Preview: Voyaging Thru Time: Photographs from Penobscot Marine Museum, Part 12

Below are the latest selections from Penobscot Marine Museum’s wonderful National Fisherman photo collection. There are thousands more, and you can view them all at our website. They’re not ancient, but go back far enough to show what it was like when fish were plentiful and most boats were built of wood. How things change!

While it’s possible to make your own prints from the images here, we encourage you to order from us; we’re convinced that the quality will be noticeably better. 

If you want to enlarge any of the images below to better study details, simply click on the image and it will double in size.

We hope you’re enjoying this series as it unfolds. Believe me, there are no end of great photos at PMM. We’ve scanned and posted over 100,000 and that’s only the half of it.

—————–Kevin Johnson, Photo Archivist, Penobscot Marine Museum.

 

 

RESTLESS is launched at Cambridge, MD, with her builder, Robert Meekins, guiding the boat’s progress down the beach. She’s a Chesapeake deadrise, and is shown under construction in Part 11 of this series. (LB2012.15.8022 from National Fisherman July, 1977, page 18C)

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    Ben Fuller says:

    The pod published above is in the collection of the PMM. It turned up in the 2000’s along with some more photos of the boat underway. Lots of things you don’t seen in the photo. Planking runs transversely fastened to a light set of longitudinals. She is very fancy, beads everywhere, upholstered removable horse hair filled cushions. We figured her date somewhere in the early days of canvas experimentation, the 1870s. The other photos show a lady rowing single handed, this gent rowing with the lady , and there are several photos showing the pod at a camp or down in the Eggemoggin Reach. She’s light enough for a two person lift so would be easy to put onto a wagon.

  • Eric T. Pomber

    Eric T. Pomber says:

    This photo series from the PMM has been awesome, here’s hoping for more!

    Eric