Schooner BOWDOIN

Schooner BOWDOIN

Schooner BOWDOIN - an Arctic explorer - the first to send radio signals from the far North and the first to send colored photos of the Arctic to the National Geographic Society - Built by the Hodgdon Brothers Yard in East Boothbay, Me. in 1921 - Shown here the BOWDOIN reconstruction period - a homemade steambox for bending the oak planks- BOWDOIN seen in background under plastic cover in a shed - March 18, 1982.