From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
LB2016.13.318
Image of the rotting hulks of Schooners HESPER and LUTHER LITTLE languishing, as they did for decades, on the edge of the Sheepscot River south of the bridge in Wiscasset. The two, 4-masted vessels were built at the same time to serve as coal and lumber hauling merchant ships. They did not work for long, being out-competed by steam vessels able to move faster and carry more. Abandoned here on the mudflats in 1940, the wrecks became a tourist attraction and, as such, part of the identitiy of Wiscasset until they burned in 1978.
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LB2016.13.318
