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Son of New York City and they had started a 65-foot dragger for Capt. George H. Fisher of Oaks Bluff s, MA; Newbert & Wallace of Thomaston had started a 70-foot dragger for Joseph Dolan of Guilford, CT; out on Vinalhaven L. A. Maker was building a 50- foot dragger for Elmer Gross; at Stonington the Stonington-Deer Isle Yacht Basin Corp. was building a 70-foot dragger, ELIN B. for Capt. Edward Billings of Stonington; and at Southwest Boat Corp. in Southwest Harbor they were nearly ready to launch the 94-foot dragger for Capt. Joseph Ciarametaro, Jr. of Gloucester. In Essex, MA, the Lyman James yard
launched the 103 foot dragger COLUMBIA designed by Eldridge-McInnis, Inc. for Capt. Ben Pine and Lt. Paul Bauer, and is skippered by Capt. Matthew Sears, with Bert Heneon as engineer the end of 1942. She is powered with a 350-hp Cooper-Bessemer diesel.
The 92-foot dragger that was being
constructed for Capt. Joseph Ciarametaro, Jr. of Gloucester by Southwest Boat Corp.
was launched in December. She is named MARY ROSE and was designed by the yard, mainly Cyrus Hamlin. She is similar to BONAVENTURE, which the yard launched last year, but with the after deck raised 11 inches so the area around the winch is dryer. She is schooner rigged and powered with a 280-hp Fairbanks-Morse diesel with a 60 x 40-inch three-blade Hyde propeller. One boat that was well-known along
the coast of New England and beyond was the LITTLE GROWLER. She was a 70-foot dragger built by Newbert & Wallace and launched on 27 March. She is very similar to GROWLER designed by Albert E. Condon of Fairhaven, MA. She was owned by Joseph S. Dolan, Jr., John C. Russell and Fred Blaha, of Guilford, CT, but will hail from Rockland, but fi sh out of New Bedford She was pow- ered with a 170-hp Buda diesel. Capt. Fred Landry of New Bedford, MA would be her captain. The dragger ELIN B., which was built
by the Stonington-Deer Isle Yacht Basin at Stonington for Capt. Edward Billings was launched mid-spring. She was 70-feet long, beam 17 feet and a draft of 6 feet 6 inches
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and sports a round “torpedo” type stern. She has 3 x 3½ oak frames, and is double planked with fi r with staggered seams, which are fi lled with an asphalt cement product. She is yawl rigged and will drag from the starboard side using a Hathaway winch. She is pow- ered with a 150-hp Fairbanks-Morse diesel with a 46 x 30 Columbian propeller on a 3 inch Monel shaft. She is reported to go 9 knots. Her captain at the time of her launch- ing was John Wentworth of Vinalhaven. In mid-spring, Gray Boats of Thom-
aston started building a 78-foot dragger designed by Albert E. Condon for Elsworth Latham, Jr. of Newport RI. W. S. Carter launched the 75-foot drag-
ger DOROTHY & ETHEL III for Captains Harold Paulson and Norman Olsen of Cape Elizabeth. She is similar in design to DOR- OTHY & ETHEL II. She was powered with a 170-hp Buda diesel and had a fi sh capacity of 90,000 pounds. Also mid-spring, the KATIE D. went
down the ways at the Morse yard in Tho- maston. This 95-foot dragger was built for John Dallett of New York City and as soon as she was outfi tted at the yard she headed for the fi shing grounds. She is powered with a 240-hp Superior diesel with a 3:1 reduction gear and can carry 150,000 pounds of iced fi sh. She was under the command of Capt. Alan Meade. On 22 May, the 65-foot CONNIE F.,
designed by Albert Condon, slid into the St. George’s River at the Morse yard in Tho- maston. She is owned by Capt. George H. Fisher of Oak Bluff s, MA. She is powered with a rebuilt 70-hp Atlas diesel. At the West Haven Shipyard, in West
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Haven, CT they launched a 58 foot dragger for Capt. Alfred Robello of Stonington, CT on June 15. She was powered with a rebuilt 165 hp Gray diesel. On 19 August, Newbert & Wallace of
Thomaston launched the 62-foot dragger PRISCILLA V., which is owned by Capt. Jared Vincent and will be homeported at Ed- gartown, MA. She is a new model designed by Albert E. Condon and more compactly. Her sheer is quicker, more fl are in the bow and she has a round type stern. She is pow- ered with a 80-hp Cooper-Bessemer diesel with a 44 x 34 inch Columbian propeller on a 2½ inch Monel metal shaft fi tted with Hathaway stern bearings and stuffi ng box. At the Waldoboro Shipyard in Wal-
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doboro, they launched the 82-foot dragger NANCY B. after she was christened by Miss Minnie Botta on 28 August. She was the fi rst fi shing vessel launched at Waldob- oro and was built for John Bruno & Son of Boston. They have six of this model on or- der with four presently under construction. The model was designed by W. S. Carter of Friendship, which is also involved in this yard. She has a lot of sheer, stem has a me- dium rake and a round tugboat stern. She is powered with a 175-hp Wolverine diesel to a 60-inch Columbian propeller on 3½ inch bronze shaft. Her speed is 10 mph. She sports a 20-foot fi sh hold with a capacity of 90,000 pounds of iced fi sh. She will be under the command of Capt. Scuderi.
