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Category Archives: Ships
The Wreck of the Sagamore
By Linda McLoon* It was snowing on Saturday evening, January 24, 1934, when the steel freighter, Sagamore, left Portland Harbor, bound for Boston with a hold filled mainly with large bolts of woolen material and oilcloth. The storm had intensified … Continue reading
Posted in Prout's Neck, Ships, Students and Teachers
Tagged Sagamore, salvage, shipwreck
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Encapsulated Scrapbook – 1884-1979
This is a collection of 42 newspaper articles that were encapsulated into a collection probably during the 1970s at the Society. It consists of articles as early as 1884 and as recent as 1979 with the majority of articles from … Continue reading
Posted in Black Point, Blue Point, Dunstan, Higgins Beach, Oak Hill, Pine Point, Pleasant Hill, Prout's Neck, Scottow's Hill, Scrapbooks, Ships, Town Records
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“A DOLEFUL SLAUGHTER NEAR BLACK POINT”
The Battle at Moore’s Brook, Scarborough, Maine, June 29, 1677 by Sumner Hunnewell Originally published in two parts in the May 2003 and August 2003 issues of The Maine Genealogist and is published here with permission of the publisher and the author. … Continue reading
Posted in Black Point, Blue Point, Dunstan, History, Ships, They Answered the Call
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Lobster Boats
Equipment we used: Lobster Boats: Growing up, I remember Mr. Ward Bickford building lobster boats in a large, garage-like building between his home and The Pillsbury Inn where the Hurd Annex parking lot is now. The boats were 26-feet long … Continue reading
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Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks – Part 2 of 2
Text by Bruce Thurlow Images from Scarborough Historical Society, Rodney Laughton and Don Googins (Part 1 Here) Shipwrecks Scarborough’s coastline has three extensive beaches: Higgins, Scarborough, and Pine Point. There are ledges, however, around Prouts Neck, Bluff and Stratton Islands (now … Continue reading
Posted in Higgins Beach, Pine Point, Prout's Neck, Scarborough Beach, Ships
Tagged Harold Seal, Queenie Seal, Ward Bickford
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Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks – Part 1 of 2
Text by Bruce Thurlow Images from Scarborough Historical Society, Rodney Laughton and Don Googins Scarborough has always been a place where going to sea and fishing are a part of life. At one time ships, boats, and smaller watercraft were … Continue reading
Posted in Black Point, Dunstan, Pine Point, Ships, Uncategorized
Tagged Aaron A. Merrill, Abraham Perkins, Cecil Pinkham, Dunstan Landing, Harold Burnham, Ira Milliken, John Waterhouse, Libby River, New River, Nonesuch River, Scarborough River, Ward Bickford
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