Several coastal forts, including Gorges (Portland), Popham (Phippsburg), and Knox (Prospect) were built during the War.ġ862: Screw Sloop-of-war U.S.S. Waldoboro was the seventh-largest, this year.ġ857: Financial panic swept the country, many shipyards closed.ġ861-1865: More than 100 Maine-built or Maine-owned vessels were captured by Confederate cruisers during the Civil War. in terms of tonnage of vessels registered, enrolled and licensed there. She had a claimed day’s run of 449 miles, and a record run of 19 days 20 hours from New York to Marseillesġ856: This year, Bath was the fourth-largest port in the U.S. She holds the record passage, New York to Liverpool, of 13 days, 1 hour and 25 minutes also made two single day runs over 400 miles.ġ853: Clipper ship Flying Scud built at Damariscotta. She had a long and unusual career, and record passages of 72 days from Portsmouth, England, to Anjier, and 90 days Shanghai to London.ġ853: Clipper ship Red Jacket built at Rockland. She became the last American clipper ship whose hull can still be seen – a piece of her bow is now at Maine Maritime Museum she holds a New York to Rio de Janeiro round trip record of 53 days.ġ851: Clipper ship Nightingale built at Kittery. This was true nearly every year following until 1894.ġ841: Ship Rappahannock launched at Bath, at the time of her launch the largest merchant vessel yet built in the U.S., perhaps in the world.ġ844: Amphitrite first steamer on Moosehead Lake for the lumber industry.ġ850-1856: Approximately 89 vessels were built in Maine which were reputed to be clippers.ġ851: Clipper ship Snow Squall built at South Portland. One of these wrecks – Defense – was investigated by archaeologists in the 1970s.ġ800: First government shipyard set up at Kittery by Navy, called Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.ġ813: Brig USS Enterprize captured HMS Boxer in a fierce engagement in which both commanding officers were killed, near the mouth of the Kennebec River.ġ816: Hodgdon family began building boats in Boothbay area.ġ831: Waterville became the first successful steamer on the Kennebec River.ġ833: In this year (the first year state-by-state statistics were published), Maine built more ships than any other state. All the Patriots’ vessels – about 39 – were sunk, captured, or destroyed by their crews to avoid capture. Falkland (a Fourth Rate, 2-decker) built at Kittery.ġ775: Benedict Arnold’s army passed up the Kennebec River to attack the British at Quebec, buying a fleet of bateaux (220 of them) from boatbuilder Reuben Colburn at Pittston.ġ777: John Paul Jones’s Ranger (a corvette) built at Kittery.ġ779: The amphibious Penobscot Expedition, the largest of the Revolution, was assembled to attack the British fort at Castine, but failed. This 30-ton vessel was the first ocean-going vessel built by English colonists on the mainland of the New World, and the first European-style vessel built in Maine.Ĭirca 1650: Clark & Lake settlement on Arrowsic Island established a shipyard.ġ669-1673: Woolwich-born William Phipps (later Sir William, the first native-born Royal Governor of Massachusetts) served his shipbuilding apprenticeship at the Clark & Lake shipyard on Arrowsic Island.ġ676: A large ship nearly completed by William Phipps at his shipyard in Montsweag carried Sheepscot settlers to safety in Boston at the outbreak of King Philip’s War.ġ695: H.M.S. ![]() A shipwright named Digby built the pinnace Virginia there. ![]() Croix River.ġ605: English captain George Weymouth explored part of the coast, and kidnapped five Natives.ġ607-1608: A short-lived English colony was established by Plymouth Company at what is now Popham Beach, at the mouth of the Kennebec River. They designed and built dugout canoes and bark canoes which were extremely well-adapted to local use, and were capable of lengthy coastal voyages.ġ604-1605: A French expedition with Samuel de Champlain explored both the Penobscot and Kennebec Rivers and much of the coast, making the first real charts of parts of the Maine coast and wintering on St. They caught and ate many species of fish, shellfish, and crustaceans, as well as porpoises and whales. 1500 AD: Native Americans became skilled at using Maine’s maritime resources.
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