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Sail And Steam Along the Maine Coast by Short & Sears Hard Cover
Sail And Steam Along the Maine Coast by Vincent Short and Edwin Sears
Hard Cover
203 Pages
Copyright 1955
Contents
INTRODUCTION1
OUR SEAFARING HERITAGE11
SAILS ALONG THE MAINE COAST13
CHARLES SHORT89
AMERICA'S FIRST STEAMBOAT95
MAINE, NEW BRUNSWICK AND NOVA SCOTIA
STEAMBOATS AND STEAMSHIPS99
A STEAMBOAT VOYAGE DOWN EAST101
STEAMBOATS105
APPENDIX197
WHY WE DECIDED TO DO THE BOOKS CALLED
SAIL AND STEAM
Most every inhabitant of the coastal towns or the river ports of New England has an inherent interest in the merchant sailing vessels and steamboats of the old days. My interest started at a very early age when I watched many picturesque schooners, small steamboats, and tugboats sail along the winding St. Croix River, "way Down East."
As shipbuilding and shipping on the river had gradually come to an end, my family moved to Hingham, Massachusetts, where the earliest of the St. Croix steamboats had come from. We started the exciting voyage en route to Hingham on the steamboat Henry F. Eaton which steamed down the river from Calais to Eastport, Maine, where we boarded the steamship Governor Dingley. Of course it would not occur to any seafaring family like ours to travel by railroad, so we children had the fun of taking an ocean voyage on what then seemed to be a large white ocean liner. This passage was a most memorable event as it was a very rough one indeed; the Governor Dingley was known to be somewhat top-heavy, and it rolled so incessantly that we were heaved into forty-five degree positions all night long. We all seemed to be quite good sailors, however, and by the time we reached Boston Harbor my interest in steamboats had increased immeasurably, by leaps and bounds. The continuation of the trip to our new home in Hingham on the steamboat Betty Alden from Boston provided additional interest and fascination as I watched schooners, steamboats, tugboats, ferry boats, and ocean-going liners sailing down Boston Harbor.
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