April 2018 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 19. Boat And Ship Yard News - 1942-43 In the last issue of “Maine Coastal


News” we covered the boats being built in the State of Maine and a little beyond for the years 1940-41 from articles in the “Atlantic Fishermen.” Most of the vessels were drag- gers as few lobster boats were being built, probably due to the fact that lobsters were classifi ed as a luxury food and that meant it would be diffi cult to get material to build the boats and obtain gasoline to run them. However, as the war continued lobsters were reclassifi ed as meat and this freed up the materials to build new boats. The following is the news around the New England yards for 1942 through 1943. In January, it was announced that


Bristol Boatbuilding Co. of South Bristol was building a 75-foot dragger, but she did not have an owner. She would be based on DORIS G. ELDRIDGE which had been built at the yard with some modifi cations by Eldridge-McInnis. Last spring, Rockland Boat Shop had


launched the IVA M. for Capts. Charles Carver, Sumner Whitney and Lew Wallace and now they were ready to launch dragger HELEN MAE 2ND


for the Ross Brothers


(Frank, George and Walter) of Owls Head. On 1 March, after being christened by Miss Constance Ross daughter of Capt. Frank Ross, she slid into Rockland harbor. She was designed by Axel Gronos and was 70 feet in length, beam 17 feet 6 inches and a depth of about 8½ feet. She had a capacity for 8,000 pounds of fi sh and accommodations for eight in the forecastle. She was powered with a 170 hp Buda diesel with 3:1 Twin Disc reduction gear. She will be ready in April and will be dragging for red fi sh. Also launched in March, was the 68-


foot dragger CLEVELAND from the W. S. Carter Shipyard in Friendship. She was built for Capt. Cleveland G. Burns of New Bedford. She is powered with a 165-hp Gray Marine diesel with a 4:1 reduction gear. She is constructed with a 10 x 22-inch oak keel, 2 x 4-inch steam bent double oak ribs on 10 inch center. She is planked with 2-inch oak while the deck is 2½-inch pine. The forecas- tle is 25 feet in length and has eight berths and a complete galley. The fi sh hold is 16 feet with a capacity of 65,000 pounds. There are two other draggers under construction at the yard: a 75 footer for Captains Harold Paul- son and Norman Olsen of Cape Elizabeth, ME and a 58-footer for Capt. August Reiter of Greenport, NY. In early spring, Bass Harbor Boat Shop,


Robert F. Rich, in Bernard launched the 57-foot HUCKLEBERRY FINN for Capt. Erich Zwinkel, of Cutler, ME. She was de- signed by Robert Rich, and had a beam of 15 feet, and draft of 3 feet 8 inches. She was powered with two 110 hp gasoline motors and had a top speed of 15 knots. At the Morse yard in Thomaston, they


were framing up a 95-foot dragger for Capt. John Murley of New Bedford. She would be powered with a 250 hp Atlas diesel. On 3 May, Southwest Boat Corp. in


Southwest Harbor launched the 97-foot BONAVENTURE for Captains Nicholas and Joseph Novello of Gloucester, MA. She was an in-house design (Lennox L. Sargent, Vice President, Raymond Bunker, Foreman, and Cyrus Hamlin, Chief Draftsman) and was named for the father of the owners and was christened by his wife. At the time she was the largest dragger built on the coast and extremely well built. She had 10 x 24 inch oak keel (bolted), 5 x 10-inch oak frames (treenailed), 2¾-inch planking and 3 x 4-inch white pine deck. She is schooner rigged and powered with a 6 cylinder 300-hp Atlas diesel with a 66 x 46 Hyde propeller that gives her a speed of 10 knots. Her fore- castle is 26 feet 5 inches long and 18 feet


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wide and sleeps eight. The fi sh hold has a capacity for 150,000 pounds of iced fi sh. At this time the yard was owned by Henry R. Hinckley, president and Benjamin B. Hinck- ley, Jr, treasurer. Also under construction at the yard was a 94-foot dragger for Capt. Joseph Ciarametaro, Jr., of Gloucester. In mid-summer, the Newbert & Wallace


announced they were building a 60 foot dragger powered with a 170-hp Superior diesel for Henry Klimm of Hyannis, MA. On 26 August, the Morse Boatbuilding


Co. in Thomaston launched the 95-foot dragger JOHN G. MURLEY, which was christened by Miss Helen Murley, daughter of the owner. There have been two other vessels bearing this name, but they were currently being used in the war eff ort by the Government. This one was deeper and wider and had a whaleback. She is powered with a 250-hp Atlas diesel with a 60 x 40 Hyde propeller. Her fi sh capacity is 120,000 pounds. The dragger that was being built for


Capt. Reiter of Greenport, Long Island, New York named RANGER, left W. S. Carter’s yard in Friendship on 15 August. She is 58 feet in length, beam 15 feet and draft 6 feet 6 inches. She is powered by a 171-hp Buda diesel. Now under construction at the yard is an 81-foot dragger for John Bruno of Boston. She will be of a similar design of SANTA GEMMA, which the yard launched last year.


This is the dragger/herring pumper ETHEL M. built by Will Frost of Jonesport and owned by Fulton Backman.


Photo: Penobscot Marine Museum At the Morse yard in Thomaston, they


were moving along on the 95-foot dragger for John Dallett of Dallett & Son of New York. She is similar in design to the just launched JOHN G. MURLEY, which had just been launched by the yard and was now being outfi tted for fi shing. In November, it was noted that 11 drag-


gers in 7 yards were under construction on the coast. At the Arundel Boat Co. (owned by Hugh Marshall and managed by Dwight Robinson) in Kennebunkport had a 53 foot


dragger under construction for Capt. Hans Haram of New Bedford. The Carter yard in Friendship was fi nishing the 75-foot DOROTHY & ETHEL III for Captains Harold Paulson and Norman Olsen of Cape Elizabeth; at the Carter yard in Waldoboro they had a 82 foot dragger underway for John Bruno of Boston and another 82-footer for an undisclosed party; Morse in Thomaston had the 95-foot dragger going for Dallett &


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