My Paintings Set into the History of Gloucester between 1880 and 1909
1880
In the summer of 1880 Winslow Homer boarded with the keeper and painted 50 of his finest watercolors of the encircling harbor. (14)
In the Summer of 1880 several of the Gloucester fishing vessels had an opportunity for a race with crack Boston yachts, under favorable circumstances: July 27, sch. Alice M. Williams, Capt. Dennis C. Murphy, fell in with the yacht Actac off Cape Sable; the yacht put on all her light sails, and Capt. Murphy spread his riding sail and all the dory sails he could raise, and kept company with the yacht until he reached Eastern Point, when he came into port, the Actae proceeding to Boston.
Looking down from Portuguese Hill on Five Pound Island
Five Pound Island in the center of
Gloucester’s inner harbor. In the Google map above you can see how Five Pound Island was connested to the shore, becoming the State Fish Pier in 1933
Park on Portuguese Hill … looking southwesterly at the town ….
1880 Sawyer School
From the Gloucester Daily Times
When school was on Friend Street
This weeks old photo shows the Sawyer School on Friend Street in 1880. The school was located on what is now the Friend Street Playground. The photo was submitted by Bob Roland, the athletic director at Gloucester High School. His family grew up on Friend Street.
Roland points out that the stone pillars to the fence in front of the school still exist as part of the wall in front of the playground.
The elm trees are just saplings in the photo. According to Roland they eventually grew into giant elms that surround the playground. They succumbed to dutch elm disease and hurricanes in the 1960s.
Note that the road is unpaved and that the children play along the street. The school was closed in the mid-1900s.
The school, looking up from the North Channel.
“St.Ann’s rectory built on Prospect St.” ….This was built on the site where in 1692 “Sixty men came from Ipswich to “Old Garrison House” to protect Town from ghostly visitations”. Peg Wesson was accounted a witch, and lived there in 1745. The building was moved not far away to Smith St.. (18)
The Rectory today
with the Old Garrison House behind?
Possibly the old Garrison House??
The last Gloucester-built dory to cross the Atlantic was the Little Western, also built by Messrs. Higgins & Gifford. She was 16 ft. 7 in. over all, 13 ft. 6 in. keel, 6 ft. 8 in. beam and 2 ft. 6 in. deep, clinker-built, cutter-rigged, and spread 51 yards of canvas. Manned by George S. Thomas and Fred. Norman. She sailed from Gloucester June 12, 1880, and arrived at Cowes July 28, forty-six days from Gloucester. She sailed from London June 14, 1881, on the return trip, arrived at Port Median, C. B., Aug. 28, at Halifax, N. S., Sept. 2, and at Gloucester Sept. 15, being the only one of the Gloucester-built dories to make the ocean passage both ways.
The last Gloucester-built dory to cross the Atlantic was the Little Western, also built by Messrs. Higgins & Gifford. She was 16 ft. 7 in. over all, 13 ft. 6 in. keel, 6 ft. 8 in. beam and 2 ft. 6 in. deep, clinker-built, cutter-rigged, and spread 51 yards of canvas. Manned by George S. Thomas and Fred. Norman. She sailed from Gloucester June 12, 1880, and arrived at Cowes July 28, forty-six days from Gloucester. She sailed from London June 14, 1881, on the return trip, arrived at Port Median, C. B., Aug. 28, at Halifax, N. S., Sept. 2, and at Gloucester Sept. 15, being the only one of the Gloucester-built dories to make the ocean passage both ways.
Higgins & Gifford Boat Shop at the head of the harbor.
Gloucester National Bank on the corner of Main Street and Duncan.
Looking down, into Duncan St., with the harbor at the end.
Western Ave. in the background, shoreside road in Stage Fort Park.
Detail of a Fitz Henry Lane painting of Gloucester’s outer harbor with the SURFSIDE Hotel on the shore..( left)
the Surfside Hotel at the end of Western Ave. today the site of the Tavern, but then, “nearly the first seaside resort hotel on the North Shore.” (14)
the Surfside Hotel at the end of Western Ave. today the site of the Tavern, but then, “nearly the first seaside resort hotel on the North Shore.” (14)
Taken from in front of the Surfside looking at “the fort” section
Cressey’s Beach with bathers
Widows’ Home
This house was built for fishermen’s widows in Gloucester around 1870. It had ten apartments of three rooms each. Rent for each apartment was $3 per month.
