From collection J. E. Perkins Collection
ALICE M. JACOBS
Image of the steam-engined mackerel seining schooner ALICE M. JACOBS leaving the Kennebec River for open water. Visible in image: ALICE M. JACOBS, towing two boats laden with net, steams out of the Kennebec past the Sugar Loaves. Note crew members and other boats on deck and furled sails. ALICE M. JACOBS was one of the first large fishing steamers (though schooner-rigged as well), built 1902 for Solomon Jacobs. She fished out of Gloucester but was wrecked in December 1903.