ROBERT F. O'HARA

ROBERT F. O'HARA

This is the moment August 7, 1971, when the new fishing vessel ROBERT F. O'HARA slid off her cradle on the marine railway, into the water for the first time. The 109 foot steel side trawler was the one of several built by Harvey F. Gamage Shipbuilder, Inc., at South Bristol, Maine for Dorothy M. O'Hara,, Inc., associated with Frank J. O'Hara & Sons of Rockland, Maine. Designed by John W. Gilbert Associates of Boston, she had a 24 ft. beam and 12 foot draft, displacing 305 tons. Her fish hold was 7,400 cubic feet. Built under the US Fishing Fleet Improvement Act, it was financially subsidized by the federal government, another first for Gamage.