Belfast, Me. C76

Belfast, Me. C76

"Belfast, Me. C76" Waterfront, Coast, Town Scene, Buildings, Boats, Piers, Signs [Superba Food Products, Daly Bros. Shore Company, Arcady Feeds, C. A. Paul and Sons], Church, Bell Tower View of the Belfast waterfront from the east side. One of the many sardine boats can be seen headed out (just below Mathews Brothers). Tied up in front of Arkady Feeds is the steam tug "Seguin" The Seguin was built in 1884 at Bath, Maine, and served most of her years on the Kennebec River within sight of her birthplace. She measures 88 feet long. She was originally powered by a surface condenser engine, but it was replaced with a 350-horsepower compound engine, which was later re-bored to provide 400 horsepower. She was the first tug on the Kennebec with a standing-headroom fire room, and the first tug east of San Francsico to have an independent air system and circulating pump. A true workhorse, the Seguin saw a great variety of service. She towed schooners and barges along Maine coast – even towing ice barges as far south as Norfolk, Virginia – and assisted with the launchings of scores of ships built at Bath and other Maine ports, She ended her career in 1969, after many years under the flag of Penobscot Bay’s Eastern Maine Towage Company Next to the right, The Daly Brothers Shoe Co. factory can be plainly seen just above the Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad yard. When R. P. Hazzard moved shoe production from Belfast to Augusta, John & Leo Daly took over the Belfast facility and in August 1929, the factory was reopened. Within 2 months, the factory was producing 2400 pairs of shoes per day and by 1932, 350 people were employed.