N E’ly end of Smith Cove, today Beacon Marine Basin
is to the right of the photograph
Gloucester’s new City Hall:
“It was built in 1870 and dedicated the following year, and has served as the main location for the city’s offices since then.” Wikipedia
“CITY HALL BUILT. Immediate action was taken by the citizens to rebuild. At a town meeting called to consider the subject a short time afterwards, James Davis, Esq., moved that $90,000, which included the insurance on the old building, be appropriated for the erection of a new town house. The motion was carried by a large majority. Plans of Bryant & Rogers of Boston, were afterwards decided upon for the structure and the contract for the mason work was awarded to Albert Currier of Newburyport, and D. Somes Watson and H. Clough were awarded the carpenter’s work. Its cost was $100,000; with furnishings, $110,000.” (19)
THE BELMONT is within a minutes walk of City Hall.
Population of City 19,000
Looking towards the west End from intersection of Main and Hancock.
The West end looking toward Washington St.
Looking down Union Hill (Front St.)
From the west end of town, looking out over Harbor Cove,
toward the end of Rocky Neck with Eastern Point beyond.
Looking down into the inner harbor
from the Rocky Neck shore near the Paint Factory.
On Main St.,
fork with Spring St.to the left and Union Hill rising to the right.
“Boy in a Boat”
“Boys in a Dory”
” Five Children on the Shore”
by Winslow-Homer
Children Playing under a Gloucester Wharf
by Winslow Homer
Boys Fishing in Gloucester harbor
by Winslow Homer
1881
Gill-Net Codfishing in Ipswich Bay
The Winter of 1880-81 will be memorable in local fishing annals as witnessing the first successful attempt at net-fishing for cod in our waters, a method that promises to make as marked a change in the shore fishery as was wrought by the introduction of trawl fishing a few years previously. This method of fishing has long been followed by the Newfoundland fishermen, and it is said that the Norwegians take half the number and two-thirds the weight of their immense catch of codfish in this manner.
Impressed with the importance of the saving made in the cost of bait, and of time consumed in procuring bait, Prof. Baird decided in the Summer of 1878, when the Summer quarters of the Fish Commission were located in Gloucester, to experiment as to the practicability of introducing the Norwegian methods in our waters. Accordingly, he procured a set of Norwegian gill nets, which attracted considerable attention at the laboratory of the Commission at Fort Wharf, from their novel construction and curious glass floats. When the Winter school of codfish set in, in the Fall of 1878, experiments were made with these nets on the “Old Man’s Pasture,” but it was found that the nets were too frail for the large cod which frequent our coast in Winter, and for the strong current and rocky bottom along our shores. The result of the experiment, however, was such as to indicate that netfishing might be made practicable, with properly constructed nets, and Prof. Baird continued his investigation of the method, and on the occasion of the International Fisheries Exhibit at Berlin in the Spring of 1880 delegated Capt. Joseph W. Collins of Gloucester to make a careful study of the European methods of deep sea fishing, the result of which has been published by the Government for the information of the American fishermen. (15)
“Through the kindness of Collector Babson we are enabled to give the following statistics : For the year ending Dec. 31, 1881, there arrived at the port of Gloucester, 1 ship, 18 barks, 2 brigs, and 182 schooners from foreign ports. 27 ships, barks, brigs and schooners arrived from Cadiz, Trapani and other salt ports.” (15)
1882
Wharf scene along the inner harbor,
schooner hauled up on one of the early railways in the background.
The above engraving gives a capital view of the old Fort and Gloucester Harbor in 1837. The Grand Banker and pinkey lying at anchor look as natural as can be. There is a vast difference in the appearance of the old Fort property of today from that of forty-five years agone. Then it had but one building besides the ruins of the Fort – now it is covered with dwellings and storehouses, and its entire waterfront converted into fine wharves, forming one of the most valuable pieces of property in the city. (15)
Georges fishing schooner securing supply of water from water boat in Gloucester 1882.
“Before the house at 265 East Main St was built the lot was owned by Herbert and John Wennerberg, whose business was supplying the vessels in the harbor with fresh water. From their stone reservoir in the south corner of the front yard a gravity pipe slanted out over the cove on a trestle. When a schooner wanted water, the cook would run up a bucket in the rigging, the summons to the Wennerbergs to come alongside in their cat-rigged water boat Wanderer and fill’er up.” p.81 (14)
Gate Lodge at the entrance to Eastern Point, built in 1888.
1883
January 1883 … Howard Blackburn and dory mate were separated from the schooner Grace L. Fears in a storm. Five days at sea before coming to land with a dead dorymate and Blackburn loosing his fingers from being frozen to the oars.
