Steamboat ISLESFORD

Steamboat ISLESFORD

The steamboat ISLESFORD is pictured at Boothbay Harbor, Maine, on a summer day. She was built in 1893 at Brewer for Capt. Gilbert Theodore Hadlock of Little Cranberry Isle, also called Islesford. She feried passengers and freight from the Mount Desert towns of Seal Harbor, Northeast Harbor, Southwest Harbor, and Somesville to that nearby island from 1893 to 1908. Later in her working life she sailed on the Damariscotta River from Boothbay Harbor and sometimes on Penobscot Bay into Rockland. She was one of the smallest steamers of her time at 49 ft. with a beam of 14.4 ft. and draft of 5.2 ft.