The dragger under construction at the
Arundel Boat Co. in Kennebunkport was the 53-foot ARNOLD for Capt. Hans Haram of New Bedford. She is powered with a 605-D 100-hp Mack diesel with a 3:1 Twin Disc reduction gear. Harvey Church of Steuben, who later
would design two models for Repco, built a 52-foot dragger for Lyle G. Ford of Ashville. She was built near the highway and was to be rolled to the water. She was powered with a 110-hp Chrysler Crown engine with 4.5:1 reduction gear. Not sure why the change in name,
maybe fi nancial driven, but The Bristol Yacht Building Co. of South Bristol was now known as Parks & Gamage. They were building a 75-foot ragger for Aiello and Mat- inello of Gloucester. There are three other draggers under construction and all these will be going to New Bedford. The Harry G. Marr yard in Damariscot-
ta was building a 38-foot lobster boat for Capt. Ethan Bridges of York Harbor. They were also converting the 60-foot WIL- LARD-DAGGETT from a wet-well lobster smack to a dragger for her owners, the Wil- lard-Daggett Fish Co., Portland. There were putting in new frames, replace the deck, rebuild the hold, and raise her sheer. A 50-foot dragger MYRT II was being
built by Capt. J. H. Grover of Owl’s Head. She was going to be powered with a 121-hp Gray gasoline engine. In early fall, Newbert & Wallace
started building two 77-foot draggers and later would start on a 48 foot dragger. They 77 footers are for Raymond Philbrook of Rockland and Capt. Clyson Coffi n of Port Clyde. The 48 footer is for Capt. Ira Tupper of Vinalhaven. At Thomaston, R. E. McLain & Son
were building a 50-foot dragger for Capt. Linus Dodge of Block Island. She would be dragger BETTY B., which went into the river on 7 November. What is interesting is the McLain shop was a quarter of a mile from the water and two horses were used to get her to the water’s edge. She is powered with a 80-hp Caterpillar diesel with a 1.45:1 Twin Disc reduction gear, a 32 x 26 Columbian propeller. The Parks & Gamage yard in South
Bristol announced more orders heading to the Port of New Bedford. At the Reed yard in Boothbay Harbor
they were off ering new dragger designs from created by William Frost. Yes, this is the same Will Frost that was in Jonesport building boats up to the mid-1930s. At the Morse yard in Thomaston they
launched the 81-foot dragger WHALER for John J. Gobell, Norman W. Bowen and Rob- ert Whewell of New Bedford on 30 October. On 3 December, Harry G. Marr of Dam-
ariscotta launched the 38 foot MAUDE B. II for Capt. Ethan Bridges of York. She would be used as a lobster and charter fi shing boat and was designed by Marr. Her stern was extra wide at 9 feet, which was done due to the 40 passengers she would be carrying. At the end of the year, several orders
for draggers were placed: Frank Samples in Boothbay would be building a 96-footer for Capt. Mike Smith of New Bedford; a 95-footer designed by Will Frost would be built by Reed Brothers of Boothbay for Capt. Philip Filetto of Gloucester; Newbert & Wallace were to build an 85 footer designed by Albert Condon for Joseph S. Dolan, Jr., of Guilford, CT; and the Morse yard would be building a 77-footer for Capt. Ernest Murley of Fairhaven, MA. Many of the yards were still busy build-
ing draggers, but what will the next two years bring? Find out next month when we cover the yards from 1944 to 1945.
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