In January 1883 he signed on the fishing schooner Grace L. Fears to fish for halibut and cod. This schooner was the most successful in its time. After the schooner was anchored down on the Burgeo Bank the dories were set out. Blackburn had as partner Tom Welch. As a storm approached they rowed out to retrieve their gear. They were caught in a fierce storm with high winds and snow. They lost their way, and could not get back to the schooner. Eventually they tried to row back. Tom Welch gave up and died. Blackburn formed his hands around the oars as they froze so he could still row. He arrived in a little river coming out of Newfoundland. He was rescued by people in a tiny village who nursed him to relative health, but could not save his fingers, which, being totally frozen were lost except for a nub of a thumb on each hand. His toes did not fare well either. He was eventually taken to civilization and eventually back to Glouchester.
from J.Garland’s “Great Republic”
Canvas #143 Howard Blackburn sailing “Great Republic”
down Smith Cove, with Rocky Neck in the background.
1902
“First large steam-powered fishing vessel built.” (18)
Rocky Neck at the turn of the century. Electric trolley crossing the causeway.
Paddle wheel ferry tied up to the Wonson pier.
1884
1885
1903
“America” – Capt. Blackburn on his way to France
Photos of Capt. Blackburn and his 15.5 foot dory, taken at Clark’s Harbor on his way to Havre France June 27th 1903. This is his third voyage across the Atlantic. And this boat is the smallest that has ever attempted to cross it. He left Gloucester on the 7th of June 1903.
Drying Gill Nets on their net reels in Charlevoix, Mi.. When the fishermen migrated to Gloucester they brought along this design, and some are still be used today. Back then the nets were made of linen threads that had to be dried out. Modern nets are synthetic but they are still reeled to take out any snarls and repacked so that they can be set out again.
The net reels on the wharf in East Gloucester
Canvas #16 17 Rocky Neck Ave., built by Frank Foster in the winter of 1903. Gallery of Edward Buhler, and one of the first art galleries on Rocky Neck.
“In 1885, he began spending summers in Gloucester, and historian William Gerdts describes Buhler as an artist who “best represents the resident Gloucester painter.”” from askart.com
This painting by Buhler was the inspiration for Gloucester’s “Man at the Wheel”sculpture by Leonard Craske.
Buhler sitting in his studio
his wife in front of 17 Rocky Neck Ave.
1886
Stream enclosed from Harbor Swamp ( Burnham’s Field) to Pavilion Beach. (18)
St. Ann’s Catholic School built. (18)
St. Ann’s Catholic Church dedicated. (18)
1887
“The gate lodge of friendly but firm design erected at the bend by the syndicate which in 1887 bought the Niles Farm marks the beginning of this private domain, initially of summer estates, and of Eastern Point Boulevard.” (14)
1988
1889
1890
EASTERN POINT LIGHTHOUSE
1891
Sayward’s-Wharf-and-a-frozen-Gloucester Harbor 1891. Gordon W.Thomas Collection C.0.J
1892
Itinerant Italian musicians stroll down Stoddart Lane playing the ciaramella (left) and zampogna (right), circa 1892.
Stoddart Lane was named for A.P. Stoddart & Company, manufacturers of the mechanized steering wheels used on many of the Gloucester schooners.
Percy Wheeler photograps from Cape Ann Museum
Schooner drying her sails tied up to Percy Wheeler’s wharf in Cripple Cove.
Cripple Cove today.
Inside the shop with what looks to be a fine”yachty” launch in storage.
Looking down into Cripple Cove, with “Parker’s Hill”on the other side, beyond, the head of the harbor and the east end of town.
REARING MARINE FISH FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSESJAMES E. SHELBOURNE Fisheries Laboratory, Lowestoft, England
THE MARINE FISH HATCHERY MOVEMENT
The idea that artificial propagation could influence the yield from inshore waters originated in the New World, and was the consequence of achievements in fresh-water fish rearing. Remarkable progress in culturing and transplanting the shad (Alosa sapidis- sima), undoubtedly influenced the first U.S. Commissioner of Fisheries (Spencer F. Baird) in his decision to try artificial propagation as a possible means of counteracting depletion in the food-fisheries of the Atlantic seaboard.
Earl1 (1880) reported the successful hatching of cod, haddock, herring and pollock eggs during preliminary experiments a t Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1878. It was not until 1885 that the U.S. Fish Commission built its first commercial fish hatchery at Woods Hole. Facilities for cod propagation were extended at Gloucester Station in 1888, followed by the construction of a third east coast hatchery at Boothbay Harbor, Maine in 1905.
