, loaded with pulpwood from Frenchboro is waiting for the tide to help her up the Penobscot from Bucksport to the paper mill at Brewer. The motor yawlboat with her bow tucked into TABER's transom will push her as there does not look like much chance of a southerly breeze. A hand operated patent fog horn is next to her captain, Fred Wood. Fred bought her in 19xxUp ahead of the TABER, a more modern steamer alongside the Bucksport paper mill can barely be seen. Look carefully to see the American flag painted on her side to identify her as a neutral vessel. In 1946, Captain Fred Guild bought the TABER and outfitted Built in 1871, she is still sailing as a passenger carrying windjammer, the oldest continuous documented vessel in the United States. M. Elmer Montgomery Collection LB2008.15.465