By 1917, the total output of newly-hatched fry from the three American hatcheries had risen to over 3 billion per annum.
…..the American effort continued at a high level of production until 1943, when Woods Hole was taken over by the Navy Department. The Boothbay Harbor hatchery closed down in 1950, followed by Gloucester Station in 1952. The demise of American sea-fish culture was accompanied by the following terse official statement . . . “Hatchery production of marine commercial fish species was terminated in 1952 since research had failed to disclose that worthwhile benefits were obtained from such stocking.” (Duncan and Meehean, 1954).
…The Americans preferred to rely on salvaged spawn, particularly at Gloucester and Boothbay Harbor. ‘Spawtakers’, operating from New England fishing vessels, selected ripe fish from the catch, and carried out artificial fertilizations using a standard technique. Fertile eggs were transported to the nearest hatchery by first train after the ship docked.
As early as 1883, only five years after the first experimental release of cod-fry, the US. Fish Commission reported the appearance of gray cod of a size not previously seen in coastal waters around Gloucester Station. They were generally accepted as the fruits of hatchery effort and became known locally as “Fish Commission cod.” In 1898, Herdman (1889), director of the Manx hatchery, received a letter from the U.S. Fish Commissioner. which read. . . . “For about ten pears the cod work has been attended with marked success, and in Massachusetts, has resulted, not only in establishing the inshore cod fishery on grounds long exhausted, but through favorable distribution of the fry, in extending the fishery to waters not originally frequented by the cod.” As late as 1929, statements were being made to the effect that the winter flounder became more abundant after planting newly-hatched fry.
1893
Kellehers opened in Gloucester in 1893,
an easy walk from the wharves.
I carved the sign for the business in the mid-1980’s
1894
Watercolor by Winslow homer
1895
Joshua Slocum. Sailing Alone Around the World
April 24,1895, ….left Boston for Gloucester
I made for the cove, a lovely branch of Gloucester’s fine harbor, again to look the Spray over and again to weigh the voyage, and my feelings, and all that. The bay was feather-white as my little vessel tore in, smothered in foam. It was my first experience of coming into port alone, with a craft of any size, and in among shipping. Old fishermen ran down to the wharf for which the Spray was heading, apparently intent upon braining herself there. I hardly know how a calamity was averted, but with my heart in my mouth, almost, I let go the wheel, stepped quickly forward, and downed the jib. The sloop naturally rounded in the wind, and just ranging ahead, laid her cheek against a mooring-pile at the windward corner of the wharf, so quietly, after all, that she would not have broken an egg. Very leisurely I passed a rope around the post, and she was moored. Then a cheer went up from the little crowd on the wharf. “You could n’t ‘a’ done it better,” cried an old skipper, ” if you weighed a ton! “ Now, my weight was rather less than the fifteenth part of a ton, but I said nothing, only putting on a look of careless indifference to say for me, “Oh, that ‘s nothing “; for some of the ablest sailors in the world were looking at me, and my wish was not to appear green, for I had a mind to stay in Gloucester several days. Had I uttered a word it surely would have betrayed me, for I was still quite nervous and short of breath. I remained in Gloucester about two weeks, fitting out with the various articles for the voyage most readily obtained there. The owners of the wharf where I lay, and of many fishing-vessels, put on board dry cod galore, also a barrel of oil to calm the waves. They were old skippers themselves, and took a great interest in the voyage. They also made the Spray a present of a ” fisherman’s own “ lantern, which I found would throw a light a great distance round. Indeed, a ship that would run another down having such a good light aboard would be capable of running into a light-ship. A gaff, a pugh, and a dip-net, all of which an old fisherman declared I could not sail without, were also put aboard. Then, too, from across the cove came a case of copper paint, a famous antifouling article, which stood me in good stead long after. I slapped two coats of this paint on the bottom of the Spray while she lay a tide or so on the hard beach.
…..The weather was mild on the day of my departure from Gloucester. On the point ahead, as the Spray stood out of the cove, was a lively picture, for the front of a tall factory was a flutter of handkerchiefs and caps. Pretty faces peered out of the windows from the top to the bottom of the building, all smiling hon voyage. Some hailed me to know where away and why alone. Why ? When I made as if to stand in, a hundred pairs of arms reached out, and said come, but the shore was dangerous f The sloop worked out of the bay against a light southwest wind, and about noon squared away off Eastern Point, receiving at the same time a hearty salute — the last of many kindnesses to her at Gloucester.
Spray in New Zealand
1896
1897
p. xxix
“… from 1880 through 1897 Gloucester lost 264 vessels and 1614 fishermen.” (9)
Looking west on Main St.. Just beyond the carriage, Duncan St. to the left, Pleasant St. to the right. Gray’s hardware in the center.
Gloucester National Bank on Main St. with Duncan St. to the left.
1898
View from the City Hall in 1898 from the archives of the Cape Ann Museum
Five Pound Island in snow
At the entrance to Smith Cove, on the eastern shore next to the ferry dock, stood the yard of N.M.Jackman.
Pictured here with his crew, probably relations, they stand with the tools of their trade. Man with plank, boy on tricycle,
man with a maul, man with paint and brush, younger man with a saw, man with batten, probably N.M. himself, a boy with hat,and a manwith a sledge hammer. The sign proclaims that they repair boats and dories and that they do vessel work on short notice. The sign also carries the insignia of the Masons, maybe to help entice new business, giving them an edge.
The “Little Giant” steaming across Smith Cove to the ferry landing,
Rocky Neck in the background.
“From the public landing in the small cove by the street Captain Wonson first rowed his passengers across to Duncan’s point in 1849. Then there were various small steam ferries, and the Douglasses’ sailboat when the weather favored. Finally a narrow trestle walk was built 375 feet from the street into the dock between the wharves for access to the famous little steamer “Little Giant”. On demand the ferry touched at Tarr”s Wharf off the end of Rocky Neck. The fare remained four cents for years.” (14)
Beacon Marine
Pinkey anchored off Five Pound Island
Chief Hollow Horn Bear,
1899
August 18, 1899
Howard Blackburn sails the Great Western from Gloucester, Mass.
to Gloucester, England. The Great Western was built by Hugh Bishop.
1900
Eastern Point Lighthouse
Launch of the Schooner Helen Miller Gould in Vincent Cove March 29, 1900.
The tower in the photograph above is the second tower
from the left in the photograph above that. Blackburn’s building is
just out of the picture to the left. Vincent Cove has been filled.
The Blacburn Building
Built in 1900 by Gloucester’s all-time
fisherman-sailor hero, Howard Blackburn, for his saloon and home.
1900 – 1973
“Lifesaving Station at Coast Guard
base on Dolliver’s Neck.” (18)
1901
July 18, 1901 Howard Blackburn sails the Great Republic from Gloucester
to Lisbon Portugal in 39 days, a voyage of 2800 miles (2)
Drying Gill Nets on their net reels in Charlevoix, Mi.. When the fishermen migrated to Gloucester they brought along this design, and some are still be used today. Back then the nets were made of linen threads that had to be dried out. Modern nets are synthetic but they are still reeled to take out any snarls and repacked so that they can be set out again.
The net reels on the wharf in East Gloucester
Canvas 17 Rocky Neck Ave., built by Frank Foster in the winter of 1903. Gallery of Edward Buhler, and one of the first art galleries on Rocky Neck.
“In 1885, he began spending summers in Gloucester, and historian William Gerdts describes Buhler as an artist who “best represents the resident Gloucester painter.””
from askart.com
This painting by Buhler was the inspiration for Gloucester’s “Man at the Wheel” sculpture by Leonard Craske.
Buhler sitting in his studio
his wife in front of 17 Rocky Neck Ave.
Intersection of Rocky Neck Ave., Freemont St. and Wonson St.
Winter, before 17 Rocky Neck Ave. cottage was built.
Intersection today.
Looking down ice-bound Smith Cove toward Rocky Neck.The Pier was Wonson’s, now (2014) it’s long gone but the stubs of the pilings can still be seen protruding from the mud-flats at low tide, from the parking lot at the entrance to Rocky Neck.
1904
Dog Bar Breakwater was constructed between 1894 and 1904 by the Army Corps of Engineers to provide sheltered waters in the outer harbor. The breakwater protects outer harbor waters from southerly storms. The breakwater is 2,250 feet, running west from Eastern Point towards the western shore. (16)
“A” shows 141 Main St. today
Charlevoix Sentinal May 5, 1904
The fishing tug L. W. Knapp arrived here last week from Dunkirk,
NY in charge of Capt. John Dahlmer, to do summer fishing at Beaver Island.
From Charlevoix Sentinal, 100 Years Ago
“Dale Ave. was named for Dr. Ebenezer Dale, who died in 1834. The physician”s house, on the site of the town whipping post of a less permissive age, was moved to Grove Street.”
(14)
The-Schooner Forrest Belle at Wheelers Wharf, East Gloucester.
Slade Gorton’s building can be seen in the upper left.….from “Gloucester Before The Mast” and the Gordon Thomas collection.
1905
p.xxxxi
“… Congress approved a more realistic breakwater at the entrance to Gloucester Harbor, to extend from the ledge at the Eastern Point Lighthouse about a half mile out over Dog Br toward Round Rock Shoal. It had been proposed as early as 1866. Construction began in 1894, and Dog Bar Breakwater was completed in 1905.” (9)
First National Bank
18’ prototype lifeboat sailed by a crew of four from Norway to Pavillion
Beach in three and a half months.
a photograph from the Cape Ann Museum’s archives of the cut bridge in 1905….
Entrance to the Annisquam River under the Blyman Bridge from the outer harbor.
Looking northwest down Smith Cove in 1905.
Canvas #151 The End of Rocky Neck and City.
Just to the right of the photograph above.
“Little Giant” is heading to the East Gloucester ferry dock to unload passengers. The Railways can be seen at the end of Rocky Neck, middle left, and a schooner heads toward the outer harbor under foresail and head sails. The far shore above consists of the wharves on the right below, as you look down into the outer harbor.
1906
from the Northshore magazine:
…”In 1906, Slade Gorton & Co., John Pew & Son, David B. Smith & Co., and Reed & Gamage combined to form the Gorton-Pew Fisheries Co. Gloucester was already established as the largest fish producing port in the country and the second largest in the world. The combined company now had a fleet of 39 vessels, the largest fleet of fishing vessels operated by any company on the Atlantic Coast.”
Reed and Gamage yards in 1892.
East Main St. and the Wonson wharves on Smith cove, Rocky Neck beyond.
Thatcher’s Island
1907
The launch of the schooner “Arethusa, September 25, 1907.
Pavillion Beach Hotel
1908
p.xxvi
1908… “Stacy that year became a park commissioner and started laying the plans which materialized in the esplanade which bears his name.”
He died on December 9, 1928 at 68 years old. (9)
Canvas #119 Western Ave. Before it became Stacey Boulevard
This is still called “Pavillion Beach”
The houses boardering the harbor side of Western Ave.
can be seen on this old zoning map.
The Pavillion Hotel is pictured on the left.
Italian Fishing Boats hauled out on Pavillion Beach
1909
p.148
“….There were thirty-six such “Gloucester Sloop Boats” in the fleet in 1909,
besides 196 schooners.” (6)
The black boat, above, with the long bowsprit, is a Gloucester sloop boat.
photo of the fish tug “John Smith” on a fishing trip out of Charlevoix, Mi., she belonged to my great-grandfather. According to Louis Kimball, the fishermen are left to right-Capt.Jack Dahlmer, Eddie Weiderman and Jack Nolan and the picture was taken off Chicago while hauling the nets.
Axel Dahlmer’s “Rough Rider” in Michigan before leaving
for Gloucester.
Launching the “Margaret D.” Date: Thursday, June 24, 1909
Fish Tug Launched
ASHTABULA, June 23
– The new fish tug which Laird & Sons were building
for Capt. John Dahlmer of Dunkirk was launched this afternoon. She is named
for the owners daughter, Margaret Dahlmer who was sponsor at the launching.
The tug is 70 feet overall, has 15 foot beam and draws seven and one-half feet.
She will carry the engines of the old tug Knapp and is to be put into immediate service in this harbor.
From Beeson’s Marine Directory of the Great Lakes for 1909:
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Fishtug John Smith 50’x11″ Blt.1876 Axel B. Dahlmer, Dunkirk, NY
Fishtug Geo.E.Fischer 64’x16′ Blt.1883 Axel B. Dahlmer, Dunkirk, NY
Fishtug Rough Rider 39’x10′ Blt.1904 Manitowoc, Wi A.B.Dahlmer, Dunkirk, NY
Fishtug L.W.Knapp 57’x13′ Blt.1895 John A. Dahlmer, Dunkirk, NY
“Starlinc”in Charlevoix, the boat that Peter O.Tysver would bring to Gloucester
with the first group of “Michigan Bears”.
A table of “Michigan Bears”after arriving in Gloucester.
Albert Arnold, Garret Shoares, Oliver(Cy) Tysver and Kale Tysver
The Hawthrone Inn in East Gloucester.
